I have had to go to some very dark corners of Second Life to create this blog post, very dark, the lengths I go to in order to get the right shots!
In a virtual world far far away, Aki Shichiroji pointed out that notifications in Second Life were untidy and not well organised, especially for people who receive a lot of notifications. I can’t quote Aki directly because the original Jira post has now gone dark. This is because the issue has been resolved in many ways.
How has the issue been resolved, I hear you ask, well Linden Lab yesterday announced, New Project Viewer: Get Your Notifications Sorted :
The Notifications Project Viewer is an improvement for sorting your notifications. This new feature is based on your feedback: a notifications floater with four tabs sorting your incoming notifications into System, Transactions, Invitations, and Groups and allowing better interaction with them as well. Those who deal with high volumes of money transactions, group notices, group invites, or inventory transfers now have a better way to review their messages and identify which notices need immediate attention.
I’ll try and explain what is changing, with some screenshots.
So on logging in, after clicking the chat bubble which alerted me that I had notifications I see the above. Now I can see that I have four tabs, one for System messages, one for Transactions, one for Invitations and one for Group notices. At a glance I can see I have one System message and 25 Group notices. Now I have a choice here on which notices I consider to be the most important. A merchant may want to pay more attention to any transactions first, whilst someone awaiting a group invitation may want to look at that first.
The messages default to collapsed, to expand them, you just click the downward arrow :
Now I can see the full message, in this case, that I’ve received too many notifications and my instant messages were capped.
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