11.30.2006

It's Wednesday!

Another SL update. Some interesting changes coming down and, typically, some grid issues. It's been going on all day. I haven't had any problems to speak of but this just came across the inworld notification system

Hi everyone! Seems some fo the issues we experienced earlier are rearing up again. Money and inventory issues, along with presence and TP issues. Teleporting failing as well. We are aware and working on it.
Earlier in the Linden blog, They explained the queue:

With our online concurrency often reaching over 15,000 users now, after an update the grid can be a bit hard to login to. We are currently experiencing everyone trying to get in world at once, so there is a queue for access to the grid. Please keep attempting or try again in 15 minute increments to get in world. If you do try logging in, and Second Life appears frozen, don’t hit the quit button and the queue should let you in accordingly. Once the mad rush of everyone trying to get to their virtual selves is over, the login queue should be cleared up and the login time will be considerably reduced. Thanks for your patience!
You can check this stuff out more fully over at the Linden blog.

I spent a few minutes toying with some of the more obvious changes from this release. First off, the new Web tab on the SL profiles. I like it. Can do all sorts of stuff with it. Some posts about it here, including the Snapzilla pics options. Secondly, the new privacy options in regards to the contact list. Check boxes allowing individuals to choose who can see their online status, who can see them on the SL map and who can modify their items. Good stuff, but from experimentation with another user (hi kaia!), it seems that a person who is limited from seeing your online status will still recognize, upon attempting to IM you, that you are online. The usual "user not online" message is not returned when the IM is sent to a seemingly offline user.

Full release notes here. I couldn't take any more for today. The wonderful blue box notification of continued grid issues was enough to shove me off for the day.

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