{"id":2478,"date":"2012-12-21T19:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2012-12-21T19:32:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T19:32:26","slug":"linden-labs-lack-of-communication-means-they-even-miss-their-own-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"Linden Lab’s Lack Of Communication Means They Even Miss Their Own Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linden Lab have blogged about improvements to Second Life during 2012 and a look forward to improvements to Second Life in 2013<\/a>. As a long term critic of Linden Lab’s every increasing ability to imitate a Harpo Marx convention when it comes to communicating with the community, I welcome this blog post. However the post itself highlights why Linden Lab’s lack of communicating is in itself a bad thing, because there are things within the blog post itself that haven’t exactly been highlighted well during the year.<\/p>\n

They talk about new premium perks, which is something they have at least made some effort to communicate about. They talk about the advanced creator tools<\/a> and pathfinding<\/a>.\u00a0 These are two areas where I don’t feel there has been anywhere near enough discussion, these issues should be being blogged about.<\/p>\n

They talk about the Good Building Practices Wiki<\/a>, which is something I found out about from Nalates Urriah’s blog<\/a>, not Linden Lab’s! Seriously, this should be something they promote, it’s a nice resource getting built there.<\/p>\n

There’s talk of how 1,200 new and original entries have been added to the destination guide<\/a>, but where was the push for what averages out at 100 a month new entries during the year?<\/p>\n

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Looking forward there’s talk of the open source project to bring normal and specular maps to Second Life<\/a>, which should aid graphics performance in a rather large way. I can understand Linden Lab wanting to tread cautiously, but there has hardly been any official talk of this project between the blog announcement and this end of year address. Maybe they don’t want to promise too much or are wary of raising expectations too high.<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, 2013 should be the year where Linden Lab put the community back into their communications, the silent movie approach is not remotely helpful.<\/p>\n

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