My story: Joined
SL in May of 2006, just before the floodgates opened up. Never met Philip, or any Linden other than office hours and the rare appearance at welcome areas, etc.
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Originally Posted by Sooz Pascale  Why is that, I wonder? Are those people being unreasonable? Are bug fixes, indeed, being given priority over the array of wonderous and mind boggling new features that enhance our SL existence? |
For the bug fixing team, yes. For the Windlight, Havok, Mono teams, probably not. Keep in mind that Windlight, Havok and Mono all have stability improving qualities about them, so don't just count them as "features".
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The simple truth of the matter is that (1) LL is demonstrably unenthusiastic about fixing ANYTHING; (2) Screaming about it is about the only thing that gets them moving, albeitly reluctantly to do, or more accurately pretend to do anything about bug fixes;
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Disagree. I've been to a bunch of office hours lately and the Lindens there are chomping at the bit to solve problems brought to them.
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(3) the expression "resolved" as taken its own meaning [we fooled around with the problem, didn't fix it but are going to pretend that it is to shut you people up] which is FAR different from its usual meaning.
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Disagree again. I will readily agree with you that [RESOLVED] [OOPS] sucks, and sucks hard, but I really don't think they're doing it on purpose to calm the teeming masses. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here. As I said, yes, sucks, and yes...when I see [RESOLVED] I know it's gonna be a long night, but just to shut us up? Doubtful.
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Now about Phillip Rosedale. YES!! I am not one of those who signed into the halcyon days of 2003, 2004, 2005 or even 2006. I have never met him.
I'm a bit unusual though. I tend to make my determinations about people based on what they DO, not what they say. My opinion on Mr. Rosedale is based mainly on the following: (1) He is the GENIUS who opened the floodgates to millions of free, unverified accounts despite tons of advice that such an action would make the amount of users impossible or difficult for the hardware to service and that it would encourage anti-social behavior such as griefing, scams and frauds; (2) He said that LL would insitute some controls to prevent unverifieds from logging on when peak usage started to negatively effect performance. I'm still waiting;
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Hmmm...I'm going to agree with you here. I don't know about the advice against opening the floodgates, and I'll take your word for it. The throttling I do remember, and I'm still waiting too
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(3) He has continually promised better efforts toward bug fixing and grid stability and , to my viewpoint, has not delivered;
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Here's where I mainly disagree with you.
SL's stability has increased a lot in the past year or so. Remember grid downtimes? Remember when it was supposed to be down from 6AM-Noon on a Wednesday and we couldn't get in til 5:00 PM Friday? That happened just over a year ago, if I recall correctly (entirely possible I don't tho
). Read Massively's Yesterday In Second Life feature. They have a Grid Stability Index there...the lower the number is, the better the stability on the previous day. Take a look at those over the past 3 months or so. The grid is more stable.
The viewer? Vertex Buffer Objects sped up texture loading. Windlight has new rendering code. Are there bugs? Sure. My friends list has about a 50/50 shot of loading when I log in. So you know what I do? I relog after I look at IM's and other pressing
SL business if I have any. Takes all of a minute and a half. I guess I don't see it as that big of a deal. Same with attachments up the butt. It happens, I re-attach, problem solved.
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(4) He is CEO of a company that has almost ZERO customer service and arbitrary and capricious enforcement of niggling TOS violations while turning a blind eye to an amazing array of scams because the perpetrators are capable of writing cool code. The list goes on and on.
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Customer service, my viewpoint is different. I've had great experience from a couple days after I joined until this past week when I needed help verifying an alt. I read the horror stories, but my experience is different. TOS violations and scams I'm with you 100%.
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Flip, the rest of you guys can be as impressed as you want to with him, having met him. I believe the guy is a charismatic charmer. For myself, I would not believe him on anything of importance. I believe he is either incabable of differentiating between the truth and fiction or doesn't care.
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Agreed, to a point. Again, never having met him, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, and call him a visionary, but it's long past time for the visionary to step aside and let a business person take the reins.
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I know you didn't say so in your post Flip, but just because some of us didn't join SL until 2007 or later doesn't make us idiots. It may be that not falling under his great one on one personal charisma, we can see it a little clearer?
Sooz
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Red Kool-Aid colored glasses might tint things a little, but bad experiences can blur your vision just as badly.
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