I can’t say I didn’t expect this, but Linden Labs has mostly ignored demands for more groups.  The best they put out was some double talk about technical issues on the back end impacting performance.  Duh, like if I drive to work every day in my car, I will wear out my car eventually….

So the Jira for the feature request is unassigned.  Closing in on 1000 residents have voted for it.  And yet, not a single Linden has said boo in Jira.  Supposedly Jira is how residents are able to communicate technical issues and desires to Linden Labs.  Clearly, this is not working.  Why doesn’t Linden Labs make a blog statement on the issue?  Take 10 minutes out of their busy day and uh - communicate?

Here’s an idea.  State the facts, and have LL close the issue.  Show some cojones and pull the trigger.  Leaving it out there and letting the customers prattle on about it is just cowardly on their part.

Here’s an even better idea, how about offering more groups to the paying residents?  The ones who are now a tiny minority.  That small minority would put a tiny load on the system and Linden Labs would make more money.  Hmm, the more money would pay for more developers and hardware to do more things.  Nahhh…  That’s too easy.  Back to the head in the sand.

-Veyron

Blogged with Flock

I had a good time over at Zoe’s place for a blogger get together. Vint Falken, October Hush, Tianna Meriman, Katrina Mishow, Chloe Streeter,

I missed DesertWolf Longstaff as I came a bit late, and I also missed the ever amusing Wrath Paine and I didn’t see Tiessa at the party, but I heard she did show up later.

We’ll have to do it again. Since it was mostly girls, maybe we should hire some entertainers next time…. Hmmm….

-Veyron

Once again, I’ve reached my limit on groups. It’s a rather perpetual problem for me now. Someone creates, requests I join, or I want to join a group and another group has to go on the chopping block. How I hate to whack a group. I suppose there has to be some limits at some point otherwise I’d end up being in about 100 groups. But 25 seems too small. Maybe 50, at least until I’m up to 50….

At least there is The Fashion Consolidated Group. It’s been a real lifesaver of groups and lists. Still, I’m in a few other clothing designers groups, mostly to get freebies and other news that’s not getting posted to FashCon. If you are short or out of groups, and you want to get Fashion Announcements, you need to join this group.

Last gripe is the alert… “So and So has left the discussion.” Do I really need to know this? Do I need to have a ping and a pop up on a new group to let me know this? Is this some sort of self replicating feed back loop Linden Labs has setup? I love how I can be logged in for an hour and a new group will popup an IM with only that message. I just love it for its pure annoyance factor. Anyone know how this can be turned off?