Jack Linden Office Hours – June 10, 2010

June 10th, 2010

[10:59]  Jack Linden: hey folks
[10:59]  Equinox Pinion: hi jack
[10:59]  Joshe Darkstone: heh, well, may be a bit of an exaggeration, but in fact theres alot of things getting old and tiresome around here :)
[10:59]  Alexxa Despres: hello Jack ;)
[10:59]  Poppet McGimsie: wow Jack is brave
[10:59]  Uni Ninetails: Hey Jack… uh
[11:00]  Joshe Darkstone: not just my avi :)
[11:00]  Jack Linden: sorry Lisa, no-one has rezzed for me yet
[11:00]  Serra Anansi: Hi Jack
[11:00]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Was teasing.. it happens :)
[11:00]  Techwolf Lupindo: Very barave of you to show up today jack. :-)
[11:00]  LisaDeanna Zhora: closer next time, Mk?
[11:00]  LisaDeanna Zhora: *giggles*
[11:00]  Sonya Haight: could be worse Lady, Snoopy just ran over me
[11:00]  Poppet McGimsie: come sit next to me, phil
[11:00]  Jack Linden: hehe Lisa
[11:00]  Malarthi Behemoth: Apologies Sonya, I literally didn’t see you.
[11:00]  Lady Sakai: lol Sonya
[11:00]  LisaDeanna Zhora: :)
[11:00]  Poppet McGimsie: I’ll keep my hands to myslef, I promise
[11:00]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Hi Tech
[11:00]  Melody Regent: Darn
[11:00]  Sonya Haight: its ok Malarthi, I’m probably standing in a bad spot, Jack ran me over last time here
[11:01]  Equinox Pinion: Jack, first glad you are still with us! Second you allowed ACS to put over 450 homesteads on the grid last week with reduced tier, basicly 95 USD per month, while none of us can buy them even from another resident..why are you so stubborn and don’t admit that the 125 usd tier is not working for estates and you don’t sell any to them and finaly make them all 95 usd instead making a deal with ACS which makes every other estate owner upset?
[11:01]  Jack Linden: Wow Equinox.. nice intro. :)
[11:01]  Equinox Pinion: yep :)
[11:01]  Poppet McGimsie: holy crap
[11:01]  Lady Sakai: I SECOND that jack
[11:01]  Techwolf Lupindo: Charlene Trudeau, you mic is stuck open.
[11:02]  Driftwood Miles: Hi Blu :)
[11:02]  LisaDeanna Zhora: dont you hate those keys
[11:02]  Alexxa Despres: hi ya Blu ;)
[11:02]  LisaDeanna Zhora: :) )
[11:02]  Blu Jupiter: hey
[11:03]  Joshe Darkstone: hrm, my hs sim that got its tier raised in a type swap is still set to bill at $125
[11:03]  Poppet McGimsie: wow uni actually has 9 tails
[11:03]  Jack Linden: Equinox, as you well know I can’t discuss a specific estate owner and what they may or may not choose to do with their inworld land business. But we can talk generally about it..
[11:03]  Equinox Pinion: ok..take ACS away
[11:03]  Ciaran Laval: Yay Jack I owe you L$25
[11:04]  Equinox Pinion: why do you allow ONE owner to do that and piss us all off?
[11:04]  Melody Regent: This is not about what THEY are doing but about what LL is doing by offering sims at a discount on tier when you telll the rest of us no
[11:04]  Jack Linden: ..as far as how estates price themselves or how they supply land.. that’s largely their call. As far as how *we* sell islands to estates – as you know there are programs for the large estates that give them some incentives to grow
[11:04]  Phil Deakins: and why not talk about one specific estate, jack? What are you afraif of?
[11:04]  Equinox Pinion: Jack, you did the deal with ACS only because you didn’t have enough growth in the second quarter, wake up and admit the 125 usd is not working for homesteads! and you will sell them again to everybody and not piss off 99% of your landowners
[11:04]  Jack Linden: We’ve talked about those programs before during office hours
[11:05]  Uni Ninetails: jesus christmonkeys but no incentives for small estates thats nice of LL yep yep
[11:05]  Equinox Pinion: these is not a program jack…this is unfair competition
[11:05]  Melody Regent: So you are saying Jack that we are able to get $95 a month homesteads if we buy them in bulk?
[11:05]  Driftwood Miles: Jack a Direct Question….are Linden selling ANY Homesteads that have a $L95 Tier??
[11:05]  Equinox Pinion: which is even not allowed under EU law..hope you are aware of it
[11:05]  Lady Sakai: Jack apparently your nt understadning what we are saying …. its not the X Estate that is selling to an onl tier price … its LL
[11:05]  Jack Linden: Phil, not afraid at all.. it’s just not something we do. I wouldn’t discuss your business practices with others either. We’ve always been very careful with stuff like that
[11:05]  Joshe Darkstone: $L ??
[11:05]  Rockwell Ginsberg: whats the deal with land sales search in 2.0
[11:05]  Melody Regent: Are you selling HS sims that included $95usd tier a month and what is the minimum to buy, to get that tier?
[11:06]  Phil Deakins: It’s not the land owner’s business practise Jack – it’s yours. why are you afraif dicussing it?
[11:06]  Zoha Boa: Jack, who’s ass do I have to kiss to get 500HS sims with a 95US$ tier then ?
[11:06]  Rockwell Ginsberg: jack when they gonna fix land sales search
[11:06]  Kristaki Hudson: has far i know we never been told all of us landlownwers if u buy in bulk is a discount or i missed that in past???
[11:07]  Jack Linden: Equinox, it’s absolutely normal in almost any commercial space I can think of that the scale of a customer will affect their buying power and the deals they have access to. As I said, we’ve had that conversation here before. The top estates have invested particularly heavily, and yes, they do get some additional features because of their size
[11:07]  Rockwell Ginsberg: do you see any connection with 2.0 land sales search functionality or lack thereof, and steady declining mainland values?
[11:07]  Equinox Pinion: no not the top estates…ONE estate
[11:07]  Driftwood Miles: Thats all we needed to know Jack
[11:07]  Melody Regent: Are you selling HS sims that included $95usd tier a month and what is the minimum to buy, to get that tier?
[11:07]  Equinox Pinion: it is just ONE
[11:07]  Rockwell Ginsberg: does the lab monitor mainland values and turnover?
[11:07]  Phil Deakins: so you do quantity discounts. alright. what are they?
[11:07]  Equinox Pinion: yes if i buy 400 do i get it too?
[11:08]  Uni Ninetails: only if you deemed worthy Phil it seems.
[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: i am sure i could get an alliance just in this room for it!!!
[11:08]  Serra Anansi thinks this line of questioning is a nice way to avoid the real topic on peoples minds
[11:08]  Phil Deakins: so it seems. Jack is afraid of discussing it
[11:08]  Melody Regent: This is very much on my mind Serra
[11:08]  Phil Deakins: What are the quantity discounts, Jack?
[11:08]  Marcusgay Lefevre waves to all
[11:08]  Sera Lok: I would like to know, if hasn’t been addressed, is the Search actually going to be fixed in June? This June? can you be more specific please, or can someone IM me the info if it was covered already?
[11:08]  Techwolf Lupindo rezzes a frying pan under Jack.
[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: and a discount buy price is bussines practice yes…not reduced tier which gives them advantage
[11:08]  Driftwood Miles: It is all well and good offering Purchase deals to ACS etc but TIER Jack?? That screws your whole economy!!
[11:09]  Rockwell Ginsberg: are you happy with land sales search in 2.0? more simply put
[11:09]  Poppet McGimsie: what is that, serra? whether our sims will become 2d webpages? : )
[11:09]  Charlene Trudeau: I suspect its sort of like Walmart being able to buy for cheaper than the mom and pop down the street because as quantities go up, the per item can go down. The problem is, Jack, that while we can agree that maybe the up front purchase can have discounts, any discount in tier makes the playing field totally uneven and even those of us who might have dipped toe into the upper size echelons are gonna get pissed over being unable to compete price wise, even if it makes perfect sense to your accountants
[11:09]  Equinox Pinion: no normal company would piss off 99% of its customers with it
[11:09]  Driftwood Miles: Nobody here can or will compete with that Jack
[11:09]  Joshe Darkstone: so you raise our tiers to $125, lose sales on regions, and then provide an unfair advantage to a few “alrge” groups so they can further undercut us. the real question is on what level do you support the majority of your customer base? everything you have been announcing, doing, has seemed to be designed to pick our pockets while generating fees for LL and preferential advantages for a few of LL’s most favored “nations”
[11:09]  Serra Anansi: whats the point of owning land at all when its obvious that LL has specific objectives and its not the people who made SL what it is today.. the little guys
[11:09]  Jack Linden: Phil, the largest estates, if they wish to talk to us about a bulk purchase, can do so with their account managers. Phil, honestly not sure why you’re going down the ‘he’s afraid’ road.. I’m here because I’m happy to talk about this stuff. :) You have to recognise that as a business we have a range of customers and that sometimes the largest customers will get additional support
[11:10]  Melody Regent: Are you selling HS sims that included $95usd tier a month and what is the minimum to buy, to get that tier?
[11:10]  Rockwell Ginsberg: jack – land sales search in 2.0 – whats the deal?
[11:10]  Equinox Pinion: ACS owes about 5% of the landmass..we owe the other 95%..dont you think you should be more carefull how you treat us?
[11:10]  Joshe Darkstone: our renters leave our islands in droves to go to the islands of those you favor in that way, and it serves to directly kill the business of the many while consolidating the profits for the few
[11:10]  Jack Linden: okay, one second.. lots of text to scan back through..
[11:10]  Alex84 Tigerauge: hey rip
[11:10]  Phil Deakins: So what are the quantity discounts, jack?
[11:10]  Lady Sakai: helping some undercut the large is not additional support jack
[11:10]  Equinox Pinion: we dont have an account manager anymore!!!!
[11:10]  Melody Regent: Are you selling HS sims that included $95usd tier a month and what is the minimum to buy, to get that tier?
[11:10]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Mel
[11:10]  Aizur Zessinthal: But Jack, how can your smaller customers BECOME your largest customers when you give the largest ones the tools to undercut ALL small players? Youa re essentially granting them Monopoly Rights to private regions.
[11:10]  Driftwood Miles: I think the answer is a resounding YES
[11:11]  Equinox Pinion: lol
[11:11]  Melody Regent: me too but I would like a direct answer
[11:11]  Kristaki Hudson: Jack if i may ask one cuestion on this hs tema when you mention large land owners this means minimum how much sims if i may ask you ?
[11:11]  Equinox Pinion: i wonder that too kristaki..as you are in the top 10
[11:11]  Equinox Pinion: and it looks you didnt get a nice deal
[11:11]  Jack Linden: Rockwell, no I am not happy with search right now (land or otherwise). We’re prepping some fixes for the upcoming web release that will address a lot of the issues
[11:12]  Ciaran Laval: What up coming web release?
[11:12]  Driftwood Miles: This screws Estates that really put an effort into giving their residents great product and service
[11:12]  Rockwell Ginsberg: its making the mainland grind to a halt. just saying, idc for me, but its bad for your business
[11:12]  Kristaki Hudson: i never been told was a deal for bulk its first time do hear this if i may opine on this
[11:12]  Lady Sakai yawns ” Sorry Jack, do you have that copy / pasted ?”
[11:12]  Jack Linden: Right now, that search work is still on target so i’m hopeful that we’ll get those fixes out. That web release is a week or so out I believe
[11:12]  Joshe Darkstone: jack so none of the fixes for search are out yet? because all my pracels are still apparently de-listed
[11:12]  Jack Linden: Lady, nope.. I typed it! :)
[11:12]  Sera Lok: .
[11:12]  Poppet McGimsie: if there isn’t a policy for people to get volume discounts, and only a need to “approach” you about it, sounds very subjective and unfair, if you ask me
[11:12]  Phil Deakins: what web release? they are asking about inworld search, Jack
[11:12]  Melody Regent: What is the minimum to buy, to get the $95us a month tier
[11:12]  Equinox Pinion: dont sneak out by changing the subject jack..you didnt answer many questions from the first topic
[11:13]  Alexxa Despres: The thing is Jack…it is only being given to ONE person …not ‘larger estates’…which REEKS of monopoly!
[11:13]  Aizur Zessinthal: And what size must your estate be Jack?
[11:13]  Jack Linden: Poppet, I’d probably agree actually. We should push discounts out as a clear set of levels.
[11:13]  Driftwood Miles: Even Anshe is showing some humility on the issue by buying using an alt
[11:13]  Poppet McGimsie: I agree with Meoldy’s question: what is the policy for discounts? What is the minimum to buy, to get the $95us a month tier?
[11:13]  Qie Niangao: (in-world search driven by web, so they don’t need a viewer release)
[11:13]  Equinox Pinion: LOL drift
[11:13]  Jack Linden: Leave that one with me. Agreed we should publish some guidance on bulk purchasing
[11:13]  Tarina Sewell: I like the viewer.
[11:13]  Phil Deakins: SHOULD Jack? what on earth does that mean. WILL YOU?
[11:14]  Equinox Pinion: and when will we hear about it
[11:14]  Melody Regent: What is the current amount we need to buy to get that?
[11:14]  Tarina Sewell: im just a no land owning store owner. probably have no right to ask anything.
[11:14]  Aizur Zessinthal: You’d Probably agree Jack? You either agree or disagree Jack, and then you tell us you’ll look into it. Get some coffee, your Obfuscate-fu is weak today ;)
[11:14]  Poppet McGimsie: Jack, are you not the one who decides?
[11:14]  Aizur Zessinthal: lol there ya go Jack.
[11:14]  Equinox Pinion: sorry tarina….you do :)
[11:14]  Charlene Trudeau: Yes, Jack, publicized lvels in stead of NDA’d levels would be an up front honest sort of policy
[11:15]  Equinox Pinion: jsut really upset about that deal
[11:15]  Driftwood Miles: Even if they are $L95 Jack (which is offensive in the sublime) what other mechanism of favour does ACS have over the rest of us that allows 450 sims to be dumped on the grid?
[11:15]  Jack Linden: Okay, so an action on me to get some messaging together around bulk discounts. As I said, agreed we should do it. I will take that on.
[11:15]  Qie Niangao: Jack, umm. Restructuring: Could you comment on the integration of Product and Engineering?
[11:15]  Poppet McGimsie: what is ACS
[11:15]  Joshe Darkstone: 450 sims shouldnt even be allowed on the grid when things are this bad
[11:15]  Driftwood Miles: And this is not Passion Jack this is anger!
[11:15]  Melody Regent: any and all discounts need to be public. Not hidden, so people know what to reach for.
[11:15]  Melody Regent: What is the current amount needed to get this discount? Or do you not know?
[11:16]  Eddi Decosta: Hi Jack!
[11:16]  Lady Sakai: its an Estate Poppet
[11:16]  Joshe Darkstone: well, 450 works :)
[11:16]  Phil Deakins: so what web release, Jack. It’s the inworld search that concerns people
[11:16]  Jack Linden: Qie, what specifically did you want to know?
[11:16]  Cara Ametza: including the rumors of large estates being able to buy 5 sims and get 2 free
[11:16]  Qie Niangao: well… start with org chart. ;)
[11:16]  Jack Linden: Driftwood, understood
[11:16]  Marcusgay Lefevre: @ Jack, can i expect a land expo this year?
[11:16]  Joshe Darkstone: so it isnt like something they can actually form policy on
[11:16]  Joshe Darkstone: of course, if they sold you 450, and someone else 450 , then acs woud be screaming its head off, no one would be renting them
[11:17]  Kristaki Hudson: .
[11:17]  Rockwell Ginsberg: acs isn’t making money these days dont sweat them
[11:17]  Qie Niangao: the announcement sounded like you and development were all in the same department now… not sure how that works.
[11:17]  Jack Linden: Qie, I mean do you have an actual question around the restructuring?
[11:17]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: I am a small owner and how will I be affected by all this?
[11:17]  Alexxa Despres: you mean a level playing field Joshe? What a thought!!!!!!!
[11:17]  Jack Linden: Ah I see..
[11:17]  Alexxa Despres: :P
[11:17]  Lady Sakai: Rockwell, that really isnt the point
[11:17]  Ciaran Laval: Rockwell they brought out Azure and now appear to have 450 extra homesteads arriving, they aren’t doing that for charity
[11:18]  Equinox Pinion: I do…how do you want to manage the work with 140 people less if you are not able to it including them
[11:18]  Shila Szondi: sorry I have to say this.. I find it totally disgusting that people cant get one straight answer from the lindens when many of us have 1000′s of real dollars invested in here
[11:18]  Miss Wright: maybe I came in a little late was it mentioned what the actual plan is?
[11:18]  Melody Regent: Yes, any and all discounts need to be public, even those that offer free sims. They need to be open for all to see and attempt to gain.
[11:18]  Poppet McGimsie: I have a question about the restructuring. Is it going to totally destroy everything?
[11:18]  Miss Wright: with the restructuring
[11:18]  Poppet McGimsie: is really scared
[11:18]  Jack Linden: Well, the new structure will bring engineering resources closer to business/product design and will allow us to be more focussed and hopefully move faster on priority projects
[11:18]  Tammy Nowotny is wondering if the whole enterprise is on the verge of implosion
[11:18]  Phil Deakins: The restructuring was just spin. They *have* to restructure because they have a lot fewer people now
[11:18]  Equinox Pinion: i mean your own people even dont know at the moment who is responsible for xstreet now
[11:19]  Qie Niangao: :) okay. Thanks Jack.
[11:19]  Shila Szondi: yet Jack you cant tell us the discounts on land?
[11:19]  Miss Wright: nice
[11:19]  Dimentox Travanti: And where is Mono in that list? Where is server stability?
[11:19]  Poppet McGimsie: Will the emphasis still be on resident-created content, Jack?
[11:19]  Joshe Darkstone: priority projects meaning things like expanding the marketplace to the point that no one should bother building inworld stores anymore?
[11:19]  Shila Szondi: come on quit the dance and give us some straight answers for once
[11:19]  Sera Lok: nod… whatever happened to that Mono Bug fix that was supposed to be here months ago?
[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: Jack, I really think that along side less opaque discounting we also need to know what LL’s POLICY is regarding ACS and the cannon fodder of estates like Tribe?
[11:19]  Equinox Pinion: priority projects selected by whom jack? that is the problem you have…your priority is wrong!!
[11:19]  Phil Deakins: I can’t stand any ore of this. Jack is just full of waffle. Bye all
[11:19]  Ciaran Laval: You don’t improve services by cutting jobs
[11:19]  Jack Linden: We’ve been very matrixed in the past, but we’re moving more towards business units that are organised in a way that lets a single team/group handle an entire end to end development
[11:20]  Tarina Sewell: Can someone in that office fix the survey on xstreetsl, please?
[11:20]  CarpeDiem Turbo: that to me seems like a cover up for we know nothing and plan to do nothing
[11:20]  Ciaran Laval: well not when it’s 30% of jobs anyway
[11:20]  Jack Linden: Poppet, absolutely. resident made content is crucial for us
[11:20]  Shila Szondi: yet you completely ignore the business peoples needs and questions…so tell me how do you figure you are helping us?
[11:20]  Drongle McMahon: What is more scalable support?
[11:20]  Ciaran Laval: Jack can you get someone to tell us what the bloody hell is going on without all the spin
[11:20]  Summer Windlow: are you activly trying to kill inworld stores jack straight answer please ?
[11:21]  Rockwell Ginsberg: and the mainland
[11:21]  Joshe Darkstone: your going to get mine soon jack, i figure end of the month when my stores start closing, ill be setting out 5000 products full perm. user created content for the masses
[11:21]  CarpeDiem Turbo: they would never admit that summer
[11:21]  Driftwood Miles: and Estates other than ACS
[11:21]  Melody Regent: JACK – LOADS OF US HAVE ASKED YOU THIS QUESTION, WHY WONT YOU ANSWER IT!??? **** What is the minimum purchase to get the $95usd priced sims? **** If you dont know that number, please SAY SO!!!
[11:21]  Kristaki Hudson: Mr Jack Linden cuestion for you Sir> how much residents apply each week in secondlife i ask this cause renting land is a big task and work for all of us and for this we need all of us landlords here or which are not in this meeting right now needs residents u agree on this. and also be nice if lindenlab does some promotions if you do or not i have no idea to have new residents joining this great world right what you can reply us on this has a statistic please sir jack linden
[11:21]  Jack Linden: We would have restructured regardless of having to let some folks go. It’s been a tough week, and to lose so many valuable friends and colleagues is difficult. But smart companies sometimes have to make these decisions and this was a necessary change unfortunately. Never easy though.
[11:21]  Poppet McGimsie: Will resident created sim still be an important thing in SL, with the browser emphasis? Does brower mean something like v 2, or does it mean something like 3d web browser development?
[11:21]  Asterion Coen: hello folks :)
[11:22]  Tammy Nowotny: without inwolrd stores, there wd be nothing to see aside from a few houses
[11:22]  Rockwell Ginsberg: yea that sucks jack
[11:22]  Poppet McGimsie: will builders still be as free to create what they imagine? is mesh still on?
[11:22]  CarpeDiem Turbo: what houses, if theres Nooooooo! stores theres noone to build said houses
[11:22]  Jack Linden: Melody, no need to shout. As I said, I will look at getting some public info out for you – I don’t have any numbers that I’d be prepared to throw out during office hours
[11:22]  Shila Szondi: and how many stores are closing each week…Many
[11:22]  Driftwood Miles: Jack smart companies don’t get rid of 30% over a week or so. If they were smart would they have hired them in the first place. There has to be something else
[11:22]  Eddi Decosta: well, jack honestly im little srcastic about this 30% of layoff .. i thik now ll have no idia of the concequance for that, some people here lost some very great friend at Linden lab, and for Blue and Teagan its pure crap.. and i assume what i said ..
[11:22]  Equinox Pinion: yes smart companies jack….i see that different you invested in sl enterprise…a stupid phoneservice…all costs that hits your now
[11:22]  Melody Regent: Thank you for finally responding. That is all we wanted
[11:22]  Equinox Pinion: thats not smart
[11:22]  Driftwood Miles: <<sounds like I am on speed…apologies :P
[11:23]  Miss Wright: He is being very clear, basically there were too many different departments , it was so broken up, probably caused a break in communication and organization, he is saying they are compiling a team that knows not just their job, but the process from start to finish so it works better, so the organization works better, its a very very very good thing
[11:23]  Shila Szondi: Jack no need to shout…come on you give certain customers an unfair advantage and yet wont even give us the details to gain that advantage…come on
[11:23]  Poppet McGimsie: who said there would not be stores and resident-created content??
[11:23]  Summer Windlow: jack is it linden lab policy to kill inworld stores?
[11:23]  Rockwell Ginsberg: and mainland?
[11:23]  Bitsy Giano: Can you tell us what the stated future goal of switching to a web browser based application with no additional software would do to that content we have already created in world?
[11:23]  Asterion Coen: eddi, that’s worst. lot of residents, including companies r affraid that’s the whole SL will soon deseaper
[11:23]  Charlene Trudeau: ok, so what movement is there on Search and getting things fixed so it works to get everyone fair presence?
[11:23]  RedMokum Bravin: Any short term plans for the European office? We’ve seen it come to Amsterdam but never heard of it thereafter.
[11:23]  CarpeDiem Turbo: i want to know more about that web browser thing, cause personaly i think it sucks
[11:24]  Asterion Coen: some budjets about SL stuffs has already been suspended
[11:24]  Jack Linden: To be clear re. SL and browsers – the point is not to weaken or lose the amazing immersive world we have right now at all – far from it. We *are* interested in finding ways to let people see into ths world without needing a download, or ways in which people can tie their social identity into their inworld one
[11:24]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: so they have not come up with numbers, which is not good business , you should have decussed numbers as well as the way you plan to place in motion this new way of business
[11:24]  Eddi Decosta: i dont know why the direction want to destry whole work, of Philip …
[11:24]  Driftwood Miles: theres a saying in Texas you know…fool me once……………
[11:24]  Poppet McGimsie: wouldn’t it be better to learn more before thinking it sucks? :)
[11:24]  Kristaki Hudson: When you can jack reply to my cuestion i know u have lot cuestion hre sir i wait thank you
[11:24]  Alexxa Despres: At this juncture , Jack, the wheels you have put in motion… one fell swoop cut of 30 % with a POOR explanation is ripe to make people PANIC.. Why is this not given consideration when you guysmake these announcements….simply BLOWS me away
[11:24]  Bitsy Giano: ok so our businesses as we have them and content all will remain safe and intact?
[11:24]  Techwolf Lupindo: Jack, you still need to download _something_ to the browser in order to see the 3D world.
[11:24]  Cara Ametza: facebook does not equal SL though, it shouln’t tie in completely, that’s why this is Second Life, so you can have totally distinct lives and not worry about your boss at a Fortune 500 company finding out that your a stripper in SL for example.
[11:25]  Ciaran Laval: Facebook is a fad
[11:25]  Techwolf Lupindo: I don’t think javascript will cut it.
[11:25]  CarpeDiem Turbo: maybe poppet, but sl isnt stable now what do you think will happen then
[11:25]  Cara Ametza: putting them together is not a good idea
[11:25]  Poppet McGimsie: would they be able to see into it like it is or is it possible the whole sl would become much more constrained to be playable on a browser with no software dl?
[11:25]  Rockwell Ginsberg: I’d like to know how much time Kingdon has spent inworld. I don’t think he gets it.
[11:25]  Tammy Nowotny: a browser based viewer as an alternative to the main viewer wd be good… for people who canb’t DL appas on their work PCs… but as a substitute it wd be a huge step backward. the browser is an outmoded 1993-vintage technology.
[11:25]  Aizur Zessinthal: JAck that is silly. Without rebuilding the rendering engine there is not gonna be a way to move SL to the web browser without requiring a download. Simple large world java or flash games can run up to 300mb in a browser already and those are not 3d rendered at al usually.
[11:25]  Jack Linden: so much text.
[11:25]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: but i do believe that there was discussion on this but have been advised to not discuss it…Just yet..
[11:25]  Alexxa Despres: <<thinks they need to hire a new PR manager…… at the VERY least!
[11:25]  Rockwell Ginsberg: Jack can you fire Kingdon?
[11:25]  Joshe Darkstone: you mean this browser initiative is about putting up pretty pictures? 2d? or getting a 3d client into the browser?
[11:26]  Ciaran Laval: ISo much concern
[11:26]  Sera Lok: .loll
[11:26]  Eddi Decosta: M, do some free layoff just for save more cash , but the service for the old resident is allways in the same way ..
[11:26]  Tarina Sewell: Did jack crash?
[11:26]  Aizur Zessinthal: No, he’s typing
[11:26]  Summer Windlow: jack im starting to wonder if owning a sim to run my store is pointless i work extremely hard at it and spend real money i would like to know why it is looking like it is ll policy to kill inworld stores
[11:26]  Tarina Sewell: o ty
[11:26]  Jack Linden: Agreed, we shouldn’t get fixated with spaces like facebook; and we aren’t. We’re very different but we also recognise that for many folks they exist in both and it makes sense that we help people to carry elements from one side into the other.
[11:26]  Rockwell Ginsberg: summer, land ownership in this ‘world’ is a true liability
[11:26]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: like Boeing they like to keep ya guessing..until that friday when ya get your Pink Slip..1 hour before quit time
[11:26]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Why is facebook on all the SL web site paged then, jack?
[11:27]  Malarthi Behemoth: Jack, I call shenanigans.
[11:27]  LisaDeanna Zhora: pages*
[11:27]  Joshe Darkstone: so thats ayes? pretty pictures on your facebook page is the big web initiative?
[11:27]  Aizur Zessinthal: Oooooooh *points at Farva*
[11:27]  Malarthi Behemoth: Second Life is trying to be everything but itself.
[11:27]  Jack Linden: Summer, we really don’t want to kill inworld stores. We *did* need to rebuild xstreet though, as merchants will agree it needs a lot of work
[11:27]  Chant Juran: proberl face book are paying the Lindons
[11:27]  Shila Szondi: facebook has security issues, when you started announcing it we all said no but still it was brought in. Do the lindens ever listen to their customers Jack?
[11:27]  Sylva Petrov: Isn’t this a huge step /backwards/?
[11:27]  CarpeDiem Turbo: its Nooooooo! wonder that inwordlz had a increase of 2000 members in less thena mo
[11:27]  Driftwood Miles: How much tier is Anshe paying for her full sims ?
[11:27]  Poppet McGimsie: if it means people will be able to find stuff in SL when they do a google search, and click a url and see something real and 3d, live, in world, then I am all for it. if it means that the look of sl will change, that everyone will have to access it that way (that there won’t be a more robust downloadable version) then I am very worried about it
[11:27]  Sylva Petrov: To be kissing the tail end of .php and websites?
[11:28]  Equinox Pinion: good question drift..start to wonder too lol
[11:28]  Melody Regent: He wont tell us that Drift
[11:28]  Dennis Lagan: me too
[11:28]  Driftwood Miles: this is just not worth the hard work it really isn’t
[11:28]  Trouble Streeter: Drift, my answer would likely be “not much”
[11:28]  Jack Linden: Well, facebook is the dominant social space currently. It also has a model that is open for developers to integrate with and many other games and services are doing that.
[11:28]  Melody Regent: but if they get a discount, then they need to tell US how to get that
[11:28]  Summer Windlow: ty for your answer jack but take cre not to throw the baby out with the bath water its your job at risk too if this all goes tits up in yout face!
[11:28]  Kristaki Hudson: Mr Jack Linden cuestion for you Sir> how much residents apply each week in secondlife i ask this cause renting land is a big task and work for all of us and for this we need all of us landlords here or which are not in this meeting right now needs residents u agree on this. and also be nice if lindenlab does some promotions if you do or not i have no idea to have new residents joining this great world right what you can reply us on this has a statistic please sir jack linden
[11:28]  Ciaran Laval: Second Life should be leading, not following, Farmville ain’t gonna pay the tier bills
[11:28]  Shila Szondi: How many in this room would gladly jump to another inworld to get away from sl and this type of management?
[11:28]  Alexxa Despres: Do they want US to get the discount..,maybe that is the crux of the matter…and THAT is concerning!
[11:29]  Sera Lok: I’m not comfortable at all with this Second Life trying to be like Facebook thing.
[11:29]  Tarina Sewell: Ciaran, agreed
[11:29]  CarpeDiem Turbo: im already in another world
[11:29]  Eddi Decosta: yeah Jack, but dont forgot, sl is sl and facebook is facebook ..
[11:29]  Equinox Pinion: kristaki…..the daily new sign ups are 10.000 per day
[11:29]  Chant Juran: not me
[11:29]  CarpeDiem Turbo: im here to
[11:29]  Asterion Coen: From a simulator, SL will become a 3D facebook or so ?
[11:29]  Melody Regent: Shila, but cant we have Farmville part of SL, all have little coops?
[11:29]  Melody Regent: lol
[11:29]  Trouble Streeter: me either Sera
[11:29]  Poppet McGimsie: jack, I hope SL is thinking to trump facebook by not making it spo only developers can build on it
[11:29]  Trouble Streeter: Mel, those are called bunnies :)
[11:29]  Kristaki Hudson: aha ok thank you for reply i might have miss the reply sorry
[11:29]  Rockwell Ginsberg: yea seriously, dont kill the mainland and inworld business cause you want a web interface
[11:29]  Jack Linden: We’re not going to diminish what we’re good at – the 3d immersive virtual world – we understand that we’re not facebook. But it makes a lot of sense that we look at ways to let people bring their socialweb stuff into SL for example
[11:29]  Dimentox Travanti: Why focus on the browser? Why not work on things like Flash UI for the client.. Or getting rid of the bad XUI design in favor of something more modular like QT? The rendering engine could use focus not the web interface… People dont say eww sl cause its not in a browser they do it cause the default avatar mesh and stuff is bad… How long have we had the noobie chicken walk… Your missing the focus of what needs to be done..instead your going ooo something shiny over here…
[11:29]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Someone asked, “Jack, can YOU fire M?”" I would like to know also.
[11:29]  Shila Szondi: lol Melody
[11:29]  Aizur Zessinthal: Integrate chat and your friends on SL, possibly allow you to manipulate some inworld items, or evern get a snapshot of what is going on in your SL right now, but full acess? You’ll be dumped from Facebook the first time someone has a bad virutal sex experience Jack.
[11:29]  Trouble Streeter: if I wanted my socialweb, I’d be offline and on Facebook
[11:29]  CarpeDiem Turbo: ty
[11:29]  Sera Lok: exactly
[11:29]  Trouble Streeter: what I wanted was here. which you’re hellbent on destroying
[11:29]  Sylva Petrov: Well, lets have more groups, better group tools, improved chat features….
[11:30]  CarpeDiem Turbo: amen trouble
[11:30]  Uni Ninetails: Wanna stop diminishing Seconlife Jack. get Mark out the fucking driving seat NOW
[11:30]  Rockwell Ginsberg: SL and facebook are separate for me
[11:30]  RedMokum Bravin: How about the ever increasing number of less democratic countries that have totally banned Facebook, but so far not SL?
[11:30]  Tarina Sewell: I do not use facebook
[11:30]  Melody Regent: “[11:29] Jack Linden: We’re not going to diminish what we’re good at” – Then why are you doing that?
[11:30]  Qie Niangao: *Flash* ? You gotta be kidding, especially after last week
[11:30]  Sera Lok: nod, all these sweeping changes… and the big bugs inworld get left
[11:30]  LisaDeanna Zhora: This was all good until Phil left and M took over
[11:30]  Sera Lok: like the Mono bug
[11:30]  Nikolai Holfe: I dont even use facebook ?
[11:30]  Trouble Streeter: do I *want* y’all looking at pics of my RL kids? umm… no. nothingpersonal y’all understand…
[11:30]  Rockwell Ginsberg: just look at mainland prices jack dude the market is telling you something
[11:30]  Sylva Petrov: …what’s facebook?
[11:30]  Dennis Lagan: Jack, i woulmd seriously concider starting to solve that question how to get rid of M. he is quiet mad you know.
[11:30]  Bitsy Giano: wouln’t it be a lot easier if we gave him a chance to answer, and then asked spefics when done? and more productive?
[11:30]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: sl and face book are nothing alike..as far as i am concerned…
[11:30]  LisaDeanna Zhora: for kids Sylva IMHO
[11:30]  Rockwell Ginsberg: yea fire Kingdon
[11:30]  Poppet McGimsie: look more people coming to sl is good, tapping into money and time people are spending now on farmville (a pale pale thing that bunnies and chickens in sl do much better) shows how much money and time people are will to spend
[11:30]  Miss Wright: Ok I would like to say something about bringing more people to SL, I have an extensive marketing background and I truly believe that SL isnt hitting the right market with their advertising, the biggest clientele on the grid is role play, it supports almost all businesses from clothing, weapons, gadgets, but when you go to the second life web page all you see is a picture of a girl shopping, it really turns a lot of people off, you guys got millions of people that hit the SL page when you released viewer 2.0. but hardly any registers… why? cause the way SL is represented on the site and advertising it looks , excuse the term, very girlie and silly
[11:31]  CarpeDiem Turbo: you guys seem to think we want everyone in the world to know our rl’s
[11:31]  Shila Szondi: Jack are you prepared to face the lawsuits of having that bridge and lack of security on facebook brought to sl. Many employers go to facebook to check up on employees. Im here in sl and want my privacy. If that is taken, I will be the first to launch a lawsuit
[11:31]  Sylva Petrov: oooh. my 8 year old likes that
[11:31]  Jack Linden: Dimentox, I think that’s a very valid question. We do have to be much better at explaining the tradeoffs we make when we decide to do thing X instead of Y; however, in many cases the teams and skills involved don’t overlap so we often can’t just bend a team to do a completely different piece of development
[11:31]  LisaDeanna Zhora: See
[11:31]  LisaDeanna Zhora: *giggles*
[11:31]  Rockwell Ginsberg: good point miss wright
[11:31]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: which reminds me my farm needs plowing..LOL
[11:31]  CarpeDiem Turbo: lol wild
[11:31]  Trouble Streeter hopes Jack takes the time after this to look at the chatlog. Please tell me you have chatlogging enabled, Jack, and ask me if you don’t ill tell you how…
[11:31]  Sera Lok: right.. like how v2 had 1st life profile tab as the major point of focus.. NO! BAD!
[11:31]  Driftwood Miles: Godd ole Doodles Linden
[11:31]  Equinox Pinion: Jack is your stragety to have less estate owners and just big ones so you save on support costs ?
[11:31]  Nikolai Holfe: Jack where would you like Sl to be in 2 years time ?
[11:31]  Melody Regent: I can send him the NC with it, or he look at our Linden Blog Trouble
[11:31]  Melody Regent: :)
[11:31]  LisaDeanna Zhora whispers in Jacks ear… psstt hey you, can you fire M?
[11:32]  Driftwood Miles: Agreed Equi!
[11:32]  Trouble Streeter: hahaha
[11:32]  Jack Linden: Miss Wright, that’s good feedback. I think we have seen in our surveys and data how important the roleplay element of Second Life is.
[11:32]  Alexxa Despres: <<wonders the same thing, Equi
[11:32]  Melody Regent: No he cant Fire M Lisa
[11:32]  Sylva Petrov: I think that is core of the issue here – that SO many major problems – IP security, Group features, the fact we can’t use /italics/ wich even yahoo chat can do…
[11:32]  Tarina Sewell: Surveys…
[11:32]  CarpeDiem Turbo: m=Maggie?
[11:32]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Well someone needs to and fast!
[11:32]  Rockwell Ginsberg: jack jsut go into m’s office and fire him ok
[11:32]  Jack Linden: Trouble, I always read back through the chatlog. It’s tough when there are a lot of Qs, and yes i do miss a bunch.
[11:32]  Ciaran Laval: Keeo going down this path Jack and those rleplayers will be sending you plenty of curses of agony
[11:32]  Aizur Zessinthal: stripping is RP, building is RP, rp is rp….its all RP here in some way.
[11:32]  Sylva Petrov: yeah, what’s with the survey popup
[11:32]  Melody Regent: M = DEO of LL
[11:32]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: ㋡
[11:32]  Melody Regent: CEO*
[11:32]  Trouble Streeter: :)
[11:32]  Sylva Petrov: i answered the durn thing
[11:32]  CarpeDiem Turbo: dont get me started on the xstreet survay
[11:32]  Sylva Petrov: why won’t it leave me alone now
[11:32]  CarpeDiem Turbo: pos
[11:32]  Rockwell Ginsberg: jack is boss of M
[11:32]  Rockwell Ginsberg: based on inworld respect
[11:32]  Tarina Sewell: I dont trust those to much as the one you have had for weeks on xstreet cant keep “do not bother me again” records
[11:33]  Tammy Nowotny: the survey was OK the first 1000 times
[11:33]  Sonya Haight: no M is boss of Jack Rockwell
[11:33]  Cara Ametza: XStreetSL griefs everyone everytime they visit the site
[11:33]  Trouble Streeter: Sylva, it’s SL trying to be FB. Which has told me to confirm my @#$% email address 12 times now in the past week.
[11:33]  Aizur Zessinthal: Cause it is broken. Are you guys even getting feedback on that Jack? (No need to answer, I am venting)
[11:33]  Flier Straaf: when the questions are missed, Jack, do you answer them in some fashion?  or are they just left hanging out there?
[11:33]  Uni Ninetails: Speaking of xstreet. can you provide any info on the “upgrade” Jack?
[11:33]  Cara Ametza: who do we file the AR against?
[11:33]  Sylva Petrov: i can sure remember you signed in asking it to speak japanese from visit to visit
[11:33]  Cara Ametza: which Linden designed that survey?
[11:33]  CarpeDiem Turbo: I have taken that damn suvey 20 times and clilcke leave me the hell alone 6000
[11:33]  Sylva Petrov: but not that i said ‘show me adult stuff’
[11:33]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Just tell M to grab the coffee and donuts when you all have a RL meeting and tell him not to touch or say anything pertaining to SL anymore!
[11:33]  Tarina Sewell: I think that survey is broken
[11:33]  CarpeDiem Turbo: it is beyond broken
[11:34]  Summer Windlow: if you all think that ‘M’ is the problem here then i would suggest everyone takes time to write down there greavences with sl and post it to him it needs to be done on mass as a protest maybe?
[11:34]  Jack Linden: Equinox, that’s a dastardly notion! Noo, we are not trying to do that. It’s true that we have a very long tail of small estates and not many large ones. I think most companies would see more weight at the top end – but no, we’re not deliberately trying to force a change
[11:34]  Sylva Petrov: Can’t you guys send M on a ‘factfinding tour’ to tibet or something?
[11:34]  CarpeDiem Turbo: it never worked to begin with… great faith in the new marketplace linden WAY TO GO
[11:34]  LisaDeanna Zhora: He’ll be a good, (ezcuse my french) Office Bitch!
[11:34]  Bitsy Giano: you mean you didn’t take it the 1582 times it asked you to/
[11:34]  Poppet McGimsie: I dunno, I can see why they want to try to do something drastic now, since SL has stabilized into a niche and not growing, they have to tap into a new demographic
[11:34]  Miss Wright: I actually requested my own registration page because I am attempting to attract a MMO crowd that desires more RP, and we advertise outside of secondlife, but the moment they go from my dark scary exciting webpage to the picture of the girl shopping, its a real bummer, although I am getting more and more people that said they joined SL because of our web advertising, just to come see us
[11:34]  Equinox Pinion: OK THANKS
[11:34]  Equinox Pinion: ooops sorry
[11:34]  Poppet McGimsie: not suprising they’d pick something like facebook, which has been exploding
[11:34]  Melody Regent: Dont Yell Equinox
[11:34]  Jack Linden: That’s awesome Miss
[11:35]  LisaDeanna Zhora: IM sorry, but ssl has gotten worse since M came into the picture
[11:35]  Equinox Pinion: i said sorry mel
[11:35]  CarpeDiem Turbo: ok who is ” M ”
[11:35]  Bitsy Giano: Mark
[11:35]  CarpeDiem Turbo: ty
[11:35]  Melody Regent: M Linden
[11:35]  LisaDeanna Zhora: M Linden
[11:35]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: We Are Mushrooms…kept in the dark, fed BS and then pick off when they want a trip without leaving the room…
[11:35]  Bitsy Giano: the CEO
[11:35]  Sonya Haight: Mark Kingdom the CEO
[11:35]  Sylva Petrov: (is this place running on some uber server, cuz i’m not lagging all to pieces here…)
[11:35]  CarpeDiem Turbo: took phillips place
[11:35]  Melody Regent: LOL wild!
[11:35]  Sylva Petrov: (where do i get one for my sim?)
[11:35]  Jack Linden: I must admit, even my Alt has become a little tired with the surveying. We should probably be a little more mindful of how much we do that but it’s very useful to get that kind of feedback
[11:35]  Aizur Zessinthal: It is awesome that Miss Wright has been able to grow Sl Jack, but it is reprehensible no tools exist from LL to facilitate this.
[11:35]  Sera Lok: i believe that he is making too many changes at once, we have SO much to be upset about
[11:35]  Rockwell Ginsberg: Jack fix land sales search ok please that is key to smooth function of land market which is how you get paid — its been wonky for too long. Mainland is dead.
[11:35]  Athena Madrigal: hey they fixed that survey thing on xstreet
[11:36]  Flier Straaf: Useful….if anything real is done with the feedback…..
[11:36]  Nikolai Holfe: isnt M the james bond guy ?
[11:36]  Driftwood Miles: Jack, thanks for answering Equi’s question, as for dasterdly…well, whether you are doing it as a matter of policy or not…it is happening. Smaller estates are so badly squeezed curently and so are midsize…..yet ACS are being allowed advantages that mean it is only a matter of time before she dominates completely the land market
[11:36]  Sylva Petrov: and Q
[11:36]  CarpeDiem Turbo: please for the love of god kill the survay my xstreet sales have droped 75% at least
[11:36]  Uni Ninetails: Jack Marketplace rollout, any info?
[11:36]  Flier Straaf: that is Q, Nikolai!
[11:36]  Sylva Petrov: problem is M is in the lab in this case
[11:36]  Nikolai Holfe: M is the head boss guy though :P
[11:36]  Sylva Petrov: and Q has been laid off
[11:36]  Nikolai Holfe: no awit
[11:36]  Nikolai Holfe: wait Q is the lady
[11:36]  Nikolai Holfe: my bad
[11:36]  Dennis Lagan: jack, ever heared of cookies that survive a session.? thats how you solve Xstreet asking over and over!
[11:36]  Poppet McGimsie: it’s not the surveying per se, it’s the fact the xstreet one wasn’t set up right, so it asks you to servey everytime you swtich to a new page, unless you tell it to shut up, and then starts all over again the next time you go there
[11:36]  Nikolai Holfe: oh no
[11:36]  Nikolai Holfe: blah i know , nevermind lol
[11:36]  Summer Windlow: someone post his name and business address in forum and those who wish to address him directly with their concerns can do so not so easy to ignore when you are buried in letters of complaint
[11:37]  Jack Linden: Sera, one of the biggest outcomes from this week will be that we will focus down on fewer projects. We need to raise the quality bar higher and we’ve had too much stuff in flight
[11:37]  Athena Madrigal: hey dennis they fixed it
[11:37]  Tarina Sewell: Exactly poppet
[11:37]  Bitsy Giano: Jack, I think most can agree here, we have all put a lot of investment, time and effort into building businesses in sl and are just looking for a little security and reason to continue doing so. Choices made have a very real effect on all content creators in SL
[11:37]  Equinox Pinion: who is responsible now for xstreet jack now that pink got fired
[11:37]  Sylva Petrov: I can believe that, Jack
[11:37]  Sylva Petrov: Too many Irons in the fire
[11:37]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Dennis, that must be about the survey thing that keeps popping up without logging into SLX… thats annoying as hell
[11:37]  Cara Ametza: fewer projects, so can viewer 2.0 be pushed off now?
[11:37]  CarpeDiem Turbo: yup
[11:37]  Rockwell Ginsberg: reign in M Linden
[11:37]  CarpeDiem Turbo: 2.0 is the worst thing EVER
[11:37]  Melody Regent: We, Your clients, have been telling you that for over a year Jack
[11:37]  Rockwell Ginsberg: ^
[11:37]  CarpeDiem Turbo: it is not NOOB friendly at all
[11:37]  Jack Linden: Bitsy, well said. Couldn’t agree more.
[11:37]  Cara Ametza: because that is a disaster from the ground up honestly for so many creators, builders and even new residents that land
[11:38]  Driftwood Miles: Anshe dumped 50 ish estates right next to Tribe Islands…….they are being offered up at tier to the end user at 120us……..THAT will kill us!
[11:38]  Alexxa Despres: <<thinks M should have office hours ;) )
[11:38]  Sylva Petrov: well, not the worst thing – there’s still Backstreet Boys
[11:38]  Qie Niangao: would be good to know which programs get shelved… so we aren’t waiting for mesh if it’s not gonna happen soon, for example
[11:38]  Poppet McGimsie: well everything that is ever happening now is the worst thing ever haha
[11:38]  LisaDeanna Zhora: No! Dont let him go until we all have had the chance to shoot him with something :) )
[11:38]  Athena Madrigal: hey lisadeanna they fixed it – say no and it doesnt happen any more
[11:38]  Aki Shichiroji: to what degree should those projects decrease though, when some are integral to the growth of the platform? :/
[11:38]  CarpeDiem Turbo: lol sylva
[11:38]  Sera Lok: thank you Jack, I hope this will result in better communication. Because often I feel as if the first L of LL doesn’t know what the second L of LL is doing:)
[11:38]  CarpeDiem Turbo: and miley cirus
[11:38]  Ciaran Laval: How about script limits? Is that still happening considering babbage is gone
[11:38]  Kristaki Hudson: jack linden it be nice if sometimes M linden can do a meeting with all of us landlords working hard to manage our estates and that we can also sometimes have a chat with him to have a comunication with the ceo 1 time a month what you think on this comunication is important in secondlife i think
[11:38]  Sera Lok: and oh yeah. we all hate 2.0
[11:38]  Tarina Sewell: Good question
[11:39]  Jack Linden: Qie, as we did last quarter, we’ll be blogging to let the community know what to expect in Q3 as far as deliverables and fixes are concerned.
[11:39]  Sylva Petrov: I want to take a moment to say – Jack, thanks for a) still being here and b) somehow making sense of this chaotic spew of characters.
[11:39]  Sera Lok: curses on M for forcing out 2.0
[11:39]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Agreed Sera! 100%
[11:39]  Sera Lok: curses.
[11:39]  Aki Shichiroji: there are some key issues relating to Mono, and surely LL wishes to be an acceptable competitor to other VWs which allow for mesh import?
[11:39]  Poppet McGimsie: agrees with Bitty, and begs Jack for some reassurance
[11:39]  Tarina Sewell: Script limits?
[11:39]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: Oh! God My Get-a life done Got a away..from me where to go now for My life..i spend Hundreds of dollars on..
[11:39]  Dimentox Travanti: Seriously jack i dont know how many times we have jiraed it and such but the MONO bug is killing us.. Every avatar rezing in with their resizing scripts etc.. slams a sim down to nothing… We will we get a fix??? The sims feel like a Commidore 64 computer instead of a multi core server….
[11:39]  Opensource Obscure: Jack, kudos for being able to sustain such a meeting! really awesome.
[11:39]  Uni Ninetails: Jack better blog fast FUD spreads fast.
[11:39]  Cara Ametza: T Linden (the one responsible for viewer 2.0 to my knowledge) should have been in that 30% I think personally
[11:39]  Opensource Obscure: bye everybody
[11:39]  Qie Niangao: Thanks. I expect Kelly has the lead on script limits, and fixing the Mono rezzing bug now
[11:39]  Tammy Nowotny: TY Jack, if you are still here.
[11:39]  Bronson Blackadder: I have a question
[11:39]  Bronson Blackadder: meow?
[11:39]  Rockwell Ginsberg: fire M
[11:39]  Sylva Petrov: If you get the pinkslip, i need a scripter for my store
[11:40]  Rockwell Ginsberg: tell the BOD
[11:40]  Sera Lok: 2.0 is just….. UGH. seriously
[11:40]  Joshe Darkstone: and the search crew, en-masse
[11:40]  Jack Linden: Dimentox, I believe that is still be worked on but I’d need to check up
[11:40]  CarpeDiem Turbo: really
[11:40]  Melody Regent: Bronson, you need to ask it so he can see it
[11:40]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: really jack is amazing for being able to take this kind of beating and remain here..I would have left the building..
[11:40]  CarpeDiem Turbo: 2.0drives ppl away
[11:40]  Sera Lok: Yes, the mono bug is INSANE
[11:40]  Tarina Sewell: That would not have looked good
[11:40]  Tarina Sewell: to leave..
[11:40]  Trouble Streeter: indeed Sera, that’s an understatement
[11:40]  Dimentox Travanti: The jiras been open since the mono beta..
[11:40]  Equinox Pinion: what is the average sm price for the mainland at the moment jack?
[11:40]  Sera Lok: why hasn’t it been fixed yet?
[11:40]  Joshe Darkstone: its a virtual beating :P
[11:40]  Rockwell Ginsberg: 2.0 land sales search is an insult to anyone who participated in the mainland market
[11:41]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Jack.. would there be or could there be, or is there something that tells us WHO is in charge of what and whos rolls they play in Linden Labs Research? Say like a list of CEO’s Employees, hint
[11:41]  Marcusgay Lefevre: just an easy question, when answered I`ll poof out to support my customer – may i expect a land expo this year?
[11:41]  Trouble Streeter: because we needed web on a prim, Sera
[11:41]  Tarina Sewell: Beating or voicing concerns an opinions
[11:41]  CarpeDiem Turbo: 2.0 is a insult all around
[11:41]  Tarina Sewell: drama!
[11:41]  Rockwell Ginsberg: feedback
[11:41]  Sera Lok: lol,, oh yeah, i forgot about that Trouble
[11:41]  Charlene Trudeau: 2.0 has some issues but now that I’m used to it, I won’t go back
[11:41]  Tarina Sewell: feedback
[11:41]  Cara Ametza: LisaDeanna has a really good idea, a list of who does what would be really great
[11:41]  Trouble Streeter: see? It’s easy :)
[11:41]  Charlene Trudeau: there are things I would very much like to see fixed
[11:41]  Tarina Sewell: (waits for the sim to suddenly crash)
[11:41]  Cara Ametza: make it easier to know who to contact about issues, problems etc
[11:41]  CarpeDiem Turbo: lal tarina
[11:41]  Sera Lok: as a builder i cannot use 2.0
[11:41]  Jack Linden: Equinox, it’s low.. it’s been down around L$3 or lower depending on the continent. The oldest continent actually does well, as does the area north and south of Nautilus
[11:42]  Equinox Pinion: ok thanks
[11:42]  Kristaki Hudson: jack linden be a good plan to separate hs and fps on the landsearch that they dont show all results in same windows to tick hs or fp then search result shows up i am on old version and not sure if this is on new version
[11:42]  Trouble Streeter: Cara, that would mean they’d have to ahve an org chart
[11:42]  Sylva Petrov: Jack – A question about the upcoming script limits. Do you have anywhere I can find the actual numbers of what personal and sim script limits will be?
[11:42]  CarpeDiem Turbo: anyone here notice that the lindens are using a estate and NOT a mainland here
[11:42]  CarpeDiem Turbo: tells ya something hu
[11:42]  Rockwell Ginsberg: Mainland is dead.
[11:42]  Sylva Petrov: i still think it’s a beefed up estate too
[11:42]  Sylva Petrov: prolly on it’s own server
[11:42]  CarpeDiem Turbo: prob
[11:42]  Tarina Sewell: 4 hamsters
[11:42]  Sylva Petrov: can i mail ya’ll a server to put mine on?
[11:42]  Dimentox Travanti: Script limits is a bailing wire and duct tape fix for a real problem which is the scripting VM/Sandbox.
[11:42]  Eddi Decosta: about the v2, i have fixed the [OK] and [Cancel] button here cause i see some people dont like that: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-706
[11:43]  CarpeDiem Turbo: i hear the Aflac duck got hired by linden labs
[11:43]  Aizur Zessinthal: 4 hamsters….and a gerbil!
[11:43]  Tarina Sewell smiles
[11:43]  Charlene Trudeau: oh, thank you, Eddi
[11:43]  Miss Wright: I do have a question, will residents be able to purchase a dedicated server for their land at a higher price?
[11:43]  Charlene Trudeau: that one slays me
[11:43]  Jack Linden: Sylva, in the wake of the current org changes we’ll need to look at that and other projects and then re-communicate on them. As mentioned, it’ll probably be me who will blog about Q3 and what you folks should expect to see coming up
[11:43]  Melody Regent: damn, I will have that duck shouting in the back of my head all say
[11:43]  Miss Wright: in the future?
[11:43]  Melody Regent: day*
[11:43]  Sylva Petrov: Thank you Jack
[11:43]  Eddi Decosta: welcome Charlene ㋡
[11:43]  CarpeDiem Turbo: good question m w
[11:43]  LisaDeanna Zhora: I wouldn’t be surprised Carpe. for all the injuries about to happen
[11:44]  Jack Linden: Miss Wright, not short term, no.
[11:44]  Equinox Pinion: jack you told us that viewer 2.0 makes more new people stay in sl..how do you explain the decreasing concurrent numbers per day?
[11:44]  Miss Wright: what do you consider short term
[11:44]  Nikolai Holfe: lol
[11:44]  CarpeDiem Turbo: just once id like a linden to answer a question with OUT including we will gewt back to you latetr on that
[11:44]  Miss Wright: i have had my island 4 years
[11:44]  RedMokum Bravin: This must be the toughest OH to lead… incomparible with the hours of some Lindens who just play and make jokes.
[11:44]  CarpeDiem Turbo: Get*
[11:44]  Bronson Blackadder: its the beggining of summer… numbers always decrease in the summer
[11:44]  Aizur Zessinthal: So JAck, I’ma noob on corp-speak. Doe sthat mean you intend to blog on the restructuring in general and give us an idea of who is in charge of what now, and also on the re-prioritization of projects being worked on by the New anD Improved Linden Labs?
[11:44]  Nikolai Holfe: short term usually to my experience is about less than 6 months
[11:45]  Sylva Petrov: hehe, Jack was brave even logging in, given the news of the last 48 hours
[11:45]  Trouble Streeter: Carpe… ask “Can I have a straight answer please?” that will get you a direct answer… “no”
[11:45]  CarpeDiem Turbo: what about the rumor that the Governce team was let go.. if that is true what about AR’s and other important issues
[11:45]  CarpeDiem Turbo: lol trouble
[11:45]  Jack Linden: Equinox, well.. as you know the concurrent users are mostly not using Viewer 2.0. So it isn’t a direct correlation there, and there are other factors at play such as different viewers, their respective crash rates, the impact of bots etc
[11:45]  Equinox Pinion: ok thanks
[11:46]  Tarina Sewell: I dont like bots
[11:46]  Tarina Sewell: at all
[11:46]  Jack Linden: Viewer 1.23 remains in play because we know we have more to fix in Viewer 2.
[11:46]  CarpeDiem Turbo: what about the rumor that the Governce team was let go.. if that is true what about AR’s and other important issues
[11:46]  Sylva Petrov: only impact of bot abuse should be the LInden boot in the butt of anyone still found using them wrong
[11:46]  Bronson Blackadder: thank god
[11:46]  Aizur Zessinthal: bots need to be gone, but to really do that, traffic numbers need to increase.
[11:46]  Aki Shichiroji: are there plans to make 2.0 more friendly to builders?
[11:46]  LisaDeanna Zhora: And when will LL force 2.0 on us
[11:46]  Driftwood Miles: that doesn’t answer why the numbers are going down?
[11:46]  Trouble Streeter: and they don’t, Sylva, at least not by my watch of clubs using bots to game traffic
[11:46]  Adaarye Shikami: So when you all “fix” 2.0, you’re going to get rid of the old format?
[11:46]  Dennis Lagan: jack, just port back the new stiff to viewer 1.23 , and you are done
[11:46]  Sylva Petrov: i said ‘should’
[11:46]  CarpeDiem Turbo: the numbers are going down driftwood cause ppl are leaving sl
[11:46]  Summer Windlow: i would like to hear the answer to this..>what about the rumor that the Governce team was let go.. if that is true what about AR’s and other important issues
[11:47]  Cara Ametza: can we stop fixing viewer 2.0 and move onto something that really works?
[11:47]  Jack Linden: Aizur, I’m really referring to us talking about the projects and product changes you should expect to see in Q3, and into Q4.
[11:47]  Trouble Streeter: they don’t really care.. oh. yes. “should”. my bad. :)
[11:47]  Ciaran Laval: How are you going to fix viewer 2 and move to a browser based virtual world when you’ve let so many staff go? Outsourcing?
[11:47]  Driftwood Miles: not according to the Lindens
[11:47]  Sylva Petrov: there is no bots
[11:47]  Tarina Sewell: What advertising doe LL do? TV? Paper? Magazines?
[11:47]  Imaze Rhiano: Are memory limits coming? how high limits we should except?
[11:47]  Jack Linden: Summer, the team was not let go. Some individuals were let go, sadly.
[11:47]  Bronson Blackadder: I see asdvertising for SL in youtube
[11:47]  CarpeDiem Turbo: ty jack
[11:47]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: Magazines and csi..
[11:48]  Summer Windlow: ty jack
[11:48]  Bronson Blackadder: and various blogs
[11:48]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: true
[11:48]  RedMokum Bravin: Plans for Europe in a blog, please? Just founding a new office didn’t help.
[11:48]  Dimentox Travanti: have you guys seriously considered like Dumping the offical LL viewer and Going with a tpv which has a more active community oriented development? Which would free up the staff to work on server side stability? Or even taking in a TPV as a base instead of focusing on 2.0?
[11:48]  Jack Linden: Ciaran, I don’t believe we’ve said we’re moving to a browser based virtual world.
[11:48]  Cara Ametza: so how are those AR’s going to be handled now? Cause frankly people get out of control and it usually takes a phone call to get anything actually done about abuse.
[11:48]  Sylva Petrov: actually WE are their main advertisers
[11:48]  Aizur Zessinthal: Knowledge of the corporate structure and how groups have been reorganized would help your customers in talking to the right parties for issues they may have. I can’t believe there is going to be one single unti assigned to all tasks, that is just silly.
[11:48]  Bitsy Giano: there was a comment in the press release to that effect Jack
[11:48]  Tarina Sewell: Should do a commercial to rival go daddy
[11:48]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: true..I tell everyone to get a life on Second life
[11:48]  Sylva Petrov snerks
[11:48]  Bitsy Giano: that it was the long term goal to have a browser based interface with no additional software
[11:49]  CarpeDiem Turbo: Sl Girl instead of the go daddy girl.. Dana Capatric
[11:49]  Bitsy Giano: which is why the concern
[11:49]  Tarina Sewell nods
[11:49]  Tarina Sewell: thats hot
[11:49]  CarpeDiem Turbo: super hot
[11:49]  CarpeDiem Turbo: lol
[11:49]  Aizur Zessinthal: Jenna Jameson as the SL girl?
[11:49]  CarpeDiem Turbo: o.O
[11:49]  CarpeDiem Turbo: Wewtwewt o.O
[11:49]  Sylva Petrov: noooo!
[11:49]  Bitsy Giano: no my knowledge modern browsers would not sustain this format
[11:49]  Tarina Sewell: yeah!
[11:49]  Aki Shichiroji: Bitsy: my understanding is that doesn’t mean they’ll throw the current client access out
[11:49]  Jack Linden: Dimentox, all things are considered, especially where we feel it can help the product and our residents. So yes, those kinds of things are discussed.
[11:49]  Tarina Sewell: I mean who is that?
[11:49]  Bitsy Giano: to my knowledge sorry
[11:49]  Ciaran Laval: nah Jenna Jameson closed her island ages ago
[11:49]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Oh god Aizur shes old
[11:49]  CarpeDiem Turbo: lol yea right tarina
[11:49]  Sera Lok will let go of 1.23 kicking and screaming if 2.0 is not worked out. i can’t believe the huge bugs in this *official* viewer!
[11:50]  Sassy Romano: Jennnnnna Jameson had her name changed by LL
[11:50]  Aizur Zessinthal: SO is most of SL.
[11:50]  LisaDeanna Zhora: or should I say , used up
[11:50]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: Yesah she used to be an escort
[11:50]  Zoha Boa: Jack, how do you help your residents (other estates), by giving special deals toONE other estate ?
[11:50]  Sera Lok: my customers walk around looking like idiots with a hand up because they don’t know how to deselect things because of a bug
[11:50]  Joshe Darkstone: jack, have none of the search engine fixes that we talked about for june been rolled out yet?
[11:50]  Ciaran Laval: Jack you said you wanted to eliminate the need to download a client, whereas that doesn’t mean you’ll do away with the client option it does mean you have a big project ahead and now have less staff
[11:50]  Sera Lok: joshe, he said a week, i believe
[11:50]  Joshe Darkstone: all are pending? because i see no change
[11:50]  Cara Ametza: oh Sera that’s easy, give them instructions on how to download another viewer like Emerald or something lol
[11:51]  Cara Ametza: suddenly they are found after they login again and are so grateful they spend lots!
[11:51]  Sonya Haight: I see no change either Joshe, other than sales getting lower and lower because of it, pushing us out the door
[11:51]  Aizur Zessinthal points to Cara and nods
[11:51]  Joshe Darkstone: yes but it was supposed to be a rollout, some early, so,e later
[11:51]  Jack Linden: Joshe, we’re aiming for the next web release later this month
[11:51]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Jack, when will LL force 2.0 on us or will they let us continue to use 1.23
[11:51]  Aizur Zessinthal: Jack does that web realease affect in-world search?
[11:51]  Joshe Darkstone: jack, so thats with everything, and nothing at all done in between?
[11:51]  CarpeDiem Turbo: when will the market place be released and are you STILL going to GET RID of bb Code???
[11:51]  Joshe Darkstone: i dont know what a web release means
[11:52]  Tarina Sewell: me either
[11:52]  Jack Linden: Ciaran, it doesn’t mean necessarily replacing the Viewer with a browser one. We’re looking at various ways to enhance the existing virtual world and to make it easier for people to see into it and appreciate what it offers.
[11:52]  Equinox Pinion: Jack.how far is that wiki page you promised about private estates…and the MOTD promoting us
[11:52]  Driftwood Miles: necessarily
[11:53]  Joshe Darkstone: so our issues with in-world search are now waiting for an external product release? wow – nice
[11:53]  Jack Linden: LisaDeanna, I think it depends on how things go with 2.1. I don’t have a date for you I’m afraid.
[11:53]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: 7 mins foks..
[11:53]  Cara Ametza: perhaps enhancements should be held off until other issues are fixed?
[11:53]  LisaDeanna Zhora: OK thank :)
[11:53]  Bitsy Giano: press release maybe should have been worded a little differently?
[11:53]  Alexxa Despres: Agreed Cara!!!!
[11:53]  CarpeDiem Turbo: Jack Linden.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::..when will the new market place be released and are you STILL going to GET RID of bb Code???
[11:53]  Cara Ametza: having a stable backbone to work with before adding things on seems to be a rather brilliant idea
[11:53]  Ciaran Laval: Sure Jack, but you have less people to engage in those tasks now, you’re going to be more stretched and you’re talking of narrowing your focus, something has to give
[11:53]  Summer Windlow: well ty for the answers i did get. im sory you have had to ‘let people go’ sadly on top of everything else jack all its made me sure of……. is that i wont be leaving any money in sl i will get it out and into pay pal straight away. you need to think about that you are not reasuring people x sorry to say that but its true
[11:53]  Rockwell Ginsberg: Jack – all I see released on the website is Total Square Meters Sold by Residents: May 2010 avg 0.7212, June 2010 avg 0.5181 L$ Paid Per Square Meter – will LL sit by idly and watch mainland values go to zero?
[11:53]  Jack Linden: Joshe, a web release yes. We do two web releases a month typically
[11:54]  Jack Linden: Ciaran, no question. Hence my point about us doing fewer things.
[11:54]  Joshe Darkstone: a web release is not a new product then? do you mean a relase of the new viewer to the web page? im confused, whats a web release?
[11:54]  Sera Lok: so what *won’t* you be doing?
[11:54]  Equinox Pinion: Jack.how far is that wiki page you promised about private estates…and the MOTD promoting us
[11:54]  Aizur Zessinthal: web release is a very vauge term Jack. Do you mean a push to live game, a push to the web site? Both are on the web but the term is highly ambiguous.
[11:54]  Joshe Darkstone: so an update of viewer 2.0
[11:54]  Dimentox Travanti: You mentioned role play being a core part of SL now and such… Why cant we get more tools to assist with better Intergrating MMO/Role play systems into sl. The TPV being gpl hurts any frame work which needs security… And to be honest most of us have pushed SL to its limits… What exactly are LLs priorities?
[11:55]  Ciaran Laval: Web release is a search update? Search is separate from the viewer in viewer 2
[11:55]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: Thank You For Your Time Jack…Have a great Week see Next week With Answers…YES?
[11:55]  Liisa Runo: SL should offer more, not try to make people appreciate what it offers by new client
[11:55]  Rockwell Ginsberg: Jack will LL do nothing to intervene in mainland average price paid trending to zero? Im looking at the data on ur website.
[11:55]  Jack Linden: Joshe, i mean a push to the website. We queue up changes to the web properties (html assets) and then test/QA them before pushing them out. So the main website, auction site, xstreet and also the search stuff
[11:55]  Joshe Darkstone: ic, thx
[11:56]  Aizur Zessinthal: Thank you Jack, now sicne those are all search based, is that going to affect the In-World searc engine or not?
[11:56]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Is the marketplace going to happen as planned?
[11:56]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Forgive me if thats been answered
[11:56]  CarpeDiem Turbo: ill ask again just incase it was missed Jack Linden.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::..when will the new market place be released and are you STILL going to GET RID of bb Code???
[11:56]  Jack Linden: Rockwell, I know it’s not fun seeing mainland prices so low. We are giving it a lot of thought right now.
[11:56]  Uni Ninetails: so they just migrated the marketplace, we will not see the new website for weeks?
[11:56]  Jack Linden: Aizur. yes it’s all the same search
[11:56]  Equinox Pinion: Jack.how far is that wiki page you promised about private estates…and the MOTD promoting us
[11:56]  Rockwell Ginsberg: well let me know if you need a resident advisor Jack
[11:57]  Timo Daehlie: Stop auctioning land for 0.5 as a start jack ..
[11:57]  Jack Linden: LiseDeanna, yes the marketplace is still going ahead
[11:57]  Aizur Zessinthal: THANK YOU!!!! Appreciate the clarification Jack. You’re a helluva guy.
[11:57]  Liisa Runo: mainland will get better when Ll start to clean the lands owned by residends who been banned 3 years ago
[11:57]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Great, thanks!
[11:57]  Rockwell Ginsberg: yea Jack mainland needs some stimulus
[11:57]  Timo Daehlie: double the free tier instead of a childish linden home
[11:57]  Cara Ametza: I would like to see residents working with lindens who are real residents not people who login to just import creations and run
[11:57]  CarpeDiem Turbo: so you skip right over my question again and refuse to answer it. if you dont know say so
[11:57]  Jack Linden: Okay guys, I should leap into my next meeting. good crowd this week, thanks for coming along! :)
[11:57]  Joshe Darkstone: jack, releasing 450 hs sims at reduced pricing to the grid while you are thinking about how to raise mainland prices? lawls :P
[11:57]  Ciaran Laval: Cheers Jack
[11:57]  Dimentox Travanti: thanks for your time.
[11:57]  Qie Niangao: thanks Jack.
[11:57]  Equinox Pinion: take care jack!
[11:57]  Rockwell Ginsberg: fix land sales and fire M, you have your work cut out
[11:57]  Sera Lok: thanks jack
[11:57]  Shila Szondi: Jack..do you have any answers.. I keep seeing you say I dont have that information, I dont have that answer..Where do we get these answers?
[11:57]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: Ciao Jack
[11:57]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Have a good day Jack. thanks for the infos
[11:58]  Trouble Streeter: ty jack
[11:58]  Rockwell Ginsberg: lol
[11:58]  Imaze Rhiano: bye jack
[11:58]  Joshe Darkstone: well that was funner then usual
[11:58]  Alexxa Despres: Bye jack
[11:58]  Jack Linden waves
[11:58]  Miss Wright: thank you
[11:58]  CarpeDiem Turbo: bye
[11:58]  Joshe Darkstone: thx jack :)
[11:58]  Equinox Pinion: bye all :)
[11:58]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Shila… guess you can ask M
[11:58]  LisaDeanna Zhora: *giggles*
[11:58]  Driftwood Miles: Ever get the impression you are getting royally shafted?
[11:58]  Shila Szondi: laughs
[11:58]  Rockwell Ginsberg: i hope the higher ups read that
[11:58]  Zoha Boa: rockwell, all land prices do get a GREAT “stimulus” by LL, but then in the wrong directing, by dropping 500 grandfatheres sims on the grid
[11:58]  CarpeDiem Turbo: yes
[11:58]  CarpeDiem Turbo: i do driftwood
[11:58]  Melody Regent: I call these meetings my “Smoke Blowing Lessons”
[11:58]  Rockwell Ginsberg: tell me about the 500 sims?
[11:59]  Miss Wright: ever get the impression you complain too much and are unappreciative *smiles* later folks
[11:59]  CarpeDiem Turbo: i call it a joke
[11:59]  Melody Regent: “How to blow smoke up a clients ass”
[11:59]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Nah Drift.. with royal.. you can still feel it
[11:59]  CarpeDiem Turbo: what was REALLY acomplished
[11:59]  Shila Szondi: laughs so true Melody, was even one question answered straight?
[11:59]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: LOL..I do driftwood…LOL WOW..sorry that sounded funny as hell
[11:59]  Zoha Boa: Dreamland got a special deal last week, 500 HS sims with the grandfathered tier of 95Us$
[11:59]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Have a great day all!
[11:59]  Driftwood Miles: lmao
[11:59]  Rockwell Ginsberg: idk how anshe stays in business, she has venture capital behind her i guess
[11:59]  CarpeDiem Turbo: Nooooooo! wonder inwordlz virutal world is increasing so well
[11:59]  Rockwell Ginsberg: well i know she does
[11:59]  Melody Regent: Lets see what the bulk buy is, I hope he will tell us
[12:00]  Emerald Isle: LandMark giver at Emerald Isle (Emerald Isle) has just been used by Stormy Eternal !
[12:00]  Rockwell Ginsberg: lets bring back gambling whos with me
[12:00]  Shila Szondi: okay so we all get together and buy as a group 500 sims
[12:00]  Aizur Zessinthal: Yes, I got him to say for sure their next search publish is defintiely going to affect in-world search. So prepare for that to break next week.
[12:00]  Cara Ametza: even with bulk buy, why have hundreds of sims if people are being run off by isuses?
[12:00]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: I need a shower after that …meeting…J/k
[12:00]  Cara Ametza: you need people to rent the land in order to afford to pay for it
[12:00]  Qie Niangao: Melody, he just makes up a number a bit smaller than Anshe’s total holdings: that’s the entry level to the cheap homestead buys
[12:01]  CarpeDiem Turbo: lol qie
[12:01]  Shila Szondi: businesses close everyday here
[12:01]  Rockwell Ginsberg: thats 50,000$ a month
[12:01]  Rockwell Ginsberg: do you want that??
[12:01]  Sonya Haight: Aizur he said sometime later this month
[12:01]  Shila Szondi: and large ones that have been around a long time
[12:01]  Rockwell Ginsberg: no thanks
[12:01]  Emerald Isle: LandMark giver at Emerald Isle (Emerald Isle) has just been used by Thunder Icechant !
[12:01]  Driftwood Miles: Having discounted buy price is fine…but Tier??
[12:01]  Kristaki Hudson: do the maths buy in bulk is lot of cash then u have to wait to rent it has so much lands right now on market and if special deal is soon be at 125 tier what u plan to compete while u wait to rent tiers are running…. it might be a nice combat ground oh me oh my….
[12:01]  Aizur Zessinthal: True, but still, he said they are definitely going to break…err, update in-world search.
[12:01]  Rockwell Ginsberg: where is suspirira
[12:01]  Cara Ametza: discounts on buy prices and tier should both be public info
[12:01]  Sonya Haight: sorry that happened to you Driftwood, I would have to wrap it up and call it a day on that one
[12:02]  Sylva Petrov: hehe new continent
[12:02]  Sylva Petrov: i don’t see that happening
[12:02]  CarpeDiem Turbo: i agrea cara
[12:02]  CarpeDiem Turbo: agree*
[12:02]  Melody Regent: If we can get a number from him and let us bulk buy but own in our own estates, I think he should let us. We will see. Otherwise we can talk about a consortium kinda thing. But I want to hear his numbers first.
[12:02]  Kristaki Hudson: lindens must not raise in 2011 these hs or it be a mess what u think on this?
[12:02]  Qie Niangao: omg, it’s Khamon!
[12:02]  wildorchid Fairymeadow: Later all..Good to see ya ..hugs..
[12:02]  Khamon Fate: Gosh it’s boggy here just like at The Graveyard.
[12:02]  Qie Niangao waves
[12:02]  Khamon Fate: Hi Qie
[12:02]  Melody Regent: We decided not to grow more, becuase of the GF issue. But if we can buy bulk, then we need to consider it
[12:02]  Dimentox Travanti: Bahh they are prepping to sell the labs i bet
[12:02]  Khamon Fate: I happened to finish class early today.
[12:03]  Rockwell Ginsberg: yea
[12:03]  Khamon Fate: The students didn’t seem to mind ha ha ha
[12:03]  Melody Regent: I have been saying that for a while now Dime
[12:03]  CarpeDiem Turbo: ok well im gonna log into IW and finish setting up
[12:03]  CarpeDiem Turbo: bye
[12:03]  Kristaki Hudson: i think like you dear melody…. growing to keep empty lands and on other side is discounts is a mess… and unfair if ther eis a deal applied
[12:03]  Dimentox Travanti: Reorg/get popular quick (read facebook) show a profit sell
[12:03]  Khamon Fate: I’m taking odds that Jack has a sudden real life meeeeeting to attend.
[12:03]  VISTA AO –Melody’s AO: ON
[12:03]  Kristaki Hudson: and hten must recover investment landempty u pay tier while ono ther side is a deal if ther eis … kinda hard no
[12:04]  Qie Niangao: oh, Khamon, he just left after his office hour here, maybe 5 minutes ago
[12:04]  Tarina Sewell: If you dont advertis to the real world, and I dont mean facebook.. popularity can not possibly increase
[12:04]  Aizur Zessinthal: Meeting it over already Khamon.
[12:04]  Aizur Zessinthal: is*
[12:04]  Khamon Fate: oh
[12:04]  Khamon Fate: tnx
[12:04]  Khamon Fate: I’ll tell me what happened
[12:04]  Sonya Haight: he’s already at the other meeting
[12:05]  Khamon Fate: nothing, absolutely nothing
[12:05]  Uni Ninetails: ahwell have a good day im gonna lay down only take so muchbullshit in a day
[12:05]  Alexxa Despres: Bye everyone…all have a nice weekend ;)
[12:05]  Dimentox Travanti: was a game of dodge ball
[12:06]  Dimentox Travanti: question, dodge, question, political dodge
[12:06]  Aizur Zessinthal: He confirmed without confirming that ACS got a tier discount on a large homestead purchase. I say confirmed bacuse he is going to look into publishing a set of standards for discounts on bulk purchases.
[12:06]  Techwolf Lupindo returns “did we managed to fry jack?
[12:06]  Aizur Zessinthal: because*
[12:07]  Imaze Rhiano: umm.. did someone said that azure island are sold?
[12:07]  Sonya Haight: ACS boght those hmm last month or month before?
[12:07]  Sonya Haight: shoot what month is it now?
[12:07]  Kristaki Hudson: imaze yeah been sold aparently
[12:07]  Imaze Rhiano: ACS?
[12:07]  Khamon Fate: Thanks Aizur
[12:07]  Aizur Zessinthal: No problem
[12:08]  Sonya Haight: Dreamland Imaze
[12:08]  Qie Niangao: well, off to RL I guess… have fun, all.
[12:09]  Imaze Rhiano: sorry – not really familiar about estate markets here – I just happen to know azure because I did rent parcel from them long time ago…
[12:09]  Melody Regent: Well, Jack is on the spot to let us know now, so we can expect to hear something at some point. He knows some of us well enough to know we wont let this go
[12:09]  Melody Regent: Bye all, see you next week
[12:09]  Driftwood Miles: Bye Mel

Jack Linden Meeting May 27th 2010

May 27th, 2010

[10:59]  Jack Linden is Online

[10:59]  Seattle LeShelle: waves to everyone

[10:59]  Lady Sakai: yea me too … the answer I got on that note was the same story

[10:59]  Lady Sakai: heya Seattle :)

[10:59]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Hi Seattle :)

[10:59]  Timo Daehlie: hello to all :)

[10:59]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Hi Timo

[10:59]  Lady Sakai: hi Timo .. Alexxa

[11:00]  Alexxa Despres: Hi ya Lady ;-)

[11:00]  Qie Niangao: greetings, Jack

[11:00]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Hi Jack

[11:00]  Ardy Lay: Hi Jack

[11:00]  Sonya Haight: hi Jack

[11:00]  Jack Linden: hey folks

[11:00]  Lady Sakai: Morning Jack

[11:00]  Alexxa Despres: Hi jack ;)

[11:00]  Seattle LeShelle: hi jack

[11:00]  Driftwood Miles: Hijack

[11:00]  Uni Ninetails: mornin jack

[11:00]  Lady Sakai: derm sorry evening :)

[11:01]  Jack Linden: are those of you in the UK and US looking forward to a long weekend?

[11:01]  Alexxa Despres: It’s a long weekend? :O

[11:01]  Alexxa Despres: :P

[11:01]  Bronson Blackadder: hell yes

[11:01]  Seattle LeShelle: memorial weekend this coming up

[11:01]  Lady Sakai: its weekend ? O.o

[11:01]  Driftwood Miles: There are different lengths now…..great!!!

[11:01]  Alexxa Despres: lol Drift

[11:01]  LisaDeanna Zhora: lol drift

[11:01]  Jack Linden: hehe drift

[11:01]  Driftwood Miles: it’s a modern world we live it

[11:01]  Lady Sakai: its superweeksneds Drift :p

[11:02]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Lady

[11:02]  Jack Linden: okay some quick things up front before we dive into the freeform stuff..

[11:02]  Driftwood Miles: I am really looking forward to it Ty Jack

[11:02]  Timo Daehlie: i am more looking foreward to see mainland rates being restored

[11:02]  Uni Ninetails: Jack gonna clean up that shuttle by the window noise is annoying

[11:02]  Two Guns Lot #1: LandMark giver at Two Guns (Two Guns Lot #1 – L$2128/wk) has just been used by Derrick Pizzaro !

[11:02]  Lady Sakai: Im gonna look forward to LL realising the economy is shot but hey ..

[11:03]  Timo Daehlie: also that ..

[11:03]  Uni Ninetails: Tal, nice mod :)

[11:03]  Talarus Luan: Thankies

[11:03]  Jack Linden: you’ll have hopefully seen the blog post we put out on Search. we’ve a lot of resource on that right now, and we’re looking good to fix most of the badness in June. I’m hearing from folks how painful it is right now, and so it’s shooting up the priority list.

[11:03]  Lady Sakai: spooky Tal

[11:03]  Talarus Luan: Comes standard except for the eyes :D

[11:03]  Driftwood Miles: oh yeah…..VERY cool Tal!!

[11:03]  Lady Sakai: loved the wording on it Jack … understaed as usuall

[11:04]  Timo Daehlie: wonderful news .. what about the months we had to suffer ? Any compensation ?

[11:04]  Joshe Darkstone: actually painful inst quite the right word jack, we have started closing down our stores

[11:04]  Joshe Darkstone: so a date in june woiuld be nice

[11:04]  David Wetherby: Good day

[11:04]  Driftwood Miles: 3 Days out of search last week …and that is tragic

[11:04]  Sonya Haight: shooting up? thought it was already at the top?

[11:04]  Alliez Mysterio: HI all

[11:04]  Seattle LeShelle: why isnt it at the top already is what i would like to know

[11:04]  Bronson Blackadder: someone wants to date Jack in June?

[11:05]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Hi Alliez

[11:05]  Driftwood Miles: Hi Alliez :)

[11:05]  Lady Sakai: have a seat Alliez :)

[11:05]  Alexxa Despres: Bronson ;-P

[11:05]  Jack Linden: Timo, no plans for comp.. sorry. I know it’s been a bit grim. Some of the issues are deep and scary but we’re well on top of them now and have some super bright people on it

[11:05]  Alliez Mysterio: trying to :)

[11:05]  Timo Daehlie: jack ..

[11:05]  Jack Linden: Joshe, I know.. my inbox knows too. We’re taking it very seriously

[11:05]  Lady Sakai: oh your bringing in help from the outside Jack *bites her tounge*

[11:05]  Timo Daehlie: we been complaining for over a year about low mainland rates ..

[11:06]  Timo Daehlie: you are aware of that .. you promised to look at it .. but what else you are gonna do about it ?

[11:06]  Timo Daehlie: Lowering your auctions till 0.1 ?

[11:06]  Talarus Luan: Not going to see a change in that… WAY WAY WAY too much land

[11:06]  Timo Daehlie: More homeland ?

[11:06]  HimBaer Pfeffer: hi all

[11:06]  Timo Daehlie: More Adult land ?

[11:06]  Joshe Darkstone: can we talk specifics about the saerch engine? like – i know its fast and all, but when it truncates the results at 700 and there are 2400 results for a phrase like “tropical Palm Tree” then that means that peoplel who are paying to be shown in search are not getting what they are paying for. 700 results may be fas – but its not accurate

[11:07]  Alexxa Despres: we noticed that too Joshe

[11:07]  Lady Sakai: agreed Tal … way to much land way to little newcommers .. the state in SL is driving ppl out its a bad circle

[11:07]  Talarus Luan: ..and LL is adding more all the time with the “Linden Homes” (yes, that still counts in adding land, since people will buy into it, rather than the already-depressed mainland)

[11:07]  Ciaran Laval: Whoa Tribe have came mob handed

[11:07]  Driftwood Miles: Yes and most of those 700 are regions

[11:07]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Ciaran

[11:07]  Joshe Darkstone: and by the way from page 2 of that result set, and for most of it, what you get are user profiles

[11:07]  Alexxa Despres: Ciaran ;P

[11:07]  Alliez Mysterio: Abby

[11:07]  Timo Daehlie: Yes they gain much more on a linden home sim so they dont care about mainland ..

[11:07]  Abby Callisto: Allie!

[11:07]  Alliez Mysterio: :)

[11:08]  Lady Sakai: Abster xxx

[11:08]  Joshe Darkstone: showing picks for parcels that arent even in the search results

[11:08]  Alliez Mysterio: behind the bench

[11:08]  Jack Linden: Timo, we have been watching that yes. Agreed that it’s a problem – the land cutting stuff has had some extra progresss recently but we’re also talking about the overall problem of mainland prices

[11:08]  Timo Daehlie: Jack .. we ve been telling you about the problem .. the cause ..

[11:08]  Alexxa Despres: Hi ya Equ ;)

[11:08]  Jack Linden: Linden Homes is stable right now, we haven’t added any more since the initial launch period

[11:08]  Alexxa Despres: Equi*

[11:08]  Talarus Luan: Pshaw, Timo.. who listens to us anyway? :P

[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: hiya all :)

[11:08]  Timo Daehlie: True Tal ..

[11:08]  Jane Fossett: Hi Eui!

[11:09]  Driftwood Miles: 6500 Search Results for Land Rents and only 700 showing…yet I don’t see any refunds of the 30 lindens per week

[11:09]  Equinox Pinion: Jane!

[11:09]  Timo Daehlie: As long as you pay it is ok but dont open your mouth

[11:09]  Lady Sakai: the Linden Homes didnt do anyone any good jack .. an empty gimmick

[11:09]  Timo Daehlie: Bot owners pulling rates further down in order to force sales and buy back with bots but that is fine

[11:09]  Timo Daehlie: even when you run 80 bots on an externa server or grab land for L$ 1 .. that is all ok

[11:09]  Qie Niangao: so Jack, the last we heard, the target price for Mainland was between 7.5 and 8 L$/m, and then it was at 3.5… is there a new target, and what’s the “average” you see today?

[11:09]  Alliez Mysterio: But we all knew that

[11:09]  Seattle LeShelle: agreed driftwood

[11:09]  Liisa Runo: LL should put some time limit on how long land stays untouched when the owner stop paying tier, i checked the sims around my sim, and 30% of the land is owned by people who have not logged in for over 2 years, and most of these parcels dont have autoreturn, so they are full of junk

[11:09]  Timo Daehlie: The lab looks at it but does nothing with it ..

[11:10]  Jack Linden: Joshe, yep, we’re aware of that issue and it is being addressed. As i said, Search is getting a ton of work done on it over the next few weeks and beyond

[11:10]  Alexxa Despres: Also Jack…when you type in ‘land rental’ there are things showing that do not even have the word ‘land’ or ‘rental’…..in the descriptions at all

[11:10]  Alexxa Despres: yet the things that are relevant to land rental are not showing

[11:10]  Joshe Darkstone: jack thats definately part of what you need to address here, we PAY to be shown in search, you dont stop taking the money – so we need to actually BE shown in search

[11:10]  Talarus Luan: I think it is clear that there was some kind of plan to pretty much put the “land middlemen” out of business. LL doesn’t make near as much money on land sales as it does tier, and higher land prices means less people buying, so less people paying tier.

[11:10]  Abby Callisto: same with cabins….bdsm shows up when you type in cabins

[11:11]  Ciaran Laval: That’s happening all over Alexxa, I put a ticket in about irrelevant results

[11:11]  Lady Sakai: and the conditions for Rental Homes are horrid Jack … and you not showing signs of wanting to clear it up makes one think that you dont want to

[11:11]  Jack Linden: Liisa, we have considered setting autoreturn automatically when land lies unused for a long period, but there are times when that would be wrong (for example people use one account to own land, then another account to live on it)

[11:11]  HimBaer Pfeffer: YES look at search places and ask how the top ten don´t get trouble for Traffic Gaming or adverise with SEX on mature sim ??????? some people and me reported them and nothing happened ? is this law made for the small ones at 7000 traffic ?

[11:12]  Equinox Pinion: do you have less people looking to rent since teh new search lady?

[11:12]  Timo Daehlie: Soon nobody will pay tier over Mainland .. what the use of paying for something that is worthless .. land at -.0.7 L$m2 now and soon 0.1 L$ m2

[11:12]  HimBaer Pfeffer: Jack, i ask you !

[11:12]  Liisa Runo: these land also have zero traffic, and since i live next to these places, i know they are totally unused

[11:12]  Joshe Darkstone: well then what the heck do we do about the lost revenues? i guess my real question is if this is so broke that you have all the4se resources dedicated to fixing it, why havent you rolled it back instead of letting businesses that have been here for years go under? what we had was working, such as it was. what we have now is just working for the licky few – you are picking winners here, and in my case, picking losers

[11:12]  HimBaer Pfeffer: SWEETHEARTS ! SEXYLIFE LOVE NUDE BEACH

[11:13]  Jack Linden: HimBaer, yeah i’ve seen examples like that too. It’s not good at all. hence our focus on fixing it. So yes, we know it’s bad right now, we’re fixing it as rapidly as we can.

[11:13]  Lady Sakai: and what about the hidden rules / charges on HS Jack .. did you look into that ??

[11:13]  Timo Daehlie: I hope it wont take as long as resolviong the microplots. After two and half years that problem still isnt fixed

[11:14]  HimBaer Pfeffer: pleas stop harrazing multilogger with regular viewer, the try to hold againsst the bich cheater, try to overcome until you made a realistic solution !

[11:14]  Talarus Luan: Speaking of getting something else done as fast as you can, when will be able to set environmental editor presets on private estates/regions for others to see?

[11:14]  Jack Linden: Joshe, there is certainly no picking – the problems are not specific to any one person or area. One of the issues, the bug I mentioned in the blog post, is just that – a bug. And when fixed you’ll see a substantial improvement

[11:14]  HimBaer Pfeffer: so far xstreet takes all i buy stranger sims under 300 us $

[11:14]  HimBaer Pfeffer: but don´t need some in future

[11:14]  HimBaer Pfeffer: becourse economy dies

[11:14]  Driftwood Miles: I guess what most people cannot get their heads around Jack is why Linden do not roll back to the search that worked albeit flawed until you have completely rid the new search of critical errors that damage your residents?

[11:14]  Jack Linden: The new GSA will be much better than previous search, we just have to get past these fixes. Rolling back wouldn’t be the right step

[11:14]  Timo Yalin: hello everyone

[11:15]  Ciaran Laval: Jack this has been extremely damaging to residents, rolling back would absolutely have been a right step

[11:15]  Driftwood Miles: agreed

[11:15]  Equinox Pinion: i think it would be the right step jack…people are hurting badly at the moment…they cannot wait weeks for it

[11:15]  Timo Daehlie: Do they care ?

[11:15]  Lady Sakai: agrees with Ciaran

[11:15]  Jack Linden: Drift, we’re indexing and crawling a huge amount of data. Just rolling back that indexing is not feasible.

[11:15]  Sonya Haight: I have been waiting weeks, was kicked out of search immediately

[11:15]  HimBaer Pfeffer: roll back the complete tos until you got a ready solution

[11:15]  Jack Linden: It’s not a simple switch sadly.

[11:15]  Liisa Runo: some day people realise that if they dont pay tier, LL ban the account, but never take the land, so people intentionally let this happen, and start to use the land with ALT that is in same group that the land is set…

[11:16]  Liisa Runo: free land, yaya

[11:16]  Talarus Luan: Sounds like the implementation plan was missing a few steps.

[11:16]  Talarus Luan: Like “have a backup plan in case something explodes in our faces”. <.<

[11:16]  Jack Linden: With us being so close to having the major issues resolved, we feel it’s best to push past this because the gains are going to be considerable.

[11:16]  Driftwood Miles: That is the only answer Tal

[11:16]  Lady Sakai: can Esate owner get that same deal Jack lol

[11:17]  Melody Regent: Jack, something that comes to mind and yes I have been down this road with you before. Search is not working right, period and of story. So while you are working on it, why not give land owners an alternatve way to get knowns. Like put a MOTD about the LAND forums. Go a step further. Make sure we can adverttise products on the fourms and do a MOTD for that. THis is just ways to think outside the box, help people help themselves WHILE you fix search. We get Linden Home shoved down our throats with the MOTD all the time. Maybe think about doing other things with that to help the rest of us in other ways.

[11:17]  Ciaran Laval: It will have been over a month by the time it’s fixed, how about a discount on tier for this mess

[11:17]  Talarus Luan: I am glad LL is not an oil company. <.<

[11:17]  Abby Callisto: the lab should reimburse lost ads due to your lack of making sure it was feasable t work and no put so many business;s under……what we pay in ads for many is A LOT of cha ching. and we are losing not only that money but the sales we should be getting from those lost ads we paid for.

[11:17]  Jane Fossett: grin

[11:17]  Jack Linden: Melody,we should get some estate oriented MotD stuff going out next week

[11:18]  HimBaer Pfeffer: Melody, come here and take a seat beside me,.. this is a better busines than trading land and invest money ;)

[11:18]  Alliez Mysterio: We are paying out a lot of money for services NOT received

[11:18]  Lady Sakai: Id like to ad to mels comment that Rental Homes dont have any way of advertising on the forums as it is now

[11:18]  Timo Daehlie: Want to get rich ? Stop paying tier to the lab ..

[11:18]  Liisa Runo: i wonder what makes better profit% LL or oil companies O_o

[11:18]  Melody Regent: You just want me close to you Baer

[11:18]  Melody Regent: :)

[11:18]  Timo Daehlie: Someone told me that last week .. at first i had to laiugh but after all it is a brilliant idea

[11:18]  Lady Sakai: Im currently betting on the first Liisa

[11:19]  Joshe Darkstone: so the loss of a few 100 inworld businesses, losses totallign 100s of thousands of dollars to your customers, thats just a price worth paying for you – its nice to be able to see where we fit in your thinking. where do we apply ofr restitution?

[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: Jack, for the major Glitches in search…when are we talking…what is the estimation? First week? Second Week? Later or ….?

[11:19]  Alliez Mysterio: I dont mind paying but please give me what I pay for

[11:19]  Melody Regent: Thank you for that Jack, we will be looking for it with great exectaions

[11:19]  HimBaer Pfeffer: Jack GB andel is a man who can enter sims where he is banned or complete estetes,.. he is known from all here ? you agree ? why he is still allife ?

[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: In June

[11:19]  HimBaer Pfeffer: AND you can´t find people with two signs in first name !

[11:20]  Jack Linden: Joshe, that isn’t the case at all. Of course we understand how signficant the problem is and we are as anxious tto get it resolved as you are.

[11:20]  Alliez Mysterio: Has LL been keeping track of all the sims for sale? Its amazing

[11:20]  Talarus Luan: yeah, is fun to try and search for “M Linden” or “T Linden”. Idiots.

[11:20]  Jack Linden: Yes Alliez, we do watch that closely.

[11:20]  Alliez Mysterio: So you do know

[11:20]  Ardy Lay: “M% Linden” works.

[11:21]  Liisa Runo: do Ll watch the amount of land owned by banned residents?

[11:21]  Jack Linden: We saw a spike running up to May 1st, but otherwise May has been similar to April and March as far as transfers go

[11:21]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Isn’t that fixed in v2.1

[11:21]  Talarus Luan: Yeah, but who knows to do that?

[11:21]  Ardy Lay: I do. Now you do.

[11:21]  Ardy Lay: :-)

[11:21]  Alliez Mysterio: I would like to suggest instead of all blaming Jack for what is going on. Write to M LInden with cc to all board members

[11:21]  Talarus Luan: Great. Now put it on the MotD for the other 12 million :P

[11:21]  LisaDeanna Zhora: The 2 letter name search

[11:21]  Lady Sakai: Jack did you look into the problem I stated last week ?

[11:22]  Timo Yalin: well first of all sorry for my bad english. I see still many bots arround what purchasing land for low rates and sell it for very low rates. So the last weeks the mainland prices went down more and more. Technally I think most of this bots not allowed. To get land during less than a half second means they use the search wrong, with multiple searcher bots. Why such users dont get stopped?

[11:22]  HimBaer Pfeffer: gb Andel :)

[11:22]  Jack Linden: :) Alliez, the execs and board are all very aware of the situation.

[11:22]  HimBaer Pfeffer: soenone else know this name ?

[11:22]  HimBaer Pfeffer: reportet multiple times

[11:22]  Talarus Luan: Yes, but they aren’t aware of people’s exact views on it. :)

[11:22]  Joshe Darkstone: my builder is busy packing up half our store sims right now jack, somehow i dont think we have quite the same level of anxiety. abd when you builders see our 5000 items being sold off full perm for a few lindens on the dollar, send your complaints to LL, Its the only way I see we can recoup any of our losses after we close the stores.

[11:22]  Alliez Mysterio: Well, it seems to me big change is called for and very fast

[11:23]  Alliez Mysterio: This is totally unacceptable

[11:23]  Melody Regent: Lady, you are going to have to go into more deatail to remind him

[11:23]  Alliez Mysterio: Why was the new viewer released when it was not tested more

[11:23]  Alliez Mysterio: Because of a date given?

[11:23]  Talarus Luan: Silly Alliez… WE’RE the alpha testers. :P

[11:23]  Jack Linden: Agreed Alliez, I’m definitely not disagreeing with you. We are fixing it now, and will push that out just as fast as we can.

[11:24]  Joshe Darkstone: Alliez, Jack is in charge of search – and its ruining us. Im not writng letters, Im speaking out, to the guy in charge of whats putting us out of business.

[11:24]  Alliez Mysterio: I was in the first test group and could not believe how fast it went out to all

[11:24]  Alliez Mysterio: He is doing as he is told to do

[11:24]  Ciaran Laval: Agreed Alliez, new viewer, new search both seem to have been rushed out when not ready, hopefully the new marketplace will take this onboard even though it won’t be ready when it’s launched, hopefully the flaws will be small

[11:24]  Alliez Mysterio: Following what he is told to do

[11:24]  Alliez Mysterio: Its not his fault

[11:25]  Talarus Luan: Asking again: Speaking of getting something else done as fast as you can, when will be able to set environmental editor presets on private estates/regions for others to see?

[11:25]  Abby Callisto: the viewer 2 is aweful…..it is a disaster and pushed out way too fast……but thats the least of my worries…search is destroying everyone who has any kind of business here

[11:25]  Uni Ninetails: He. Tal i gave up on that.

[11:25]  Alliez Mysterio: I hate bashing ppl when they should not be blamed for doing their job

[11:25]  Jack Linden: Alliez, yes we know the new Viewer has some problems – in hindsight we could have spent more time polishing and folding in feedback. We’re now pushing hard on the problems

[11:25]  Talarus Luan: Yeah, but you know me… I don’t give up. :P

[11:25]  Uni Ninetails: XD

[11:25]  Alliez Mysterio: Some?

[11:25]  Joshe Darkstone: jack is a vp, im not sure what you know about corporate structures, but vp’s dont get to be vp’s because they do what they are tolld, its because they are capable of delveloping plans, your thinking of managers. not vp’s

[11:25]  Alliez Mysterio: I disagree totally

[11:26]  Jack Linden: Tal, those estate settings are actually in QA soon I believe, then will roll into one of the upcoming Viewer releases

[11:26]  Talarus Luan: Heh. Yeah, LL’s view is that it’s only a minor set of problems.

[11:26]  LisaDeanna Zhora: I would motion that the next Office hours Jack has, is for this “board” to be here to listen to all of whom are losing business.

[11:26]  Joshe Darkstone: and if it were my job to do somethign that put people out of business i would quit my job, in a hurry. people need to own what they do

[11:26]  Alliez Mysterio: Jack congrats. I was not aware you are a VP now

[11:26]  Lady Sakai: Jack … Last week I brought up a problem there is with the HS on Class Swaps … the GF HS is being cancelled … NO in your blog and the Wiki it makes no mention of that .. in states that GF status will be canceled out if we TRANSFER …. Why this hidden charge / Rule ? How are we supposed to trust LL when you keep changing rules on us and not even informing us about it ??

[11:26]  Talarus Luan: Define “soon”.

[11:27]  Joshe Darkstone: vp director, same level of input

[11:27]  Alliez Mysterio: No its not

[11:27]  Driftwood Miles: you can get tablets for that

[11:27]  Alliez Mysterio: Im sure some wish it was

[11:27]  Joshe Darkstone: mangers manage the plans, directors direct, vps plan, ceos smoke cigars and blow smoke

[11:27]  Alliez Mysterio: lol

[11:27]  Talarus Luan: I mean, it’s only been two years since WindlIght presets went live.

[11:27]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Good one Joshe

[11:28]  Melody Regent: Tal your not dripping

[11:28]  Talarus Luan: The drips are invisible, too :P

[11:28]  Jack Linden: Alliez, I’m certainly comfortable to own the fact that some of these issues were bad. Since taking on some of the other areas such as xstreet and search, the Lab has invested much more in making these problems go away and we’ll be building better process in to prevent these things going out without a lot of testing etc

[11:29]  Jack Linden: But for the stuff currently causing problems, I can only apologise and state again that we’re on it, and will fix them as quickly as i can

[11:29]  LisaDeanna Zhora: tal, you try a “totallyclear” on the eyes as a texture yet?

[11:29]  Melody Regent is seriously loving the AO

[11:29]  Melody Regent: Avi*

[11:29]  HimBaer Pfeffer: problems with viewer 2.0 ? users found a solution —> http://slinside.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=462&func=view&catid=19&id=278870

[11:29]  Driftwood Miles: Blu, didn’t see you there :P hey

[11:29]  HimBaer Pfeffer: Tweak it self is the answer

[11:30]  Uni Ninetails: offt my german is rusty

[11:30]  Jack Linden: Lady, I did speak with the team. You’re right in that we didn’t state explicitely how conversions were affected by the May 1st change. We’re goingto clarify what we will do shortly.

[11:30]  Talarus Luan: Don’t want them totally clear :)

[11:30]  HimBaer Pfeffer: only modifieing some xml files @ Uni :)

[11:30]  LisaDeanna Zhora: oh ok

[11:30]  Uni Ninetails: Yes, im reading it

[11:31]  Melody Regent: in the meantime how are you handling it Jack?

[11:31]  Lady Sakai: and what about the people that has had Class Swaps that wasnt aware of that ?

[11:31]  Joshe Darkstone: is there a method to get things looked at specifically jack? Like re-index MY sims? i mean – im not losing $20 / day here. Im losing everythign, including my 3 year investment in land that i cant sell, 3 years of building and marketing, its costing me $100/day now in lost revenues

[11:31]  Jack Linden: Once we get a clear statement, we’ll push that out and be sure the existing support tickets are dealt with

[11:31]  Charlene Trudeau: class swaps?

[11:31]  Enemy Coba: good afternoon to all the presents

[11:31]  Lady Sakai: and you Need to make an official statement to it also jack

[11:31]  Alexxa Despres: Hi ya Enemy

[11:31]  Jack Linden: Joshe, I’ve already noted your name. I will make sure someone takes a detailed look

[11:31]  Ardy Lay: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_2_Tweaks

[11:31]  Melody Regent: Yes, it needs to be posted in more than some back windows

[11:31]  Driftwood Miles: That sucks Joshe :(

[11:32]  Joshe Darkstone: thank you

[11:32]  Enemy Coba: hello Alexxa

[11:32]  Enemy Coba: :)

[11:32]  Alliez Mysterio: This is killing us all, not a doubt about it

[11:32]  Abby Callisto: Jack do you think the increase in sim sales is due to the search being borked? Many businesses are dropping like flies becuase they cannot be found in search. What canbe done now tosave ourselves from you all killing us? AND When is viewer 2 going to be a mandatory viewer? Im still on the origional and hope to stay on it……Will we be given a choice as to what viewer we want to use?

[11:32]  Joshe Darkstone: ill mind my toungue then and see if theres any changes over the next couple days, my sims willl be sold by june 4th

[11:32]  Sonya Haight: I think Joshe is also having the class swap issue

[11:32]  Melody Regent: Jack, are you looking at some sork of refund to everyone that paid to be in search?

[11:33]  HimBaer Pfeffer: ty Ardy :) same like in church, help your self then god is helping you ;)

[11:33]  You decline Kalana Wrath, Kalana Wrath (58, 196, 1001) from A group member named chardonnay Jubilee.

[11:33]  Alliez Mysterio: anolther one for sale

[11:33]  Joshe Darkstone: yes, im going to chack that ticket now sonya

[11:33]  Joshe Darkstone: but since that sim is also going to be ghone, not sure i care much :P

[11:33]  Sonya Haight: true

[11:33]  Jack Linden: Abby, too early to say right now. The rate of transfers and delinquent islands is roughly the same as it has been but, we may start to see that there is a rise due to these issues. We’re watching closely.

[11:34]  Talarus Luan: Jack, I have a question from one of the other Arbor members. It appears that some of the microparcel extortionists are immune from having their plots swapped, even when others in similar situations ARE swapped. Can you elaborate on any reasons why some plots are swapped and some are not?

[11:34]  Abby Callisto: and what will the lab give in retrobution for thier mistake costing so many thier business’s???

[11:34]  Talarus Luan: Outside of the normal placement reasons.

[11:34]  Jack Linden: I do not know when Viewer 1.23 will be dropped but I don’t think it will be soon. We’ll talk about that publicly well ahead of time

[11:34]  Abby Callisto: this seach is devastating to everyone here….an di dont think the l;ab realizes just what they did to us

[11:34]  LisaDeanna Zhora: A day?

[11:35]  Jack Linden: Tal, good question and I don’t honestly know. I’d need to speak to the teamabout it

[11:35]  Jack Linden: If you have precise examples, let me know

[11:35]  Driftwood Miles: For those that are having dramas with disappearing search results try removing any characters other than Numbers and Letters. We removed a web address http://tribe25.net from our listing and it seemed to help. The lab did mentionthat some characters were causing issues

[11:35]  HimBaer Pfeffer: i change to emerald when 1.23 is dead ! and thousands of regular viewer users

[11:35]  Qie Niangao: does Support have office hours now, Jack? Don’t ya think they should?

[11:36]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Agreed, Qie!

[11:36]  Liisa Runo: i also would like g-team to have office hours again

[11:36]  Jack Linden: ..and to Drift’s point, do read the search guidelines. The new search is far more sophisticated about things like keyword spamming.

[11:36]  Sonya Haight: thanks Driftwood, is that in the name, description or objects listed?

[11:36]  Ciaran Laval: Lady S did they switch you back to grandfathered tier level?

[11:36]  Timo Yalin: maybe this got lost —-> [11:21] Timo Yalin: well first of all sorry for my bad english. I see still many bots arround what purchasing land for low rates and sell it for very low rates. So the last weeks the mainland prices went down more and more. Technally I think most of this bots not allowed. To get land during less than a half second means they use the search wrong, with multiple searcher bots. Why such users dont get stopped?

[11:36]  Driftwood Miles: anywhere Sonya

[11:37]  Sonya Haight: darn, ok will scour the sim

[11:37]  Joshe Darkstone: ok, just checked, and the solution they provided regarding my type-swap that ended with an hs billing at $125 – is no, it will be billed at $125. that is an issue for me, I would want them to undo the swap at this point – give me back my $100, and then ill get rid of the sim

[11:37]  Lady Sakai: after me yelling and screaming my head of they let me keep my GF …. because as they put it “I didnt understand the new rules correctly”

[11:37]  Sonya Haight: they should Joshe, you were never informed in any way

[11:38]  Ciaran Laval: They most certainly should if they’re not informing people price will be changed

[11:38]  Joshe Darkstone: yes, well they said the same to me, they dont know where i got the impression that the gf status wouldnt change. so it did, and it stays changed

[11:38]  Talarus Luan: Well, precise example: Luke Termagant.

[11:38]  Artfox Daviau is Offline

[11:38]  Talarus Luan: Rem Nightfire: in case you go to jack’s and the topic of luke comes up…. i filed 2 tickets for his plots and got this response a day later

[11:38]  Jack Linden: Timo, where bots are unfairly using region resources we do take action. Also, search requests are throttled now which tends to help – however, i totally agree that having land bought from under you when you make a mistake is a problem. where we know the details quickly, we can sometimes undo it but there isn’t a short term solution to land bots i’m afraid

[11:38]  Joshe Darkstone: which is silly, i had the impression it wouldnt change because im not transferring it, and transferring it is the only thing that to that point had ever been discussed as a way to change that status

[11:38]  Triple Peccable is Offline

[11:38]  Lady Sakai: that is complete and utter crap Joshe …. NOWHERE does it state that it changes OTHER than on regular trasnfer to another account

[11:39]  Talarus Luan: Rem Nightfire: Leo Linden Hi Rem,

We’re not currently able to move this plot for you I’m sorry. As I mentioned on your previous ticket, we’re working on consolidating mainland parcels like these and it would be great if you could keep a check on the ownership of this parcel from time to time.

If you see the ownership change to Governor Linden, please ask us about it again.

Thanks for understanding.

Best Regards,

Leo

[11:39]  Sonya Haight: exactly Joshe

[11:39]  HimBaer Pfeffer: Jack ? === lost it who is gb Andel ? when you delte this account and ban his equipment ?

[11:39]  HimBaer Pfeffer: delete*

[11:39]  Joshe Darkstone: yes lady, and now im going to call them and get some clarification, kinda pouring salt in the wound at this point, put me out of business then hile my tiers at the same time

[11:40]  Jack Linden: HimBaer, I don’t know about that account so I’m not sure.

[11:40]  Qie Niangao: well, that sounds promising… like the Governor might shoot that jerk in the head, finally

[11:40]  HimBaer Pfeffer: you should, this is the destructor number ione at my sims and on Bell Estate

[11:40]  Jack Linden: If that person is causing problems, then I’d need to speak to the support folks (I’m now on the product side, rather than support)

[11:41]  Lady Sakai: they CAN NOT refer to new rules that isnt clarified .. end of story .. and trying to make us feel like we are the stupid ones is WAY below par

[11:41]  Talarus Luan: I can have Rem send you his ticket #s

[11:41]  HimBaer Pfeffer: why nothing happened after 5 or more reports ?

[11:41]  Jack Linden: thanks tal

[11:41]  Melody Regent: Jack, are you looking at some sork of refund to everyone that paid to be in search while it si broken?

[11:42]  Drongle McMahon: Talarus: Does that mean Leo is predicting that Gold Coins land will be abandoned?

[11:42]  Lady Sakai: AND are you going to tell the team that they have no rights to be changing billing on people whe it wasnt clarifies about the GF status ????

[11:43]  Talarus Luan: I don’t think so; I think that is “we can’t do anything for you, but if the land status changes, let us know”

[11:43]  Talarus Luan: It’s ridiculous, because there are other plots from both Luke as well as others which were moved, so I don’t understand why these can’t be moved.

[11:44]  Talarus Luan: If they are totally surrounded, and offered a fair swap, they should be moved. Period.

[11:44]  Jack Linden: Melody, I’m certainly going to discuss it. I don’t know how that would work but I’ll look at it again. I can’t guarantee but feedback here is helpful so will discuss with folks here

[11:44]  Timo Yalin: well, its just some users who destroy the work from other people. Take landrates against 0 is a main issue from maybe 3-4 bot users. I was close to expand until the prices went down like this. I spend many time with renters or new secondlife users what dotnt know anything about land. The fast bots what are still arround all are able to purchase lands during some milliseconds. So technally they are using the land search totally unfair. The result is that they controll the first 2-3 sides on the landlist. Taking land for 1 L$ is the second issue, what cost the community many new users in the past.

[11:45]  Lady Sakai: Jack …. —- > AND are you going to tell the team that they have no rights to be changing billing on people whe it wasnt clarifies about the GF status ????

[11:45]  Jack Linden: Lady, am discussing it with them yes.

[11:45]  Jack Linden: You should hear from us soon;

[11:46]  Lady Sakai: thank you …. ALSO we will be looking for an OFFICIAL announcement about billing changes

[11:46]  Sonya Haight: think thats what he means Lady

[11:46]  HimBaer Pfeffer: same as the meeting about inworld economy you mailed to me ? i wait since 2 months

[11:46]  Lady Sakai: as long as thre is no official statements you cant be changing billing on ppl

[11:46]  Jack Linden: Lady, indeed – we’re due to talk about the pricing etc soon – as we did early in the year, so that people have a good understanding of what pricing will be

[11:47]  Jack Linden: We’re trying to do that every 6 months

[11:47]  Lady Sakai: just making things completely clear as the team are reluctant to let ppl keep their GF s

[11:47]  Jack Linden: and give 6 months notice at least

[11:47]  Driftwood Miles: reches for the valium

[11:47]  Driftwood Miles: a

[11:47]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Pass me some drift

[11:47]  Sonya Haight: think this needs to be clarified a bit sooner than that, last time it was months before we got the notice

[11:47]  Blu Jupiter: get out of my pocket drift

[11:47]  Lady Sakai: yea but that would mean Jack that this issue is almost 6 months old !?!

[11:47]  Equinox Pinion: give me one too drift :)

[11:47]  Driftwood Miles: LOL

[11:48]  Jack Linden: Lady, no i’m referring to the overall pricing announcements

[11:48]  Jack Linden: Not this specific issue

[11:48]  Ruth Sandalwood is Online

[11:48]  Driftwood Miles: AWWWWW All Addicts together

[11:48]  Enemy Coba: eheheheh

[11:48]  Jack Linden: Guys, enough with the pills!

[11:48]  Lady Sakai: well you have a problem with the last one .. how about clearing that up before announcing anything new Jack ?

[11:48]  Talarus Luan: You’re driving us to drug abuse, Jack! :p

[11:48]  Driftwood Miles: Come off it Jack…you rattled when you came in :P

[11:48]  Jack Linden: hehe

[11:48]  Alexxa Despres: LOL

[11:49]  LisaDeanna Zhora: HI! I’m Lisa and I am a valiume addict.

[11:49]  Joshe Darkstone: ok just off the phone with dee. she said that they dont do type-swaps, what actually happened is they converted my full sim into 3 islands (they never existed) and then converted the hs sim into a full sim by trading it in with those 2 imaginary islands, and since this looks like a conversion – even though none of the imaginary islands ever actually existed, i lose my gf status.

[11:49]  LisaDeanna Zhora: *giggles*

[11:49]  Lady Sakai: I prefer Xanax any way :p

[11:49]  Enemy Coba: lol

[11:49]  Equinox Pinion: you will need some too jack if you tend to increase the prices :)

[11:49]  Jack Linden: Joshe, I’ve asked that they look again at that

[11:49]  Driftwood Miles: ooooo Xanax!!! haven’t tried those yet

[11:49]  LisaDeanna Zhora: Oh wrong meeting.

[11:49]  Lady Sakai: yea bla bla .. tell Dee that there is NOTHING official that states that

[11:49]  Joshe Darkstone: which is silly, i discussed with them the fee for a type swap, they did a type swap by changing a vaule in the database, there was no conversion

[11:49]  Enemy Coba: omg

[11:50]  Joshe Darkstone: thanks, geez, im going home and stand in a corner :P

[11:50]  Alexxa Despres: <<gets sent to the corner all the time Joshe :P

[11:50]  Driftwood Miles: Jack any hints on what format Mesh imports will take (.obj .dae) likely to slip out in the next ten minutes?

[11:50]  Blu Jupiter: and she still can’t behave

[11:50]  Lady Sakai: Jack, I think time is to stop asking and starting telling them

[11:50]  Ciaran Laval: Drift you keep letting her back out of the corner!

[11:50]  Jack Linden: Joshe, hopefully the team will be back in touch soon if they feel there has been an error. As I said, I no longer look after support but I’m sure they will do the right thing

[11:50]  Joshe Darkstone: and thanks for asking them to look into it again – jack. i do appreciate that. even if i tend to be critical here :)

[11:50]  LisaDeanna Zhora: obj so far that I know

[11:50]  Driftwood Miles: LOL

[11:51]  Jack Linden: Joshe, not critical.. passionate. :)

[11:51]  Abby Callisto is Offline

[11:51]  Talarus Luan: I’m critical. <.<

[11:51]  Uni Ninetails: driftwood the format is AAACKK!! *is dragged away by a Linden MIB

[11:51]  Sonya Haight: oh I would say critical

[11:51]  Ciaran Laval: uh oh Alexxa is telling me off

[11:51]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Uni!!!!!

[11:51]  Sonya Haight: he’s past the passionate point

[11:51]  Joshe Darkstone: kk right now im feeling a bit overly passionate then, so ill take my leave :)

[11:51]  Melody Regent: Jack I want to clarifiy please. You are saying that will have to suffer thru possible price changes every six months? Instead of making one announcement that will lay it out for all of 2011. You will make one that will last 6 months then another 6 months later? Why not just lay out pricings for a full year. Most business operate yearly, not every six months. Give us a solid, unerring price notice that will last ALL of 2011 and makre sure to give ut the START of the 4th quarter of 2010

[11:51]  Alexxa Despres: :P Ciaran ;P

[11:51]  Joshe Darkstone: take care folks

[11:51]  Sonya Haight: hehehe Joshe

[11:51]  You decline Apprentice Training Class. from A group member named Slatan Dryke.

[11:52]  Uni Ninetails: byeee

[11:52]  Driftwood Miles: two tongues Ciaran omg!!

[11:52]  Lady Sakai: Jack you made the offical announcement so you have to stand by that …. it will land on you whether your in charge of support or not

[11:52]  Equinox Pinion: i totaly agree with mel….we cannot have price changes every 6 months..or have to worry about them

[11:52]  Ciaran Laval: Drift it was a more a stamp on the foot and a glare

[11:52]  Jack Linden: Melody, we stated the full years plan at the start of this year. But I would like us to make the same commitment midyear too, so that you guys know what to expect in Q1/Q2 of 2011

[11:53]  Jack Linden: I think we’re saying the same thing

[11:53]  Sonya Haight: I think so

[11:53]  Uni Ninetails: you think….?

[11:53]  Driftwood Miles: Thats a result Mel!

[11:53]  Uni Ninetails: ouch

[11:53]  Melody Regent: So you will make ONE annoument that will tier out the 2011 year? Not making a differnt annoument every 6 months?

[11:53]  Jack Linden: Sometimes I think I’m too nice to Mel.

[11:53]  Jack Linden: :)

[11:53]  Timo Yalin: ohh nice prices will lower in 2011 xD

[11:53]  Sonya Haight: he’ll tell the 2011 price in July?

[11:53]  Enemy Coba: hope so….

[11:54]  Lady Sakai: oh dont we just wish Timo

[11:54]  Timo Yalin: LOL

[11:54]  Uni Ninetails: only time well see a reduction is when a new Virtual world thats can meet the needs we have, and is cheaper.

[11:54]  Equinox Pinion: you will tell us the prices for 2011 in a few weeks? <speechless>

[11:54]  Jack Linden: Sonya, at least for the first part of the year.. not for all of 2011. So yes, we want to try to give long term assurance on pricing

[11:54]  Talarus Luan: Yup

[11:54]  Melody Regent: Dont me nice Jack, I can take it

[11:54]  Talarus Luan: Competition is good like that

[11:54]  Lady Sakai: Equinox, then LL isnt looking hard enough

[11:54]  Jack Linden: Okay flks, I have to duck out slightly early as I have to head to a meeting outside of this office.

[11:54]  Melody Regent: I dont dish what I cant take. *winks*

[11:54]  Uni Ninetails: quite frankly Linden Labs has me by the boobies at the moment.

[11:54]  Jack Linden: thank you all for coming along!

[11:54]  Enemy Coba: lol

[11:55]  Talarus Luan: Ciao Jack

[11:55]  Uni Ninetails: ty jack always fun

[11:55]  Driftwood Miles: S OOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPERRRRRRRRR SIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMSSSSSSSS

[11:55]  Enemy Coba: see ya jack

[11:55]  Lady Sakai: see you next week Jack *winks*

[11:55]  Driftwood Miles: Bye Jack

[11:55]  LisaDeanna Zhora: thanks jack have a good day

[11:55]  Sonya Haight: so that means prices could change twice a year instead of once?

[11:55]  Ciaran Laval: Cheers Jack

[11:55]  Seattle LeShelle: bye jack

[11:55]  Timo Yalin: bye jack

[11:55]  Alliez Mysterio: Take care Jack

[11:55]  Alexxa Despres: Bye Jack… have a great weekend ;)

[11:55]  Jack Linden: :) take care all! have a good weekend!

[11:55]  Enemy Coba: omg

[11:55]  David Wetherby: Thank you Jack

[11:55]  Lady Sakai: NO Drift .. go to bed !!!

[11:55]  Equinox Pinion: take care jack

[11:55]  Enemy Coba: you too jack

[11:55]  Driftwood Miles: :(

[11:55]  Sonya Haight: hmm

[11:55]  Jack Linden is Offline

[11:55]  Seattle LeShelle: why do i feel the tier price answer was something a politcian would say

[11:55]  Uni Ninetails: yeah we might change the prcigin every 6 months *runs ut the door

[11:55]  Alliez Mysterio: lol

Jack Linden Office hours – May 20, 2010

May 20th, 2010

[11:00]  Jack Linden is Online

[11:00]  Equinox Pinion: hi drift :)

[11:00]  Melody Regent: Jack just logged in

[11:00]  Joshe Darkstone: ill let you know how it works out lady

[11:01]  Enemy Coba: yup

[11:01]  Master Kane: Hi Tt

[11:01]  Jane Fossett: hi Equinox!

[11:01]  Master Kane: Tat

[11:01]  Lady Sakai: thanks Joshe :)

[11:01]  Equinox Pinion: hi jane!!

[11:01]  Melody Regent: Morning Jack

[11:01]  Lady Sakai: Hi Jack. I was just made aware of the status on GF HS will change NOT as you have said and as its stated in the wiki on transfer BUT also when you make a class swap. There is NO mentioning on that in neither you original blog post OR in the wiki. Can you please explain why you / LL feel they have to pull out additional rules and not informing us about it ? This whole HS distaster just goes on and on Jack and you have to stop changing rules on us. Be clear on the rules that stand and INFORM us about them. You cant go “well what we meant was …” and think that is fine. Ive lost a lot of money (to me it is a lot) when it comes to HS. When you declared that NO GF would be granted to HS back in the beginning I had a lot of people leave and I didnt have no choice but to either abandon or sell well below price as the market got flodded. I couldnt afford to have HS stand empty and “hope” you LL to change their minds. When you then months later turned and and declared that GF on HS had been granted I yet again lost

[11:01]  Lady Sakai: out cos LL would only help ppl that had abandoned their HS (Melody can confirm that I got pennies on the dollar as she bought them) You couldnt even give us the option to buy them back from you at the price we sold for as a goodwill gesture ?!?!. Give me one good reason to keep my current land / regions Jack when you persist on changing rules on us with no regards to how it affects our business !?

[11:01]  Jack Linden: hey folks

[11:01]  Melody Regent laughs

[11:01]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Lady

[11:01]  Enemy Coba: hello jack

[11:01]  Jack Linden: whoosh!

[11:01]  Melody Regent: I start with a food question first Lady

[11:01]  Summer Windlow: hi jack

[11:01]  Marianne McCann: Hey Jack!

[11:01]  Trouble Streeter: heya jack

[11:01]  Marianne McCann: Hi Jane!

[11:01]  Marianne McCann: Woah, wall o’ text!

[11:01]  Jack Linden: I’m going out on a limb and thinking Lady has something to say! :)

[11:01]  Jane Fossett: xxx marianne!

[11:01]  Melody Regent: Lorac, your mic is open

[11:02]  Joshe Darkstone: and a few others of us :)

[11:02]  Driftwood Miles: Gleetings Jack

[11:02]  Sonya Haight: thats jus tthe beginning

[11:02]  Lady Sakai: just a tad jack

[11:02]  Jack Linden: let me read back in sec.. hope everyone is well this week!

[11:02]  Equinox Pinion: OMG lady

[11:02]  Jack Linden reads

[11:02]  Enemy Coba: great

[11:02]  Melody Regent: Come clsoer Jack so people on the other side can hear you

[11:02]  Joshe Darkstone: lousy actually – but maybe you can help :)

[11:02]  Whitestag Gothly: Hello All

[11:02]  Lady Sakai taps her foot

[11:02]  Enemy Coba: hello white

[11:02]  Talarus Luan: Whitestag.. your mic is open. :P

[11:02]  Master Kane: front and center jack

[11:02]  Whitestag Gothly: KK Off

[11:03]  Driftwood Miles: “yes…closer Jack” said the spider to the fly

[11:03]  Enemy Coba: lol

[11:03]  Master Kane: think he crashed? lol

[11:03]  Sonya Haight: Lady floored him

[11:03]  Alexxa Despres: Hi Jack..sorry…. was scrolling! ;)

[11:03]  Summer Windlow: he said he was reading

[11:03]  Lady Sakai: lol Sonya

[11:03]  Joshe Darkstone: we were hoping to have a nice warm fire for you to warm up by Jack :)

[11:04]  Master Kane: Jack in the center please.. they can rad you over there

[11:04]  Ann Otoole: most popular event on the grid here lol

[11:04]  Jack Linden: Lady, do you have the details, for example in a support ticket, that I could look at ?

[11:04]  Sonya Haight: Joshe does if she doesn’t

[11:04]  Joshe Darkstone: i have the same issue, and the ticket

[11:04]  Melody Regent: Jack I can give you a chat I had with one of your people too

[11:04]  Lady Sakai: yes .. I made a ticket on it just after talking to Keira on live chat .. Ill throw you the Note on that also

[11:04]  Joshe Darkstone: if i knew wher eyou were standing :)

[11:04]  Sonya Haight: he’s behind me

[11:04]  Master Kane: left og the door joshe

[11:04]  Master Kane: of*

[11:04]  Jack Linden accepted your inventory offer.

[11:05]  Whitestag Gothly: Hello Jack if you have time I would like to ask a question : )

[11:05]  Jack Linden: Okay, I’d need to go speak to the team to find out exactly what the deal is.. but support ticket numbers help. so please drop those to me. I’ll look into it

[11:05]  Joshe Darkstone: oh there he is, in viewer 2, lost ina sea of green :P

[11:05]  Melody Regent: Come into the Fold Jack, you look scared out there

[11:05]  Marianne McCann: How’s SF treatin’ ya, Jack?

[11:05]  Lady Sakai: curious that you didnt know about this as it seems like the rest of the Lindens are headstrong about it

[11:05]  Blu Jupiter: he just wants to be near me

[11:06]  Ciaran Laval: Class swap? I thought we were classless now

[11:06]  Sonya Haight: he’s afraid to walk by me

[11:06]  Jack Linden: SF is great, but mostly cold and wet. I’d hoped for more sunshine

[11:06]  Motor Loon: class swap = making a homestead into a fullprim sim

[11:06]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Blu…better not let Max hear about it

[11:06]  Joshe Darkstone: well they are saying now its ANY type of change, except apparently rename or move

[11:06]  Blu Jupiter: shhh

[11:06]  Alexxa Despres: sunshine is in SOUTH cali, Jack ;)

[11:06]  Ciaran Laval: The sun is splitting the trees in England Jack

[11:06]  Lorac Cleanslate: should have come to Florida

[11:06]  Lady Sakai: CLASS SWAP = making a HS to a FS and FS to a HS

[11:06]  Melody Regent: What it boils down to is that if you amke any changes at all to your sims, you loose GF status (except moves and renames)

[11:06]  Driftwood Miles: 30 degrees for the weekend here in the UK Jack :P

[11:06]  Joshe Darkstone: and since we retaint he sim i cant see any reason that gf status should be affected by a class swap

[11:06]  Jack Linden: Ah so you mean conversion between products. Got it. I’ll look into it

[11:06]  Melody Regent: Right. let me give an example for those that dont know

[11:07]  Ciaran Laval: Ah with you Lady S

[11:07]  Marianne McCann: Well, ya got a nice day today at least

[11:07]  Lady Sakai: and THAT we were NOT told about Jack … how come ??

[11:07]  Hayden Tremmor is Online

[11:07]  Melody Regent: I have a GF HS sim that a client lives on. THey want a fulll sim. I also have a FULL sims

[11:07]  Joshe Darkstone: ok – can we talk about the search engine now? :P

[11:07]  Summer Windlow: jack i sent you a note a while ago about the possibility of having a mid way sim something that holds 50 people for mainstores and such if you have chance i would like to know your thoughts on that idea?

[11:07]  Melody Regent: what I pay $100us for is for LL to change the codes only that now the HS is a full and the FULL is an HS

[11:07]  Whitestag Gothly: Jack Jack can I ask a question about the HS

[11:07]  Melody Regent: however, when you do this, now oyou loose the GF payment

[11:07]  Driftwood Miles: Thats called a Full Sim Summer :P

[11:08]  Melody Regent: even though, NO TRASNFER was done

[11:08]  Master Kane: get it out there white… if he sees it , he will answer

[11:08]  Melody Regent: both still in yoru name

[11:08]  Ann Otoole: yea whats the deal with search. that blog article about how a search for “pervert” turns up Botanical in number one spot should be rather embarrassing for LL.

[11:08]  Lorac Cleanslate: as it should be

[11:08]  Lorac Cleanslate: once changed up then it no longer is grandfatherd

[11:08]  Lady Sakai: that is called HIDDEN charges jack … can you explain WHY the staff is trying to pull that on us ??

[11:08]  Melody Regent: Dont ask to ask a question, just ask

[11:08]  Jack Linden: Summer, I recall that yes. And a full region is that product currently. We don’t have any short term plans to push Homesteads avatar counts up

[11:08]  Whitestag Gothly: Hello Jack : Lorac and I came to give our point of view on the JAn 1 GF flip to normal tier price, for we usually only see the regulars here. I am sure there are some that wish it all to be delayed in 6 month increments forever. No matter what LL does if its not standardized someone will get burned from differences in GF vs. non GF tier prices on sims. There is not any reason to compete with GF sim owners that can undercut your tier price to LL and make a profit. I have noticed LL working on the balancing of sim power for a better word and head in the standardization of that, I hope that process continues to the tier rates I see no reason why it should not.. In that way the competitive balance will lie in the service offered to those tenants vs the chop and pop cheap sales of the GF sims making a profit undercutting new sim tier prices. Thanks for your time Jack just wanted to pop in a new opinion. Do you have any kind of update on this at all? 8 )

[11:08]  Alexxa Despres: LOL Ann,,,, that;s what I am looking for when I search pervert! Aren’t you? *grins*

[11:09]  Melody Regent: Right, We spent hours looking for the wiki and all that to find this cost change, not there

[11:09]  Ann Otoole: maybe the trees have “animations”?

[11:09]  Alexxa Despres: LOL

[11:09]  Jack Linden: Whitestag.. good feedback, thanks for giving it

[11:09]  Talarus Luan: Jan 1st GF tier change? O.o

[11:09]  Driftwood Miles: you need to “SEARCH ” for it Melody…try using the search word WHACKY

[11:09]  Driftwood Miles: that should do it

[11:09]  Melody Regent: But there is no Tier change in place for Jan 1st yet

[11:09]  Ciaran Laval: Alexxa is way too innocent to know what a perv is!

[11:09]  Lingual Markus is Offline

[11:09]  Joshe Darkstone: search is completely screwed up, ive personally spoken to hudreds of store owners that cant find their parcels anywhere – including myself, i have over 80 parcels on 8 sims that used to float near the top of results for their main keywords, no i cant even find them – period, gone, and my stores are losing $1000usd per week from where they were

[11:10]  Jack Linden: :) okay, i cantalk to the search issues if we want to move onto that?

[11:10]  Lorac Cleanslate: Well Melody by then you should be pumped up for the new change

[11:10]  Joshe Darkstone: and if ive spoken to hundreds, there ar esurely 1000′s being affected

[11:10]  Alexxa Despres: :p Ciaran ;-)

[11:10]  Lorac Cleanslate: as we the full sim owners were when the HS came about

[11:10]  Melody Regent: They wont even annouce the price increase till late in the year so where is the news that the prices change Jan 1st?

[11:10]  Whitestag Gothly: Ther should be Jan 1 or i might as well upgrade or let go the 125s i have whats the point in haveing them

[11:10]  Ciaran Laval: Search is awful, not only the irrelevancy due to the ingredients but te disappearing parcels

[11:10]  Jack Linden: Okay, lots of typing coming up.. *flexes fingers*. soo.. Search..

[11:10]  Ann Otoole: maybe LL should speak to the search issues in the endless string of angry threads all over LL’s forum whaile at it.

[11:11]  Jack Linden: ..is not happy. We know it, you know it. The search in viewer 2 is especially in need of work. We’ll be blogging about this later today or tomorrow I expect with more context but there are some things to say up front..

[11:11]  Joshe Darkstone: all we are getting in response is “we ar elooking into it” this should be a show stopper, probably the losses are mounting into many 1000′s of 1000′s of dollars, or more

[11:11]  Master Kane: Yes Ann agreed. No Lindens that I seen there yetoffering answers

[11:11]  Joshe Darkstone: er, 100s of 100s, sry

[11:11]  Joshe Darkstone: meh, well, 100s of thousands then :P

[11:12]  Ann Otoole: Jack. The search results in 1.2x and 2.x are identical. it is the friggin search engine not the html 1.0 display in 2.x.

[11:12]  Sonya Haight: right Ann

[11:12]  Marianne McCann: What Ann said

[11:12]  Ciaran Laval: Viewer 2 has usability issues such as land and events search, but now the results are the same in both viewers, it’s a problem for all in terms of results

[11:12]  Jack Linden: First of all, we have a bug currently that causes a small number of the parcels crawled each night to not get indexed correctly. So regardless of which viewer you use, that is vital to fix. We’re pushing to have a fix for that out in early June.

[11:12]  Talarus Luan: “We’ll be blogging about it!” I think people know all about it, and what needs to be done. The focus should be on the “fixing”. :P

[11:12]  Joshe Darkstone: i can show you my search wher ei used to be 6 out of 10 in the top results for landscaping, my landscaping parcels dont show up on page 20 now, not even since the result count was doubled from 10 to 20 per page

[11:12]  Master Kane: Is SL using google now?

[11:13]  Sonya Haight: this is not a small number of parcels

[11:13]  Aizur Zessinthal: Hire it out. Google search is already rather decent for xstreet compared to xstreet’s result. Buy their API’s and use them in world.

[11:13]  Jack Linden: The small number of cases of that bug that have been reported to us, we have fixed manually.

[11:13]  Joshe Darkstone: jack im talking about every one of my parcels on 8 sims

[11:13]  Lady Sakai: basicly businesses in world are moreor less (censored) because of the seach

[11:13]  xstorm Radek: Jack there is a plus side with search not working good people will just have to use xstreet for every thing and forget about inword

[11:13]  Joshe Darkstone: im not talking about some of them

[11:13]  Joshe Darkstone: 30 parcels on volim te, gone

[11:13]  Joshe Darkstone: 12 parcels on landscaping, gone, all but one

[11:13]  Ann Otoole: it took 3 entire weeks for my new parcel to get indexed so maybe you need better people on your search team eh?

[11:14]  Sonya Haight: businesses are dying, no fixes that I know of have been done manually

[11:14]  Driftwood Miles: they are searching for staff Ann

[11:14]  Melody Regent: small number? Seriously? Small I gues compared to the grains of sand on a beach

[11:14]  Ciaran Laval: Wait, June? Why not just roll the damn thing back

[11:14]  Sonya Haight: anyone here had a ticket closed or responded to with anything other than “Work in Progess”?

[11:14]  Jack Linden: We recently moved to GSAv6, and the new google search applicance has changed some aspects of how search works. The new GSA is more scaleable and higher performing on search speed (we’re seeing results being about 40% quicker)

[11:14]  Aizur Zessinthal: oh, well that’s nice.

[11:14]  Talarus Luan: Yeah, well, if it ain’t working, then you know why it is 40% faster. :P

[11:15]  Master Kane: yeah and takes longer to load, even some people crashing due to opening search

[11:15]  Sonya Haight: you’ve lost that many people out of search to make it that much faster?

[11:15]  Ciaran Laval: 40% quicker with irrelevant and missing results isn’t an improvement

[11:15]  Summer Windlow: i have to say i wrote to jack and told him that i had gone of search and submitted a ticket and i did get it fixed i know there are massive problems but in fairness they did fix me … so to speak lol

[11:15]  Equinox Pinion: why dont you roll everything back jack..and play with the new search in viewer 2 which you make beta again till you solve it

[11:15]  Joshe Darkstone: ive been earning north of 7k for the first 2 year,s then struggling a bit at just over 4k for the past year, now my tiers are more then my revenues – thats under 1600usd, all of a sudden, like, overnight and for the past month

[11:15]  Master Kane makes notation.. Search need work. Passes to Jack

[11:15]  Master Kane: lol

[11:15]  Melody Regent: [11:14] Driftwood Miles: they are searching for staff Ann <<— I hope not using thier own search engine

[11:15]  Sonya Haight: nice Summer, I just filed a ticket, should have filed one everyday like some others I guess

[11:15]  Driftwood Miles: Well I for one will give a sigh of relief that it is a bug as opposed to a policy or a “like it or lump it” scenario

[11:16]  Jack Linden: But it’s also more dynamic around relevance. The old GSAs were more static, so people would be in roughly the same place every time.. but the new GSAs are more sophisticated and relevance is more fluid as a result. On the plus side, the means people will find what they want more often on their first search, but the flipside is that you may move around the rankings more than you;re used to

[11:16]  Aizur Zessinthal: Google Resume…..get searched and rejected up to 40% faster.

[11:16]  Talarus Luan: No, Drift, that’s when it gets to the “[RESOLVED]” state. :p

[11:16]  Lady Sakai: Seach needs to be taken down and worked on in a closed set and not being used with real buisnesses as testers

[11:16]  Summer Windlow: well sonya i cant sit and not say that i got help but you are quite right that it needs to be a much higher priority and its gone on far too long

[11:16]  Sonya Haight: flipside isnt’ working, I’m not on any side of search, just poof gone

[11:17]  Joshe Darkstone: well its starting to feel purposeful, and its starting to hurt to the extent that outr stores may have to close down, and fixing it a month from now is not going to get us back in the game, theres hudreds of people in the same boat everywhere i looks

[11:17]  Jack Linden: These new GSAs will settle down, as they absorb more data over time, which isnormal for a search engine, but right now things are moving up and down more than normal

[11:17]  Driftwood Miles: Point taken Tal :(

[11:17]  Ciaran Laval: Jack when a search for pervert leads you to a landscaping store, your relevancy is up the creek, the ingredients, particularly personal picks, are not the right ingredients for relevant results and your awful stemming is not helpful either

[11:17]  Joshe Darkstone: meanwhile a selectivbe few are suddenly raking in the revenues that we used to share in

[11:17]  Sonya Haight: people are clearing off any excess sims they have Jack, ready to give them back, they can’t pay tier with nothing coming in

[11:17]  Aizur Zessinthal: Can we ask Jack, did the new GSA actually use the old database of reults or did you have to discard and rebuild from scratch?

[11:17]  Lady Sakai: unless they got special made perverted trees

[11:18]  Joshe Darkstone: and btw, since no ones mentioning it – picks ar ebroke, half the picks i find for our parcels dont work

[11:18]  Whitestag Gothly: Ciaran ya mean that wasnt a landscaaping store? 8P

[11:18]  Equinox Pinion: well..you can talk about all the tech issues jack…it doesnt help business owners…you need to roll it back till you solved it..too many people are getting hurt by it now

[11:18]  Talarus Luan: Maybe the ones that are properly indexed paid the “secret SEO Linden” :P

[11:18]  Master Kane: Id say a new DB is being formed by the looks of it

[11:18]  Ann Otoole: yea so “pervert” gets trees. I’m not interested in pervert Jack. It is the blogged example that LL will be held to forever now. If GSA version whatever is so stupid it produces results like these then a: send GSA back and tel google they are retards and b: hire people that know what they are doing. Your current team tries to tell us we should be delighted. Those people will never be accepted in SL anymore.

[11:18]  Master Kane: slowness etc..

[11:18]  Joshe Darkstone: they either say unknown region or access denied in an xml blurb

[11:18]  Jack Linden: Anyway, we’ve a number of solid fixes and improvements lined up, and we’re hoping that early June will see those released. A lot of the current issues should be resolved in that release. It still has to go through QA etc though, but right now.. we’re aiming for early June

[11:18]  Aizur Zessinthal: Me too, and tht is a waste of the previous DB info.

[11:18]  Melody Regent: Wait, can I search trees to get sex?

[11:18]  Qie Niangao: So here’s a suggestion: to tide over the b0rked in-world store search, could landowners get no-commission listings on Xstreet / Marketplace? (It’s not like landowners don’t pay for the privilege, afterall)

[11:18]  Sonya Haight: can you explain why one minute we’re listed and the next we’re gone again

[11:18]  Sonya Haight: ?

[11:18]  xstorm Radek: You know Jack why not up the prices of Island to help pay for better servers for the Island and better data base

[11:18]  Marianne McCann: Ann – maybe some people really, really like trees, in an inappropriate fashion?

[11:18]  Bronson Blackadder: hey its wedding season in second life

[11:18]  Master Kane: is that hump or stump, mel lol

[11:18]  Regent Land Listing: LandMark giver at MLCC (Regent Estates Home Office) has just been used by Daniel Faudeburgh !

[11:18]  Joshe Darkstone: this one we are living with now went through QA???

[11:18]  Bronson Blackadder: according to me email

[11:19]  Aizur Zessinthal plans to go home and corner the market on sex trees

[11:19]  Jane Fossett: grin

[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: You can search wwhatever you like Mel and get sex ;)

[11:19]  Talarus Luan: Marianne… of all people, you shouldn’t be going there. :P

[11:19]  Jack Linden: Hehe Drift

[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: did I just stutter :O

[11:19]  Ciaran Laval: Drift is soliciting!

[11:19]  Jane Fossett: <–going to invest in landscaping

[11:19]  Lady Sakai: only if its perverted trees mel

[11:19]  Joshe Darkstone: you should be recognizing this as a showstoer, the fix should be injected as soon as its ready, test it on the fly like everything else

[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Ciaran :P

[11:19]  Alexxa Despres: LOL Ciaran ;P

[11:19]  Melody Regent: Can I search you and get it?

[11:20]  Whitestag Gothly: I think so Melody but i would think the bark would be a little rough lol

[11:20]  xstorm Radek: Drift you can be AR for that >;-)

[11:20]  Driftwood Miles: no need to search, just put your lips together and……what rating is this sim?

[11:20]  Sonya Haight: you can search anything Mel and get it, even with just PG marked

[11:20]  Master Kane: I wanna know.. if everything we search for leads to “sex” why the hell are we all dressed and why the hell do we even have ratings (Mature, PG etc..) :)

[11:20]  Alexxa Despres: hence the saying..the bark is worse than the bite

[11:20]  Ann Otoole: and why are mature mixed in PG. you know these rules are not difficult so the only possible explanation is that this is intentional to destroy the economy.

[11:20]  Aizur Zessinthal: Well they always say the bark is worse than the bite

[11:20]  Melody Regent: see – Trees equals Rough Sex

[11:20]  Alexxa Despres: Aizur ;-P

[11:20]  Jack Linden: Okay, so that’s pretty much where we are with search. Not sure I have much more I can add there. We’re incredibly focussed on fixing it.. we totally own that it’s not good right now, but fixes are coming

[11:20]  Joshe Darkstone: yes, while pervert will turn up botannical, my 20 or 30 results for landscaping ar egone, along with the revenue they generate

[11:20]  Vivienne Graves: except if it’s an issue it’s one affecting web based searches only? the ‘places’ tab in 1.23 returns no landscaping results when searching ‘pervert’ with all three ratings categories ticked.

[11:20]  Talarus Luan: Well.. hardwood and softwood.. <.<

[11:21]  Whitestag Gothly: Guess thats close

[11:21]  Ciaran Laval: Jack it’s costing people an arm and a leg, you should just roll the damn thing back to how it was before the upgrade

[11:21]  Whitestag Gothly: lol

[11:21]  Sonya Haight: I;ve waited since May 3rd for a fix, I cant’ wait much longer Jack

[11:21]  Lady Sakai: problem is jack you said the exact same thing two weeks ago and its gotten worse !?!

[11:21]  Jack Linden: Joshe, that issue of sometimes seeing unexpected or irrelevant results is also a known issue and one we’re working on

[11:21]  Sonya Haight: already canceled ads and other things

[11:21]  Joshe Darkstone: well i hjope the relase is early june, cuz this is a nightmarte jack, and alot of stores will have lost their islands by june

[11:21]  Sophi Humby: What is going on with Lindex, Jack? There is a huge backlog of Lindens waiting to be changed, and some will never happened. (The rate has changed meanwhile). Even if we move our funds to a higher rate that is still too big backlog of linden to be changed. It is not possible to plan now with it. We need to pay island tier in usd, and the income is in L$. Wsually I could plan that 2-3 days is enough for this exchange. but now it is unpredictable and risky. Could you do something to make it under control again?

[11:21]  Equinox Pinion: i agree ciaran

[11:21]  Driftwood Miles: Agreed Sophi :)

[11:21]  Alexxa Despres: Good point Sophi..I was wondering the same thing this morning !

[11:21]  Vivienne Graves: blame SEO and people setting objects to show in search with unexpected keywords in the object description

[11:22]  Lady Sakai: Just roll back the seach and admit it got you beat

[11:22]  Vivienne Graves: which is something you nhave on the WWW as well and can’t really stop#

[11:22]  Sonya Haight: roll back would be best

[11:22]  Joshe Darkstone: point is jack that it is not sometimes with regard to my parcels, across 8 sims, some 50 or more parcels cannot be found in search, even though they were near the top of results before it was screwed up

[11:22]  Talarus Luan: I have a funny feeling that they went past the “point of no rollback” already. <.<

[11:22]  Ann Otoole: yea and the mono freeze was going to be fixed too. but it is a problem with COTS crap that was licensed elsewhre. So no fix for a year. I wexpect nothing but the same. But amazingly certain busineses LL considers to be the top 10 will continue to show up in search even when not relevant. We are not buying any more of this circus stuff Jack. We can see what you are doing.

[11:22]  Ciaran Laval: Vivienne and picks text, picks text is the most likely cause of irrelevant results

[11:22]  Talarus Luan: IE, the new search overwrote the old search dataset.

[11:22]  Joshe Darkstone: i can only find them if i search for their eact description

[11:22]  Talarus Luan: ..and they didn’t bother backing it up

[11:22]  Joshe Darkstone: exact*

[11:22]  Jack Linden: Sophi, good Q.. the LindeX *is* obviously a marketplace in its own right, and though it doesn’t generally fluctuate much, it can move a little when L$ flow in and out of the economy. You should see it settle down as it usually does.

[11:23]  Aizur Zessinthal: Agreed Talarus, the lisnce on the previous api’s probly expired once they upgraded.

[11:23]  Sophi Humby: I hope you keep your eye on it

[11:24]  Melody Regent: Jack, over the last weeks I have gotten an email about a survey (Thank you), Weddings, Changing my avatar, Places to visit, Linden homes and not sure what else. All great things exposing people to what is available in SL. The MOTD is VERY often about getting a premium account and a FREE Linden home. (Yay ya’ll) However, there is still no mention on the website or the wiki about renting privately. No hint that there is more to SL land than these Linden Homes. If you look hard, you can see mention of Mainland. But still, those if us paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to you a month (over all, not me alone, just the tens of thousands for me alone).

[11:24]  Melody Regent: So Riddle me this Jack, at what point will Linden Labs include SOMETHING about private estates and rentals. At this point I think I would be happy with “Hey did you know you can rent from Private estates as well? You might blow up or fall in a black hole but there is that OPTION!” What is your personal goal and maybe even LL time goal to getting this out to people?

[11:24]  Joshe Darkstone: well i guess thats the end of the conversation for search – i dont care much about what the lindex is doing, dont have any lindens to cash out anymore :P

[11:24]  Joshe Darkstone poofs

[11:24]  Jack Linden: Sophi, we certainly do. It’s crucial for an inworld economy like ours to be very aware of market forces

[11:24]  Melody Regent: Better yet, just put the new Land Forums in the MOTD so that people know they are THERE. Buyers and Sellers. You need to announce that those are there for people to read and post in!

[11:25]  Alexxa Despres: jack…speaking of Linden Exchange,,,,I know a lot of people are having issues with buying lindens..and them not showing up in their account. They are hvaing to relog or do a workaround…. why is this happening?

[11:25]  Master Kane: yeah.. whos paying that MOTD abotu premies and crap anyways

[11:25]  Master Kane: everyone here! thats who

[11:25]  Talarus Luan: Still don’t have mention of private rentals? O.o That’s been a hot topic for months now.

[11:25]  Jack Linden: Hey melody, as per our previous conversations.. my understanding is that those things are pending a release so along with other changes they are probably stacked against a specific web release.

[11:25]  Summer Windlow: I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR AN ANSWER TO MELS QUESTION re support for private estates

[11:25]  Aizur Zessinthal: Alexxa is this happening on all viewers? I primarily noticed it on Emerald users myself.

[11:25]  Summer Windlow: soz caps

[11:25]  Jack Linden: So you should see movement there soon

[11:26]  Alexxa Despres: It’s on several viewewrs..yes

[11:26]  Ann Otoole: Maybe the search team needs to have an office hour so it doesn’t get tossed aside with a “we don’t want to hear about it anymore” wave of the corporate hand. Like have the team resopnsible for the damages face whom they are harm in IRL.

[11:26]  Equinox Pinion: that helps alexxa :secondlife:///app/balance/request

[11:26]  Melody Regent: Jack, how must work would it be for you to add a MOTD that says HEY< lOOKING FOR LAND see our FOURMS?

[11:26]  Melody Regent: Not alot and it will be a bridge between your “soon”

[11:26]  Lady Sakai: NOT to mention Jack .. OUR reant homes has NO where to advertise ….

[11:26]  Shawwn Ballinger: i thought advertizing in the forums was a nono some time back?

[11:26]  Master Kane: Mel. dont forget “Click this LINK (HERE)”

[11:27]  Master Kane: most dont know that

[11:27]  Lady Sakai: and with seach shot to hell ..well …

[11:27]  Jack Linden: Ann, as of recently, Search is part of my remit so this is an office hour where you’re talking to the folks responsible for search. :) I’m super driven to get it resolved.

[11:27]  Whitestag Gothly: Jack I would like to see the estate tool be able to ban greifers by IP so ya dont have to ban the same mutt 22 times as they send in peeps on you, I know the system is already in place just need to transfer it to the estate tools, I know they can change their IP but it will help : )

[11:27]  Sonya Haight: any idea when we’re be able to have our parcels show up in search?

[11:27]  Melody Regent: Shawwn, Jack actually got us land forums, but didnt tell anyeone. That is why it is important that they TELL people they are tehre

[11:27]  Jonathan Foster is Offline

[11:27]  Talarus Luan: Banning by IP is useless

[11:27]  Sonya Haight: a time frame of some sort?

[11:27]  Talarus Luan: and dangerous

[11:27]  Whitestag Gothly: on;y to those who know how to change it or renew

[11:28]  Master Kane: Agreed tal

[11:28]  Shawwn Ballinger whispers: heg, well how do we use em if noboday knows? :P

[11:28]  Whitestag Gothly: but it in itself is a pain

[11:28]  Talarus Luan: Most griefers know how to circumvent it

[11:28]  Lady Sakai: Mel, people that do RENTAL HOMES still dont have anywhere to advertise other thatn seach … buuuuut

[11:28]  Talarus Luan: ..and then you’ll be blocking legit users

[11:28]  Shawwn Ballinger whispers: and speaking of land issues… how about that search engine? :P

[11:28]  Talarus Luan: When they get the banned Ip

[11:28]  Jack Linden: Whitestag; that has been suggested before – if we did something like that we’d not want to expose the ip address itself, even if under the hood it was used to ban. The problem is that a single IP address can often encompass a large number of people.. such as an entire university

[11:28]  Whitestag Gothly: on a private sim thas not a issue

[11:29]  Summer Windlow: a point that concerns me is that at 295 usd a month which is the tiers for a full sim that is the equiv of 29 new premium acounts. isnt it more profitable and easier therefore to help your private sim owners KEEP their sims than it is to keep undermining them with offers to noobs?

[11:29]  Whitestag Gothly: No it can be done with no expose of ip

[11:29]  Driftwood Miles: that sounds awesome Jack!! roll it out!

[11:29]  Talarus Luan: It is an issue if you’re on the same ISP as one of the griefers, and *you* get the banned IP. :P

[11:29]  Lorac Cleanslate: just the address not the service itself

[11:29]  Shawwn Ballinger whispers: you can ban by ip mask, and the likelyhood of more then a single ip being used on a single sim or estate by more then one person is at least – not very likely :) _

[11:29]  Lady Sakai: not if they can get their hand on our residents as well Summer .. er did I just say that out loud ?

[11:29]  Whitestag Gothly: yes the mac or ip of the comp

[11:30]  Whitestag Gothly: not the whole isp

[11:30]  Talarus Luan: Wasn’t talking about the whole ISP

[11:30]  Lorac Cleanslate: pardon

[11:30]  Master Kane: ISPs use a range of IPs.. hence 128.0.0.1 to 128.255.255.255

[11:30]  Whitestag Gothly: ya do the comp they have to either rest or quit pestering you

[11:30]  Whitestag Gothly: reset

[11:31]  Talarus Luan: If I am on X ISP, and you are on X ISP, then you ban me on Y address, I change addresses, then you later get Y address assigned to you, then you can’t even get on your own sim to unban yourself. :P

[11:31]  Aizur Zessinthal: Then how about making the little greifer bastards work for it and blacklisting their accounts on the backend by their account information?

[11:31]  Lorac Cleanslate: I wouldnt have same address as you

[11:31]  Aizur Zessinthal: Email address, name, etc all flagged as not allowed to access my parcels or estates.

[11:31]  Lorac Cleanslate: same servicer yes

[11:31]  Jack Linden: Hehe Tal has nicely described one of the problems

[11:31]  Lorac Cleanslate: number no

[11:31]  Talarus Luan: You can get assigned the same address that I *HAD*, though

[11:31]  Jack Linden: IPs are just too crude a way too ban

[11:31]  Whitestag Gothly: only if the addreass change in cycle, and i would take that 1 in a million chance

[11:31]  Driftwood Miles: Jack, concurrency seems to be dropping albeit slowly. Given that viewer two is now default for noobs and the lab has been carrying out limited advertising. What conclusions are being drawn. And what are the Lab doing to reverse the trend?

[11:31]  Aizur Zessinthal: It is not perfect but it is better than what it is now, which is avatar key.

[11:31]  Talarus Luan: Once I change

[11:32]  Shawwn Ballinger: only people suing the same proxy will be on the same ip, and te likelyhood that they will congregate on the same sim or estate in sl is slim, so its a tool, and it should be up to the estate owner of an ip ban is warranted, whether or not it affects mor ethen one user

[11:32]  Aizur Zessinthal: And would you be willing to reconsider using IP’s once IPv6 goes ive Jack?

[11:32]  Lorac Cleanslate nods

[11:32]  Whitestag Gothly: Yes i agree

[11:32]  Talarus Luan: Probably not. IPv6 still doesn’t guarantee specific machines unique addresses.

[11:33]  Jack Linden: Drift, we’ve been measuring a lot of things around the new Viewer and how it performs. In some areas it scores really well, in some we need to make improvements. Viewer 2.1 addresses a lot of stuff for example, driven by feedback etc.

[11:33]  Whitestag Gothly: When i estate ban i ban on alot of sims at the same time so they dont hop sim to sim

[11:33]  Talarus Luan: yep. EBs are best for that

[11:33]  Shawwn Ballinger: im just guessing, but i think if you had 20 people from the same ip on the same sim the likelyhood that they ar emore then one person should be around 0.00001

[11:33]  Alexxa Despres: EB’s still don’t work 100 % of the time…hit or miss

[11:34]  Talarus Luan: Happens more often that you would think, Shawwn

[11:34]  Jack Linden: Otherwise, I’ve no real specifics to present other than the ones you already know about. We made some good changes to the orientation experience but after testing we know there is more to do there too.

[11:34]  Blu Jupiter: and it could take a couple minutes for EB to take effect when the do hit

[11:34]  Talarus Luan: Corporate users, educational users, etc, often share a few or a single public IP address behind a NAT/firewall.

[11:34]  Melody Regent: Jack, Ann had a great suggestion. Do the people actually handling Search have office hours? If not, dont you think it would be a good way to help sooth and talk to residents if some sort of office hours could be had about those. This is an issue that affects ALL aspects of business in here. Big or small. Tree, sex or tree sex. Setting aside time once a week is not that hard and would help in ways that hiding behind closed doors never will

[11:35]  Driftwood Miles: Sounds like something more fundamental may need to change.

[11:35]  Shawwn Ballinger: this is ttantamount to the old nick changing attacks on irc, and the way it was handled appropriately is nan by ip mask, and it works

[11:35]  Jack Linden: one moment, getting a lot of direct IMs and notecards.

[11:35]  Lorac Cleanslate: lol

[11:35]  Summer Windlow: i would like to make a suggestion. i find this meeting format to be disjointed and well a free for all we cant get answers because jacks being hit with different subjeccts. isnt it an idea to submit questions prior to the meeting and then jack can go through them methodically?

[11:35]  Talarus Luan: IRC bans that I have seen rarely work without significant side effects.

[11:36]  Jane Fossett: omg.. an ‘agenda?’

[11:36]  Driftwood Miles: that would be one opaque office hour :P

[11:36]  Equinox Pinion: lol jane

[11:36]  Talarus Luan: If you ban by specific IP, you’ll be banning a LOT of IPs to stop a troll.

[11:36]  Summer Windlow: allbe it a simple one yes

[11:36]  Aizur Zessinthal: Burn the heretic and his organizational way!

[11:36]  Jane Fossett: grin

[11:36]  Shawwn Ballinger: yea summer, and if your question is someting thewy dont want to address it is ignored, been there, done that

[11:36]  Talarus Luan: If you ban by subnet, or worse, ISP, you’ll be knocking off a lot of legit users. Had it happen.

[11:36]  Melody Regent: No summer, it is a free for all hour

[11:36]  Shawwn Ballinger: tal that may be true, which is when you use an ip mask

[11:37]  Summer Windlow: ok

[11:37]  Talarus Luan: ..and you’ll be baning legit users, then

[11:37]  Driftwood Miles: I have never seen a ban hammer….do they have them on Xstreet?

[11:37]  Melody Regent: I have one

[11:37]  Whitestag Gothly: yes your router but the chances of someone coming on that sim odds wise is very high

[11:37]  Talarus Luan: IP masks are subnets or ISPs

[11:37]  Summer Windlow: well ill take my head ache home hehe have fun xxxx

[11:37]  Marianne McCann: I have one as well

[11:37]  Shawwn Ballinger: you start with an ip ban, then if they keep coming, you ban the maskl with more and more general *’s

[11:37]  Driftwood Miles: <<is jealous

[11:37]  Jack Linden: Summer, that’s good feedback. It’s true that this meeting has always been a free for all; I try to get through as much as we can. If most folks would prefer a fixed agenda we could talk about how that would work

[11:37]  Shawwn Ballinger: and an hour later you release the ban and they are gone

[11:37]  Talarus Luan: Yeah, and then your legit users start dropping off like flies.

[11:38]  Driftwood Miles: Fixed agenda would stifle. They have that at the commerce mmetings and it is like attending a lecture

[11:38]  Armano Xaris: I agree with summer. An agenda would be sensible ;) .

[11:38]  Whitestag Gothly: if you dont think LL knows what your ip is hmmmm kinda haveta to connect lol

[11:38]  Jack Linden: I’m happy to change format if you guys would find it more useful, i just wanted to avoid it being me giving a giant speech each week. I prefer discussion and debate because I tend to learn more personally.

[11:38]  Talarus Luan: The wider the net you cast, the more legit users you will affect.

[11:38]  Ardy Lay: If there is a banned-by-IP-address griefer on the inside of a corporate firewall then that corporation has internal problems they need to deal with. That’s not Linden Lab’s problem. :-)

[11:38]  Shawwn Ballinger: wel as i said, the likelyhood that you would have 2 people using the same ip land on the same sim is minimal, if not nearly non-existent

[11:38]  Aizur Zessinthal: So work on more controls for etates. Avatar age, Account info used, something….anywthing!

[11:38]  Lorac Cleanslate: this is great

[11:38]  Talarus Luan: ..and I disagree. :)

[11:39]  Whitestag Gothly: I can ping ya right through you router hell theres free websites that can for you

[11:39]  Talarus Luan: It happens more often than “nearly non-existant”

[11:39]  Equinox Pinion: something like that would be great jack http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Beta_Server_Office_Hours

[11:39]  Jack Linden: ..to those folks direct IMng me, apologies.. I’m unlikely to be able to respond during my office hour

[11:39]  Shawwn Ballinger: i dun really care about that anyway, i havent seen a griefer in 3 years – lets fix search :)

[11:39]  Talarus Luan: Yeah, we don’t have problems with griefers. I don’t have any problem continuing to add them to my banlist. :D

[11:40]  Vivienne Graves: most of the world uses dynamic IP addresses. I’m in the UK and have a dynamic IP, and have gotten ‘Second Life cannot be accessed from this computer’ when I hit a banned IP (I’m presuming of someone on the same ISP who was griefing), so that’s not really a good solution at all

[11:40]  Whitestag Gothly: I havent had issues with search but for slx

[11:40]  Jack Linden: okay so quick poll.. type a yes or No to the following..Do you want a more Agenda driven discussion going forward?

[11:40]  Lorac Cleanslate: unfortunately many times its the very sim owners themselves so it is a subject that should be spoke of

[11:40]  Ciaran Laval: No

[11:40]  Ardy Lay: Yeah, griefers are not much of a problem for me either. SEARCH IS.

[11:40]  Melody Regent: no

[11:40]  Alexxa Despres: NO!

[11:40]  Marianne McCann: No

[11:40]  Zoha Boa: No

[11:40]  Qie Niangao: No

[11:40]  Lady Sakai: NO

[11:40]  Whitestag Gothly: yes

[11:40]  Equinox Pinion: no

[11:40]  Aizur Zessinthal: no

[11:40]  Armano Xaris: yes

[11:40]  Youri Ashton: jack, you missing your eyes m8

[11:40]  Talarus Luan: “Go ahead, waste your time to create another alt. It takes me all of 5 seconds to add you to the ban list, while it takes you 5-10 minutes to come back on on alt.”

[11:40]  Jane Fossett: yes

[11:40]  Melody Regent: Motor Says NO too

[11:40]  Sonya Haight: I didnt’ do it

[11:40]  Motor Loon: no

[11:40]  Sonya Haight: yet

[11:40]  Whitestag Gothly: to much lost focus and sidetracking

[11:40]  Melody Regent: Thank you dear

[11:41]  Motor Loon: lol..

[11:41]  Lorac Cleanslate: anyway next subject

[11:41]  Jack Linden: hmm, I think the No’s just have it.

[11:41]  Talarus Luan: Microparcels! :D

[11:41]  Shawwn Ballinger: viv you wouldnt need to ban by ip permanently, its a tooll you can use sparingly, and its not from all of secondlife, but from MY sim, which should be something i can decide, whether it affects more then one person or not

[11:41]  Equinox Pinion: but i would love to have an open item list jack

[11:41]  Jane Fossett: <–agrees with Equi; open list

[11:41]  Whitestag Gothly: yes part focused o n topic part open forum

[11:41]  Melody Regent: YAY Tal!!! There is only one more topic not brought up and the meeting is full circle *looks at Drift*

[11:41]  Vivienne Graves: well, you can’t decide whether it affects more than one person with dynamic IPs, that’s the thing

[11:41]  Ardy Lay: Talarus, yes, just takes us seconds to send away the new accounts but we do have to have an admin there to do it, which we strive for anyway.

[11:41]  Marianne McCann: Ya, I could see some sort of open item thing

[11:41]  Vivienne Graves: in Germany IP addresses change every night/morning

[11:42]  Jack Linden: I’ll give it some thought.. maybe we can keep this chaotic but also let folks suggest items i can cover quickly in the first 15 mins.

[11:42]  Talarus Luan: Oh, and what technical resources are available to private sim owners to track down serious technical/lag problems.

[11:42]  Shawwn Ballinger whispers: we could talk mor eabout search! :)

[11:42]  Ciaran Laval: Tal has had an open item for years!

[11:42]  Alexxa Despres: I have been to ones that have ‘topic’s and it is more like a lecture than a dialogue…just my humble opinion ;-)

[11:42]  Whitestag Gothly: I agree

[11:42]  Talarus Luan: I’m getting random spikes of lag in one sim, including horrid ping times, and there is nothing I can find that is causing it?

[11:42]  Marianne McCann: Would give a chance to be able to get into some smaller issues, like keeping waterways free, or the SLRR, or whatever

[11:42]  Trouble Streeter: I like that idea a lot, Jack :) ::prepares for IM spanking by Mel::

[11:42]  Zoha Boa has more uestions about search…can’t find them

[11:42]  Lady Sakai: IP bans are bad IMO … if you ban an IP one day it changes the next and someone else could be affected that is totally innocnet

[11:42]  Jack Linden: Tal, do others see that spike too?

[11:42]  Melody Regent: There is Tal and Micro Parcels, Drift and Super Sims and Mel and whatever she bitches about this week.

[11:43]  Talarus Luan: Yes

[11:43]  Melody Regent: :)

[11:43]  Shawwn Ballinger: no this is the only format that makes sense, it may be chaotic ut at least your views are aired, and jack has been responsive

[11:43]  Alexxa Despres: <<agrees

[11:43]  Driftwood Miles: what…where…when…Supersims?

[11:43]  Youri Ashton: lady, that is partially true

[11:43]  Zoha Boa: I don’t think we need supersims if LL even can’t control the lag on normal sims

[11:43]  Blu Jupiter: drift <3 supersims

[11:43]  Lady Sakai throws a sock at Drift “here, use that ” ;)

[11:44]  Jack Linden: Oh sorry drift, did you miss my earlier comments on SuperSims?

[11:44]  Shawwn Ballinger: lady it could be used as temp ban, expires in 1 hour, and again, the likelyhood anyone else would be affected by going to the same exact sim that the ip is banned from is rediculously small

[11:44]  Equinox Pinion: what…you missed the announcement drift *g*

[11:44]  Jack Linden: You need to read back mate

[11:44]  Zoha Boa: we need SUPER search

[11:44]  Melody Regent: Jack, what about having a ‘special’ town hall kind of meeting about search?

[11:44]  Driftwood Miles: OMG YES I DID JACK….WHAT IS HAPPENING???

[11:44]  Lady Sakai: Zoha, we need a seach that WORKS .. end of story

[11:44]  Ciaran Laval: Nobody would be able to find it

[11:44]  Shawwn Ballinger: ya, where someone actually brings answers

[11:44]  Jane Fossett: <–searching “Special Town Hall”

[11:44]  Driftwood Miles: NEXT WEEK?

[11:44]  Alexxa Despres: LOL Ciaran

[11:44]  Jack Linden: Melody.. I expect that when the team has nailed down some of the gnarly issues on search they may well start their own office hour.

[11:45]  Armano Xaris: Jack is some form of chosen government in bigger communities that have multiple estates ever been something that has been thought of at linden labs?

[11:45]  Jack Linden: But right now, I’d rather they concentrate on getting things fixed hehe

[11:45]  Melody Regent quietly slips Drifts coffee out of his hands

[11:45]  Shawwn Ballinger: then why not rollback to what was working a month ago jack?

[11:45]  Vivienne Graves: well, considering that there are only about two things that really cause server lag and they’re all user issues for the most part (physics and scripts) I’m not certain what LL can do to control lag beyond what they’re already doing (introducing simulator and avatar attachment script memory limits)

[11:45]  Ciaran Laval: Rollback gives them time to fix it

[11:45]  Melody Regent: Maybe they would get the fixes if the see how it effecs people, get to hear the stories FIRST hand

[11:45]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Mel

[11:45]  Jack Linden: Armano.. that’s a fab question! Yes it has. We’ve had various experiements with community governance.. but it’s rarely managed to stick so far

[11:45]  Talarus Luan: Anyway, any resources I can request from LL through Concierge to have a look at the sim to see what is going on?

[11:46]  Marianne McCann: Neualtenberg

[11:46]  Jack Linden: Residents, in our experience at least, tend to find it hard being ‘governed’ by other residents.

[11:46]  Talarus Luan: Well, I am concerned that we have some corruption in the sim database (save file, whatever it is called)

[11:46]  Jack Linden: Some estate communities do manage to make different kinds of governance work though

[11:46]  Lady Sakai: just ask ANY estate owner about that ;)

[11:46]  Melody Regent: My residents get governed by me just fine. if they can FIND ME IN SEARCH!!!!!!!!!

[11:46]  Melody Regent laughs

[11:46]  Whitestag Gothly: Governed ?

[11:46]  Jack Linden: Tal, I can ask concierge to reach out

[11:47]  Talarus Luan: There may be things that are causing the sim to barf which don’t appear on the physics/script tools.

[11:47]  Vex Streeter is Online

[11:47]  Talarus Luan: KK. I can put in a ticket to kick it off

[11:47]  Shawwn Ballinger: tal ask concierge to shut down your sim for 5 minutes or so and then bring it back up, you will likely see the problem disappear, if you just reboot in stays on the same server, holding it down for longer then a few minutes it will change servers

[11:47]  Shawwn Ballinger: er, i meant 15 not 5 minutes

[11:47]  Sonya Haight: why are picks say no parcel all of a sudden Jack?

[11:47]  Youri Ashton: Jack, what do you see differend from real life with governance?

[11:47]  Talarus Luan: I’ve changed servers already, Shawwn

[11:47]  Talarus Luan: No change

[11:47]  Sonya Haight: saying*

[11:47]  Marianne McCann: ‘s true, Jack. It’s why the Bay City Alliance has sought to keep out of the governing side of things

[11:47]  Talarus Luan: In fact, it seems to have gotten worse on this server.

[11:47]  Youri Ashton: both in RL as SL people try to control each other, so what is the difference there?

[11:48]  Shawwn Ballinger: ok, then it should be something they can look at – must be a load of some sort

[11:48]  Jack Linden: Youri, one of the issues with community governance is that to really govern you need tools/controls that currently only Linden Lab has. Even the estate owners don’t have full control, so their ability to truly govern is somewhat limited.

[11:48]  Talarus Luan: Script load is under 10ms most times, and no collisions.

[11:48]  Shawwn Ballinger whispers: well i suppose its possible you went from bad to worse, try again? :)

[11:48]  Jack Linden: real governments.. well.. they really can deal with issues. :)

[11:48]  Alexxa Despres: LOL Jack

[11:49]  Whitestag Gothly: I say give god mode to all sim owner Arrrrr : P

[11:49]  Drongle McMahon: You mean coalitions jack?

[11:49]  Youri Ashton: jack, i did not mean that. We all know about the tools being needed in SL. doesnt mean that some people think they are better then others and need to control others

[11:49]  Talarus Luan: We don’t have full control? O.o

[11:49]  Jack Linden: Drongle, lets not get me started on that topic.

[11:49]  Youri Ashton: so i ask again, what is the difference? :p

[11:49]  Jack Linden: :)

[11:49]  Marianne McCann: in BC, we’ve taken more of a “chamber of commercce” approach versus a city government” approach. Franklyu, I’d rather keep the governance out of our hands there.

[11:49]  Marianne McCann winks

[11:50]  Shawwn Ballinger: jack whats the long term plan for LL wrt to inworld stores, seems like everythign you are doing lately is designed to compete with us, destinatiosn tells peope where to shop, slex tells people not to shop inworld at all, you are our landlords, we pay tier to build a business, why are we competing with you?

[11:50]  Jack Linden: It’s been one of the biggest challenges for the Lab actually, being in that role of governance and doing it in a way that is as hands off as we can be whilst still making sure that we protect the experience

[11:51]  Talarus Luan: Welcome to the “compete with your service provider” corporate philosophy. :D

[11:51]  Lady Sakai: we are not competing with them they are competing with us ;)

[11:51]  Whitestag Gothly: I think most forget its the tenants and the new people that drive the economy we can do about what we like at this satge in sl , without the tenants or the buyers its back to the camp chairs and poles we go ho ho ho ho. : )

[11:51]  Aizur Zessinthal: I personally don’t think the shopping experience should be in LL’s hands at all.

[11:51]  Qie Niangao: actually, this could be an OPPORTUNITY to integrate in-world and Xstreet/Marketplace commerce–use the Marketplace to compensate for the screwed in-world search.

[11:51]  Shawwn Ballinger: im sorry, was that an anwer to my question? it sure didnt sound like it :P

[11:51]  Melody Regent: Previous Q to yours Shawwn

[11:51]  Talarus Luan: Same difference, Lady. :P

[11:51]  Aizur Zessinthal: Why have a store if Xstreet works perfectly though Qie?

[11:51]  Shawwn Ballinger: ok let me ask again, i think its important

[11:52]  Shawwn Ballinger: jack whats the long term plan for LL wrt to inworld stores, seems like everythign you are doing lately is designed to compete with us, destinatiosn tells peope where to shop, slex tells people not to shop inworld at all, you are our landlords, we pay tier to build a business, why are we competing with you?

[11:52]  Sonya Haight: becasue they’re starting on the xstreet search next Aizur

[11:52]  Lady Sakai: not when they have the clear advantage Talarus ;)

[11:52]  Sonya Haight: and the new marketplace

[11:52]  Jack Linden: Shawwn, sorry to hear you’re feeling that. In fact we’re very committed to inworld shopping and in fact many of the folks that shop, find items on the wen before then heading inworld to experience the store itself. We’ll be building those kinds of links into the new web marketplace

[11:52]  Equinox Pinion: maybe because there are many people like me…i search on xstreet…buy inworld

[11:52]  Talarus Luan: Competition is a two way street, so it is two different ways of saying the same thing

[11:52]  Qie Niangao: oh, Xstreet is a mess, too, but it’s less of a mess than in-world search… and they’re both dumber than they should be, by being separate

[11:52]  Talarus Luan: They compete with us, so we compete with them.

[11:52]  Sonya Haight: its not just Shawwn Jack, I’ve heard it constantly from people the past couple of weeks

[11:52]  Melody Regent: That is how I do it too Equinox

[11:52]  Sonya Haight: they’ve almost convinced me oo

[11:52]  Sonya Haight: too

[11:52]  Trouble Streeter: same here

[11:53]  Jack Linden: We’re also going tobe doing more to integrate commerce features into the Viewer, to try to lessen the divide between inworld and outworld stores. We’ll be supporting both sides

[11:53]  Melody Regent: Jack, that is the perception of people out there

[11:53]  Trouble Streeter: inworld search for stuff blows. and not in the good way.

[11:53]  Aizur Zessinthal: No Sonya, I mean, why pay to have an inworld store, with limited prims and scripted vendors that takes ages of time to load all the textures, when you can just go to xstreet and search all day long in a browser that works just fine?

[11:53]  Driftwood Miles: whats the balance between inword and Xstreet sales? anyone know as a % of total sales?

[11:53]  Shawwn Ballinger: wel the ne wviewer hides search more then ever, makes xstreet part of the tabs – makes destinations part of the search, it certainly doesnt look like you are committed to supporting inworld stores, every singl ethign you are doing is hurting sales, from breaking search to sending out emails spam telling peole to search on your website

[11:53]  Sonya Haight: true Aizure

[11:53]  Equinox Pinion: i heard it is 5% to 95% drift

[11:53]  Aizur Zessinthal: And is cheaper than renting parcel space and has a rel working search engine in it? (I mean the future xstreet thingy here)

[11:54]  Melody Regent: Well the current search sure makes people choose SLX over in world right now

[11:54]  Jack Linden: Aizur, evidence suggests that people prefer to visit an actual inworld store in many cases. So there is likely no ‘best’ way to have a store.

[11:54]  Driftwood Miles: geez Equi! thats kinda scary

[11:54]  Aizur Zessinthal: Make Xstreet direct you to in-world stores. a glorified search page basically.

[11:54]  Vivienne Graves: well, honestly, I personally think that if you’re an SL merchant and you don’t list on XStreet then you’re being rather foolish by not doing so, because XStreet listings can mean extra sales and can also drive additional traffic (I know more people who use XStreet as a finding aid for in-world shopping than I do people who shop exclusively on XStreet)

[11:54]  Equinox Pinion: pink wrote it in a blog

[11:54]  Jack Linden: Our role in that is to make sure all the tools are there and that people can find you (and yes, that means fixing search)

[11:54]  Shawwn Ballinger: well if you plan to support both sides i think its time you make a change in our favor for a change, can i can point to 10 things youve done that have devastated my stores, and no tone that has helped

[11:54]  Armano Xaris: Thanks for your answer jack.

[11:55]  Aizur Zessinthal: I understand that Jack but it undervalues in perception the value of having an in-world store for newer content creators.

[11:55]  Driftwood Miles: thanks Equi. That is not good

[11:55]  Youri Ashton: SL is a continent on its own in a way, there are rules and those that enforce them followed by people following them. The problem is that LL can not apply every RL nationality the same rules. What is forbidden in one country, doesnt have to be forbidden in another. My idea is that LL should talk to gouvernments of the most used nationalities and keep their laws in mind, and making a good mix which will be LL ToS. not just the US law which is basically insulting to other nationalities

[11:55]  Shawwn Ballinger: no, thats not true, your role has been to make sure you ar ein the middle of every transaction you can be, that much is readily apparent, but as our landlord you should no tbe competing wiht us

[11:55]  Youri Ashton: i dont want to be rude, but unfortunately it is the truth

[11:55]  Master Kane: I dont know about anyone else inworld… but personally I KNOW where and how to get to slx… I dont need more shit slpettered all over the viewer (much less website) that has to load. No offense to SLX merchants

[11:55]  Equinox Pinion: they can do that youri…after they fixed search :P

[11:56]  Jack Linden: Aizur, but what if listing things on the web from your inworld store was seamless, or what if creating an inworld store item from the web was 2 clicks? Why should it be either/or rather than both?

[11:56]  Shawwn Ballinger: my son is waiting, ill jus tidle for the rest

[11:56]  Talarus Luan: Unfortunately, as LL is a US company, they have to respect US law at a minimum.

[11:56]  Lady Sakai: Youri, unfortuanetly LL has to abide to US law and some other countries might have laws that conflict with that so your back where you started

[11:56]  Shawwn Ballinger: but ill say again to be sure im being heard…

[11:56]  Vivienne Graves: well, Youri, LL’s servers are in the United States, Linden Lab is incorporated in Delaware, USA, so. US law applies, if LL had servers in Europe or Asia or anywhere else those countries’ laws would apply

[11:56]  Youri Ashton: think they never will equinox, problem is that LL only focusses on the US laws and not outside their borders, but do plant offices all voer the globe…

[11:56]  Shawwn Ballinger: no, thats not true, your role has been to make sure you are in the middle of every transaction you can be, that much is readily apparent, but as our landlord you should no tbe competing wiht us

[11:57]  Equinox Pinion: btw jack..what was that ad in the MOTD…for premium members…get access to adult areas….you basicly said…get a premium member and get access to sex :P

[11:57]  Talarus Luan: Creating an in-world store item is already a couple clicks for some of us. :)

[11:57]  Whitestag Gothly: We also know there are so many easy kits on slx that most can make their own stuff in a month or 2 in SL what is the binder for sales is quality and service the same with sim rentals and they will find that if hey are looking for it, just use the highest to lowest and look at the quality and feedback on the sl listings easy as that

[11:57]  Marianne McCann: Equinox – that one surprised me too.

[11:57]  Youri Ashton: the US law has NO bussiness dealing with inworld content, this is LL’s job. so thats a bogus story :)

[11:57]  Alexxa Despres: I saw that Equi..and now I haven’t seen it in a few days…I think they ‘retunk’ that …er…solicitation ;P

[11:57]  Melody Regent: I thought the same thing Aquinox – Pay and get laid

[11:57]  Alexxa Despres: rethunk*

[11:58]  Equinox Pinion: was very surprised about it lol

[11:58]  Jane Fossett: you can get sex in Adult areas?

[11:58]  Vivienne Graves: actually the US DMCA applies since the servers are hosted in the US

[11:58]  Aizur Zessinthal: I would love it to be both Jack, it would be great, but the focus here from what I am perceiving is that Xstreet is currently more important then in-world shopping. If you have a roadmap or something to publish like many other companies do that may help alleviate having to answer some questions and lead to better questions from your clients and help guide and direct the efforts of us who really want to seee everyone succeed.

[11:58]  Youri Ashton: SL is a multicultural thing now, not just US

[11:58]  Talarus Luan: Umm.. US law does control in-world “content”

[11:58]  Equinox Pinion: lol jane

[11:58]  Jane Fossett: [needs to follow more links :-) ]

[11:58]  Jane Fossett: grin

[11:58]  Talarus Luan: Copyright law, at a minimum

[11:58]  Vivienne Graves: and since disputes are between residents, LL is not an interested party in disputes between residents

[11:58]  Youri Ashton: DMCA needs to soke their heads and scram, they are hardly worthy of talking to

[11:58]  Jack Linden: Well, Shawwn, we are a business. So it;s true that we have to be thinking as a business and that can change the way we provide services but we also have a commercial obligation to provide good value when we are a part of a transaction. So sure, there are some micro fees involved in commerce but that isn’t unusual

[11:58]  Whitestag Gothly: I like to refer to it as Pixel Boinking sex is suck a hard word when your married have to avoid that aggro : )

[11:59]  Youri Ashton: they only think about getting money and applying their own little rules

[11:59]  Qie Niangao: Honestly, Marketplace listings should be free, and no-commission, for people with in-world stores… and the item listings should be able to originate from rezzed-in-world products for sale.

[11:59]  Whitestag Gothly: such must have been a slip there lol

[11:59]  Whitestag Gothly: All this tree talk is getting to me

[11:59]  Master Kane: Agreed Qie!

[11:59]  Talarus Luan: Last topic, Jack: Microparcel stats? :D

[11:59]  Jack Linden: :) okay folks, I have to run. Thanks all for coming along!

[11:59]  Marianne McCann: Oh, that wouuld be good, Qie

[11:59]  Youri Ashton: thanks for having us jack

[12:00]  Youri Ashton: bye all

[12:00]  Qie Niangao: thanks Jack

[12:00]  Equinox Pinion: take care jack

[12:00]  Marianne McCann: Have fun, Jack. Nicer day out today, at least!

[12:00]  Sophi Humby: bye

[12:00]  Eymerich Lane: ty for having us

[12:00]  Alexxa Despres: Bye Jack…ty ;)

[12:00]  Drongle McMahon: Congratulations Jack on the demise of one of the major miroplotters. Only a few more to go.

[12:00]  Melody Regent: Push harder Tal!!!!

[12:00]  Aizur Zessinthal: See you again soon Jack

[12:00]  Jack Linden: Sorry this meeting is a little chaotic.. will give that some thought

[12:00]  Whitestag Gothly: Have a good one Jack : )

[12:00]  Equinox Pinion: bye all..see you next week :)

[12:00]  Alexxa Despres: Bye Equi ;)

[12:00]  Jack Linden: byeeee

[12:00]  Talarus Luan: Which one, Drongle?

[12:00]  Marianne McCann: Drongle – yet there’s some new ones in Westerlay

[12:00]  Reverend Upshaw is Online

[12:00]  Master Kane: how abotu listen to the users jack? thats a start :)

[12:00]  Drongle McMahon: Maxx

[12:00]  Talarus Luan: Ahh, yeah.

[12:00]  Driftwood Miles: Bye all :)

[12:00]  Talarus Luan: Well, Blue Button also poofed.

[12:01]  Master Kane: Bye all

[12:01]  Talarus Luan: That was unexpected.

[12:02]  Jack Linden is Offline

The Mother Road Makes a Shift

May 17th, 2010

When we first added sims to MotorWorld, it was an experiment to see how well received this sort of thing would be. The concept was very different from a lot of places out there.

Lots of roads, plenty of riding space and a very strict rule about NO DAMN CARS!!!! From the minute they were plucked from the pixel depths and constructed, The Mother Road has been a hit.

Over the years we have added a few more places here and there and each time we do, we wonder if we have pushed the limits too far. Will there be room for one more sim? Have we hit the wall? Will more people want to be here? We take that risk and each time, this wonderful community has opened its arms and grown with us.

It started with one sim simply to give bikers a place to ride and enjoy, and has turned into a home and business for many people. We offered, and YOU created, a real community where people from different walks of life all are going about their business and SL, enjoying this world.

Just like in the fleshy world we all share, we have issues, misunderstandings and our share of drama, but overall we think the place does pretty good – and a lot better than so many places out there!

It always has been our goal to make sure we provide a longstanding, stable and prosperous environment for our clients. We know that when you do well we do well. Over the last few months we have been monitoring the biker sims, how our clients are doing, the SL economy and what the future may hold for all of us.

We have decided that for the continued success of our sims, our clients and our community needs to make a change to allow us to continue to grow and expand in a manner that will be beneficial to everyone who makes a place for themselves here and for those who come to enjoy the roads and take a ride.

We are going to move and reconfigure the sims, making them one long road and a near-neverending ride. When we have added more land in the past, we have had to just shove them in where we could. Sometimes it made sense and other times it looked and felt like an after thought. No more!! We want to be able to grow and expand in an easy way that not only looks good, but gives maximum benefit to the growth of your community.

Sims on the sides of the main drag will be brought back to where they should be, making them feel more a part of the family and, because there is more road, the initial sims should see an improvement in traffic and community feel.

As with any major change, this ones comes with a few issues. Because we are rearranging the sims, some views will be lost, some land will be reclaimed and some residents will need to be moved. For those most affected land-wise, we will be speaking to you in person and offering you the options we see as best for you. We are doing all we can to make the impact as small as possible.

The one issue that will be felt by 100% of the residents will be picks and classifieds. If anyone has a pick of your location or you have a classified for your location, you will need to reset these locations a few days after the sims are moved and updated on the map. We will send out a clear, easy to understand HOW TO notecard so you and all the people with your location in picks can make this update easily.

Please note, this ONLY affects profile picks and classifieds. A simple SET LOCATION will fix this. LANDMARKS WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THIS MOVE. They will work as normal and without issue, even when the map is blank!

In this notecard you will see the new sim layout. Many hours of talk and stress has gone into making sure this is what we want and what we believe will provide the least amount of lag, the best ride on the grid and make the most sense for all our futures. It will provide for continued growth northward, thus no longer making adding a road a second thought or a forgotten step. Any future addition will be made with an eye to the future of your homes and business. We are simply bringing the side roads back into the fold. This is the final layout and we hope never to have to make a change again, unless it is to expand NORTH.

We do not have an exact time and date for the move. It is our plan to make it mid week, when there is the least amount of traffic online and to do it all at once. The full move will be completed no later than May 31st. We are working with Linden Labs to assure this move will happen smoothly. As soon as we know when they will be able to provide complete and full attention to our request, we will pass the dates out to you. We may only have a short notice of the move, but the instant we know, we will let you all know.

I am going to ask for a move date of May 26th, but this is NOT confirmed nor approved!! This is only my wish date for when I would like to see this take place.

The blog will be open for comments and questions and we will try to respond to them as soon as we can.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this post and bear with us in the coming days as we make this transition.

Melody and Motor and the rest of the Regent Staff

Proposed Layout

Spring Homestead Tier Sale

May 12th, 2010

Everyone loves a good sale, we are no different.  Once a year Regent Estates holds a tier sale.  That time is NOW!

Currently when you buy a homestead from Regent Estates, you only have to pay $7200L and that INCLUDES your first week tier.

SPRING CLEANING SALE GOING ON NOW!!
Buy now and your first week is only $7200L. Tier is $8000L a week when paid weekly or $7200L a week when paid 4 weeks at a time. All Discounts end June 30th.

Buy now and save big in the coming weeks!!!!

$8000L a week
or
$28,800L for 4 weeks

Sale and special pricing ends June 30th

The price may offer you a discount but what you will not see is a discount in services.  You still get a full time staff, Estate Rights, free .Raw files, free advertising opportunities for business clients, privacy in the fact that you are a stand alone sim, with noone near you, our 24 hour response time guarantee, Your Sim Your Rules.

Now that you know all you have to do is stop over, but the land and you get the next week tier already paid, here is a list of location to get you started.  Since you get full rights on all sims, the only thing left to do is find the name you like the most and move on in!
All requests for help now have a 24 hour guaranteed response time!!  You never will have to wait more than 24 hours for a reply to your request and most will be answered in FAR less time.

If we do not get back to you in 24 hours, we’ll give you a week’s tier on the parcel in question for free!  YES!  If we do not respond to your request for help within 24 hours, you get a week’s free tier!

Customer Service is our focus and now we back it up with a guarantee.
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*  As always with Regent Estates, you get the first week’s tier included in your land purchase.
*  None of these lots require a Linden Labs Premium Account.
*  Backed by our full time customer service team you are going to feel right at home with us.
*  All renters get a FREE ADVERTISING board in our New York  NYC Sim.

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HOMESTEADS:  Where only one rule applies -   Your Sim, Your Rules (as long as Linden Labs allows it!).  All homesteads are freestanding, with no neighboring sims, and are 65536sqm land & 3750 prim. We’ve got a Spring Special going on: buy the sim for the incredible price of L$7200, which INCLUDES first week’s tier. Then, if you pay 4 weeks at a time, enjoy a tier of only L$7200 per week until June 30th. Tier paid in smaller increments is still only L$8000 per week.

Want the most up to date list of available sims?  Pull up Melody Regent’s profile and look in classified section or IM Melody Regent, Trouble Streeter or MissMissy Moonbeam!

Oskar Linden – Beta Grid office hours – May 6, 2010

May 6th, 2010

BETA GRID OFFICEHOURS FOR OSKAR LINDEN

Thursday, May 6th, 2010, 3PM PDT

[15:04]  Oskar Linden: maestro found some aditi naughtiness yesterday
[15:04]  Gooden Uggla hooks a handle on maestro and rents him out on Zindra as a “thrill ride”
[15:04]  Rocky Pickles: xstorm.. i’ll walk you thru it after the meeting :)
[15:04]  Oskar Linden: what did you find maestro?
[15:04]  Maestro Linden: one of the databases is misconfigured
[15:04]  Forcing Ground Sit
[15:04]  xstorm Radek: Rocky you found out how they are doing it ?
[15:05]  Maestro Linden: so lots of stuff on aditi is broken (region neighbor presence for one, as you can see from all the water around us..)
[15:05]  Monty Linden: *sigh*
[15:05]  SHAMUS Carter: ahhh
[15:05]  Gooden Uggla: ah, so ahern is there if we TP to it?
[15:05]  Maestro Linden: hopefully sombody will fix that soon.. but it’s definitely not caused by 1.38.4 :)
[15:05]  xstorm Radek: they gave hit 2 islands and getting past bans and every thing
[15:05]  Maestro Linden: yep, TP works
[15:05]  Oskar Linden: Oh Ms Brody is here
[15:05]  Oskar Linden: hello darling
[15:06]  ATechwolf Foxclaw: Isn’t it time for a complet wipe and snapshop from maingrid? My groups are still lagging behind over a year.
[15:06]  Oskar Linden: it’s getting close atechwolf
[15:06]  Darling Brody died
[15:06]  Darling Brody: i made it…
[15:06]  SHAMUS Carter: the groups are atleas as old as july 2009
[15:06]  Gooden Uggla: but but but… it’s FUN being in a groups that were deleted!
[15:06]  Oskar Linden: alright, who has the passed out on the floor anim?
[15:06]  xstorm Radek: i do know there is a odd pulsing lag on agni
[15:06]  SHAMUS Carter: hehe
[15:07]  Charlene Trudeau: its not just me, xstorm?
[15:07]  Monty Linden: ‘odd pulsing lag’ is one of the new features
[15:07]  xstorm Radek: oh lol
[15:07]  SHAMUS Carter: lol
[15:07]  Oskar Linden: i’m still a cloud
[15:07]  xstorm Radek: oh thanks lol
[15:07]  Oskar Linden: I won’t know if the anim is correct
[15:07]  Monty Linden: it’s hard getting it just right….
[15:07]  Darling Brody: i see you oskar
[15:07]  SHAMUS Carter: lag is a feature now?
[15:08]  Charlene Trudeau: lag has *always* been a feature :)
[15:08]  WolfPup Lowenhar: lol gooden
[15:08]  xstorm Radek: i was thinking it was cache problem
[15:08]  ANSI Soderstrom: the cloud avatar is still a freebie ?
[15:08]  Darling Brody: change groups. that normaly makes you appear
[15:08]  xstorm Radek: but the drive is not doing it
[15:08]  Charlene Trudeau: lol, your cape isn’t quite as passed out as you, Oskar
[15:08]  Moundsa Mayo: Lag has always been a feature. It’s simply MIPS usage.
[15:08]  Darling Brody: lol @ your very happy cape.
[15:08]  Oskar Linden: oh well
[15:08]  xstorm Radek: and the GPU is fine
[15:08]  Charlene Trudeau: it seems happy to see us
[15:08]  Gooden Uggla: apparently it’s a “legacy feature”…
[15:08]  Oskar Linden: not important
[15:08]  Charlene Trudeau: :)
[15:08]  Oskar Linden: so yeah ADITI is getting a makeover
[15:08]  Rocky Pickles: lag is the one feature that is backwards compatible :)
[15:08]  Oskar Linden: I hope to task Milo with that since he is the 1.40 qa lead
[15:08]  Darling Brody: can we paint it pink?
[15:09]  Charlene Trudeau: lol, Rocky
[15:09]  Oskar Linden: let him whip these sims into shape
[15:09]  Moundsa Mayo: Is Ty Pennington doing it?
[15:09]  Oskar Linden: 1.38.4 is fully out
[15:09]  Oskar Linden: lil got that finished up today
[15:09]  Oskar Linden: anyone seeing any major issues from it on AGNI?
[15:09]  Darling Brody: latest server on main grid is workign find for me.
[15:09]  Lares Carter: havent seen any issues.
[15:09]  Charlene Trudeau: been humming on skybeam
[15:10]  Oskar Linden: cool. it was a fairly small change
[15:10]  Moundsa Mayo: Mustn’t grumble.
[15:10]  Oskar Linden: but you never know
[15:10]  Moundsa Mayo: I mean, nope!
[15:10]  Oskar Linden: careful skills
[15:10]  Skills Hak: >:/
[15:11]  Oskar Linden: ok
[15:11]  ANSI Soderstrom: o.O
[15:11]  Skills Hak: is something up with the terrain?
[15:11]  xstorm Radek: ?
[15:11]  Skills Hak: looks funky to me
[15:11]  Oskar Linden: region presence is down
[15:11]  Skills Hak: o
[15:11]  Darling Brody: missing regions is messing with terrain texture
[15:11]  SHAMUS Carter: ahhhhh
[15:11]  xstorm Radek: is it ?
[15:11]  Oskar Linden: on to 1.40 news
[15:11]  Gooden Uggla: i’ll let gyou know after the wet t-shirt party tonight… those always bring out odd behaviours in regions (and avs)
[15:11]  Oskar Linden: we are sooooooooooooooooooooo close to branching
[15:11]  Charlene Trudeau: cool
[15:11]  Skills Hak: hellz yeah
[15:11]  Motor Loon: woohoo..
[15:11]  WolfPup Lowenhar: -*@ ROFL @*- gooden
[15:12]  xstorm Radek: bs go
[15:12]  Alpha 5: Ready! Type ‘bs help’ for a list of commands.
[15:12]  Huns Valen: hi5
[15:12]  xstorm Radek: accel 200
[15:12]  Oskar Linden: we have 3 more features to get through merge and then we are branching
[15:12]  Oskar Linden: hopefully tomorrow
[15:12]  xstorm Radek: bs accel 100
[15:12]  Alpha 5: accel is now 100
[15:12]  Sebastean Steamweaver: What features are those?
[15:12]  Oskar Linden: we’re trying hard to get it deployed here tomorrow afternoon/evening
[15:12]  Oskar Linden: but that _might_ not happen
[15:12]  Oskar Linden: until they make it I can’t mention them
[15:13]  Jonathan Yap: Will grid fixup be done by then?
[15:13]  Gooden Uggla: does havok 7 look like it’s behaving itself?
[15:13]  Lares Carter: you’ll send out a notice in the list when its up?
[15:13]  Oskar Linden: hopefully
[15:13]  Oskar Linden: james was messing with it a few minutes ago
[15:13]  Oskar Linden: I will send out a notice when the list is up
[15:13]  Darling Brody: someone give skills some rittelen
[15:13]  Oskar Linden: since we are talking about 1.40 I wanted to introduce the 1.40 dev lead
[15:13]  Oskar Linden: that would be Monty Linden
[15:13]  Skills Hak: wat
[15:14]  Oskar Linden: who is here with us today
[15:14]  Motor Loon: I ran H7 testing yesterday, all my products behaved perfectly – I’m really impressed with H7′s power
[15:14]  Moundsa Mayo: YAY Monty!
[15:14]  Oskar Linden: everyone say hi to monty
[15:14]  Skills Hak: hey monty
[15:14]  Charlene Trudeau: hi, Monty!
[15:14]  SHAMUS Carter: hey monty
[15:14]  Lares Carter: heya Monty
[15:14]  Monty Linden: Hey!
[15:14]  SHAMUS Carter:  ?  ?*¨¨*:•.•:*¨* hallo hello hi holla *¨¨*:•.•:*¨*?  ?
[15:14]  Oskar Linden: be nice to him. he actually writes the code
[15:14]  Gooden Uggla *waves at monty
[15:14]  ANSI Soderstrom: hi monty
[15:14]  Oskar Linden just tests it
[15:14]  LadyDi Andel: Hi Monty
[15:14]  Simon Linden: High Monty
[15:14]  Huns Valen: bonjour
[15:14]  Motor Loon: Ey Monty
[15:14]  Darling Brody: Welcome Monty.
[15:14]  Matias Warcliffe: hi monty
[15:14]  xstorm Radek: after trying to crash oatmeal 11 i think it works with flying colors
[15:14]  Oskar Linden: so wassup monty?
[15:14]  Oskar Linden: who are you and what do you do?
[15:14]  Skills Hak: Looking good!
[15:14]  ANSI Soderstrom: and why
[15:14]  Monty Linden: well, I’m server dev doing more data work
[15:15]  WolfPup Lowenhar: this sim in on havok 7 righ
[15:15]  Monty Linden: you know me from crashes that don’t happen and linden homes
[15:15]  Oskar Linden: this sim is not a havok 7 sim wolfpup
[15:15]  Darling Brody: Monty, dont forget to include llOrbitAvatar.. the cheque is in the mail.
[15:15]  Monty Linden: and I get to read all the code that’s going into 1.40
[15:15]  Sebastean Steamweaver: Hi Monty :)
[15:15]  Oskar Linden: yeah, monty, milo and I are going to have a nice fun little code review pow-wow
[15:15]  xstorm Radek: primy linden homes verry primy
[15:15]  Monty Linden: and I’m waiting for one of the merges….
[15:15]  WolfPup Lowenhar: ok ill need to goto one so i can test my flight and boosting hud
[15:15]  Monty Linden: yeah, the squirrels really killed us
[15:16]  Skills Hak: sekrit skwirls
[15:16]  Skills Hak: are plotting your demise
[15:16]  Rex Cronon: howdy monty
[15:16]  Motor Loon: HAHAHA
[15:16]  Gooden Uggla: wolfpup just type “oatmeal” in the aditi map
[15:16]  Gooden Uggla: and go there
[15:16]  Oskar Linden: the regions might be down right now
[15:16]  Gooden Uggla: oatmeal 11-15
[15:16]  Gooden Uggla: or not…
[15:16]  Gooden Uggla: :P
[15:16]  WolfPup Lowenhar: ok i will after the meeting
[15:16]  Oskar Linden: not certain they have the latest havok code
[15:17]  Oskar Linden: wait for this weekend and we get 1.40 on here
[15:17]  Motor Loon: or the new scripting features
[15:17]  Darling Brody: oatmeal is yuck, cant we have coco pops?
[15:17]  Oskar Linden: oatmeal is my region darling
[15:17]  xstorm Radek: I DID NOT CRAH Oatmeal
[15:17]  Motor Loon: got a lot of script errors from my use of llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast ;-)
[15:17]  Darling Brody: still not eating it!
[15:17]  WolfPup Lowenhar: i wonder how it will afect my rocket sphere
[15:17]  Oskar Linden puts some vegemite in darlings oatmeal
[15:17]  Sebastean Steamweaver makes it his mission to find Monty’s office hours.
[15:17]  Darling Brody: OMG.. thats is discusting.
[15:18]  Monty Linden: if you find them, let me know….
[15:18]  Oskar Linden: so yeah, no real point testing anything on aditi now. she’s in a finicky state and has old code
[15:18]  WolfPup Lowenhar: try it tith nato
[15:18]  Darling Brody is never comignt o dinner at Oskars house.
[15:18]  Sebastean Steamweaver: I’ll make them up if I have to ;)
[15:18]  Sebastean Steamweaver: And then be upset with you for not attending D:
[15:18]  Oskar Linden: hopefully monty will be here at my oh for the duration of 1.40 testing
[15:18]  Monty Linden: there has been much sorrow since the Phoenix incident…
[15:18]  Oskar Linden: he can help answer the deep technical questions that you all have
[15:19]  Monty Linden: I will be here.
[15:19]  Skills Hak: oh murr
[15:19]  Oskar Linden: ah yes… the phoenix incident where I made the cover of the alphaville herald
[15:19]  SHAMUS Carter: ohhh?
[15:19]  Sebastean Steamweaver: You did? I’ll have to look that one up.
[15:19]  Skills Hak: lol
[15:19]  Skills Hak: silly herlad
[15:19]  xstorm Radek: coffee makers ?
[15:20]  Oskar Linden: it’s like in our internal documents on talking in world “Everything you say can and _will_ be used AGAINST you”
[15:20]  ANSI Soderstrom: oh
[15:20]  Skills Hak: i was waiting for an amazing gridwide woodbury counterattack story
[15:20]  ANSI Soderstrom: !orbit
[15:20]  Skills Hak: but no :/
[15:20]  Oskar Linden: http://alphavilleherald.com/2010/04/phoenix-power-outage-cripples-second-life-blended-frappuccino-blamed.html
[15:20]  Darling Brody: havok7. are we goign to get rid of the 200m fligth restriction so that everyone on the grid can remove one script.. the flight assist
[15:20]  WolfPup Lowenhar: -*@ ROFL @*- oskar
[15:20]  Oskar Linden: that is what I woke up to last week
[15:20]  xstorm Radek: :-)
[15:20]  SHAMUS Carter: yes the flight limit is so arcaic
[15:21]  Rex Cronon: somebody took what u said literally:)
[15:21]  Oskar Linden: all in good fun though
[15:21]  Oskar Linden: I just have to watch what I say
[15:21]  Skills Hak: :x
[15:21]  xstorm Radek: lol
[15:21]  Darling Brody: flight limit was from the days where where were not many people and we wanted to keep them all kn draw distance. not really an issue now.
[15:21]  Sebastean Steamweaver checked to see if the posting date of that wasn’t april 1st.
[15:22]  Oskar Linden: on the topic of 1.40 is the topic of testing regions
[15:22]  Sebastean Steamweaver: I would love to get rid of the flight limit.
[15:22]  Oskar Linden: which brings me to the next item on the agenda
[15:22]  ATechwolf Foxclaw: And getting flight to work at 600 to 1000m is a biitch at time. ITs either way to reactive or not reactive at all.
[15:22]  Oskar Linden: if you have a region you would like to be used for testing havok 7 put it here: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-5755
[15:22]  JIRA-helper (left hip): [#SVC-5755] 1.40 Beta Server Region Signup
[15:22]  JIRA-helper: [#SVC-5755] 1.40 Beta Server Region Signup
[15:22]  Darling Brody: Monty, make note… flight limit not popular.
[15:23]  Oskar Linden: we’ll be compiling a list and bringing them over
[15:23]  Monty Linden: noted
[15:23]  Monty Linden: (agrees but it won’t necessarily help)
[15:23]  Oskar Linden: Monty, make note… do something once for darling and she will never leave you alone
[15:23]  Darling Brody: Oskar is that havok7 on beta or main grid? i’ll be happy for main grid, but not in beta…
[15:23]  Sebastean Steamweaver: X)
[15:23]  SHAMUS Carter: h7 is on otmeal
[15:23]  SHAMUS Carter: on adit
[15:23]  ANSI Soderstrom: and what if i have no region
[15:23]  Oskar Linden: that’s fine darling. we’ll keep your regions off aditi
[15:24]  Oskar Linden: you can use all the regions here ANSI
[15:24]  Darling Brody: my serves melt when they reg rezzed here.
[15:24]  Luisa Bourgoin: those flight assist scripts probably eat 2% of grid total power supply allone
[15:24]  Oskar Linden: yeah someone didn’t code in grid specifics eh?
[15:24]  Darling Brody: it might have been the flight assist scripts and not the woffal ion that brought down the grid.
[15:25]  Oskar Linden: I’m sure
[15:25]  SHAMUS Carter: atleast single script resizers are now posabl;e
[15:25]  Darling Brody: nope.. i forgot that… but i’m the only owner.
[15:25]  Oskar Linden: that is a good thing
[15:25]  Luisa Bourgoin: they had been before, just limited onto 5 Prims per second
[15:25]  xstorm Radek: Oskar if you need a sim to test 1.40 on in Agni trendone Mainland is a good one ;-)
[15:25]  Oskar Linden: add it to the list xstorm
[15:25]  ANSI Soderstrom: then i will take morris O.o
[15:26]  Oskar Linden: you want morris ANSI?
[15:26]  ANSI Soderstrom: *g
[15:26]  Gooden Uggla: script resizer is made http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linkset_resizer_with_menu
[15:26]  Oskar Linden: you want the responsibility for this fine piece of real estate?
[15:26]  Oskar Linden: keep the prims cleaned up
[15:26]  Oskar Linden: the grass mowed
[15:26]  ANSI Soderstrom: oh no
[15:26]  Charlene Trudeau: roflmao
[15:26]  Oskar Linden: I know how much you like leaving prims around
[15:26]  ANSI Soderstrom: better not
[15:26]  SHAMUS Carter: hehe
[15:26]  Oskar Linden: careful what you ask for
[15:26]  xstorm Radek: lol
[15:26]  Skills Hak: can i add my whole estate?
[15:27]  Darling Brody: llReturnObject(list keys) <<<< this function would make automated return of objects after people leave very easy….
[15:27]  Skills Hak: would be interesting for the combat people
[15:27]  xstorm Radek: yes he has them all over Agni too lol
[15:27]  Oskar Linden: probably not skills
[15:27]  Skills Hak: oke
[15:27]  Oskar Linden: that’s a lot
[15:27]  Skills Hak: notrly
[15:27]  Oskar Linden: but if you had one you wanted over we could accomadate
[15:27]  Skills Hak: oh so its going to be on aditi
[15:27]  Skills Hak: i didnt get that bit
[15:28]  Oskar Linden: :-D
[15:28]  Skills Hak: ill test in oatmeal
[15:28]  Darling Brody: yep… it will be on the beta grid here where everyone will play with your pose balls.
[15:28]  Gooden Uggla: skills pick the sim that you have the most control over – parcel and group owenership
[15:28]  xstorm Radek: oh crap brb door bell
[15:29]  WolfPup Lowenhar: hey ardy
[15:29]  Skills Hak: oskar is copybotting whole sims over to aditi
[15:29]  Darling Brody: maybe if you guys log region crashes you could bring the most crashing non-sandbox regions over?
[15:29]  Darling Brody report Oskar for copybotting.
[15:29]  SHAMUS Carter: more like load oar
[15:29]  Oskar Linden: I will have the oatmeal regions set up for havok testing
[15:29]  Oskar Linden: and will probably have some debug regions as well
[15:29]  Rex Cronon: skills. u have good chances of making herald’s front page:)
[15:30]  Gooden Uggla: awesome, what should we test for?
[15:30]  Skills Hak: heheh
[15:30]  Oskar Linden: the next item involves items you keep here on ADITI
[15:30]  SHAMUS Carter eeps.
[15:30]  Oskar Linden has been known to make mistakes from time to time and copy peopls inventories over when not requested
[15:30]  Oskar Linden blushes
[15:30]  Darling Brody: this weeks front page will read “oskar in orgy on beta grid” with a photo of us all laying down.
[15:30]  Skills Hak: oh murr
[15:30]  Skills Hak: aditi yiffy time
[15:30]  ANSI Soderstrom: o.O
[15:31]  Jacky Scharf: Hmmm … I’m not the owner of a specific Agni sim. But I live there and so I’d like to have the region in Aditi … when able.
[15:31]  SHAMUS Carter: now now rember just beauce the parcle seay7s mature dont mean the meating minits are adult
[15:31]  Gooden Uggla: don’t worry ANSI, no one “does the plushie” with linden bears…
[15:31]  Oskar Linden: I should reemphasize that aditi might eat things
[15:31]  Oskar Linden: nothing is sacred here
[15:31]  ANSI Soderstrom: fine @ gooden O.o
[15:31]  Oskar Linden: so always make sure to have stuff backed up and on AGNI
[15:32]  SHAMUS Carter: yep
[15:32]  SHAMUS Carter: aditi is just a mirro of angi and as suck reimages happen
[15:32]  Gooden Uggla looks around and notices that aditi rarely eats garbage
[15:32]  Lares Carter: any timeframe when next full inv copy is coming?
[15:32]  Oskar Linden: so on that note
[15:33]  Oskar Linden: we’re copying over all accounts
[15:33]  Rocky Pickles: open ‘a’ people.. thats 440 hz
[15:33]  *Kilo 13* Burning Life Porta John: Dialog is timed out, try again
[15:33]  SHAMUS Carter: *:-.,_,.-:*’“’*Yayyyyyyy!!!!*:-.,_,.-:*’“’*
[15:33]  Oskar Linden: to get ready for some beta testing next week
[15:33]  Gooden Uggla: awesome
[15:33]  Oskar Linden: so if you are potentially going to be losing something here at least make sure things are backed up
[15:33]  Skills Hak: when is mesh beta going public?
[15:33]  Oskar Linden: scripts and whatnot
[15:33]  ATechwolf Foxclaw: Yea \o/
[15:33]  Gooden Uggla: oskar is there anything specific we should test ?
[15:33]  Oskar Linden: we’ll let you know
[15:33]  Oskar Linden: I always send out a mail
[15:34]  Rex Cronon: u realize that some people have a lot of hope that if they come to beta they can retrive lost things…
[15:34]  Oskar Linden: so if you are not on the list : https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/server-beta
[15:34]  Oskar Linden: you should be
[15:34]  ANSI Soderstrom: i will test the tests
[15:34]  Oskar Linden: Monty, can you get on that list now too please?
[15:34]  Darling Brody: Rex, you mean some griefers who are banned use it to get their scripts?
[15:34]  Monty Linden: I should be, I’ll dbl check
[15:35]  Rex Cronon: i have no idea, darling. i just read about that on the forums
[15:35]  Monty Linden: I’m there.
[15:35]  Oskar Linden: cool
[15:35]  Oskar Linden: we’ll use that list heavily during aditi beta I hope
[15:35]  Darling Brody: Some griefer forums tell people to come to beta to get their griefer scripts if they are banned. so it is good that not everyone s automaticly copied to beta.
[15:36]  Oskar Linden: so yeah. that’s that. I’ll open the floor to whatever you want to discuss
[15:36]  Darling Brody: also they use beta to exploit new permissions bugs or old ones closed on the main grid.
[15:36]  Skills Hak: those damn griefers!
[15:36]  SHAMUS Carter: ugh
[15:36]  Sebastean Steamweaver: When will the release notes for 1.4 be put up? (sorry if it was mentioned and I missed)
[15:36]  Oskar Linden: bans on agni get copied over
[15:37]  Oskar Linden: but not always right away
[15:37]  Darling Brody: really they are criminals. not grifers. if theyw ere running around with a cage gun i would be just find abotu it
[15:37]  Darling Brody: *fine
[15:37]  Skills Hak: so why are you on the ground?
[15:37]  Darling Brody: SVC-3044[c] – Debug channel and script error reporting needs a major rethink
[15:37]  Skills Hak: worked too hard?
[15:37]  JIRA-helper (left hip): http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-3044
[#SVC-3044] Debug channel and script error reporting needs a major rethink
[15:37]  JIRA-helper: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-3044
[#SVC-3044] Debug channel and script error reporting needs a major rethink
[15:37]  Motor Loon: bad coffee Skills
[15:38]  Motor Loon: If he offers you a cup… just say no
[15:38]  Moundsa Mayo: damned blended frapps!
[15:38]  Darling Brody: would it not be a good idea to make a second Verbose debut channel and leave the current one with the original format so legacy stuff continues to work?
[15:38]  Skills Hak: :<
[15:38]  Skills Hak: poor oskar
[15:38]  Skills Hak: what’s next, tc_malloc?
[15:38]  ANSI Soderstrom: define legacy stuff
[15:38]  Moundsa Mayo: yeah, and make a debug.txt chat log, too!
[15:38]  Gooden Uggla: i’d like to see an owner name attached to those debug messages – too many bad vista AOs out there
[15:39]  Oskar Linden: tcmalloc in 1.42 yes
[15:39]  ANSI Soderstrom: the stuff, basedon bugs and always used because LL will not break existing content ?
[15:39]  Darling Brody: DEBUG_CHANNEL +1 could hold verbose info, while the original channel can hold the same old format we have been using for years to track crashed scripts and auto-restart them.
[15:39]  Oskar Linden: not sure what else is planned for 1.42
[15:39]  Oskar Linden: that is the big thing
[15:39]  Rex Cronon: does havok7 allow attachments to use volumedetect?
[15:39]  SHAMUS Carter: oh the moles still have not resolved http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-2781 ;-)
[15:39]  JIRA-helper: [#MISC-2781] Unblock the ANWR pipeline
[15:40]  SHAMUS Carter: ;-)
[15:40]  Moundsa Mayo: That’s on Maintenance land. Moles can’t work there.
[15:40]  Gooden Uggla: oskar is tc malloc really going to help performance?
[15:40]  Rocky Pickles: and the brief version of why please for those of us in the peanut gallery :)
[15:40]  Monty Linden: rex, I don’t know. May not be able to answer that yet…
[15:41]  Oskar Linden: well gooden there are some advantages
[15:41]  Oskar Linden: the main advantage is inline profiling
[15:41]  Oskar Linden: so we can get an immediate snapshot of performance metrics on individual sims
[15:41]  Oskar Linden: to help with diagnosing issues
[15:41]  Oskar Linden: that is the main thing we are shooting for
[15:41]  Darling Brody: SVC-1253[c] – users sitting on prims, which are set to phantom are not affected by damage. <<<< this mis-feature is is wide use now in vehicles, shields, elevators, and god knows what else. after more than 2 years it has become a sudo-standard. it needs to be adopted as epected behaviour. ie. sitting on volume detect prim makes avatar phantom too.
[15:41]  JIRA-helper: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-1253
[#SVC-1253] users sitting on prims, which are set to phantom are not affected by damage.
[15:41]  Rex Cronon: now. if volume detect would work on attachments it would be possible to make some nice shields:)
[15:42]  Oskar Linden: memory management itself is pretty much in line with pthreads 12
[15:42]  Oskar Linden: 2
[15:42]  Oskar Linden: as far as I can tell
[15:42]  Skills Hak: oh what about the uh
[15:42]  Oskar Linden: ?
[15:42]  Skills Hak: revoke permissions on unsit thing?
[15:42]  Rex Cronon: this is fixed: SVC-1253?
[15:42]  Oskar Linden: it’s not on my radar yet
[15:42]  Skills Hak: i think that didnt make it in 1.38.4 no?
[15:42]  Skills Hak: ah
[15:43]  Maestro Linden: Skills: i’m not aware of any updates to that one
[15:43]  SHAMUS Carter: will it ever be posable to creat new mega prims?
[15:43]  Maestro Linden: I think any changes to that would require a full testing cycle
[15:43]  Darling Brody: Rex, for volume detect to work on attachments it means those attchments when not phantom would collide with people and stuff. that might be a problem. i think attachments were made phantom years ago to avoid this.
[15:43]  Maestro Linden: given all the odd edge cases…
[15:43]  Skills Hak: yes
[15:43]  Oskar Linden: megaprims were never officially possible SHAMUS
[15:43]  Rex Cronon: until we try it we don’t know, darling:)
[15:43]  Sebastean Steamweaver: Darling – attachments are never not-phantom.
[15:43]  Oskar Linden: they were always made with hacks
[15:44]  Rex Cronon: skills were u talking about: VWR-13228
[15:44]  JIRA-helper: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13228
[#VWR-13228] Object can obtain and retain permissions indefinitely without avatar’s knowledge and no way of knowing who took it – possible security issue
[15:44]  Skills Hak: “unsupported”
[15:44]  Skills Hak: ah thanks
[15:45]  ATechwolf Foxclaw: I know one person that use VWR-13228 to harras a female. I was just a new user back then and didn’t know about this exploit.
[15:45]  Gooden Uggla: question: is it really necessary to upgrade the debian to get mono to work correctly?
[15:45]  Gooden Uggla: there was some backpedalling on that recently
[15:45]  Oskar Linden: that is what I am told Gooden
[15:45]  Gooden Uggla: ok, cool
[15:45]  Lares Carter: i dont think volume detect would ever work for attachments, as animations are local – so it doesnt have a known position for collisions.
[15:45]  xstorm Radek: i say it needs it
[15:45]  SHAMUS Carter: Andrew Linden talked about[ the "liberation" of mega prims mey years ago it seams
[15:45]  Oskar Linden: I don’t know a lot about it, so I have to take babbage’s word
[15:45]  Gooden Uggla: http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mono.html
[15:45]  Darling Brody: VWR-13228 is going to drop permissions after xx second/minutes after avatar stands up. so anything using short animations will work, but keeping objects long term for griefing will fail.
[15:45]  Rex Cronon: i think there might be quite a few people interested to know if VWR-13228 is fixed or not, or if will ever be fixed
[15:46]  Oskar Linden: if you sweet talk monty he’ll upgrade prim size to 11x11x11
[15:46]  Rocky Pickles: i’m going to speculate that debian is patched when there is a substantial reason to do so
[15:46]  Oskar Linden: that should keep people happy for a few years
[15:46]  SHAMUS Carter gigles
[15:46]  xstorm Radek: short animation ???? what is there to animation on me ????
[15:46]  Moundsa Mayo: Ain’t nothing ever ‘gonna keep people happy’.
[15:47]  Rocky Pickles: paying for votes in rum was once a popular method :)
[15:47]  Moundsa Mayo: Too many ungrateful wretches.
[15:47]  Monty Linden likes rum
[15:47]  Oskar Linden would take a bottle of Kraken Rum right about now
[15:47]  Gooden Uggla: rocky… fixing mono is a showstopper, i’d say it’s a substantial reason
[15:47]  Oskar Linden: http://www.krakenrum.com/
[15:48]  SHAMUS Carter: yes mono
[15:48]  Darling Brody: SVC-421[c] – Cannot delete contents from no-modify objects <<< i violentry appose letting people delete the content of no-mod objects. until after we have a new permission that is for no-mod-contents.
[15:48]  xstorm Radek: i know too well about people crying about every thing and blaming all his problems on sl the young man drives me nut
[15:48]  JIRA-helper: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-421
[#SVC-421] Cannot delete contents from no-modify objects
[15:48]  SHAMUS Carter: the mono sim rezes are verty anoying
[15:48]  Gooden Uggla: i think i’ll stick to sailor jerry…
[15:48]  SHAMUS Carter: frezes
[15:49]  Skills Hak: that will be in 1.44 maybe?
[15:49]  Skills Hak: with mono 1.26
[15:49]  Rex Cronon: i have the same opinion as darling regarding svc-421
[15:49]  Oskar Linden: 1.44 is so far away I don’t even want to think about it
[15:49]  Maestro Linden: Skills: that’s what I’ve heard. Babbage could tell you more at this point
[15:50]  Darling Brody: god knows what kind of new exploits will be possible if people can remove selected scripts from objects that were designed to never have their contents altered.
[15:50]  Oskar Linden: so 10 minutes left
[15:50]  Rex Cronon: if deletion is allowd that means that some objects that were given away as demos can be moded
[15:50]  SHAMUS Carter: maby some year svc-22 will finaly be fixed
[15:50]  JIRA-helper: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-22
[#SVC-22] Vehicles crossing region borders aren’t always treated as vehicles and can get incorrectly returned if the destination parcel is no-entry or parcel-full
[15:50]  Oskar Linden: any burning questions for Monty Linde while we have his undistracted attention?
[15:50]  Huns Valen: SVC-22 would be nice.
[15:51]  Huns Valen: it doesn’t appear to be assigned.
[15:51]  Darling Brody: Will Monty do the Full Monty?
[15:51]  Oskar Linden: Darling!!
[15:51]  Monty Linden: tp’s do it for me….
[15:51]  Darling Brody: what?
[15:51]  Motor Loon gets camera out
[15:51]  Oskar Linden: I warned you to behave
[15:51]  Charlene Trudeau: what?
[15:51]  Charlene Trudeau: its not a pg sim
[15:51]  Darling Brody looks left and right innocently
[15:51]  Charlene Trudeau grins
[15:52]  SHAMUS Carter: the meatign minets are public tho and pg
[15:52]  Charlene Trudeau: lol
[15:52]  Darling Brody chants : take it off, take it off
[15:52]  Charlene Trudeau: roflmao
[15:52]  Darling Brody: HAY.. who is faking messages from me/
[15:52]  Moundsa Mayo: It HURTS taking off fur!
[15:52]  Oskar Linden: all it took was for me to tp in once with no clothes on and no one has ever chanted to take it off since then
[15:52]  Darling Brody: Shave it off… Shave it off
[15:52]  Charlene Trudeau: roflmao
[15:52]  Moundsa Mayo: Scales are even WORSE!
[15:52]  Rocky Pickles: yeah right Darlling.. you first :)
[15:52]  Oskar Linden: ok ok
[15:52]  Darling Brody: ok
[15:53]  Oskar Linden: this is all going in the transcript btw
[15:53]  Rex Cronon: faking messages? how does that work?
[15:53]  Darling Brody: there we go.. i took everything off
[15:53]  Oskar Linden: the next time you all complain about poor SL performance I’ll remind you that monty’s clothing was the most important thing you had to talk about :-)
[15:54]  Darling Brody: Hay. i brought up lots of topics…
[15:54]  Monty Linden: yeah, I was going to double prim limits if someone said something nice…..
[15:54]  Oskar Linden: :-D
[15:54]  Charlene Trudeau: lol
[15:54]  ANSI Soderstrom: skills….
[15:54]  Oskar Linden: so… we can spend the next 5 minutes talking about my truck
[15:54]  Ovaltine Constantine: I can’t remember if anyon has said what else is in 1.40 besides Havok 7. Is the answer “nothing”, or is it just a secret?
[15:54]  Oskar Linden ordered some remote control spotlights for her
[15:54]  Rocky Pickles: damned by very faint praise indeed :)
[15:54]  Moundsa Mayo: Thanks – rather have Tlelport Vehicle With Passengers!
[15:54]  Darling Brody: Monty, we wanted you to take it off… that only happens if we like ya.
[15:55]  SHAMUS Carter: ok h7
[15:55]  Charlene Trudeau: thanks, Monty
[15:55]  Oskar Linden: I bought like 500 pounds of steel monday to make pretty stuff
[15:55]  SHAMUS Carter: wheat the eta on greather then 32 pims
[15:55]  Huns Valen: ^^^
[15:55]  xstorm Radek: yes did it damn
[15:55]  Oskar Linden: my truck is gonna look so awesome
[15:55]  Gooden Uggla: ao off
[15:55]  ANSI Soderstrom: u need spotlights, now u have spotlights
[15:55]  Moundsa Mayo: Hot rolled or cold?
[15:55]  xstorm Radek: lol
[15:55]  xstorm Radek: off grid flying and back
[15:55]  Oskar Linden: pretty sure cold
[15:55]  Oskar Linden: square tube
[15:55]  SHAMUS Carter: would be sweet to finaly be rid of the atachable cars and have it all one object
[15:55]  Huns Valen: Maestro how bout ‘that
[15:56]  Maestro Linden: Ovaltine: some “secret”, some TBD
[15:56]  Oskar Linden: rolled, bent, seam welded
[15:56]  Oskar Linden: sadly I realzied the cool stuff in 1.40 won’t be noticed til vwr 2.1 ships
[15:56]  Maestro Linden: about >32 prims, I’m not sure when Falcon is planning on that..
[15:56]  Oskar Linden: :-(
[15:56]  Darling Brody: why is Maestro Linden scared?
[15:57]  Moundsa Mayo: Yah, cold, unless special ordered. You MIG or TIG?
[15:57]  SHAMUS Carter: meshes coming?
[15:57]  Huns Valen: I will have a keg of beer delivered to linden lab if you guys can get that done by june. no lie.
[15:57]  Skills Hak: that looks pretty cool
[15:57]  Maestro Linden: this shaking is excitement for 1.40
[15:57]  Skills Hak: it’s not an animation is it?
[15:57]  xstorm Radek: lol
[15:57]  Ovaltine Constantine: Is Viewer 2.1 going to be good?
[15:57]  Oskar Linden: yes 1.40 has an animation
[15:57]  Darling Brody: ok… if you say so…
[15:57]  Ovaltine Constantine: Or will it be like 2.0?
[15:57]  xstorm Radek: shake faster your slow
[15:57]  Maestro Linden: or rather, 1.38 being done :D
[15:57]  Skills Hak: yay :P
[15:57]  Motor Loon: Will mesh’s be able to be physical objects? like a car made from a single mesh
[15:58]  Oskar Linden: of course vwr 2.1 will be super ossm
[15:58]  Oskar Linden: everything you hoped for and more
[15:58]  Oskar Linden: and you can quote monty on that
[15:58]  Gooden Uggla: :)
[15:58]  Ovaltine Constantine: Even llTextBox()?
[15:58]  Huns Valen: will viewer 2.1 have settext that works right? :)
[15:58]  SHAMUS Carter: will 2.1 use the ugly 2.0 ui?
[15:58]  Skills Hak: yeah it will even have the correct physical shape
[15:58]  Monty Linden: great big shiny bright future coming….
[15:58]  Skills Hak: not bounding boxes
[15:58]  Gooden Uggla: if you’ll read the blog, there’s a list of changes in 2.1 viewer
[15:58]  Motor Loon: interesting
[15:58]  Darling Brody: YES!!!!!!!!!!!! llSetText is major messed up in 2.0, and no one is assiged to fix it.
[15:59]  Huns Valen: I think alexa commented on that just an hour ago, finally, but no one’s assigned yet
[15:59]  SHAMUS Carter: and the siting induced orbiting is just wrong
[15:59]  Gooden Uggla: since it mentions nothing about MoaP security, i won’t be using it, but it’ll be “better”
[15:59]  Oskar Linden: “better”(tm)
[15:59]  Gooden Uggla: mmhmm
[15:59]  Darling Brody: yes. i ARed ariu for edit wars on that jira. Alexa normaly turns up after that
[16:00]  Huns Valen: there was an edit war?
[16:00]  Huns Valen: lol
[16:00]  Oskar Linden: alexa likes crushing the edit wars
[16:00]  Huns Valen: over settext
[16:00]  Oskar Linden: she always wins
[16:00]  Gooden Uggla: and cieran will still be boitching about search, it’s a little “improved”
[16:00]  Darling Brody: yes, between major and shop stopper
[16:00]  Oskar Linden: well my hour is up
[16:00]  Huns Valen: I mean it’s annoying but holy damn
[16:00]  Oskar Linden derezzes
[16:00]  xstorm Radek: he he he he he
[16:00]  SHAMUS Carter: edit wars are worse them flame wars
[16:00]  xstorm Radek: did it again
[16:00]  Charlene Trudeau: thanks, Oskar
[16:00]  Rex Cronon: what is wrong with llsettext?
[16:00]  Charlene Trudeau: *hugs*
[16:00]  ANSI Soderstrom: OH is over, please leave the sim quickly now
[16:00]  Darling Brody: see ya Oskar
[16:00]  xstorm Radek: flying off sim and back
[16:00]  Skills Hak: tc oskar
[16:00]  Charlene Trudeau: it doesn’t position the same in 2.0
[16:00]  Huns Valen: llsettext does not center properly on hud objects and probably other stuff in 2.0
[16:00]  Moundsa Mayo: Thanks, Oskar, ‘N Simon, and Maestro, and MONTY!!

Jack Linden Office Hours – May 06, 2010

May 6th, 2010

[11:02]  Master Kane: Hi Jack
[11:02]  Opensource Obscure: robin ^^
[11:02]  Alexxa Despres: Hi Ciaran ;)
[11:02]  Gregg Barrymore: hi charlene
[11:02]  Uni Ninetails: Yay is a Jack
[11:02]  Jack Linden: hey folks
[11:02]  Equinox Pinion: hi jack!
[11:02]  Techwolf Lupindo smiels
[11:02]  Lady Sakai: arg Jack dont DO that
[11:02]  Alexxa Despres: Evening, Jack ;)
[11:02]  Opensource Obscure: ciao Jack !
[11:02]  Driftwood Miles: Hijack
[11:02]  Charlene Trudeau: hiya, Jack
[11:02]  Jack Linden: what did I do??
[11:02]  Charlene Trudeau: Melody is invisible to me
[11:02]  Gregg Barrymore: greetings jack
[11:02]  Lady Sakai: sneak up on us
[11:02]  Ciaran Laval: Hi Jack
[11:03]  Uni Ninetails: whats that Jack 25% price rductions on tiers across the board? >:D
[11:03]  Jack Linden: How are you all this week? Did those brits amongst you go vote yet?
[11:03]  Lady Sakai: WOOHOO .. we wuws you jack ;)
[11:03]  Uni Ninetails: nope there all scum no vote from me
[11:03]  Lady Sakai: Hi Zoha
[11:04]  Zoha Boa: hi evveryine
[11:04]  Driftwood Miles: Yep put my X in the box for A whopper with cheese
[11:04]  Zoha Boa: hey lady
[11:04]  Jack Linden: hehe Drift
[11:04]  Equinox Pinion: hi zoha!
[11:04]  Melody Regent: Good morning Jack, first and foremost I want to thank you in person for the land forums. IT was good to see them installed so fast, thank you again for you swift action in the matter. We have been working hard to make sure everyone knows they are there. Do you think you could make a MOTD notice topeople announcing the reinstalation of them? It will help encourage people to look there for land and also let the smaller land owners know that they have been added back after a long period.
[11:04]  Driftwood Miles: got to be better than what is on offer
[11:04]  Jack Linden: Whoosh, thanks Melody. Let me read that
[11:04]  Master Kane: lol right at it and no time wasted :)
[11:05]  Jack Linden: Ah good yes, I’ve been watching folks using the forums.. seems to be active already
[11:05]  Melody Regent: I have a business to run, not all day to dally about :)
[11:05]  Master Kane: as if we all dont
[11:05]  Melody Regent: So we can get a MOTD added soon?
[11:05]  Master Kane: :)
[11:05]  Gregg Barrymore: ::note to mell ..need to waer your power suit::
[11:06]  Master Kane: nah she needs a coffee (Bunn) pot on her back, to keep her going :)
[11:06]  Jack Linden: Yeah, we’re going to run some motd stuff, but I want our help articles on estate land to be ready first, so that we can point people to those
[11:06]  Uni Ninetails: what about somthing on xstreet… you know like the thing above descriptions now?
[11:06]  Melody Regent: Beautiful, when should we be on the look out for those, I want to share that with our clients as well?
[11:06]  Opensource Obscure: i see those land articles are being translated in italian, cool
[11:07]  Opensource Obscure: (wiki articles i meant)
[11:07]  Jack Linden: Uni, what do you mean?
[11:07]  Lady Sakai: Jack, any chance you could make it so Estates can disable the ban lines ? Pretty Please with something nakid on top???
[11:07]  Gregg Barrymore: lmao
[11:07]  Charlene Trudeau: we really need that added to estate controls, Jack
[11:07]  Charlene Trudeau: being able to disable ban lines on a region or estate level is essential to enforcing covenant
[11:08]  Uni Ninetails: Currently if i go to marketplace above the category descriptions there is an advert for “Linden home furnishings” it goes to the zomg buys a linden home page
[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: pink said they will do it in the new market place uni
[11:08]  Gregg Barrymore: naked pixles theres an oximoron fer ya lol
[11:08]  Charlene Trudeau: as estate owners we can’t even see the ban lines without using an alt
[11:08]  Jack Linden: Lady.. you mean to override the parcel settings completely?
[11:08]  Melody Regent: Yes Jack, we have been asking you about that for many months
[11:08]  Seattle LeShelle: we really need that ability
[11:08]  Prokofy Neva: well you could also just group your land, and not have that a tenant power in the group, to install group-only ban lines, that works fine.
[11:08]  Melody Regent: You have told us with the new server code, we would get more controls
[11:08]  Uni Ninetails: Equi: ahhh ok np then
[11:08]  Lady Sakai: yes …. like no parcel sales … no dividing of land . as we have now
[11:08]  Charlene Trudeau: that’s ok, Uni, they get frustrated with the limitations fast and go looking for alternatives. They can tout the linden homes all they want
[11:08]  Zoha Boa: yes, an override, we can’t see if they are on as siw owner/manager. And they aren’t allowed on a lot of estate by the covenant
[11:09]  Jack Linden: Got it, yeah. We definitely had plans to do that but it fell below other priorities. I’ll take a look at where that sits.
[11:09]  Uni Ninetails: agrred i just dislikethe in your face crap on xstreet.
[11:09]  Charlene Trudeau: thank you, Jack
[11:09]  Lady Sakai: Just ad that we can disable the ban lines .. its driving me bonkers and I only have one :(
[11:09]  Jeri Rahja is Offline
[11:09]  Prokofy Neva: What’s the plan to allow rentals companies to advertise to Linden Homes residents?
[11:09]  Gregg Barrymore: ::has an easy querstion for Jack when the hard ones are done::
[11:10]  Charlene Trudeau: oh toss it out there gregg, if you’re polite you’ll never get to ask :)
[11:10]  Gregg Barrymore: ;~)
[11:10]  Melody Regent: Use the new forums like everyone else Prok, they are going to make a MOTD very soon about finding those there. He siad that before you got here. It even has a totally seperate section just for mainland
[11:10]  Gregg Barrymore: i was just wondering when more details on messes are going to be released im excited about it and want to stay on the cutting edge and want to make sure i get in on the test grid part of it
[11:10]  Lady Sakai: and what is the status on the script limits .. there was no mention of it on your blog for the plans of Q2?
[11:10]  Melody Regent: Gregg you will be waiting to ask for ages
[11:11]  Melody Regent: haha
[11:11]  Gregg Barrymore: meshes
[11:11]  Prokofy Neva: Um, Melody, I see your squeaky wheel got greesed. The Forums now have SALES only not RENTALS for mainland.
[11:11]  Prokofy Neva: I’m talking about *inworld* advertising where people *are*. They aren’t on the forums.
[11:11]  Driftwood Miles: same for Estates I believe
[11:11]  Uni Ninetails: andrew linden had no new info on script limits. so i doubt jack has any info.
[11:11]  Prokofy Neva: Mainland separate section for SALES Melody, not RENTALS
[11:12]  Melody Regent: There is a group out there Gregg, I have hear rumors in the back rooms about it. Not drinking with the right people…
[11:12]  Melody Regent: Everyting on the grid is rentals at the end of the day
[11:12]  Melody Regent: :)
[11:12]  Lady Sakai: isnt it Babbage that is in charge of that Uni ?
[11:12]  Jack Linden: Prokofy, the plan is to start top open up a number of opportunities, not just one. We’ll be doing some general promotion of the ‘non-Linden’ forms of land such as estates and mainland rental alternatives, we have help articles being written and translated for that too, plus some promo placement around areas like the land store. Then there are emails/newsletters we’d like to send to Linden Home owners, and finally we’d like to offer some actual advertising opportunities on the web properties like xstreet
[11:12]  Jack Linden: Oof, that was longer than I’d thought hehe
[11:12]  Uni Ninetails: Lady: i never get to his OH so i ask next best alternative
[11:12]  Prokofy Neva: I know that dear. And you got your island “sales” slash rentals advertised by complaining; but my mainland actual rentals don’t have a rubric to go under
[11:13]  Lady Sakai: for me the OHs are generally hard to make :)
[11:13]  Zoha Boa: wow Jack..;you listen to much to meody ..With her looooong posts :-) )
[11:13]  Jack Linden: Gregg, I believe the mesh team will be talking on the blogs more soon – they are progressing really well – it’s going to be an amazing addition
[11:13]  Prokofy Neva: Jack
[11:13]  Prokofy Neva: um articles in the knowledge base is not advertisingt
[11:14]  Driftwood Miles: agreed Jack……….if handled right :)
[11:14]  Gregg Barrymore: i agree jack
[11:14]  Prokofy Neva: when people are living in a Linden Home, and they are ready to go to the next thing, they need something other than YOUR website with YOUR land for sale, otherwise, why are we all here?
[11:14]  Master Kane: Jack.. On Greggs question,, any DETAILS on meshes as far as rendering times and how much etc..?
[11:14]  Jack Linden: Prokofy, agreed – I just mean that we’ll be ensuring that where we talk about land, we talk about all the options – not just Linden otions
[11:14]  Jack Linden: *options
[11:14]  Jack Linden: It all helps
[11:14]  Lady Sakai: Prok, to pay LL for the regions ;)
[11:14]  Prokofy Neva: we have “actual advertising’ on Xstreet already, Jack, it’s a sea of unfiltered dreck
[11:15]  Jack Linden: Master, I don’t have any hard facts to share on Mesh I’m afraid
[11:15]  Gregg Barrymore: also jack im at 100 percent occupancy but cant afford another sim can ya front me one? lol
[11:15]  Prokofy Neva: well, you could start by at least adding it to the KB, which you haven’t done, so as not to discriminate at least, but that’s doing due diligence, not enabling advertising
[11:15]  Master Kane: No I meant them when they post about it , not you :)
[11:15]  Jack Linden: Hehe Gregg
[11:15]  Prokofy Neva: advertising, you know, signs? Kiosks? You know, inworld? Stuff?
[11:15]  Master Kane: the MESH TEAM :)
[11:15]  Lady Sakai: Sendt them to me gregg :p
[11:15]  Driftwood Miles: KB?
[11:15]  Jonathan Yap: I think an announcement about a beta mesh test grid on aditi may be coming in the near future
[11:15]  Prokofy Neva: Knowledge Base whch is now the wiki anyway
[11:15]  Jack Linden: Prokofy, yes the KB is an area we’ll be adding to
[11:16]  Gregg Barrymore: lol lady they be victoains georgians and pirates
[11:16]  Jack Linden: Knowledgebase Driftwood
[11:16]  Prokofy Neva: ok jack WILL YOU BE ADDING TO the INWORLD capacity for advertising, YES OR NO
[11:16]  Driftwood Miles: ty
[11:16]  Lady Sakai: they can live at a island region cant they ? The pirates can :p
[11:17]  Gregg Barrymore: jack is the orientation thing on private estates dead?
[11:17]  Master Kane: wow… people are turning grey and disappearing
[11:17]  Jack Linden: Prokofy, we’ve no short term plans re. inworld advertising. We’re starting by addressing outworld placement. Early stages but we’ve a team looking at options for a self serve advertising option
[11:17]  Melody Regent: Jack, with the old SLX there was an option to list parcels there via inworld rezzing. With the advent of the Second Life Market place, will something more searchable and user friendly be added to that as well. The old SLX was good at driving customers to us, when LL took over, it went down the tubes. What part of that, if any, is being revamped and added back.
[11:17]  Gregg Barrymore: bad coffe mk
[11:17]  Jack Linden: What do you mean Gregg?
[11:17]  Master Kane: guess so hehe
[11:18]  Charlene Trudeau: Melody, in viewing the available screen shots
[11:18]  Master Kane: that or wife put something in it lol
[11:18]  Charlene Trudeau: Land will be a major category within the marketplace
[11:18]  Charlene Trudeau: instead of a separate area lost to view once you start shopping
[11:18]  Gregg Barrymore: where people set up orientation areas and the newbie land had lms to them
[11:18]  Prokofy Neva: well, then there is no route for Linden Homes residents to go to — they are using a panel for finding their homes on your web page; they are controlling their homes from a webpage; they are moving to other properties from that web page that advertises your land. So, why are we here again? Or, some people will get a message on a side ad on a web page maybe if they buy enough islands?
[11:18]  Charlene Trudeau: which, if that’s as it appears, is a great step forward
[11:18]  Melody Regent: BUt we need it added back as an easier place to narrow down your search
[11:18]  Melody Regent: and more user friendly to landowners to use
[11:18]  Charlene Trudeau: I hope our actual options for information listed is improved also
[11:18]  Jack Linden: Melody.. long term.. I’d like us to integrate land listings with the new Marketplace site fully. That way we’ll be able to add a lot of functionality to land buying and selling
[11:18]  Prokofy Neva: WHY DONT WE ALL JUST GO LIVE OUT ON THE INTERNET THEN!
[11:19]  Prokofy Neva: UH-OH
[11:19]  Prokofy Neva: Does “integrate” mean you will take a commission on land sales and rentals like content, Jack?
[11:19]  Satir DeCuir is Offline
[11:19]  Jack Linden: Gregg, it has changed a little yes. We still have a range of community gateways who do various orientation methods
[11:19]  Melody Regent: Do you have a team working on this Jack? Will you be trying to get the advice of the people that are using it and on the front lines?
[11:20]  Gregg Barrymore: i ask jack cause im still kinda interested in it but want it to be worthwile
[11:20]  Jack Linden: Prokofy.. the house config page is a good example of a space we could use for promoting the ‘next step’ in land ownership
[11:20]  Lady Sakai: Ive been thinking the same Gregg
[11:20]  Master Kane: yeah which leads to where? SLX and others’ websites
[11:20]  Prokofy Neva: so…let’s see… I need to hire a blimp then.
[11:20]  Master Kane: Ill make it prok lol
[11:20]  Master Kane: how big?
[11:21]  Jack Linden: Melody, we will most certainly be asking for feedback. There will be some surveys going out first I believe.. but many other methods of getting input after that
[11:21]  Master Kane: 1024×1024?
[11:21]  Jonathan Yap: Prokofy, what do you hope to achieve with rude comments?
[11:21]  Satir DeCuir is Online
[11:21]  Gregg Barrymore: ::notices the corsica sing:: another continet?
[11:21]  Prokofy Neva: I’ll park it on the roof of my Wizard Suburbia home in…in…that sim I can’t remember where I live. It will fly around with a big sign on it saying RAVENGLASS RENTALS YOUR FRIEND IN NEED WHEN YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS PLACE. You didn’t say we couldn’t do that, Jack, so there.
[11:22]  Jack Linden: :) Prokofy
[11:22]  Master Kane: lmao
[11:22]  Lady Sakai: lol … funny one Prok :)
[11:22]  Equinox Pinion: lol
[11:22]  Zoha Boa: great prok, can we go to the next topic please. You have had your say
[11:22]  Charlene Trudeau: I think there was a no advertising stipulation
[11:22]  Uni Ninetails: no commercial activity?
[11:22]  Prokofy Neva: But they didn’t say you couldn’t have a blimp.
[11:22]  Jack Linden: So did you guys read the new Marketplace announcement?
[11:22]  Envious: LandMark giver at Envious (Envious Homestead – L$7200 includes first week tier) has just been used by Bird Lilliehook !
[11:22]  Uni Ninetails: yuppers
[11:23]  Melody Regent: Jack, you have a group of people already established, and in place that MJ set up to be able to help with this. Will you be tapping into that group at all?
[11:23]  Master Kane: yes.. next topic… I would like to know who (resident) has the right to POLICE sims with their gadgets when its LL responcability
[11:23]  Lady Sakai: you mean about the SLX changes ?
[11:23]  Jack Linden: Yes Melody.
[11:23]  Bug Hilltop: For those of use who havent, a URL please, maybe?
[11:23]  Master Kane: meaing CDS
[11:23]  Prokofy Neva: Oh, geez, Melody gets to be in a special group that I don’t get to be in? How can that BE?
[11:23]  Charlene Trudeau: Jack, please let us know if there will be a way to volunteer to be part of that input, be it at office hours, filling out surveys or whatever
[11:23]  Jack Linden: Master – I don’t think I understand. There is no ‘police’ on Linden land.
[11:23]  Lady Sakai: dont forget the Red one also MK
[11:23]  Lady Sakai: forgot its name
[11:23]  Equinox Pinion: yes…was suprised that you did it without the input from the residents again
[11:24]  Professor Spark: Marketplace announcement: http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/commerce/blog/2010/05/03/announcing-the-second-life-marketplace-beta
[11:24]  Jack Linden: Charlene.. will do.
[11:24]  Master Kane: Havent you heard about this CDS thing, client detection system
[11:24]  Lady Sakai: sure is Jack…. the residents are doing it themself now
[11:24]  Bug Hilltop: Thank you, Professor
[11:24]  Prokofy Neva: Master, you could mention that Emerald dev thing, GEMINI CDS, where they first rip your content on their alts and then scare you into needing that device for $700 a pop a month. How was that different than the JLU Braniac?
[11:24]  Charlene Trudeau: there are a lot of us who want to be proactive on the development side with our level of input and are frustrated on the HOW to do so
[11:24]  Lady Sakai: with tech gadgets that apparenly now can detect / track alts
[11:24]  Master Kane: yes prok we know that much already
[11:24]  Driftwood Miles: geez this is all over the place :)
[11:25]  Gregg Barrymore: i may behond the times i often am is corsica going to be a new continant?
[11:25]  Prokofy Neva: The Marketplace announcement was scarily devoid of detail. Take-home: “We are taking the X out of Xstreet – in more ways than one” and “We aren’t going to tell you yet whether you can have those free freebies so we’ll keep you guessing.”
[11:25]  Master Kane: I just dont think its right for a resident to POLICE sims with their gadgets that epeople PAY them for to protect thier things when it is LL thats supposed
[11:25]  Melody Regent: Agreed Charlene, and there is a wasted amount of knowledge and talent not being used
[11:25]  Prokofy Neva: well I would like a land option that says “restrict access to scripted agents” that will finish that problem off quick
[11:26]  Prokofy Neva: No payment on file? Please come and be my tenant. Scripted bot imposing some geek’s will on the entire grid? No, click, you are not welcome.
[11:26]  Lady Sakai: and they wont publish lists so you really dont have a chance to know where those gadgets are meaning you cant avoid them and possibly have your privacy breached :(
[11:26]  Jack Linden: Master – I know the gadgets you mean. As far as private estates are concerned.. that’s for the estate owners to handle for the most part (unless there are tos violations involved). On the mainland, if you feel someone is being abusive, you should abuse report them
[11:26]  Qie Niangao: So who is responsible for giving the Third Party Viewer policy some actual effect? Because if CDS can do it, why the hell isn’t LL doing the same thing at login?
[11:27]  Master Kane: Oh no.. dont get me wrong here.. make money where you can but that thing is to me ARable 100%
[11:27]  Prokofy Neva: Emerald has already overthrown the Lindens Qie, that was clear April 30. The ditched the language in the TPV that said “responsiblity for DEVs”.
[11:27]  Master Kane: Agreed Qie
[11:27]  Chaley May: there would be as lot less abuse if you told people when abused get even :)
[11:27]  Jack Linden: Qie, the TPV has a team behind it. If you have feedback, please do drop me a notecard so that i can pass it on
[11:27]  Master Kane: Yeah Jack what Qie asked.. why the hell cant LL do it
[11:28]  Master Kane: or are we all just pawns to push
[11:28]  Zoha Boa: Jack, how is it possible that one resident can register around 100 avatars/bots? I thought that was against the TOS.
[11:28]  Gregg Barrymore: jack id like to emphsise mels and others staements on the increased tools for estate owerns promised long ago we really desire them
[11:28]  Qie Niangao: I’ll send an email… the thing is, whatever CDS is doing, either LL needs to be doing that, or NOBODY should be doing it.
[11:28]  Lady Sakai: Jack, isnt it against the TOS to breach private info (obtained by IP adresses) ?
[11:28]  Master Kane: I watched that video of Ash Qin and them abotu CDS and theres alot of loopholes
[11:28]  Jack Linden: TPV isn’t part of my area, so it’s hard for me to comment on the details. My understanding is that it’s an evolving situation and we’re very aware of the situation. But as I said, I’m happy to pass along comments
[11:29]  Master Kane: listen UP JACK
[11:29]  Prokofy Neva: yes, it’s vigilantism, even if they are your pets now. Don’t let your pets run the grid.
[11:29]  Master Kane: excalty QIE!
[11:29]  Master Kane: See what QIE said
[11:29]  Pooky Amsterdam is Online
[11:29]  Techwolf Lupindo: Becuause it would all boil down to an arms race. How fast can the detection tech keep up with the spoofers.
[11:29]  Master Kane: “..whatever CDS is doing, either LL needs to be doing that, or NOBODY should be doing it.”
[11:29]  Prokofy Neva: Look, it’s bad enough we didn’t elect you Jack! But we definitely didn’t elect those people even as dog-catchers!
[11:29]  Jack Linden: Noted Master
[11:29]  Bug Hilltop: Same sort of thing about Adult Content, in my opinion, either LL does it, or no one
[11:29]  Prokofy Neva: Say, how are those Lib Dems doing, I hope they win
[11:29]  Melody Regent: Jack, it is not your area, who does it belong to and do they have Office hours?
[11:29]  Aizur Zessinthal gave you NYC Lots and Shops list 5/6.
[11:30]  Master Kane: Skills is not doing ANYTHING except stealing money from creators.. whether or not they like it or not is irrelivant
[11:30]  Gregg Barrymore: lol i have no clue what everyine is talking about..again im a bit behind the toimes
[11:30]  Prokofy Neva: Is Skills Rodney Linden? or just Rodney’s close personal builder?
[11:30]  Lady Sakai: Just understand jack its not reasuring for your residents that these gadgets are put there .. we didnt sign up ofr others than you to have our private info
[11:30]  Driftwood Miles: Jack, when are you looking at announcing any land pricing info in relation to January 2011
[11:30]  Jack Linden: Hmm, Let me look – I’m not sure if the TPV folks have an office hours but there is the third party dev email list
[11:30]  Prokofy Neva: it’s called the Onyx bot, oops, no, that’s Fractured’s toy that scrapes the grid to supplement the CDS Gemini that Skills Hak, Emerald dev, made and sell to defeat copybot
[11:31]  Master Kane: Well the way that I see it.. CDS deals with creators, creators own sim.. sim deal with this office hours.. be specific here
[11:31]  Jack Linden: Understood Lady
[11:31]  Prokofy Neva: which he himself scripted and unleashed in various rogue viewers before, on his old alts
[11:31]  Jack Linden: Driftwood – as before, ideally we’ll announce well in advance – so middle of summer I expect
[11:31]  Prokofy Neva: You know, if you want to stop rogue viewers, go to the pros. Go to the people who made them on their alts last year! They know best.
[11:31]  Master Kane: lol prok
[11:31]  Master Kane: frac toy lol
[11:31]  Driftwood Miles: ok ,ty
[11:31]  Master Kane: prok.. you still have that case or rose colored glasses too?
[11:31]  Master Kane: LMAO
[11:32]  Prokofy Neva: Jack, you are telling us that you, Tsar of All the Russians, are powerless to stop Mr. Fractured ModularSystems
[11:32]  Lady Sakai: would that be before or after your vacation Jack? ;)
[11:32]  Jack Linden: Hehe Prok, I’m not a Tsar. I’m not responsible for everything.. just for the areas within my dept.
[11:33]  Prokofy Neva: but aren’t you head of the Department of Everything now?
[11:33]  Jack Linden: No vacations planned Lady. :)
[11:33]  Lady Sakai: awww .. Ill vacation with you jack LOL
[11:33]  Jack Linden: :) No. I look after the consumer product side, principally Land, Search, eCommerce etc
[11:33]  Driftwood Miles: How are the coneheads in the basement getting on with Super Sim developement Jack?
[11:34]  Master Kane: and what do people NEED to use to be able to see all that JACK?
[11:34]  Jack Linden: Ha Driftwood.. you went early this week. Actually we do have a small featurette coming, just to let estate owners assert the windlight settings for visitors
[11:34]  Prokofy Neva: oh I’m so glad you mentioned that product called SEARCH! It’s broken! Nobody can find MY LAND on it anymore Jack! that’s how I know. I has at least three, maybe five things broken with it! When will it be fixed Jack!
[11:35]  Lady Sakai: we cant even seach for the seach jack its so messed up
[11:35]  Master Kane: eCom is website is it not
[11:35]  Melody Regent: Speaking of ECommerce, how is that search project coming?
[11:35]  Driftwood Miles: Yes, I need to see the Doc about that, ok sounds interesting
[11:35]  Ciaran Laval: Search is getting worse Jack, who the hell is in charge of this?
[11:35]  Dennis Lagan: jack, thats funny… i just wanted to ask you about this promisse regarding server side windlight settings that was made years ago
[11:35]  Melody Regent: Yanno, the broken one?
[11:35]  Gregg Barrymore: jack…can we propose estate owners can ban by ip> we dont need to see the ip just be able to click on an avatar or its profile and choose ban ip
[11:35]  Prokofy Neva: How many premiums are there now, of these, how many are Linden Homes, and how many don’t use their 512?
[11:35]  Master Kane: ip changes to much gregg
[11:35]  Jack Linden: Prokofy.. I’m all too aware how unhappy search is, especially in Viewer 2. I have a team that is fixing it. We have pushed out the new search engine this week which addresses a lot of the speed issues
[11:36]  Gregg Barrymore: this would really kill griefing
[11:36]  Lady Sakai: they have a seach somewhere that is working Mel ???
[11:36]  Jack Linden: So you should be seeing quicker results now
[11:36]  Jack Linden: But we have to fix land listings, events and the UI
[11:36]  Master Kane: mac maybe
[11:36]  Master Kane: but then they would change nic cards too or modems or routers
[11:36]  Prokofy Neva: it’s not about quickness; it’s about awfulness, they can come faster, but are awful, for all the reasons I just sent you in a notecard
[11:36]  Ciaran Laval: Jack the new rollout is bloody awful in terms of the relevancy tweaks they’re playing with.
[11:36]  Equinox Pinion: you mean quicker wrong results :)
[11:36]  Melody Regent: No Lady, it is like Lochness, a myth
[11:36]  Driftwood Miles: Windlight Settings for visitors will be prety awesome!!
[11:36]  Dennis Lagan: what will that help gregg, with dynamic IP all over the internet. the hard ones, the real idiots, that diserve a ban, will know how to get around it
[11:37]  Prokofy Neva: and it’s a deliberate political decision by Liana or whoever that “PRoduct Director” is for Search to use Googe appliances just as they are out on the Internet.
[11:37]  Jack Linden: Yes prokofy, I know. As I said, we’re on it and will get it fixed
[11:37]  Gregg Barrymore: dennis it will slow them down
[11:37]  Uni Ninetails: region windlight weeee never gonna happen
[11:37]  Melody Regent: Yes Dennis, but will slow them down… a little
[11:37]  Dennis Lagan: hardly
[11:37]  Lady Sakai: ah .. but at least there are “pics” of Nessie ;)
[11:37]  Bug Hilltop: Seems to me LL rolls out new stuff without fixing the old..all the time
[11:37]  Driftwood Miles: LMAO Equi, just saw that!!!
[11:37]  Master Kane: did i see that eright… jack.. ‘fix ui’ in what v2? oh please do that.. that thing made me sick to my stomach
[11:37]  Prokofy Neva: So people will now have FASTER ways not to find my land now! Great! I should just send them to Linden Homes then.
[11:37]  Ciaran Laval: If you seriously think that sending customers only to the big players via search is going to grow your product, you’re in for a rude awakening
[11:37]  Charlene Trudeau: Jack, one serious problem with the search, esp when you access it via 2.0
[11:38]  Master Kane mumbles, like thats going to happen (UI revamped AGAIN in v2)
[11:38]  Charlene Trudeau: is that it defaults to the ‘all results’ and includes EXPIRED events
[11:38]  Jack Linden: I was referring to the search UI specifically. For example, the fact that you have to enter search terms before seeing the next level of search options
[11:38]  Charlene Trudeau: you can get pages and pages of ‘all results’ that are expired events that happen to have your search word in it
[11:38]  Prokofy Neva: OMGODZORS Ciaran Jack will be so hurt when I dump my….16 sims….I’m sure he will cry into his pillow every night. “TEH PAIN! WHY DID I DO TTHAT TO PROKOFKY!”
[11:38]  Charlene Trudeau: new people will just start scrolling through that without looking for further options to drill down, like to places or land sales
[11:38]  Melody Regent: I know we have a huge wishlist going of things we want Jack, but in all honesty, no holds bar – Search should be a 24/7 project and first on the hit list to get Fixed. It has already been allowed to go on to long
[11:38]  Zoha Boa: are you drunk Prok ?
[11:38]  Charlene Trudeau: and its horrible
[11:38]  Master Kane: well I hope Labs doesnt force v2 on us…. if so.. nice knowin yall
[11:38]  Prokofy Neva: No?
[11:38]  Gregg Barrymore: jack…can we propose estate owners can ban by ip> we dont need to see the ip just be able to click on an avatar or its profile and choose ban ip
[11:39]  Charlene Trudeau: this is normal prok behavior, Zoha, just ignore her
[11:39]  Melody Regent: Maybe steael a few people from, I dont know, GOOGLE. the have a working search
[11:39]  Bug Hilltop: V2 sucks! 8she calls out to the wild
[11:39]  Master Kane: no need for things like that
[11:39]  Prokofy Neva: I’m drinking tea at 2:30 pm in the afternoon while my RL work waits in the other window. You?
[11:39]  Equinox Pinion: he is always that way zoha :)
[11:39]  Master Kane: yes agreed bug
[11:39]  Jack Linden: Melody.. we are bending as much resource to fix search as we can. I completely agree that it’s critical
[11:40]  Jack Linden: Gregg, that’s an interesting idea.
[11:40]  Gregg Barrymore: ;~0
[11:40]  Lady Sakai: it was critical weeks ago jack .. its now gone sonic
[11:40]  Prokofy Neva: actually, it’s slavishly copying the Google dreck that got us this broken search. Honestly, Jack have you LOOKED? Everyone now makes ads like this: HAIR HAIR MORE HAIR BEST HAIR MY HAIR HAIR HAIR HAIR HERE
[11:40]  Melody Regent: Gregg, I would love that feature. I should add it as my next pet project *winks*
[11:40]  Gregg Barrymore: see i got greifed last week one guy multplie avaters but when i kept banning him and then tried to file ars his profuiles were gon
[11:40]  Master Kane: prok you missed a few , here… HIAR RAIH
[11:40]  Prokofy Neva: You dont want to hear it from me, hear it from Melody who is even in a SPECSHUL GROUP!
[11:41]  Gregg Barrymore: if i coulda banned \his ip it would stopped the attack
[11:41]  Lady Sakai: Its hurting those of us that is honest .. but then .. nothing new in that I guess
[11:41]  Equinox Pinion: gregg they are working on it again
[11:41]  Melody Regent: What special group? Good lord
[11:41]  Jack Linden: Lady, I would love to have fixed it by now but sadly it will take as long as it takes. As I said, we’re working as fast as we can on it
[11:41]  Master Kane: gregg.. even if you banned their IP all they have to do is spoof it or change nic cards
[11:41]  Equinox Pinion: i have a few speical groups prok..so what
[11:41]  Gregg Barrymore: yes kane but it takes them more work
[11:41]  Master Kane: true
[11:41]  Lady Sakai: Buy extra coffee for the team Jack .. you should be able to afford that yes ??
[11:41]  Melody Regent: Yes Master, but it does slow them down
[11:41]  Melody Regent: and makes them work harder
[11:42]  Melody Regent: see
[11:42]  Melody Regent: what Gregg says
[11:42]  Melody Regent: lol
[11:42]  Jack Linden: Lady, depends on the coffee. Those san franciscans have some seriously good coffee
[11:42]  Jack Linden: easier in the UK :)
[11:42]  Lady Sakai: bleh use Ms secret stash then ;)
[11:42]  Driftwood Miles: Damn woman is a biogot
[11:42]  Driftwood Miles: oops :O
[11:42]  Master Kane: now you all see why i said that long ago.. Lbas needs to ban by IP.. then i got from others what I just been saying.. sighs
[11:42]  Alexxa Despres: LOL , Drift
[11:43]  Dennis Lagan: what if the IP is assigned to an other machine over time? then it can’t access either.
[11:43]  Bug Hilltop: Midwest seems to only have Folgers…*grumbles*
[11:43]  Lady Sakai: yes Drift but I just know you loves me anyways so stop moaning :p
[11:43]  Melody Regent: Lady, lets get a “coffee fund” together
[11:43]  Jack Linden: Good point Dennis. IPs are a moving target
[11:43]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Lady :*
[11:43]  Melody Regent: if we buy them stronger coffee, LL can pay them more to fix it!
[11:43]  Lady Sakai: yea …. or go raid Ms office Mel LOL
[11:43]  Techwolf Lupindo: That why temp IP ban are the most effective. Perm IP ban only hurts the legit user.
[11:44]  Dennis Lagan: maybe ban by hardware hash is better
[11:44]  Master Kane: thats when you only set it to like 10,20,30 days as most IP refresh after 3 days if the modem has been unplugged
[11:44]  Gregg Barrymore: ips may be dynamic but really whats the odds someone i ip bans ip goes to someoneelse who wants to enter my lands?
[11:44]  Melody Regent: iF THEY ARE PRIVATE BANS FROM OUR SIMS, THEN ITS NOT THAT BIG A DEAL, NOT LIKE IT IS sl DOING IT
[11:44]  Melody Regent: (caps, sorry)
[11:44]  Gregg Barrymore: a million to one?
[11:44]  Michi Lumin: It still would increase the level of difficulty.
[11:44]  Driftwood Miles: why not just send them to their rooms?
[11:44]  Michi Lumin: that being, yes, people CAN defeat IP bans, but it still decreases the “easy button” level. So I think it should still be looked at.
[11:45]  Alexxa Despres: I think we should all get tasers ;-P
[11:45]  Dennis Lagan: gregg, it will be fine, till it happens to you lol
[11:45]  Lady Sakai: pf that would be possible to IP ban from estates only that would be a good idea
[11:45]  Master Kane: againh.. why doesnt Labs ban by IP then? oh wait… (all the above)
[11:45]  Michi Lumin: They do.
[11:45]  Michi Lumin: Depending on circumstances.
[11:45]  Master Kane: yes
[11:45]  Driftwood Miles: thats trademark infringement Alexxa you need a Tayzah!
[11:45]  Very Lucky: LandMark giver at Very Lucky (Very Lucky- Homestead – L$7200 includes first week tier) has just been used by Cody Gaelyth !
[11:46]  Alexxa Despres: :-P funny
[11:46]  Uni Ninetails: Feel like im in a friggin Benny Hil sketch
[11:46]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Uni
[11:46]  Alexxa Despres: Or worse Uni!
[11:46]  Master Kane: whos on first
[11:46]  Jack Linden: hehe Uni
[11:46]  Blu Jupiter: omg don’t give alexxa a tazah
[11:46]  Lady Sakai hands Uni a tissue for her tears
[11:46]  Driftwood Miles: LOL
[11:46]  Uni Ninetails wipes and sniffs “thankies
[11:46]  Prokofy Neva: OK, well, I’m ending my boycott of the Lindens and refriending Jack, at least he’s trying, but tbh, he doesn’t really want us here trying to rent our land. I get all that. It’s sad. OK, back to my day job. I fyou need me to spout anything, just IM.
[11:46]  Master Kane: blow uni BLOW not sniff
[11:47]  Jack Linden: So, we have 15 mins left.. does anyone have a different topic we can discuss?
[11:47]  TributeTim Kwak is Online
[11:47]  Gregg Barrymore: ok jack on another subject is the sim transfer team catching up with sim transfers?
[11:47]  Melody Regent: and set a precident?
[11:47]  Judge Firecaster is Offline
[11:47]  Uni Ninetails: lol whoops
[11:47]  Master Kane: lol
[11:47]  Jack Linden: Gregg, good Q.. and yes they are. I think most are done now but the team is on it
[11:47]  Lady Sakai: they were at 5-10 work days yesterday gregg
[11:47]  Joyus Sohl: I heard one say 11
[11:47]  Lady Sakai: (said so on the phone)
[11:47]  Gregg Barrymore: thanks
[11:48]  Master Kane: I seen one lastnight for 250 USD… i was like.. MINE… but then I rememebered there is a wait time
[11:48]  Chaley May: Mega Prims.. you should allow people to build with megaprims on personal estates
[11:48]  Prokofy Neva: Oh, and P.S. Jack, I wish I could thank you for banning the Woodburies after griefing me for 3 years, but too little, too late, and apparently you banned them because Emerald had some beef with them. Thugs’ life!
[11:48]  Master Kane: LOL PROK… I slept good that night
[11:48]  Charlene Trudeau: thug’s life was evil
[11:48]  Charlene Trudeau: if that’s what it took, glad its done
[11:48]  Equinox Pinion: reclaiming sims from your side when the tier is not paid…there is an estate still online after 3 months and people are living there for free….how long does it take till you reclaim?
[11:48]  Master Kane: We need to have a party for woodies

[11:48]  Master Kane: lol\[11:48]  Chaley May: estates have always been good at managing parcel encroachment.. its not even an issue but they still forced a limit which only really affects mainland

[11:49]  Driftwood Miles: Really Equi…wow
[11:49]  Master Kane: well since they are (mostly) gone now
[11:49]  Equinox Pinion: yep…around 100 sims drift
[11:49]  Jack Linden: Prokofy, I’m not sure what you’re referring to exactly but when we take action to ban someone it’s because of our own terms of service not generally external factors
[11:49]  Driftwood Miles: omg!!
[11:49]  Master Kane: hmm yeah jack.. thats correct.. and took this long to do it too.. shall we say SLPE
[11:50]  Lady Sakai flutters her eyeslashes at jack ” Btw jack, given the note I gave you any more thought by chance ? ”
[11:50]  Gregg Barrymore: does anyone know iof theior is auctions on abandoned private estates or do they just go bye bye
[11:50]  Jack Linden: Equinox.. it depends. Sometimes the estate has an account balance and is still paying, sometimes we work with estates to handle difficult payment situations to protect the renters.. there are many scenarios. We work really hard to minimise the disruption
[11:50]  Charlene Trudeau: they get resold as new, empty sims, I think, Gregg
[11:51]  Michi Lumin: Private estates are images on ‘revolving’ servers; there’s no reason to auction an abandoned private estate. The server resource just gets reallocated.
[11:51]  Jack Linden: Gregg, sometimes we have offered them back to other estates, or we recycle them, or sometimes they simply come down
[11:51]  Gregg Barrymore: jack could be something to consider
[11:51]  Uni Ninetails: Jack may i ask a somewhat simple question: why does it cost so damn much to rename or move a region?
[11:51]  Equinox Pinion: i nver got such an other….do you offer them with a lower price than in the landstore
[11:52]  Charlene Trudeau: to limit the ‘whim’ factor
[11:52]  Master Kane: good Q uni
[11:52]  Jack Linden: Michi, they are often full of renters so have value to those residents and to a new estate owner as they are already full
[11:52]  Uni Ninetails: time limits cost nothing.
[11:52]  Master Kane: they need thier lunch money uni lol
[11:52]  Michi Lumin: hm. That’s a good point, had no idea that was considered. Good to know it is.
[11:52]  Gregg Barrymore: lol uni thats the question of all tim
[11:52]  Jack Linden: Uni, those service fees are to cover our costs in doing the work, for the most part.
[11:52]  Master Kane: what, throwing a switch
[11:52]  Uni Ninetails: what for altering a line in a config file and typing RESTART?
[11:52]  Jack Linden: Transfers can be kinda ganrly sometimes
[11:52]  Jack Linden: *gnarly
[11:52]  Chaley May: work which probably takes at least 3 minutes to do ?
[11:52]  Uni Ninetails: pfffffffttt
[11:52]  Gregg Barrymore: comone jack 100 usd for 10 mins work> coneirges dont get the high of pay
[11:53]  Melody Regent: 150 to move a sim Uni, and usually done in 15-30 minutes
[11:53]  Uni Ninetails: Jack, suggestion how about offering extended delay movement and renames for LESS
[11:53]  Master Kane: see jack.. some of us are not fooled that easy :D :P
[11:53]  Gregg Barrymore: transfer i understand but a move

[11:53]  Michi Lumin: heh. 10 mins for any IT work on a server structure like that is probably a bit optimistic and presumptuous :P
[11:53]  Equinox Pinion: transfer is more work and is 100 usd…move is 150 usd
[11:53]  Charlene Trudeau: and transfer costs LESS than a move
[11:54]  Charlene Trudeau: it used to cost the same to move
[11:54]  Alyssa Fizzle: Whats the point of moving a sim in the first place?
[11:54]  Gregg Barrymore: shhh theyll raise tanrsfer prices
[11:54]  Jack Linden: Sure sometimes it’s straightforward, and sometimes not. Remember I used to do them so I know what I’m talking about hehe. Gridmoves, when you have permissions at both ends, people changing their minds, renames, naming conflicts, etc.. it can be very time consuming
[11:54]  Charlene Trudeau: and included the name change
[11:54]  Master Kane: thats job secuirty i do believe… for the L’s… ya know
[11:54]  Lady Sakai: would it be an idea to automate renaming and moving etc on the website for a measely fee .. like say 5-10 bucks ?
[11:54]  Uni Ninetails: my point, i want t rename a region make it 10 quid if i wait a month
[11:54]  Michi Lumin: and i think the ‘whim factor’ is pretty important too… otherwise… it’d take up a helluva lot of time.
[11:54]  Master Kane: explaing the process to us jack.. so we would know more please
[11:54]  Uni Ninetails: aye explain!
[11:54]  Jack Linden: We would love to automate it Lady, it’s been on the list for along time. It’s just that other work such as fixing key services has come above it
[11:54]  Gregg Barrymore: ::puts his boots on::
[11:54]  Melody Regent: lol, He has 6 minutes, he could explain it twice
[11:55]  Melody Regent: :)
[11:55]  Master Kane: see this si what we REALLY want… how do things work
[11:55]  Master Kane: :P
[11:55]  Master Kane: or how things are done
[11:55]  Master Kane: 5 minutes jack… is his keybord smoking yet?
[11:55]  Master Kane: i cant tell
[11:55]  Melody Regent: Fun this conversation, I have a client in my box deciding to no longer rent at all, becuase the cost to move her sims together will be $150usd
[11:56]  Lady Sakai makes anote that Jack ignored her earlier question
[11:56]  Chaley May: Jack.. have you ever considered any improvements that will actually save us money and not LL?
[11:56]  Melody Regent: I stopped keeping that list a long time ago Lady
[11:56]  Melody Regent: lol
[11:56]  Jack Linden: Transfers as another example.. seller has to submit details, we check them, then buyer has to agree, we have to arrange the money, often they disagree on some aspect so we go back and forth, then sometimes they want it ona set date, or the want an estate split apart to take the new one, and so on. And the transferred region has to be moved, renamed, sometimes wiped.
[11:56]  Master Kane prepairs for a book
[11:56]  Uni Ninetails: yeah like oh i dunno cramming 8 regions onto server. and charging us less… oh wait.
[11:56]  Lady Sakai: :p Mel lol
[11:57]  Equinox Pinion: problem is….if you have aclient that wants 2 sims together…and than they leave…we have to invest 150 usd again to be able to sell them again
[11:57]  Jack Linden: So whilst sometimes they are super quick, sometimes they are super slow. The fees are partly a reflection of that
[11:57]  Melody Regent: Jack, transferd, involving TWO people, including a rename, a move and moving money across several accounrs is $100usd
[11:57]  Lady Sakai: Dont be silly Charley lol
[11:57]  Master Kane: ok now renames?
[11:57]  Melody Regent: A simple move, no name change, no need to verify or antyhing $150usd
[11:57]  Gregg Barrymore: so i pay 150 to move a sim in the easiest way just move it cause someone else might have a difficult one?
[11:57]  Melody Regent: less work 50% more cost
[11:58]  Master Kane: i know the prices.. want to know what it takes to do it
[11:58]  Charlene Trudeau: and I’ve heard rumour no longer includes the option to rename at the same time
[11:58]  Gregg Barrymore: thats like saying your hamburger is 5 dollars a piund cause it coulda been staek
[11:58]  Jack Linden: Btw, I’m told my Concierge that they are 7-8 business days out on the pending transfers
[11:58]  Charlene Trudeau: we understand the $100 for a transfer
[11:58]  Charlene Trudeau: it seems fair
[11:58]  Charlene Trudeau: but the move price makes NO sense
[11:58]  Lady Sakai: not the renaming
[11:58]  Charlene Trudeau: it did when it was $100 and included name change as an optional part of it
[11:58]  Lady Sakai: nor*
[11:58]  Chaley May: how many pendint rtransfers is that and how much is that worth in fees?
[11:59]  Chaley May: seems you could easily employ more people fopr transfers
[11:59]  Master Kane: no it doesnt charlene.. since its 100 for a tranfer in the 1st place and then so much if you wanted it moved again.. seems they would implment a 3moves in one yer thing for free
[11:59]  Jack Linden: I don’t have that info to hand Chaley.
[11:59]  Uni Ninetails: think LL are stingy buggers. *shrugs
[11:59]  Judge Firecaster is Online
[11:59]  Melody Regent: shoot, you can even trasnfer 3 HS for $100us
[11:59]  Master Kane: hire me (free of course) and Ill do them ::)
[11:59]  Melody Regent: or move 3 hs for $450us
[12:00]  Melody Regent: interesting
[12:00]  Jack Linden: hehe thanks Master
[12:00]  Charlene Trudeau: I had no idea people moved their regions so much, being totally continental as I am
[12:00]  Master Kane: :D
[12:00]  Master Kane: teach me.. hire me Ill do them
[12:00]  Charlene Trudeau: they can’t hire lindens in my state
[12:00]  Bug Hilltop: Good earthquake would move ‘em all
[12:00]  Charlene Trudeau: sigh
[12:00]  Master Kane: no charge.. cant beat that canya?!
[12:00]  Master Kane: lol bug
[12:00]  Gregg Barrymore: for me a reduced moving renaming fee would make growth much easier its hard to add new sims and stuff and keep things fluid with these high costs
[12:00]  Jack Linden: :) okays, I have to zip to my next gig. Thanks all for taking part!
[12:00]  Melody Regent: But, as jack has said to us before, if we want to move an estae to expand, we can submit a ticket and they will review for free, specially if it is indeed to expand. So move 10 at once and grow!!!!! Less money!
[12:01]  Charlene Trudeau: lol, I think california law would have something to say about that, Kane :)
[12:01]  Michi Lumin: later jack.
[12:01]  Gregg Barrymore: thanks for your time jack
[12:01]  Uni Ninetails: ty Jack, have a good one
[12:01]  Lady Sakai: on a more fun note to end jack .. when is the nest Concierge PARTY ??????
[12:01]  Jack Linden: Next week I’ll be over in sunny SF again
[12:01]  Melody Regent: “)
[12:01]  Equinox Pinion: take care jack!
[12:01]  Master Kane: you playing a the “Ya all come down” again? hehe
[12:01]  Ardy Lay: Bye Jack
[12:01]  Jack Linden: So across the pond
[12:01]  Uni Ninetails: Jack not if the ash cloud has its say :P
[12:03]  Jack Linden is Offline

Jack Linden Office hours – April 22, 2010

April 22nd, 2010

[11:02]  Jack Linden has entered the sim.

[11:02]  Uni Ninetails: was a garage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAfRzbC3nLc

[11:03]  Alexxa Despres: hi Jack ;)

[11:03]  Jack Linden: hey folks

[11:03]  Zoha Boa: hi everyone

[11:03]  Qie Niangao: greetings, Jack

[11:03]  Skills Hak: hi there

[11:03]  Equinox Pinion: hi jack

[11:03]  Jack Linden: just waiting for things to rez

[11:03]  Uni Ninetails: hey Jack

[11:03]  Lady Sakai: ooo THAT Brum lmao

[11:03]  Ardy Lay: Hi Jack

[11:03]  Bronson Blackadder: meow

[11:03]  Lady Sakai: hey jack :)

[11:03]  Uni Ninetails: <3 Brum

[11:03]  Driftwood Miles: Hi Zoha, hi Jack

[11:03]  Lady Sakai: hi hi

[11:04]  Equinox Pinion: hi zoha!

[11:04]  Zoha Boa: =-))

[11:04]  Lady Sakai greets Zoha, Skills and Moon

[11:04]  Moon Corrigible: Hey there!

[11:04]  Uni Ninetails: Course price of petrol nowaday Brum cant explore as far as he used to…. and there carbon emissions on classic cars… *sighs

[11:04]  Jack Linden: okays, most of you have appeared. :) how is everyone this week?

[11:04]  Lady Sakai: awww … ;)

[11:04]  Moon Corrigible: /ao off

[11:04]  Equinox Pinion: very well

[11:04]  Equinox Pinion: but

[11:05]  Equinox Pinion: we still have no forum!

[11:05]  Lady Sakai: today im all giddy … got a new screen, most have already heard of it LOL

[11:05]  Michi Lumin: Mostly ok except for a bug here and there yes. :)

[11:05]  Alexxa Despres: Fine, Jack… ty…and yourself?

[11:05]  Equinox Pinion: we can cancel this meeting and send you back to do it as it doenst take more than one hour to do so :P

[11:05]  Jack Linden: I know! Am working on it Equinox. We’re trying to make the blogs more focussed on news/info – so it may be that a land forum will be created elsewhere

[11:06]  Lady Sakai: hehe Equinox ;)

[11:06]  Jack Linden: Discussing it at the moment

[11:06]  Equinox Pinion: ok…will let you go this week….

[11:06]  DJ Flamand: it may be, discussed at the moment….

[11:06]  Zoha Boa: somewhere else ???? haven’t you merged everything to a central place…thos blogs….and now decentralise again ?.

[11:06]  Jack Linden: Equinox, if we added categories of land forums to the xstreet side, would that suffice?

[11:06]  Driftwood Miles: lol

[11:07]  Ciaran Laval: In the commerce section? As long as it’s not that god awful feed then it would have potential

[11:07]  Chaley May: why not just make the forum for people to use then fit it into your plans when you finished discussing

[11:07]  Chaley May: i mean sooner or later you will have a forum so why not sooner

[11:07]  Equinox Pinion: well…xstreet has already land postings

[11:07]  Equinox Pinion: which are hidden by you!!

[11:07]  Qie Niangao: Yeah, the Commerce feed they could just as well shut down for everything… it’s “write-only memory” anyway.

[11:08]  Lady Sakai: and a good job of it too

[11:08]  DJ Flamand: so right Equinox ;)

[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: :)

[11:08]  Jack Linden: the land postings are hidden?

[11:08]  Alexxa Despres: personally…I like the idea of a different avenue….rather than on XStreet

[11:08]  Jack Linden: what do you mean?

[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: yes!!

[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: they are hidden

[11:08]  Ciaran Laval: Nothing shows in the feed, well it didn’t yesterday

[11:08]  Michi Lumin: wait

[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: you dont find them on the webstite under buy land

[11:08]  Michi Lumin: thats a different problem.

[11:08]  Michi Lumin: A lot of people’s feeds are broken.

[11:08]  Lady Sakai: if it updates it a miracle

[11:08]  Equinox Pinion: and when you are on xstreet..they dont so at all

[11:09]  Michi Lumin: Because of the blog software update yesterday.

[11:09]  Chaley May: yeah when you use xstreet they will think of ways to get you to pay more for selling the land :)

[11:09]  Equinox Pinion: before you took xstreet over..there was a lnk on every page for land listings

[11:09]  Michi Lumin: Blue and others are aware of that problem … Accounts were duplicated.

[11:09]  Michi Lumin: If you do a search for yourself on the blogs/forums, and your profile comes up twice — your’e affected. and you wont see any feeds.

[11:09]  Lady Sakai: oh goody .. thanks Michi I wasnt aware

[11:10]  Michi Lumin: so, just my 2c, that may be what you’re seeing.

[11:10]  Melody Regent: I am going to post somethign close to this, so be prepared for text to flood the screan, it is very relevant to this topic IMHO

[11:10]  Melody Regent: Jack, I am going to get right down to what I want to talk about and bypass the normal fur petting that goes on before hand.

This has some length to it, so stay with me. Last night, a midrange estate came to me and asked me to make them an offer on the entire estate. This morning, I had another offer to take over about 22 homesteads from a different Estate.

[11:10]  Melody Regent: While I know LL doesn’t really care about this, because if I take them over, you will not ‘loose’ any money, I am still paying you tier, I did want to find out what was up.

Besides slow sales over all, one of the reasons they are leaving is that they are tired of not having a way to ADVERTISE (Yeah, you know that think we get smoke up our a$$ about from the Labs) the sims to get customers in. They are soooooo right and this is something I have been asking you for, for many weeks now. To no avail, BTW.

[11:10]  Melody Regent: Well, this morning I decided I would do an experiment with the sims I have open. I posted the available land to the COMMERCE forums. The meaning to me is: “exchange of goods and services” Well I am offering one or the other, depending on how you look at it.

So here I have posted to the COMMERCE forums land for sale. In SL land for sale is a SERVICE in my book. But it did not take long for me to get this email ” You have received this email because the content you posted below has been rejected by our moderators.” Well, it seems, that selling land is not a goods or service like the definition would indicate.

[11:10]  Equinox Pinion: omg mel lol

[11:10]  Melody Regent: So here I am faced with helping myself grow, helping out other estates and helping out the LABS by spending THOUSANDS of USD to buy sims and I have NO WAY to advertise them because you have all taken down every way we used to move land

[11:10]  Michi Lumin: yowza

[11:10]  Melody Regent: So let me ask you Jack, would you want to expand and grow in an environment where the people that provide the service slap you down for trying to earn the money needed to pay for that service?

[11:10]  Melody Regent pauses for reading to take place

[11:10]  DJ Flamand: wow :) flooded

[11:10]  Ciaran Laval: The real estate feed is a pile of pants when it does work anyway, so it’s no big loss

[11:10]  Equinox Pinion: please stop writing for 5 min till i read mels post lol

[11:12]  Lady Sakai: now I could say something really mean .. but I dont think Ill do that .. Jack ;)

[11:12]  Jack Linden: Ugh Mel, that doesn’t sound fun. I’d need to look into that.

[11:12]  Qie Niangao: Well, Mel, you’re not supposed to say “rent my fucking sims”

[11:12]  Equinox Pinion: LOL!!!!

[11:12]  Melody Regent: JAck? LOOK INTO IT!!!!!??????

[11:12]  Melody Regent: LOOK INTO IT?

[11:12]  DJ Flamand: I guess you were not in the “MOTD test” for some estate owners last year Melody? ;)

[11:12]  Melody Regent: SERIOUSLY?

[11:12]  Ciaran Laval: Agreed melody, it was a very short sighted move to do away with the commerce forum and it has made advertising land more difficult, added to that the way viewer 2.0 land sales work, which estate owners also used and it’s not a good situation

[11:12]  Melody Regent: what damn meetings have YOU been going to for the last feqw months?

[11:12]  Lady Sakai: oh boy jack now you got Mel going … *looks scared*

[11:13]  Melody Regent: What the hell do you think we have been talking about

[11:13]  Jack Linden: We’ve a team now assigned to look at the advertising thing specifically. I’m pretty hopeful that we’ll be able to provide those kinds of promotion opportunities

[11:13]  Melody Regent: Why do I sit in these meetings telling you this over and over and over and you say you neeed to LOOK INTO IT?

[11:13]  Equinox Pinion: jack…i hear land sales are very slow these days….so the non advertising ability already affects small estates

[11:13]  Melody Regent: Jesus Effing H Christ Jack

[11:13]  Chaley May: it seems like the commerce forum is a pklatform almost entirely dedicated to advertising Xstreet and then telling eveyone else they cant advertise

[11:13]  Lady Sakai: what Equinox said .. and i completly agree jack

[11:14]  Chaley May: commerce forum should be renamed to xstreet forum :)

[11:14]  Talarus Luan: Heh.. should have been here during the adfarm days. “look into it” is a familiar mantra. :D

[11:14]  Lady Sakai: its killing the small Estates completely

[11:14]  Melody Regent: Let me hand you more smoke to blow up my ass

[11:14]  Jack Linden: Mel, calm please. As I said, I’ve been talking to the blog team, and we will find the right place to push land listings that makes sense. Putting them on the current blogs, if they are soon to change/reorg, wouldn’t make sense. We need a proper home for that stuff that we can then direct people to

[11:14]  Ciaran Laval: haha Chaley, it is somewhat amusing when someone complains about advertising there with their shiny new image banner taking up more space than their post.

[11:14]  Melody Regent: I am sorry Jack, we have been talking about this for AGES

[11:14]  Melody Regent: Commerce? Is that not a place?

[11:14]  Jack Linden: This is one of many things on our plate right now; and I understand it’s important to you. We will get there.

[11:15]  Lady Sakai: meanwhile tell them NOT to touch the posts .. since you havent figured out where we can post them

[11:15]  Zoha Boa: jack, you will get there … in what YEAR ???

[11:15]  Qie Niangao: Lady, *that* sounds fair, and easy and quick

[11:15]  Equinox Pinion: Jack..you have not alot of time….it is hurting the small ones already!

[11:15]  Melody Regent: So I will do this, How about I keep my $17,000usd I was considering inveting in these estate going under and YOU can take the hit

[11:15]  Chaley May: only problem is you are not likely to get there before the policy change comes into effedct

[11:15]  Ciaran Laval: Melody I have noticed that stores for rent seem to be allowed in Services, but not land.

[11:15]  Melody Regent: I dont rent pissy little sotres

[11:15]  Melody Regent: I rent tens of thousands worth of dollars… US DOLLARS a month

[11:16]  Melody Regent: that is what I want to advertise

[11:16]  Melody Regent: not tiny little stores

[11:16]  Jack Linden: Zoha, we will get there as soon as we can. As I’ve said before, we don;t have infinite resource and there are many things we’re pushing hard on all the time. I’ve taken the action to fix this, and i will make sure we do.

[11:16]  Melody Regent: We have been patient for months Jack while you all piddle around and work on this

[11:16]  Ciaran Laval: It was an observation

[11:16]  Jack Linden: If I could give you a time and date, I would. Sadly, I can’t. But I totally agree that it’s important.

[11:17]  Melody Regent: So in the mean time, why not let us use what you have managed to get us

[11:17]  Melody Regent: COMMERCE

[11:17]  Qie Niangao: would it be such a problem to relax moderation of the commerce forum, till then?

[11:17]  Melody Regent: yanno? so we can sell goods and serivces?

[11:17]  Lady Sakai: well sorry jack but maybe you guys shouldnt spread your self so thin *cough* Linf

[11:17]  Lady Sakai: Linden Homes * cough*

[11:17]  Jack Linden: Mel, this is the first I’d heard of that level of moderation. Which is why i said i would need to look into it.

[11:17]  Zoha Boa: you have ALLLLLLLLL the time to promote your linden homes …

[11:17]  Melody Regent: I posted $800usd worth of product today and it was denied

[11:18]  Jack Linden: Lady, Linden Homes is a totally different team.

[11:18]  Melody Regent: LOL< jack? Before the mod took it down, everyone that posted said I would be upset when it was removed

[11:18]  Melody Regent: this is not a first

[11:18]  Melody Regent: this is the NORM

[11:18]  Lady Sakai: still … if they werent there .. you could take resources from that into something worht while for you residents .. tes ?

[11:18]  Equinox Pinion: but they report to you too jack…take one person out of that team and assignthem for 2 days on OUR problem

[11:18]  Talarus Luan: You’re not over Linden Homes?

[11:18]  Melody Regent: How about I post my good ans services again, right now

[11:18]  DJ Flamand: I tried to react to your post Melody but when done typing it was gone :)

[11:18]  Melody Regent: and you know what, before this meeting is over

[11:18]  Melody Regent: not only will it be GONE

[11:18]  Melody Regent: but I owuld bet money I get a nice 1 hour ban

[11:19]  Melody Regent: brb while I post my good ans service

[11:19]  DJ Flamand: no discussiontime needed there ;)

[11:19]  Qie Niangao: maybe if Jack were ready to post to Mel’s thread: “Moderators, keep your grubby paws off this thread”

[11:19]  Ciaran Laval: Jack why do you think we’ve been asking for the forum to come back? If we could have posted land listings in services people would have pointed us there.

[11:20]  Jack Linden: Equinox, the folks we have are working, full stop, on a wide range of important projects. It’s not as simple as just choosing to stop a major piece of work for this. If it were that easy we’d have done it. And as i said, we will do it as soon as we can.

[11:20]  Sonof Marvin is Offline

[11:20]  Lady Sakai: seriously Im scared of posting anything regarding land etc on the forum now .. it will rain down yelling ppl in other posts

[11:21]  Melody Regent: Jack, just so you know the LABS can post about Linden Homes on commerce forums

[11:21]  Melody Regent: http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/commerce/blog/2010/03/05/linden-homes-search-tags-launch-on-xstreet

[11:21]  Zoha Boa: Jack, ASAP is not quick enough . Search and poromotion should be HTE ONLY priority…LL has screwed it, so FIX it

[11:21]  Melody Regent: But hey, lets not help the private estate owners do it

[11:21]  Equinox Pinion: if i would have that problem at my rl job..i would have my team working on the weekend and tell them how important it is

[11:21]  Melody Regent: Mine is REPOSTED, lets see how fast it gets removed

[11:21]  Equinox Pinion: and even i would be in on the weekend to help

[11:21]  Melody Regent: If I disappear you will know I was banned

[11:22]  Talarus Luan: or your client crashed. :P

[11:22]  DJ Flamand: hm maybe we should all post there :)

[11:22]  DJ Flamand: make a point

[11:22]  Melody Regent: I have my client on minimum everything no crashing

[11:22]  Equinox Pinion: it is by now a big problem…all hte points i wrote you in the email are starting to hurt little estates by now..they cannot keep up with it for long

[11:22]  Talarus Luan: or your dog digs up/chews through your internet cable. :P

[11:22]  Alliez Mysterio is Online

[11:23]  Lady Sakai: its smelling like LL wants the land market for themself jack … that cant be .. right ?

[11:23]  Jack Linden: Equinox, you don’t need to convince me. I’m already agreeing on it being important.

[11:23]  Melody Regent: http://blogs.secondlife.com/thread/19256

[11:23]  Equinox Pinion: ok thanks

[11:23]  Melody Regent: lets see what happens now

[11:23]  DJ Flamand: No Lady, probably the three estate owners that were in the “MOTD test” last year

[11:23]  Talarus Luan: To be honest, there are some who think that is exactly what has been happening over the last couple of years, Lady.

[11:23]  Jack Linden: Lady, not at all. Why would we want to do that? It would make no commercial sense at all.

[11:24]  Melody Regent: You are right Jack, it doesnt

[11:24]  Melody Regent: and yet how do we ADVERTISE?

[11:24]  Uni Ninetails: M planning a money grab?? holy shit that cant be… *sarcasm mode is deffo on.

[11:24]  Lady Sakai: I agree jack .. Im just calling what Ive seen the last three years … the Linden Homes was just another item on that list

[11:24]  Equinox Pinion: the problem is jack..we cannot explain your acting otherwise

[11:24]  Talarus Luan: Mainland value being driven into the dirt, Themed mainland competing with themed estates, Linden Homes.

[11:24]  Melody Regent: \Jack, should I tell these people that want me to buy the estate no, I cant, because LL wont let me advertise

[11:24]  Melody Regent: 20 homesteads jack

[11:24]  Melody Regent: that is $20,000usd a month

[11:24]  Melody Regent: guess that doesnt mean alot to you

[11:25]  Melody Regent: 2000*

[11:25]  Talarus Luan: Virtual estate resales being squeezed out of the market.

[11:25]  Chaley May: it makes commercial sense for LL to make people think they can own and rent land and make profit so they end up paying more out of their own pocket than they earn

[11:25]  Driftwood Miles: Jack, how difficult would it be, honestly, for , just now, adding 1 section in the commerce forums that says Estate Land for Sale…that would at least take some of the heat off?

[11:25]  Jack Linden: Mel, the fact that you’ve got compelling reasons to want it doesn’t changed the fact that a) i’m agreeing with you and b) we will do it as soon as we can.

[11:25]  Melody Regent: Driftwood, it isnt

[11:25]  Melody Regent: I have a forum

[11:26]  Melody Regent: I am not tecj savy and I can go add a catargory in 10 minutes

[11:26]  Driftwood Miles: it is important not just to estates, BUT the residents en masse

[11:26]  Ciaran Laval: It doesn’t take long to add a forum section, they have already told us this

[11:26]  Melody Regent: but that is 10 minutes more than the Labs cares to spend on us

[11:26]  Lady Sakai: Jack, take one person of the LHome project and ask them to do it today

[11:26]  Talarus Luan: Yeah, well, you’re not running a pile of poo called Jive Clearspace, either. <.<

[11:26]  Uni Ninetails: lol Tal ouch

[11:26]  Melody Regent: Months Jack MONTHS.

[11:27]  Melody Regent: It does not take months, I dont care what you think you have to say about it

[11:27]  Melody Regent: add a catagory

[11:27]  Melody Regent: fix somethign better later

[11:27]  Ciaran Laval: Tal when we were discussing the changes they told us it that it was easy to add a new section

[11:27]  Ciaran Laval: even with clearspace

[11:27]  Talarus Luan: Jack, would it be a fair question to ask what project management methods and techniques are used by you and LL to prioritize and manage projects?

[11:27]  Lady Sakai: Ciaran, maybe they cant find the button?

[11:28]  Jack Linden: I think i agreed 2 weeks ago to take an action to fix it. And I will Mel. The eComm side has only recently become part of my responsibilties

[11:28]  Ciaran Laval: lol Lady!

[11:28]  Lady Sakai: tell them to shape up or ship out .. thats easy .. your welcome to copy paste from me ;)

[11:28]  Jack Linden: Tal, we have a mix. A lot of it is agile methods, scrum etc. But not all projects lend themselves to that

[11:29]  Ciaran Laval: ????

[11:29]  Driftwood Miles: you need a new scrum half Jack :P

[11:29]  Jack Linden: hehe Drift

[11:29]  Talarus Luan: You use Agile/Scrum for Management/Prioritization? O.o

[11:30]  xstorm Radek: so Jack can you tell me why Linden Lab will not do away with Homesteads ?

[11:30]  Jack Linden: No, but we use backlogs and some components of agile to handle lower level prioritisation. From a PM perspective we have a PM group and they manage the projects

[11:30]  Driftwood Miles: looks at something winging left field

[11:30]  Jack Linden: It depends on the level of the work. Some projects are small, some are huge.

[11:30]  Jack Linden: xstorm, why would we do away with them?

[11:30]  Melody Regent: Is adding a catagor small or huge. Yanno, just a land catagory?

[11:31]  Talarus Luan: OK, well, the problem here is high-level prioritization. IE, which projects to prioritize resources towards over others.

[11:31]  Equinox Pinion: xstorm..did you forget to take your pills again :)

[11:31]  Driftwood Miles: lol

[11:31]  Qie Niangao: psst, Jack, the answer is “profit”

[11:31]  Alexxa Despres: lol

[11:31]  Driftwood Miles: the blue one

[11:31]  Melody Regent: What temp agency do you use. I will sign up and let me come over, add them, then walk away

[11:31]  Melody Regent: $1 a day

[11:31]  Melody Regent: I can do it in half a day but I want paid for the full day

[11:31]  xstorm Radek: First people do not get that many prims to use with them and people tend to use them the wrong way

[11:32]  Driftwood Miles: but they are very popular X

[11:32]  Talarus Luan: I think you mean OpenSpaces.. Homesteads have 3750 prims, and have no real restrictions on use.

[11:32]  Lady Sakai: very popular . mainly due to the level of privacy

[11:32]  Chaley May: they make twice the profit from homesteads.. they want to keep them :)

[11:32]  Melody Regent: Jack, what are your priorities when it comes to private Estates?

[11:32]  Ciaran Laval: Homesteads were designed to be used the way most people were using Openspaces

[11:32]  Talarus Luan: ..that was the whole point of introducing them.

[11:33]  xstorm Radek: if this was some fly by night company one the web doing this i say its a con job

[11:33]  Equinox Pinion: xstrom…people love homesteads! if linden would finlay wake up and keep them at 95 usd they would growth again by 20% instead of no growth

[11:33]  Zoha Boa thinks Jack has to look into it melody

[11:33]  Melody Regent: Sorry, should I get back to you in a few months?

[11:33]  xstorm Radek: to own a homestead you must first own 1 full mainland sim

[11:33]  DJ Flamand: They were growing before the first raise Equinox

[11:34]  Jack Linden: Mel, current priorities are around things like promotion, empowerment, better tools etc. But obviously we’re somewhat resouirce constrained in some areas so we have to sequence what we work on

[11:34]  Driftwood Miles: not a mainland X

[11:34]  Ciaran Laval: Estate sim isn’t it?

[11:34]  Lady Sakai: no .. ask each week for a few months and then they will look into it ;)

[11:34]  Jack Linden: Mel, being rude isn’t going to help this conversation.

[11:34]  Skills Hak: I just wanted to applaud you for getting rid of Woodbury Jack ;)

[11:34]  Dennis Lagan: jack, I once sended the CEO of HP an email, just a day later i got a call from the belgian office regarding this. when i contact Lindenlab like this it takes at least a month before something processed trough your company, while Lindenlab has the size of a bug compared to HP.

[11:34]  Melody Regent: Well, that is nice to hear, but you know what I want to see… actions

[11:34]  xstorm Radek: that was the rules when Homesteads started

[11:35]  Ciaran Laval: Jack it does not take long to add a land rentals sub category to the current commerce forum area, it simply doesn’t. Then you can work on improvements

[11:35]  Driftwood Miles: no, it was 1 estate region x not mainland, and it still stands

[11:35]  Melody Regent: Oh sorry Jack, you are right. I appologize. Cause I should just take what I get and what you give us and like it. I am just totally fed up at trying to make this Work.

[11:36]  Melody Regent: Let me reduce your stress level Jack. How about I just bow out. Enjoy your day and your smoke

[11:36]  xstorm Radek: good then this gives me more ammo to have homesteads removed

[11:36]  Teleport completed from http://slurl.com/secondlife/Linden%20Estate%20Services/150/113/38

I left at this point because, to be honest, I am tired of being told something will happen and nothing does.  The rest of the meeting was later passed to me Lady Sakai

[11:35]  Melody Regent: Let me reduce your stress level Jack. How about I just bow out. Enjoy your day and your smoke

[11:36]  xstorm Radek: good then this gives me more ammo to have homesteads removed

[11:36]  xstorm Radek: have a good day

[11:36]  Jack Linden: Dennis, if you mean that you emailed our ceo, I’m afraid i can’t speak to that. We’re still a relatively small company; we’re still very open with our resident base and work hard to try to remain that way as we scale

[11:36]  Skills Hak: >.>

[11:36]  Talarus Luan: Jack, regarding the Grandfathering cut-off date, if someone wants to trade a homestead and keep the grandfathering, but wants to defer the actual transfer/move for, say, a month, can we put the tickets in by the 30th, and have the actual transfer happen in the last week of May?

[11:36]  Uni Ninetails: ya know thats the 4th time this week ive heard the small company excuse.

[11:37]  Dennis Lagan: not the ceo, it doesn’t matter, even blondin is now taking 2 months to answer, while he was the one who asked to be contacted himself

[11:37]  Dennis Lagan: its a big mess

[11:37]  Chaley May: yes.. LL will tell you they will hit you before they do it..

[11:37]  Qie Niangao: (Skills, FWIW, I agree on the Woodbury thing)

[11:37]  Chaley May: they are indeed open

[11:37]  Jack Linden: Tal, I don’t think so, no. The idea of the cut-off date is for there to be a clear end point

[11:37]  Skills Hak: that totally made my day

[11:37]  Lady Sakai: Jack, your problem/LLs problem is that you have a CEo that is completely unrealistic and wants ecerything … its not looking good for the future Im sad to say

[11:39]  Talarus Luan: Well, yeah, the tickets will still be in by a certain date, saying that “yes, we are doing this”, but due to timing with other moves/region/continent changes, the actual transfer/move can be deferred for a few weeks.

[11:39]  Jack Linden: Uni, wasn’t meaning for it to be an excuse – just trying to be realistic. We’re incredibly excited about the stuff that we’re working on and of course like all companies at the cutting edge of something, we want to do everything all at once.

[11:39]  Talarus Luan: IE, the space where the region will be moved to has to wait until another move goes through a few weeks later.

[11:39]  Jack Linden: But we do realise we can’t. So we have to prioritise and work to our resources

[11:39]  Dennis Lagan: jack, while its indeed true that you are close to your clients, in not to many places you can have a weekly talk to the “Exec Director of Consumer Products”, but despite that, you are one of the companies that ignores its clients in a way that i have never seen before. just think of pressing the forum, viewer 2.0, and much much more crap

[11:40]  Lady Sakai: but but but .. dennis .. they say we want that “crap” ? ;)

[11:40]  Dennis Lagan: in M’s dreams

[11:41]  Lady Sakai: oh hes got loads of those ;)

[11:41]  Uni Ninetails: Jack honestly it doesnt look good i do what LL i doing in my RL business Need to see progress. people arent seeing progress. the get angry gnashing of teeth etc. i know you cant prioritise every request and rant and whine but sometimes you have to throw the dog a bone. *shrugs

[11:41]  Equinox Pinion: LOL!!!

[11:41]  Jack Linden: Dennis, I’m certainly not going to claim we get it all right. We don’t. We do listen and we take all of the feedback we get into the planning meetings – the resident input has a very direct impact on what we do. But sometimes a decision has to be made for business reasons, or we have to work on things that are not customer facing.

[11:42]  Equinox Pinion: second life is not really grwoting at the moment jack…and it is for sure not because of new sign ups..it is because you cannot keep residnets in sl..you have to work in that!

[11:42]  Talarus Luan: According to the Region Transfer FAQ, specific dates for the transfer can be requested.

[11:42]  Lady Sakai: hasnt been growing for .. eeerrrrmmmm…. over a year now .. even more ?

[11:42]  DJ Flamand: annoying customers means loosing customers

[11:42]  Timo Daehlie: <-selling out

[11:42]  Uni Ninetails: nod nods

[11:43]  Ciaran Laval: Which is fair enough Jack, you have to do background work for the long term growth, I’ve seen the emails about PR and asking people for info, but when you release a viewer with such a poorly performing search functionality, people are going to ask “WTF”

[11:43]  Driftwood Miles: A lot of these issues in truth are brought into sharp relief by the premature release of the impotent v2 viewer (is that an oxymoron?)

[11:43]  Jack Linden: That’s not strictly true Lady, most of our numbers have been growing steadily – but it’s not as dramatic a growth as it was.

[11:43]  Dennis Lagan: i’m sure they will do another “all time high this or that” for the past quarter blog soon.

[11:43]  Lady Sakai: and they sure as H… NOT gonna refer ppl to a place they are unhappy with

[11:43]  Michi Lumin: Jack, you mentioned ‘empowerment’. At the risk of having my head removed and mounted by the audience – Is there any chance that such capabilities may extend to, say, large mainland operators? (Just curious, and want to get that in before the OH is over.)

[11:43]  Alexxa Despres: :P D

[11:43]  Alexxa Despres: Drift*

[11:43]  Lady Sakai: well no offence jack.. your a private company, you can tell us what ever numbers you want

[11:43]  Talarus Luan: How are you measuring “growth”?

[11:43]  Equinox Pinion: look jack…how many users are using the new viewer? maybe 15% ..all others didnt switch…that should make you ask yourself what is wrong with it we need to work on it…instead you force it as the main viewer now

[11:43]  Lady Sakai: the cold reality is very different when your “in” SL

[11:43]  Skills Hak: o.o

[11:44]  Skills Hak: where are these stats from

[11:44]  Talarus Luan: They forced it as the main viewer? O.o

[11:44]  Dennis Lagan: look jack, your lindex numbers jsut stay as flat as possible. this is the only reliable number. there is no real growth for a year

[11:44]  Jack Linden: Michi, as we look at ways to add controls we do always keep in mind how that feature can apply to Mainland. Mostly they can, but not always. Good point though

[11:44]  Ciaran Laval: Yup Tal, it’s no longer the beta viewer it’s the main viewer

[11:44]  Equinox Pinion: the user base is not growthing jack

[11:44]  Talarus Luan: No, I mean is it FORCED. As in, I can’t log in with 1.x anymore.

[11:44]  Dennis Lagan: its not cause we make alt accounts and bots that you have to think you grow jack

[11:44]  Michi Lumin: I believe lindex is stabilized, I don’t think that’s a good indicator of growth or lack of growth.

[11:45]  Uni Ninetails: Tal eh?!

[11:45]  Michi Lumin: huh? I can Talarus….

[11:45]  Ciaran Laval: Not yet Talm maybe when 2.1 gets released

[11:45]  Equinox Pinion: because many frustrated people just leave..we at least show up at your meetings

[11:45]  Ciaran Laval: *Tal

[11:45]  Jack Linden: Equinox, it’s the main registration Viewer yes. But we haven’t forced all users to use it

[11:45]  Talarus Luan: Then it is not “forced” yet. :P That’s what I was asking.

[11:45]  DJ Flamand: don’t forget to sign the new TOS then ;)

[11:45]  Chaley May: jack how many Voice servers does the whole grid use?

[11:45]  Equinox Pinion: yes newbies have to deal with it

[11:45]  Equinox Pinion: how many old users use it?

[11:45]  Equinox Pinion: i bet not more than 15%

[11:45]  Jack Linden: We know it needs work. We’re painfully aware that there are fixes needed and you’ll see 2.01 and further iterations coming quick and fast as we resolve those

[11:45]  Equinox Pinion: that would make me thinking if i were you

[11:46]  Equinox Pinion: i agree jack…but why did you take it out of beta ?

[11:46]  Ciaran Laval: Jack, it’s search, search is no longer tied to the viewer, search is awful, this hinders commerce, events and land sales.

[11:46]  Jack Linden: Chaley, I’m not sure to be honest. The voice team is outside of my dept.

[11:46]  Skills Hak: they had to meet a deadline and it was perfectly ok to release IMO

[11:46]  Driftwood Miles: it also grinds

[11:47]  Talarus Luan: Voice is not a “Consumer Product”. :P

[11:47]  Equinox Pinion: i had to search for search in the new viewer..ok i am blonde…but still

[11:47]  Driftwood Miles: sounds like an ash filled jet engine sometimes…or Gordon Brown

[11:47]  Chaley May: i thought you would probably know since you must deal with the costs of lands and i guess that includes voice for them

[11:47]  Jack Linden: The framerate issues are, i believe, being resolved in 2.01.

[11:47]  Dennis Lagan: jack, viewer 2.0 is a failure, not cause you changed to much, but because you didnt change enough. it still contains many parts from the old viewer that also have a new viewer replacement, like for example an about land window old style, and in the side bar new style as well… another mess

[11:47]  Lady Sakai: lol Equinox

[11:47]  Alexxa Despres: lol

[11:47]  Michi Lumin: If you are having framerate issues with 2.0 and are running Nvidia, turn ‘threaded optimization’ off in the Nvidia control panel, it *will* solve the grinding/locking/frame-freeze problems. Promise.

[11:48]  Jack Linden: Dennis, it’s true that we didn’t renovate all areas of the UI.. the land controls are complex from a UI perspective, so to reduce scope we left them alone for the first version.

[11:48]  Techwolf Lupindo: What if you don’t have threaded optimization in the control panel?

[11:48]  Uni Ninetails: “rushed it”

[11:48]  Michi Lumin: Then your driver is likely rather old.

[11:49]  Chaley May: its the new things i dont like on viewer 2

[11:49]  Techwolf Lupindo: Nope, 195.36.15

[11:49]  Chaley May: my issue with land info is that viewer 2 makes it harder to get at

[11:49]  Ardy Lay: He uses Linux most likely.

[11:49]  Ardy Lay: Setting MIGHT be different.

[11:49]  Michi Lumin: off topic for this OH, i just wanted to put it out there.

[11:50]  Skills Hak: is there some kind of agenda actually or is it just about blowing off steam here..

[11:50]  Lady Sakai: Jack you really have to take things more seriously. Ppl has lost a lot of money and are going to continue to loose money. Estates are leaving .. residents are leving, creators are leaving … new ppl are not comming in as they should be … I for one lost a lot of moeny on the HS failure (a lot of money for me that is) and I had a plan to have a small estate 20-30 sims but NOT to take the money out of Sl but to reuse the money inworld ….now? .. now I wouldnt sink another dime more than I have to into SL!!

[11:50]  Uni Ninetails: blowing of steam usually -_-

[11:51]  Fractured ModularSystems: o.o

[11:51]  Uni Ninetails: Lady: agreed… i was looking at BM again… and i know several Estate owners that are getting to the and forgive my french “fuck this for a game of soldiers” point.

[11:51]  Dennis Lagan: and remind jack, people do like new things, many are crazy for it and run after the lastest fashion, if a new viewer , or forum has a low adoption rate, there is something dramatically wrong. just look at gmail, a radical change to emailing, but most people loved it. when its done well, people go for it.

[11:51]  Jack Linden: Lady, do you really think that we don’t take it seriously? We may not always get things right but our commitment to the product and to our customers is total.

[11:52]  Chaley May: The problem is your lack of action shows you arent serious

[11:52]  Lady Sakai: I have emails comming from other VRW so im keeping my eyes on them for sure

[11:52]  Driftwood Miles: BM has a helluva long way to go…if you think V2 should have stayed in Beta…..

[11:52]  Chaley May: you could make a difference for these people in days

[11:52]  Chaley May: if you wanted to

[11:52]  Ciaran Laval: “Sod this for a game of soldiers ” would have sufficed Uni :p

[11:52]  Zoha Boa: THEN FIX SEARCH JACK…THE V2 IS OUT SINCE 8 WEEKS NOW … NOTHING HAS BEEN CHANGED UNTIL NOW

[11:52]  Skills Hak: geez im out

[11:52]  Chaley May: they ask for a forum so they can sell their lands but you must discuss it for a couple of months

[11:52]  Lady Sakai: no jack I seriously dont think you do … everytime we trun our backs you make another enourmus blunder

[11:52]  Chaley May: they need it now

[11:52]  Jack Linden: Dennis, I think gmail is a good example agreed. Simple and elegant. We definitely need to move in that same direction in terms of reduced complexity

[11:52]  Uni Ninetails: i am frustrated but have difficulty conveying it properly in a way LL wll do somthing so i swear.

[11:53]  Techwolf Lupindo: I’ve been getting reports all over the place where shops busness has droped a LOT sence the new search been out.

[11:53]  Equinox Pinion: i have to say in this case i am more understanding zoha..i am sure it takes alot of time to fix search

[11:53]  Chaley May: you have the resources to set up a temporary forum

[11:53]  Chaley May: but you dont do it

[11:54]  Ciaran Laval: Equinox they shouldn’t have released the viewer with that search system, they could have merrily worked on fixing it in the background and making super search, but the search tied to viewer 2 is not fit for purpose and that should not have happened

[11:54]  Uni Ninetails: Jack: simple. PICK ONE THING DISCUSSED HERE and get it done by next Friday blog it announce it etc whatever THROW BONE….

[11:54]  Equinox Pinion: agree ciaran

[11:54]  Equinox Pinion: or only to a beta test group

[11:54]  Ardy Lay: Search: That thing in Viewer 2 that lists larcels for sale to specific residents? What good that that do me? I can’t buy them.

[11:54]  Driftwood Miles: That was the big mistake Ciaran, but I don’t go with the sky is falling thanng

[11:54]  Qie Niangao: lol… that is quite a new feature, Ardy

[11:54]  tu4o3 Canis: хеъ

[11:54]  Ardy Lay: /searches JIRA for that one.

[11:54]  tu4o3 Canis: hey

[11:55]  Ciaran Laval: Exactly Equinox, test it with a limited audience, get the feedback, go again

[11:55]  tu4o3 Canis: i’m new player

[11:55]  Driftwood Miles: we are in a holding pattern awaiting these painfully slow platform corrections

[11:55]  tu4o3 Canis: i want help

[11:55]  Equinox Pinion: join us tu4o3..we all need help lol

[11:55]  tu4o3 Canis: ok

[11:55]  Techwolf Lupindo: The forums upgrade is a disastor, http://www.harmonycentral.com/ did the same thing and upgraded to the same Jiva software that LL did to there forums. Look a the feedback forums. The CEO had to come out and apolised for the disastor and put the old forums back up while they fix the disator.

[11:55]  Uni Ninetails: Jack will look into helping you (yes im being bitchy)

[11:55]  Jack Linden: welcome tu4o3

[11:55]  tu4o3 Canis: no problem

[11:55]  Driftwood Miles: all will be fine when the supersim comes along…right Jack?

[11:56]  Dennis Lagan: lol techwolf.

[11:56]  tu4o3 Canis: ?

[11:56]  Jack Linden: darn it Driftwood, I thought you’d forgotten

[11:56]  Equinox Pinion: ok..lets be positive at the end…thanks for that blog posting and email about the gf tier jack

[11:56]  Alexxa Despres: A meeting without Drift and his supersim..just well..wouldn’t be a meeting , would it, Jack? :P

[11:56]  tu4o3 Canis: i will go!!!

[11:56]  Ciaran Laval: The only good thing about newe search is that it’s not tied to the viewer, the bad thing seems to be that viewer 2.01 is in beta and search hasn’t changed!

[11:56]  Lady Sakai: riiight Drift … all will be fine when Ll yet aain try to dazzle us *sighs*

[11:56]  Driftwood Miles: It occupies my every waking hour

[11:56]  tu4o3 Canis: bye

[11:57]  Dennis Lagan: even i missed a few meetings, i can still follow the super story… lol

[11:57]  Equinox Pinion: tu4o3..what is your problem

[11:57]  Syn Short is Online

[11:57]  Michi Lumin: What keeps me going is that I’ve seen this before, as far back as 1.0 transitioning to 1.2 …. and I know what x.0 products are like… There is a good chance that, “this too shall pass”…. Just throwing that out there.

[11:57]  Ciaran Laval: lol yeah thanks for the email, I keep forgetting my homestead is grandfathered I was thinking “Why have they sent me this”!

[11:57]  Driftwood Miles: well Lady I thought web on a prim was pretty dazzling! But yes it has not been their finest hour

[11:58]  Bronson Blackadder: meow

[11:58]  Lady Sakai: not all that shines are gold .. remember ? Lord i sound ooold O.o

[11:58]  Talarus Luan: Oh, and don’t forget microparcels/adfarms/extortion plots! Wouldn’t be a Jack meeting without bringing that up. :P

[11:58]  Equinox Pinion: lol

[11:58]  Jack Linden: heh thanks Tal

[11:58]  Driftwood Miles: indeed Tal

[11:58]  Techwolf Lupindo: Traffic bots. :-)

[11:58]  Uni Ninetails: havent seen a cool graph in a while.

[11:58]  Equinox Pinion: thought something is missing tal :)

[11:58]  Moon Corrigible: Ahhh now I feel complete – hehehe

[11:59]  Lady Sakai: Techwolf .. we arent finished with those yet ;)

[11:59]  Talarus Luan: Especially, since there are still thousands of them out there. ;)

[11:59]  Ciaran Laval: Jack you should come armed with one of your pictures of the decline in small plots for sale next week

[11:59]  Jack Linden: I’m hoping that there will be a Support office hours starting soon, so there will be a place to raise some of those issues

[11:59]  Talarus Luan: adfarming will be moved to Support OH?

[11:59]  Dennis Lagan: and bots ofcourse, i sill see so many around on the map… when will it be fixed? ohhh yes, the new search in viewer 2 helps as well… damm sadly it doesn’t work properly at all, and is hardly anyone adopting viewer 2

[11:59]  Techwolf Lupindo: I still see them everywhere and have notice concurrenty gone up sence most of the shops found out there compiation is not getting pelized for running them.

[12:00]  Ardy Lay: There are no JIRA issues in project SEARCH? That seems odd considering hou many people are yelling about it.

[12:00]  Lady Sakai: any plans for a Bot / copy Linden Task force Jack ?

[12:01]  Lady Sakai: traffic bot ( copy bot *

[12:01]  Ardy Lay: Oh, I see, the project is CLOSED.

[12:01]  Talarus Luan: <.<

[12:01]  Jack Linden: Lady, you mean over and above the normal team that handles those? No plans, no.

[12:01]  Ardy Lay: Jack, where do we file bug reports for search?

[12:01]  Jack Linden: Okay guys, sorry you all felt such frustration this week. I’ve taken the chatlog and will make sure the feedback is part of our conversations.

[12:01]  Lady Sakai: well either they are sleeping or they are overwhelmed jack cos something isnt right in the state of LL / SL

[12:02]  Driftwood Miles: Jack can you see if it would be possible to add just one forum section for Estates as a stop gap until something more permanant?

[12:02]  Talarus Luan: Ardy, I will rez a tapered, hollowed cylinder for you to file them into. :D

[12:02]  Dennis Lagan: jack, we feel fustration for over a year, not just now

[12:02]  Jack Linden: I’d best skip to my next meeting. Hopefully better news for you next week,

[12:02]  Adamburp Adamczyk: DON;T FROGET TO DO SOMETHIGN ABOUT THE ONTYNES TOO PLEASE JACK!

[12:02]  Equinox Pinion: take care jack!

[12:02]  Uni Ninetails: Thanks jack and apologies to anyone who has to read my pissy swears :D

[12:02]  Jack Linden: Bye all!

[12:02]  Driftwood Miles: thanks Jack

[12:02]  Ciaran Laval: Cheers Jack

[12:02]  Qie Niangao: thanks Jack

[12:02]  Alexxa Despres: Thanks Jack…have a good weekend ;)

[12:02]  Ardy Lay: Jack, see you later. I will keep looking.

Jack Linden Office Hours – April 15, 2010

April 15th, 2010

[11:00]  Jack Linden has entered the sim.

[11:00]  Master Kane: hi sophi, dag, xeena

[11:00]  Callie Cline: omg lets ALL dance

[11:00]  Callie Cline: hahaha

[11:00]  Motor Loon has entered the sim.

[11:00]  Callie Cline: wanna?

[11:00]  Driftwood Miles: :) )

[11:00]  Callie Cline: i have free dances

[11:00]  Callie Cline: hahaah

[11:00]  Bronson Blackadder: ~ Time to Tiny River Dance ~

[11:00]  Master Kane: drift i mean.. not dag

[11:00]  xstorm Radek: damn noobs

[11:00]  Zoha Boa: hi everyone

[11:00]  Callie Cline: we can all do the peanuts dance

[11:00]  Lady Sakai: lol Bronson

[11:00]  Callie Cline: haha

[11:00]  Chaley May: i like a good protest

[11:00]  Alexxa Despres has entered the sim.

[11:00]  Callie Cline: hi zoho!

[11:00]  Equinox Pinion: hi zoha!

[11:00]  Callie Cline: hahaha

[11:00]  Callie Cline: a

[11:01]  Driftwood Miles: :) Master

[11:01]  Ozzie Drucker: wow…a dancing protest

[11:01]  Master Kane: hi jack

[11:01]  Lady Sakai: Hi Zoha

[11:01]  Melodie Darwin has left the sim.

[11:01]  Charity Goldfarb: hi Jack

[11:01]  Timo Daehlie has entered the sim.

[11:01]  Jack Linden: hey folks!

[11:01]  Equinox Pinion: hi jack!

[11:01]  Callie Cline: we’re cheering cuz jack is gonna accept our propsal!!!

[11:01]  Uni Ninetails: hihi Jack

[11:01]  xstorm Radek: your a bunch of noob

[11:01]  Callie Cline: we’re happy!

[11:01]  Driftwood Miles: Hello Jack

[11:01]  Melody Regent: Hello Jack, thank you for coming today

[11:01]  Callie Cline: cuz he’s gonna say yes!

[11:01]  Chaley May: it was fnny in SL when people set themselves on fire :)

[11:01]  Lady Sakai: Hey Jack .. look what happens when you one minute late LOL

[11:01]  Tararose Violet: hello everyone even Jack

[11:01]  Talarus Luan: I’m full of noobs.. I had a bite to eat on the way over.. <.<

[11:01]  Alexxa Despres: Hi ya Jack ;)

[11:01]  Equinox Pinion: ok before the protesters take over…whre is our forum jack :P

[11:01]  Alexxa Despres: Hi everyone ;)

[11:01]  Callie Cline: im celegrating!

[11:02]  Equinox Pinion: hi alexxa :)

[11:02]  Callie Cline: hey jack hows ur back?

[11:02]  Ozzie Drucker: hi equinox

[11:02]  Driftwood Miles: grating

[11:02]  XIII Jinx is Online

[11:02]  Jack Linden: :) okay, looks like more signs this week

[11:02]  Jack Linden: not rezzed yet though

[11:02]  Talarus Luan: I can wear my advatar again :D

[11:02]  Ozzie Drucker: hi jack

[11:02]  Master Kane: you need to SEE in order to chat ? :P

[11:02]  xstorm Radek: yes they can not read the wiki yet

[11:02]  Uni Ninetails: ” transfer the teens? fonts terrible

[11:02]  Motor Loon: superslow rezzing today

[11:02]  Melody Regent jumps right in

[11:02]  Melody Regent: Jack, you have been attempting to sell us a bill of good about the Linden Homes being a stepping stone to people buying larger lots yet you have not shown us exactly how you, Linden Labs, shows people how they can grow and expand and how that will help private estate owners. What kind of timeline is there for letting the public know that Linden Homes are only a stepping stone and Linden Labs WANTS them to move onward and upwards to bigger and better things?

[11:02]  xstorm Radek: lol

[11:03]  Zoha Boa: as long as they don’t put the building on fire it’s ok. As did happen when you announced the HS price change

[11:03]  Master Kane: hey there motor.. ya big hunk you

[11:03]  Master Kane: lol

[11:03]  Jack Linden reads

[11:03]  Master Kane: hi wolf

[11:03]  Master Kane: jacks reading

[11:04]  Callie Cline: ozzie can i have a new sigh?

[11:04]  Callie Cline: hi paeoti!!!

[11:04]  Lady Sakai whispers “Hi Motor”

[11:04]  Jack Linden: Hey Melody, before I get to your question.. I should really address Callie and her group first

[11:04]  Motor Loon: ey Sakai

[11:04]  Callie Cline: oh i want that for my profile! hahahaha

[11:04]  Melody Regent: No worries, I can repeat it

[11:04]  Alexxa Despres: Hi Ciaran ;)

[11:04]  xstorm Radek: the key word is PRIVATE ESTATE sounds like buss off to me

[11:04]  Motor Loon: because they have signs?

[11:04]  Ciaran Laval: Hey Alexxa

[11:04]  Motor Loon: we can bring signs too

[11:04]  Jack Linden: As we talked about last week, you guys presented a proposal which we took back and discussed through this last week.

[11:04]  Talarus Luan: Linden Lab most definitely wants to move on to bigger and better things than Linden Homes, like maybe themed estates and activity centers, and .. wait.. haven’t they already DONE all that? O.o

[11:04]  Master Kane: maybe we should come next time with signs

[11:05]  Motor Loon makes a sign “Jack for president” it says…

[11:05]  LolaBunny Miami: hi

[11:05]  Jack Linden: Unfortunately, we’re not going to be able to go ahead with a change in the plan already announced, for a number of reasons..

[11:05]  Techwolf Lupindo: What plan is that?

[11:05]  Master Kane: what proposal was that

[11:06]  Talarus Luan: The “Ending Grandfathered private sims on transfer” plan

[11:06]  Melody Regent whispers to Lola, we are in a meeting sweety, pull up a seat and watch the ‘dance of no answers’

[11:06]  Ozzie Drucker: we proposed that the grandftaher dtae be changed from may 1..too a one time lifetime priveliege

[11:06]  xstorm Radek: Jack just close down the Homested island it was a error LL made when they put it out

[11:06]  Talarus Luan: Last week, there was a proposal to extend it to a “one last transfer” gig.

[11:06]  LolaBunny Miami: who speack italian?

[11:06]  Ozzie Drucker: ciao

[11:06]  LolaBunny Miami: ciao^^ dv sei?

[11:06]  Jack Linden: Firstly, the decision on grandfathering was a balance to the fact that we were extending the actual grandfathered fees through the end of the year. That was a big financial decision, and it was balanced by this 1st May change.

[11:07]  Jack Linden: The two were very much hand inhand as changes

[11:07]  Fly-Bangle de Lux 2.1: All Go

[11:07]  LolaBunny Miami: ehii

[11:07]  Callie Cline listens

[11:07]  Equinox Pinion: wait wait jack..why a BIG financial decision…if you wouldnt done it you would lost hundreds of sims!!!

[11:07]  Callie Cline: eys jack please clarify

[11:08]  Debs Regent is Online

[11:08]  Ozzie Drucker: jack…how do you rationalize the potential loss to people who want ot keep their businesses operating? but want to be able to sell then for what they have invested in them if they choose to? how is that ok?

[11:08]  Callie Cline: what aobu tthe BIG finanal LOSS

[11:08]  Callie Cline: to us?

[11:08]  Jack Linden: Secondly, in all honesty we have no way to accurately track regions and which of them have or have not had their ‘extra transfer’, and when mixed with edu prices and our support resourcing, we just wouldn’t easily be able to manage that

[11:08]  Callie Cline: OMG

[11:08]  Techwolf Lupindo: Wasn’t LL hading out _new_ grandfathers sim to big landlords?

[11:08]  Callie Cline: what abou tthe BIG LOSSES TO OTHER PPL?

[11:08]  xstorm Radek: a Hand full of sims is not even close to hundeds

[11:08]  Callie Cline: on may 1

[11:08]  Master Kane: LMAO…. sell and how much money have you made here already and you still want to SCAM popel.. oh please

[11:08]  Jack Linden: Lastly, some folks have already made adjustments towards the 1st May date, and we feel it a little unfair to those customers to now switch again

[11:08]  Callie Cline: OMG

[11:08]  Julie Carpathea: what financial .. the GF sims pay the same as Mainland?

[11:08]  Nail Stonewall is Online

[11:09]  Ozzie Drucker: doesn ti tmatter that a lot of people have a lot invested, that they will just see poof?

[11:09]  Equinox Pinion: ask them how many they lost last time xstorm

[11:09]  Callie Cline: it’s wrong to change what you told ME when i obugh those sims

[11:09]  Ozzie Drucker: they ran jack..and may are leaving…thats a lot of those

[11:09]  Master Kane: lol this is SL… nothing is in stone

[11:09]  Callie Cline: that the GF would always be handed down i have it in writing

[11:09]  Jack Linden: So i’m sorry Callie, Ozzie etc.. we really did listen and discuss this. But we can’t go forward with your proposed solution

[11:09]  Talarus Luan: If you have it in writing, file a suit.

[11:09]  xstorm Radek: it was dumb for people to invest in them homesteds in the first place

[11:09]  Callie Cline: well you are then lying to your customers

[11:09]  Callie Cline: lying to me

[11:10]  Driftwood Miles: methinks the big protest will be when the GF tier is threatened

[11:10]  Motor Loon hans Callie a hankie

[11:10]  Callie Cline: we’d like a metting to discuss further

[11:10]  Ozzie Drucker: soo what do you say to the person i know here who estimates her loss at 60000 usd? just oh..well?

[11:10]  Callie Cline: im not crying

[11:10]  Master Kane: no some customers do not EXPECT things handede to them ALL the time

[11:10]  Master Kane: handed*

[11:10]  Julie Carpathea: ahhh… that means my sims have to be sold :(

[11:10]  Callie Cline: i expect a company to keep it’s WORD

[11:10]  Jack Linden: Callie, I don’t believe we have ever said that GF on transfer was forever.

[11:10]  Callie Cline: i was told that

[11:10]  Callie Cline: before i bought mine

[11:10]  Callie Cline: when u gusy raised the prrices

[11:11]  Callie Cline: then gave everyone a 2 week time

[11:11]  Callie Cline: a few years ago

[11:11]  Talarus Luan: Another facet of this is that grandfathered sims used to be tied to older class servers; they don’t do that anymore.

[11:11]  Callie Cline: remember taht?

[11:11]  Lady Sakai: Jack, has Ll considerd the proposal I out out .. That could save some of the regions and ease some of the inworld economical struggle ?

[11:11]  Callie Cline: when everyone freaked out?

[11:11]  Uni Ninetails points out to Jack according to your information server hardware is cheaper to run, and requires less with the new servers your installing (installed?)

[11:11]  Ciaran Laval: LL#s blog post around the time they raised the prices suggested grandfathering on transfer was on schedile to end in February 2007

[11:11]  Master Kane: there is no more CLASS callie… its not and would not be fair! Wake up.. YOU OF all people SHOULD KNOW THIS!

[11:11]  Callie Cline: and tons of us bought the NEW sims.. full

[11:11]  Master Kane: Guess not

[11:11]  Jack Linden: I remember that Callie. I was in the townhall meetings with Z and Philip.. we were very clear that grandfathering was not forever.

[11:11]  Callie Cline: i wasn’t in any meeting

[11:12]  Callie Cline: i read a blog and was told when i called

[11:12]  Callie Cline: so were a ton of my firends

[11:12]  Julie Carpathea: Jack have you concidered listing this announcement on the sign in page.. thereare a LOT that still do not know about this change

[11:12]  Callie Cline: that gf was transferable

[11:12]  Talarus Luan: Wait, you said you had it in WRITING.

[11:12]  Callie Cline: which it HAS been

[11:12]  Master Kane: oh.. there it is.. everyone beieves what they read… oh shit

[11:12]  Callie Cline: i do that too

[11:12]  Equinox Pinion: agree julie…that will be a problem

[11:12]  Talarus Luan: ..that grandfathering was perpetual.

[11:12]  Jack Linden: But that’s beside the point, several years on and those regions are still grandfathered, and we have upgraded their hardware.. and now have extended the grandfathering too. I think we’ve continued to show good faith on this.

[11:12]  Callie Cline: no kiddng a lot don NOT know

[11:12]  xstorm Radek: Jack i told you what i think only way to fix homesteds is to remove the error !

[11:12]  Master Kane: i read that I am supposed to die by age 40.. well… that didnt happen

[11:12]  Talarus Luan: If you do, then get a lawyer and file a suit. Seriously.

[11:13]  Ozzie Drucker: jack…i still would like to hear your answer for the people who will lose money? from 1000 to 60000 dollars? in resale value?

[11:13]  Motor Loon: Dont be silly Talarus

[11:13]  Callie Cline: i spoke to mine today

[11:13]  Talarus Luan: It’s not a trivial amount of money you’re talking about.

[11:13]  Talarus Luan: I’m not.

[11:13]  Callie Cline: before this meeting

[11:13]  Equinox Pinion: well…you upgraded the hardware but you are planning to put now 8 regions on a server

[11:13]  Talarus Luan: People sue for far less.

[11:13]  Callie Cline: she’s quite aware of LL and its’ pracitces

[11:13]  Driftwood Miles: to Full Sim Grandfathering yes Jack but will the same faith be shown to HS Grandfathering?

[11:13]  Ciaran Laval: Ozzie we’ve lost value on our islands before, so there’s a precedent already

[11:13]  Master Kane: dont stub your toe ont he way out callie… or youd have to sue for that too IN SL lmao

[11:14]  Uni Ninetails repeats the point the hardwares cheaper to run but your expecting people to pay more than they should. Please provide some figures to prove otherwise.

[11:14]  Talarus Luan: (basically, I am saying either accept it and move on, or take it to the next level; Jack’s announced the decision; continued grousing about it isn’t going to get anyone anywhere; I should know <.< )

[11:14]  Callie Cline: including selling trademarked items on xstreet and making profilt off companies IP like disney, nike, marlboro which they have NOT removed

[11:14]  Ozzie Drucker: but that was when callie is referring to…when they extended the time and you got the old tier. those are exactly the people we are talking about

[11:14]  Equinox Pinion: you give us nothing from the benefits of your new hardware!!

[11:14]  Julie Carpathea: Jack — well how long do you expect full regions to stay at 195? Can you give us any ideas?

[11:14]  Jack Linden: Ozzie, as we discussed last week.. this is not a loss of money directly. it actually only impacts people who intended to sell – and we have 3 months notice for those people to sell before 1st May if they needed to. The savings from the continued grandfathering are substantial too. Those folks with many GF regions are getting a significantly cheaper monthly payment

[11:14]  Callie Cline is not thretening to sue

[11:14]  xstorm Radek: and if Linden Lab made a rule that Estate Owners but be paid Prem members things will work better

[11:14]  Master Kane: you all can come up with all sorts of EXCUSE on hardware, bills and anything else youw ant.. bottom line here is.. that you all EXPECT to much shit from a company

[11:14]  Ciaran Laval: No Ozzie, they reduced the price of islands in the store from USD$1675 to USD$1,000, everyone, grandfathered or not, lost value on their islands

[11:15]  Lady Sakai: Good faith Jack would be to even out the tiers on all regions as well as lowering them

[11:15]  Master Kane: effin beggers

[11:15]  Talarus Luan: Don’t threaten, just do it.

[11:15]  Jack Linden: Julie, as far as the GF regions go, we’ve stated they will remain so until at least the end of the year.

[11:15]  Callie Cline: no one who is gonna sue tells you that’s just lame

[11:15]  Julie Carpathea: JAck – i DID NOT get 3 months.. i just found out last week because Ozzie told me

[11:15]  Callie Cline: yup

[11:15]  Ozzie Drucker: well jack, those that had them from the start, and htose who bought htem since..they didnt foresee this day. and it took many by surprise. and many still dont know, tbh

[11:15]  xstorm Radek: why is every one out for a free ride and free handout ?

[11:15]  Callie Cline: why did you not send us a note?

[11:15]  Jack Linden: Lady, that’s a very different topic hehe.. but I did get your notecard and appreciate the ideas.

[11:15]  Master Kane: wait… just thought of something…

[11:15]  Callie Cline: email?

[11:15]  Ciaran Laval: If that price drop didn’t alert people to the fact that the value of their islands could change I don’t know what to say, it was clear as day that island value could change

[11:16]  Lady Sakai: FYI Jack so did a lot of other at the meeting

[11:16]  Driftwood Miles: Glad you did Jack

[11:16]  Callie Cline: it was snuck in on a very poorly layed out blog

[11:16]  Talarus Luan: Same thing has happened to people who bought mainland years ago.

[11:16]  Master Kane: times have changed.. time for you all to change your underwear and get off the couch now

[11:16]  Callie Cline: hey masater no need to insult us really

[11:16]  Master Kane: i wasnt

[11:16]  Ozzie Drucker: Do we have any recourse Jack? Are you hte final arbiter?

[11:16]  Master Kane: just stating facts

[11:16]  xstorm Radek: We still Own Mainland thank you

[11:16]  Jack Linden: Yeah lady, I loved that you made such a constructive suggestion. We’ll certainly add it into our discussions

[11:16]  Ciaran Laval: Heck mainland was going for L$12 – 15 for basic mainland a couple of years ago, now you’re lucky to get L$2/m

[11:16]  Talarus Luan: I paid ~L$10/sqm for mine; I’ll be lucky to get even a third of that back.

[11:16]  Chaley May: who do you sell the lands to if LL does not want to buy them back?

[11:16]  Callie Cline: yes who else can we speak with?

[11:17]  Techwolf Lupindo: LL does not like it when folks make more money then LL does. So they will do things to reduce the value of stuff untill LL remains the top money makers.

[11:17]  Lady Sakai: I sincerly hope so jack .. to many Estates and region owners has closed up already

[11:17]  Jack Linden: Ozzie, I’m afraid this is the decision. We’ve seen a lot of activity around the 1st May date – it wouldn’t be fair to those that sold etc to switch at this late stage

[11:17]  Driftwood Miles: And others will with your suggestions Lady :)

[11:17]  Callie Cline: and jack, you DID tell ppl that the GF benefit Would be transferable but the tiers wouldN OT be guaranteed.

[11:17]  Callie Cline: that’s waht you said

[11:17]  Callie Cline: and sold.

[11:17]  Melody Regent: I dont expect LL to change thier mind on pricing, I just want them to be up front about it. SO far, this year, they have been upfront. If they changed the ‘rules’ one mroe time…. sigh. As long as they give us plenty of notice as to when the final GF pricing will go away, then we are informed and can make a choice going forward. They are not doing anything differnt than sooo many other business out there (and yeah Master, you are being rude). LL made a policy change, they gave us notice and I dont expect them to change. With that said, Jack, back to my question. Now that we can tranfer GF sims and that pricing will, at some point go up….

[11:17]  Ozzie Drucker: they can buy right back, and would jack. also..the ones giving up, would not

[11:17]  Melody Regent: Jack, you have been attempting to sell us a bill of good about the Linden Homes being a stepping stone to people buying larger lots yet you have not shown us exactly how you, Linden Labs, shows people how they can grow and expand and how that will help private estate owners. What kind of timeline is there for letting the public know that Linden Homes are only a stepping stone and Linden Labs WANTS them to move onward and upwards to bigger and better things?

[11:18]  Lady Sakai: Thank you Driftwood :)

[11:18]  Talarus Luan: Speaking of that.. I have someone who is selling their GF region. What is the cut-off date measured from? Date of the tickets for the transfer, or the date of the actual transfer?

[11:18]  Callie Cline: jack it’s NOT fair what you did.

[11:18]  Master Kane: ok that discussion is over.. can we go on with OUR Meeting now?

[11:18]  Driftwood Miles: I was disagreeing with your Proposal Lady

[11:18]  Callie Cline: those ppl can buy back

[11:18]  Crash Prefect: does anyone have a URL to what everyones talking about?

[11:18]  Callie Cline: now you’re worried about a few who sold?

[11:18]  Callie Cline: NOT us?

[11:18]  xstorm Radek: bunch of kids

[11:18]  Callie Cline: ffs

[11:18]  Crash Prefect: my sim is like 7 yrs old now…..im kinda curious what everyones talking about

[11:18]  Jack Linden: wo, can’t keep up with the convo.. hang on

[11:18]  Lady Sakai: only part of it as i recall ;p

[11:19]  Ciaran Laval: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2006/11/15/private-island-pricing-commitments

[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: thwe main part Lady

[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: :P

[11:19]  Crash Prefect: thanks ciaran

[11:19]  Callie Cline: [11:17] Jack Linden: Ozzie, I’m afraid this is the decision. We’ve seen a lot of activity around the 1st May date – it wouldn’t be fair to those that sold etc to switch at this late stage

[11:19]  Lady Sakai slaps Driftwood and tells him to argue with her on IMs ;)

[11:19]  Julie Carpathea: yes JAck — how long can we expect the transfers to take so I know when my tickets have to be in by (have no choice have to sell)

[11:19]  Ciaran Laval: “Second, as long as you continue to own your Island and its purchased at the grandfathered pricing, we will not raise your recurring fee at least throughout 2007. This was definitely received as good news at the meeting and I’m happy to make that commitment. Islands that are transferred to a new owner before February will also continued to be eligible for grandfathered pricing. After February 1st however, we may make transferred islands subject to the new pricing. ”

[11:19]  Callie Cline: so you care about those who sold more than those who did not know?

[11:19]  Ciaran Laval: That’s from November 2006

[11:19]  Callie Cline: our proposal can help them too

[11:19]  Talarus Luan: i.e., if the buyer/seller put in tickets before May 1, but the transfer doesn’t happen until after May 1, due to the likely lag in the process from all the transfers, does it lose the GF status?

[11:20]  Jack Linden: Julie, I expect that if the tickets are in by May 1st, it will be fine

[11:20]  Julie Carpathea: expect?

[11:20]  Julie Carpathea: could we be a bit more clear?

[11:20]  Talarus Luan: yeah, kinda need a “surety” there.

[11:20]  Callie Cline: so you made the descion for the few that sold?

[11:20]  Master Kane: expect is like assume

[11:20]  Callie Cline: cuz it would not be fair?

[11:20]  Ozzie Drucker: people are dumping their estates jack…and saying the things i hate to hear…liek…this is impossible with all the unforeseen changes…in rougher language of course

[11:20]  Callie Cline: is that waht you’re saying?

[11:20]  Julie Carpathea: lol that is what i am worried about Master

[11:20]  Callie Cline: and we asked for a deed to

[11:20]  Callie Cline: too

[11:20]  Driftwood Miles: Some are dumping Ozzie , some are expanding

[11:21]  Master Kane: lol julie

[11:21]  Callie Cline: so there’s nonoe of this “swtich crap”

[11:21]  Jack Linden: Okay to be definitive then.. if you plan to sell.. please be sure the tickets are submitted to us on or before the last day of April

[11:21]  Callie Cline: WOW, just wow

[11:21]  Talarus Luan: That works. :D

[11:21]  Jack Linden: That way the request is clearly in before the change

[11:21]  Ozzie Drucker: anytime you see an estate of 50 sims selling…because of this…you have to pause…and consider..i would think..

[11:21]  Callie Cline: so jack your descion was to protect the ppl who “sold”

[11:21]  Callie Cline: and not us?

[11:21]  Crash Prefect: ok so…am I incorrect in thinking this change really only effects people who like to buy/sell land?

[11:21]  Callie Cline: cuz it’s not fair to “them”

[11:21]  Tararose Violet: Jack – and I heard you correct, — GF’s price is to go up to normal pricing, or just a raise in price lick 10 to 30 dollars?

[11:21]  Callie Cline: but not the thousands we represent?

[11:22]  Jack Linden: If you need help to sell, we can help you with that. Just create a support ticket and we will try to help you find a buyer.

[11:22]  Ciaran Laval: Crash it’s only people who are selling islands yes

[11:22]  Melody Regent: They are selling the estates off but they are being RESOLD, so there is no loss to LL in reselling. They still get the same tier so nothing to loose

[11:22]  Ozzie Drucker: going to 295…if you sell them.

[11:22]  Crash Prefect: oh ok, LOL. *whew*

[11:22]  Callie Cline: we lose are land VALUE

[11:22]  Callie Cline: overnight

[11:22]  Tararose Violet: not asking about selling

[11:22]  Talarus Luan: Welcome to online services.

[11:22]  Callie Cline: some over 100K usd

[11:22]  Crash Prefect: ive been maintaining the same sim since 2003, was worried somethin was about to happen.

[11:22]  Ozzie Drucker: they are going off in dribs and drabs. and people who have worked to grow sl are being damaged.

[11:22]  Chaley May: well this seems bad to me.. what i am seeing is people are selling up their lands before may the 1st.. but to me that means that these people could just be passing the burden onto others and not telling them the whole truth about what they are getting.. a grandfathered sim which will only be grandfathered for a month but leaving that part out

[11:23]  Talarus Luan: Not unless you plan to sell it, Crash. :)

[11:23]  Qie Niangao: god, imagine if it was the *hardware* you owned… it would be worth practically nothing now.

[11:23]  Ciaran Laval: Chaley grandfathering remains

[11:23]  Driftwood Miles: caveat emptor

[11:23]  Ozzie Drucker: many dont know or understand…yes

[11:23]  Equinox Pinion: lol qie

[11:23]  Callie Cline: we ased for a ONE tiem extension to protect our investment

[11:23]  Jack Linden: We’re talking about whether an island retains its grandfathered pricing on being transferred. We have no plans to change pricing; but from 1st May we will no longer keep the price grandfathered for someone buying a previously GF island

[11:23]  Talarus Luan: Yus.

[11:23]  Callie Cline: fair for ALL

[11:23]  Ciaran Laval: If the sim is sold before May 1st the new owner pays a grandfathered rate until LL say otherwise

[11:23]  Jack Linden: (just for those late to the conversation)

[11:23]  Chaley May: oh ok :)

[11:23]  Uni Ninetails: god a world where hardware appreciates in value… thatd be scary.

[11:23]  Callie Cline: our proposal hurt NO one but helped all

[11:23]  Chaley May: thats not so bad then lol

[11:24]  Driftwood Miles: LOL Uni

[11:24]  Ozzie Drucker: jack..to sy you cant track it is weak also. i dont believe that honestly

[11:24]  Master Kane: ok,, whom the hell do I neeed to mute .. simply to much rubish

[11:24]  Qie Niangao searches his closet for appreciated hardware

[11:24]  Melody Regent: When they do away with all grandfathering period next year, then all ‘value’ will come back in line anyway, Its an investment you need to sit on. Like any investment, the values raise and fall. These will fall and in time come back up and stablize.

[11:24]  Callie Cline: we did not ask for it to be kept forver but ONE time so us who have invested did NOT lose

[11:24]  Jack Linden: But I say again, if you need us to help broker a sale, let us know. We may well be able to reach out to estates and find you a buyer

[11:24]  Callie Cline: OMG

[11:24]  Talarus Luan: If it has lots of precious metals in it, it might have appreciated a bit. :D

[11:24]  Callie Cline: wow nice

[11:24]  Ciaran Laval: If they do away with all grandfathering then this sim won’t be big enough to cope with the complaints, the price rise is too large

[11:25]  Ozzie Drucker: lol..thanks jack

[11:25]  Callie Cline: yeah thanks so much

[11:25]  Callie Cline: lmao

[11:25]  Flight Band: All Go

[11:25]  Chaley May: but i think when transferring LL islands between people it is LLs duty to inform the new buyer of changed that are happening

[11:25]  Tararose Violet: thank you, for the clarity

[11:25]  Driftwood Miles: Totally Agree Ciaran…that will be some protest

[11:25]  Talarus Luan: It is coming…

[11:25]  Callie Cline: wow i ugess i was way too optimistic

[11:25]  Talarus Luan: Probably, Callie.

[11:25]  Jack Linden: Okay, so we should move onto other topics.

[11:26]  Master Kane: yes jack

[11:26]  Talarus Luan: Mainland prices?

[11:26]  Callie Cline: didn’t believe the stuff ppl said to me about how LL was

[11:26]  Master Kane: please do

[11:26]  Equinox Pinion: where is our forum???

[11:26]  Crash Prefect: well it seems Im out of my element here. good luck all you land barons! i hope things don’t go too bad for ya’ll.

[11:26]  Callie Cline: when can we meet

[11:26]  Callie Cline: we’re not stopping

[11:26]  Jack Linden: Callie, if you want to talk to me more about this later.. i’d be happy to

[11:26]  Callie Cline: yay ok i’d be happy too :)

[11:26]  Callie Cline: if u take me on a date :)

[11:26]  Melody Regent: lol, Jack tell them to open a ticket like you tell all of us

[11:26]  Talarus Luan: <.<

[11:26]  Master Kane: yeah no shit mel

[11:26]  Ozzie Drucker: wants no date with jack

[11:26]  Driftwood Miles: wheres Super Sim Jack?

[11:27]  Melody Regent: Should I repeat my question again Jack? You can schedule a date after the meeting I am sure

[11:27]  Jack Linden: Hehe Melody, that’s harsh! I try to talk as much as I can.

[11:27]  Jack Linden: Melody.. I have it here..

[11:27]  Lady Sakai is Online

[11:27]  Alexxa Despres: jack…what is the timeline on the forums for land, please? ;) You had said you were looking into reinstating those ;)

[11:27]  Jack Linden: So.. you’re right Melody, we absolutely do intend to promote estate living (and communal mainland living as there are residents running rentals there too)..

[11:27]  Equinox Pinion: thanks alexxa :)

[11:28]  Talarus Luan: If they aren’t on those godforsaken blogorums, I might participate. <.<

[11:28]  Master Kane gets ready to check callies blog lmao

[11:28]  Melody Regent: Jack, how and when?

[11:28]  Qie Niangao: (on the plus side, they *did* upgrade the Jive software)

[11:28]  Master Kane: must not have rad the new tos

[11:28]  Callie Cline: jack is checkng me out for our date look at his eyes

[11:28]  Master Kane: read*

[11:28]  Callie Cline: hahahaha

[11:28]  Jack Linden: We’re just working through some draft material for the wiki, help pages etc that talks about the choices of Land, and the benefits of each – including a big piece on estates and what they can offer

[11:28]  Ciaran Laval: Yeah Qie and reset my email notifications!

[11:28]  Talarus Luan: -10.0 downgrade, +1.0 upgrade is still -9.0 downgrade.

[11:28]  Driftwood Miles: Oh yeah html in a signature

[11:28]  Julie Carpathea reluctently waves good-bye to her business and home.. will have to move into free linden houseing now

[11:28]  Melody Regent: ok, well then let me follow up

[11:28]  Melody Regent: Jack, We have talked on many occasions about getting the land forums back up and fixing the issues with land listings in Xstreet. This is still not done. We have also asked to have the website updated to indicate there are private estates as well as mainland. Still nothing. I would like to hear you honestly tell us why it is sooooo hard to get a simple blurb on the website that there are private estates that offer rentals. Then please let us know if you really do intend to get us the land forums and Xstreet fixed and in what quarter and YEAR we should see that.

[11:28]  Equinox Pinion: what about the forum (4th attempt)

[11:29]  Efkayar Placebo is Online

[11:29]  Callie Cline: smile eveyrone! ur gonna be in the news!!!

[11:29]  Nema Galicia: Julie I just did that lost my sim and am going to have to live in Linden homes

[11:29]  Jack Linden: We’re also talking about forums for Land. but we had to wait for the Jive upgrade which has now happened. So next we’;re going to look at where we’d put a Land forum like that

[11:29]  Nema Galicia: feels like going on the doloe or something

[11:29]  Julie Carpathea smiles

[11:29]  Callie Cline: hahaa

[11:29]  Talarus Luan: I’d guess 4th quarter of 2016, myself. <.<

[11:30]  Callie Cline: smile eq

[11:30]  Melody Regent: So the timeline is not that far off? We have only been asking for a while now for this

[11:30]  Callie Cline: ur gonna be in the news :)

[11:30]  Equinox Pinion: :)

[11:30]  Callie Cline: hahaha

[11:30]  Jack Linden: We’re also going to look at other ways to promote estates.. potentially in the destination guide or other areas (there are some complexities to using the destination guide itself)

[11:30]  Melody Regent: What other areas and how will these promotions be allocated?

[11:31]  Jack Linden: Melody, it’ll start very soon, and then you’ll see things pop up regularly as we make the changes to various areas

[11:31]  Equinox Pinion: what is very soon jack…we are waiting so long for it

[11:31]  Jack Linden: Our intention was always with Linden Homes to promote that next step of land ownership.. we will do that.

[11:31]  Callie Cline: haha so u can chanage the terms on them later? after they buy?

[11:31]  Seattle LeShelle: but when??

[11:32]  Talarus Luan: Linden Homes -> Bay City/Nautilus/etc :D

[11:32]  Callie Cline: buy land!! then lose the value!!! hehe great!

[11:32]  Melody Regent looks over her shoulder and smiles “thank you for the sign love, it helped get the attention of Jack”

[11:32]  Jack Linden: I’m mainly talking about general promo for estates as a Land option.. as I said last week, it’s hard to promo specific estates and be both fair and sensible about where we drive people

[11:32]  Nema Galicia: yeah a day late and a doller short here, it wold have been better to have all of that inplace before opening them to begine with

[11:32]  Equinox Pinion: you do have linden homes for almost 6 months now…and tribled them…did nothing for us

[11:32]  Motor Loon: I made it myself

[11:32]  Jack Linden: But targetted opportunities like advertising etc are coming

[11:32]  Callie Cline: sorry jack im in a pissy mood now, no offense ill be quiet now.

[11:32]  Talarus Luan: yes, just like the end of microparcel extortion. <.<

[11:32]  Ozzie Drucker: i protest peole who protest protesters

[11:33]  Melody Regent: So LL wont do any promos, but you will give us wonder and great tools for US to promote ourselves?

[11:33]  Jack Linden: No worries Callie.

[11:33]  Chaley May: when will we be able to search stares by rental cost per prim?

[11:33]  Talarus Luan: Still waiting on that one, btw. <.<

[11:33]  Callie Cline: i’ll be nice on our date i promise :)

[11:33]  Chaley May: stares = estates?

[11:33]  Chaley May: i have no idea how i spelled that so bad

[11:33]  Jack Linden: Melody, we’ll promote estates in general yes.. and yes the intention longer term is to let you guys advertise – we want to provide good ways to get your business exposure

[11:34]  Uni Ninetails: and make easy cash huh.

[11:34]  Talarus Luan: Money is always good. :)

[11:34]  Jack Linden: One of the first tasks though is to fix search which is veryunhappy right now

[11:34]  Zoha Boa: advertise at 4.5K US$ for 11 hrs ??

[11:34]  Melody Regent: Chaley is right, we need to have lots of seach dynamics. TO people can really do a better job and not get alot of the crap they get now

[11:34]  Chaley May: the reason a lot dont bother with estates is because there is no ability to search the best deal

[11:34]  Tararose Violet: I agree on that one Jack thank you

[11:34]  Driftwood Miles: no **** sherlock ;)

[11:34]  Jack Linden: So we will be pushing increased resource at getting search right

[11:35]  Stacy Maracas: Business Exposure as in doing away with the illegal bots that are allowed to be there despite the numerous reports filed DAILY Jack???

[11:35]  Sarah Nerd: yay!

[11:35]  paeoti Pomeray: lol

[11:35]  Ozzie Drucker: i protest people who protest protesters and then photograph themselves

[11:35]  Tararose Violet: thank you Stacey

[11:35]  Jack Linden: Agreed. Search has to really fit the proposition – estate parcels are not the same as a classified ad or buying a hat.

[11:35]  Jack Linden: So we need to make sure it serves the market

[11:35]  Chaley May: searching for simple things like this is not hard to do.. its like LL try think they need to search like google or something

[11:35]  Equinox Pinion: stacy…that problem will solve itself when the new search is working…traffic will not be importnat anymore

[11:35]  Reverend Upshaw is Offline

[11:35]  Sarah Nerd: I protest people who protest people who protest protesters and then photograph themselves

[11:35]  Melody Regent: Well, that does bring me to another question Jack. We are talking about an extra cost to advertise? Or will you give us free ways to work the promotions or a combo? We already pay alot and since you are getting the benefits of the tier we pay, even when our clients dont, what would be be looking at $$L wise for this new service?

[11:36]  Talarus Luan: Gads.. one can only hope.

[11:36]  Ozzie Drucker: i agree

[11:36]  Yohan Pintens: I steal and eat chickens from petting zoos

[11:36]  Stacy Maracas: till the cheats find another way to game the system and ll lets it go on and ruins the economy even more so ㋡

[11:36]  Jack Linden: Melody, I don’t think we’ve decided that yet. Ideally there would be ways to get noticed whether you are a tiny estate or a huge one

[11:36]  Logger Sewell is Online

[11:36]  Jack Linden: So I think it’ll be a combination

[11:36]  Reverend Upshaw is Online

[11:36]  Vanity Bonetto: sorry …. I am late …. :)

[11:37]  Seattle LeShelle: can we smaller estates have your word on that jack:)

[11:37]  Maxx Borchovski is Online

[11:37]  Driftwood Miles: a pixel worth of promotion space on the login?

[11:37]  Melody Regent: Who are you working with on this? I will be honest, I hope you are asking the actually USERS and not just a room full of Lindens. Jack, you all dont really know much about how to promote land. So who is helping make these developements for US the END USER

[11:37]  Jack Linden: Seattle.. haha yes. W have a very long tail of ownership.. many of the estates are small. It’s important that we support all of them

[11:38]  Seattle LeShelle: i mean my 2 grand a month is not much compared to bigger ones but it should be worth something.

[11:38]  Qie Niangao: so… might Estate owners (that’s not me) want some input on what sorts of features / criteria on which they’d want properties to be searchable?

[11:38]  Lady Sakai: yea but you have to sell a pic of your granny snogging the devil on ebay to afford it Driftwood

[11:38]  Sarah Nerd: Agrees with Melody. LL is generally out of touch with actual users with all that stuff

[11:38]  Seattle LeShelle: agrees with sarah and melody

[11:38]  Jack Linden: Melody, we’ll be gathering feedback and surveying and so on. Youwill get a chance to give input. We’re also talking to external folks that provide professional advertising platforms to better understand the tools that are out there

[11:39]  Uni Ninetails nods also

[11:39]  Jack Linden: It makes no sense for us to reinvent a platform if there are good options we can use.

[11:39]  Talarus Luan: Aye. I hear spam works pretty good.

[11:39]  Stacy Maracas: and bots

[11:39]  Stacy Maracas: and bots that spam

[11:39]  Jack Linden wishes he hadn’t ready Lady’s comment

[11:39]  Melody Regent: Jack? Seriously? EXTERNAL FOLKS? LL is a platform all its own and I am not sure that external people with no clue will be able to really help with this

[11:39]  Lady Sakai: oh sowwy jack ;)

[11:40]  Equinox Pinion: agrees with mel!! external folks have no clue abou it

[11:40]  Uni Ninetails: Last time you got external Viewer 2 got pooped out *ducks

[11:40]  Qie Niangao: lol Uni

[11:40]  Ciaran Laval: Jack external folks don’t seem to have the best form if viewer 2.0 is anything to go by

[11:40]  Talarus Luan: Uni.. ouch

[11:40]  Lady Sakai shivers reading Unis comment

[11:40]  Uni Ninetails: ouch nothin.

[11:40]  Jack Linden: Melody, worry not! I’m talking about ad platforms that are white label, such that we could integrate and offer a rich toolset to estates and businesses quickly.

[11:40]  Seattle LeShelle: you really need some 1.23 folks as well.:)

[11:40]  Driftwood Miles: Well going by the , and excuse me, the amateurish effort with MOTD, they really need pro help …no offence :)

[11:41]  Jack Linden: It would be absolutely custom to the Second Life world

[11:41]  Melody Regent: LL h as a history of not asking the right people and then coming up with something that has nothing to do with what we want. I dont need the adveisers of Nike to tell me what is best for me to advertise my land

[11:41]  Stacy Maracas: Hmmmm afterthought, Pink linden was external from EBay and she hasnt done much to help the ecnonomy around here….matter of fact, isnt it worse now???

[11:41]  Melody Regent: I worry Jack, the history is not a good one

[11:41]  Jack Linden: Hehe no offence taken Driftwood. But you know, we learnt something from it and some of the feedback on motd was really helpful

[11:41]  Talarus Luan: Maybe the wheel needs a little bit of reinventing. <.<

[11:42]  Chaley May: We all give you great ideas to work with but they just dont get listened to

[11:42]  Lady Sakai: see jack, again history tells us that you say that and then you turn left where you should have turned right or … ya know ?

[11:42]  Driftwood Miles: I have no doubts Jack, but it sent out a horrible message and was not well received. But if it garnered good insights then not a total failure :)

[11:42]  Chaley May: then they go pay people to come up with dumb ideas that affect us

[11:42]  Melody Regent: Jack, stop going outside the grid for help and paying money to people that know nothing about this. Ask the people that ARE HERE. That USE IS. That KNOW what will work and what wont. You all go off on the odd quests and bring back sour grapes noone wants. Stop and look inward

[11:43]  Callie Cline: wow

[11:43]  Ozzie Drucker: its called the accounting department

[11:43]  Jack Linden: Well, hopefully you guys can ensure we turn the right way. You will get plenty of opportunity to let us know what you need.

[11:43]  Jack Linden: :)

[11:43]  Callie Cline looks to see if jack does what he’s told.

[11:43]  Master Kane: I agree Mel!

[11:43]  Melody Regent: How do we ensure you go the right way if you simply ROLL OUT the new policy without asking us first?

[11:43]  Callie Cline: but u dont listen

[11:43]  Techwolf Lupindo: I’ve been getting reports of busness income dropping like a rock after the new search was put into place.

[11:43]  Callie Cline: no kding

[11:43]  Callie Cline: omg

[11:43]  Chaley May: we let you know everything we want all the time but LL arent the best at listening to what we want

[11:43]  Callie Cline: listen FIRST maybe?

[11:44]  Ciaran Laval: New search is absolutely awful, I have no idea what they were thinking of

[11:44]  Lady Sakai: yes Jack but will you listen and actually use some of the advise .. or listen and file it in the bin ?

[11:44]  Tararose Violet: Yes Techwolf, alot in many places on the new search has not helped

[11:44]  Uni Ninetails: Tech: why i never relied on it. word of mouth 4tw.

[11:44]  Equinox Pinion: i cannot recall one issue you listen to us

[11:44]  Talarus Luan: Yeah, but it is like holding back a tidal wave with a broom, once you guys latch onto something that was overhyped to you by some slick salesmen.

[11:44]  Callie Cline: u listen it seems when ppl protest in mass

[11:44]  Callie Cline: sadly

[11:44]  Ozzie Drucker: voting would be nice..i can dream can’t i?

[11:44]  Stacy Maracas: well 70k traffic at your store and 37947398473 people reporting the 55 bots you have there and being ignored COMPLETELY sure doesnt help the traffic system, new or not ㋡

[11:44]  Lady Sakai: I can but usually when its to late and the boat is sunk anyway

[11:44]  Melody Regent: Jack, you need someone on the inside working with you. I will sell my estate to Zoha and come be a linden if you would actually LISTEN to the ideas I had or the ideas of the people (I only say this becuase I know there is not a snow balls chance in hell I would be hired or be listened too)

[11:45]  Callie Cline: well there are other worlds emerging that DO listen first

[11:45]  Callie Cline: blue mars

[11:45]  Callie Cline: imvu

[11:45]  Zoha Boa: lol melody

[11:45]  Callie Cline: doing qutei well

[11:45]  Stacy Maracas: actually melody a number o fLindens have been hired form right here in world over the years.

[11:45]  Lady Sakai: and yes the bots are a HUGE problem also .. thre you listend and you said it was a no go with bots and stil they are there

[11:45]  Callie Cline: but sadly for me they aren’t LL

[11:45]  Master Kane: i think thats part of the issue now Mel… some lindens were users/players and think they know it all

[11:46]  Uni Ninetails: As i see it once an ex user goes Linden there so restriced in what they can say or do they lose touch. *shrugs

[11:46]  Stacy Maracas: sorry but i can see people in this room that still use bots, so yea its an issue that we were promised would be handled and it isnt….not properly

[11:46]  Talarus Luan: I’d become a Linden, but they’d have to name me Hostile Linden. :P I’d probably have the shortest tenure of any Linden, too. :P

[11:46]  Lady Sakai: try parttime users MK .. think you know who Im refering to

[11:46]  Master Kane: Can I go to the Lindens Reasearch Of Schooling? How much is it? where is it?

[11:46]  Jack Linden: Melody, we do listen. And we will listen more and be reaching out more, and earlier in the process. This stuff won’t appear overnight, it’ll take take for us to get the requirements and understand the scope of work. As i said, we’ll be talking about features, surveying residents etc.

[11:46]  Master Kane: :)

[11:46]  Melody Regent: I know they have Stacey and yet….

[11:46]  Lady Sakai: hey hire me . I wanna beat Talarus in that quest ;)

[11:46]  Ciaran Laval: Tal I don’t think your first office hour would go the distance ;)

[11:46]  Chaley May: if you really listened why do you need external peoples to tell you the opposite to what we say?

[11:46]  Master Kane: oh yeah stacy… i can see too :)

[11:46]  Qie Niangao: Tal, during that brief flash of being a Linden, please stop by and fix my goddamn adfarm holes.

[11:47]  Callie Cline: well i do appreciate that you did give a few months notice on the one thing jack, htat’s a baby step in the right directoin…

[11:47]  Talarus Luan: Shoot.. my office hours would be amazing. :D

[11:47]  Kavai Onizuka is Offline

[11:47]  Talarus Luan: “What do you want?” “Does it make sense?” “Done!”

[11:47]  Master Kane: lol tal

[11:47]  Equinox Pinion: lol tal

[11:47]  Uni Ninetails: :D

[11:47]  Ozzie Drucker: feels no inclination to lol

[11:47]  Reverend Upshaw is Online

[11:48]  Jack Linden: Hehe Tal, I only wish it were that simple. That would be great

[11:48]  Talarus Luan: I’d PERSONALLY see to your adfarm holes, Qie. That’s my campaign promise, if I am elected Linden.. oh wait..

[11:48]  Stacy Maracas: Jack Im sorry you ptraonize us with a smile on your face, and it seems our ideas and opinions are neglected , tossed aside and never given another thought. WIth all due respect some of us have been here a very long time on this journey with LL, and have seen many changes, that many os US helped to implement back when we used to get heard. Now businesses are failing and our voices are SILENCED…..patronized….patronized…

[11:48]  Driftwood Miles: Jack, expediency on Search and Forums would methinks serve to show progress.

[11:48]  Melody Regent: Jack, I keep hoping, I really do keep hoping, that is why I sit here each week. Even when noone shows up or lets us know that the meeting is canceled. I do it beucase I keep hoping. Once day Jack, I have a dream. A Dream that you all actually do not only listen but impliment. I listen to my kids asking for computer games all day long. But I dont get them. Well, once in a while I do, to shut them up. Guess you all parent us the same way.

[11:48]  Lady Sakai: Jack maybe its more simple than you give it credit for. There is such a thing as overcomplication things

[11:48]  Talarus Luan: Well, Jack, I’ve been part of organizations where it WAS that simple. So, yeah.

[11:49]  Talarus Luan: ANYway.. mainland prices?

[11:49]  Charity Goldfarb: Jacks new office hours – 8am to 5pm

[11:49]  Jack Linden: Stacy, I’m not patronising. I take this very seriously. But hearing an idea doesn’t mean we can always implement it. There are no shortage of different opinions and we do debate at great length

[11:49]  Tararose Violet: I know some business’s that have complied to alot of the asked changes, and such, including no camping chairs, or bots and the business’s do not now get the search they had before. I do hope in a way that does get fixed

[11:49]  Chaley May: Linden Labs does seem to make running of a virtual world more difficult than it needs to be

[11:50]  Chaley May: and then ends up passing on difficulty onto its residents

[11:50]  Melody Regent: Jack you h ave to admit, there are more “Hey lets roll this out now…” followed by “Oh shit, we fucked up, dont tell anyone” than there is “Lets get input and make it right first then roll it out”

[11:50]  Qie Niangao: Chaley: First, we kill all the lawyers.

[11:50]  Melody Regent: Well, no you dont have to admit, you would be fired

[11:50]  Chaley May: I dont think LL will be happy enough till they have a Beuarocracy that can rival a realgovernment

[11:50]  Talarus Luan: Too late. :P

[11:50]  Chaley May: Beaurocracy

[11:51]  Master Kane: stacey.. what you need is a bot to report bot so that you can leaveit there untila linden gets there.. log the time and see how long it takes :) )

[11:51]  Driftwood Miles: is it really this bad?

[11:51]  Stacy Maracas: I do understand that Jack, but please understand in my eyes Linden Labs decisions have always been for Linden labs and not for the content creators. Using the bots for perfect example grab my 3489759843 tickets on bots, businesses that are using them to hike traffic and steal business form others beg beg beggging hey guy PLEASE follow the RULES that YOU put out there….and yet weeks later there those bots still are…..just a point jack one small issue of many

[11:51]  Talarus Luan: Bureaucracy

[11:51]  Chaley May: lol thanx Tal

[11:51]  Lady Sakai: did you google that one Tal ? ;)

[11:52]  Jack Linden: Melody, I certainly wouldn’t sit here and say that we’re perfect.. we’ve clearly taken some bad steps at times. We’re passionate about what we do and in many ways we’re still a very small company with a very large product. We are, however, getting much better and quickly.

[11:52]  Talarus Luan: No, I actually can spell pretty good. :P

[11:52]  Drongle McMahon: Byoorokrissy

[11:52]  Master Kane: i know that i reported one place that is in concierge and he still has bots.. 10 times I reported and even called 2 times.. still there

[11:52]  Tararose Violet: Chaley, you know ya all may get mad at me on this one, but there is a problem in that whole statement, there is a goverment out there, several and they all do have a hand into this. I am sure Jack and the rest of the LL team do have to comply to points and that in itself must be stressing, so the goverment comment is a bit well, personnally I think wrong to say.

[11:52]  Master Kane: must be a good brown noser

[11:52]  Stacy Maracas: master kane i do….and im not a bot….i have spreadhseets yes im that anal becasue in my opinion them dang bots ar eone of the bigegst issues we have in this place.

[11:52]  Melody Regent: Jack are you sitting?

[11:52]  Stacy Maracas: since the day a Linden introduced them to us

[11:52]  Master Kane: Oh i ddnt mean that you were stacey.. none the least

[11:53]  Vanity Bonetto: title off

[11:53]  Jack Linden: hehe Melody, yes

[11:53]  Seattle LeShelle: if you are getting better may i ask why a viewer was released prior to it really being ready:) is that part of the learning curve?

[11:53]  Melody Regent: You are getting better, but you have been in the ocean, alone for so long, you are pruned. So I know you understand how we doubt and deny. Thank you for getting better, but lets get better faster. Please

[11:54]  paeoti Pomeray: I would truly like to see where the policies that Linden Lab has incorporated has helped and not hindered nor hurt. Things have gotten far far worse than I ever dreampt they could of gotten and Linden Lab simply wants to keep raising tier, and incorporating viewers that render your and your business useless

[11:54]  Lady Sakai: best if that was yeaterday Jack ;)

[11:54]  Motor Loon checks if Mel has a fever

[11:54]  Jack Linden: I definitely don’t want us to be pruned.

[11:54]  Uni Ninetails: Hey Jack when are us EM’s and my boss getting some prelim info on script memory and url limits?

[11:54]  Chaley May: but have we ever seen Linden labs act to change government policy towards Virtual Worlds?

[11:54]  Chaley May: i dont see them doing nothing but complying with rules which may not have virtual worlds in mind

[11:54]  Master Kane: good question seattle.. and why in the hell make it nasty looking.. do all you linden programmers smoke that much crack there?!

[11:54]  Talarus Luan: Marijuana, Master.

[11:55]  Master Kane: either or

[11:55]  Talarus Luan: They are in California, remember

[11:55]  Chaley May: so far LL has been saying its upto us to make governments change

[11:55]  Master Kane: both

[11:55]  Drongle McMahon: Jack. Can we please have snapshot prohibition on mainland by April 30th so that it is possible to protect texture IP?

[11:55]  Qie Niangao: (script memory: love the 1.38.1 info… *lots* of surprises, bot in parcel and avatar memory use)

[11:55]  Master Kane: oh hell yah.. mines on the 1.38.1 and lemme tell ya… I LOVE IT!

[11:55]  Motor Loon: snapshot prohibition?!

[11:55]  Jack Linden: The Viewer decision was a hard one.. I’d agree that it’s not the finished article. We’re iterating very quickly and happily the new codebase will let us go faster, but we also know that there is plenty to do

[11:56]  Sophi Humby: Jack, do you have any plan, to increase the number of residents online? It looks that they are the same during the last year.

[11:56]  Ciaran Laval: Won’t be that useful until they let us cap mono though Qie, but it’s a nice starting point

[11:56]  Melody Regent: How about another CSI episode or something?

[11:56]  Jack Linden: Drongle, have you seen the new tos.. that will be the policy there really.

[11:56]  Master Kane: go faster jack?? come oNNNNNN… there is MORE effin clicks then before…

[11:56]  Driftwood Miles: Marketing should not have dictated launch Jack

[11:56]  Master Kane: to do the SAME thing

[11:56]  Qie Niangao: Ciaran: yeah, that’s the bad news: that the fix for Mono rezzing won’t be till 1.42 if then

[11:56]  Talarus Luan: Jack, before you go, can you give us an idea of current average mainland prices and microparcel counts?

[11:56]  Stacy Maracas: policies that will actually be followed up On Jack???

[11:56]  Techwolf Lupindo: Yea, parcel owner and estate owner need to be able to ban mono as it really lags the sim a lot more then LSL. :-)

[11:57]  Drongle McMahon: That means all texture copyright protection disappears then.

[11:57]  Ciaran Laval: Agree with Drift, viewer 2.0 clearly isn’t ready for prime time

[11:57]  Stacy Maracas: (yes im back to the bot/camper policy)

[11:57]  Seattle LeShelle: and also give us a idea when search wil be fixed a month> 2 months>

[11:57]  Seattle LeShelle: and land forums back?

[11:57]  Master Kane: oh no.. he isnt going untill 11:20 thats one hour from the hoopla gang

[11:57]  Vanity Bonetto: Jack, whatever you do with the new viewer, PLEASE fix the search … the daily number of visitors went down by 60% now and you almost NEVER see someone dropping in who is using the VIEWER 2.0 …..

[11:57]  Seattle LeShelle: a target date would be nice

[11:57]  Jack Linden: Sophi, yes we do. We’ve actually stepped up our promotion and marketing a lot and it’s having an impact.. you’ll see ads in various social networks for example. But yes, we know we have to drive more residents

[11:57]  Drongle McMahon: I have to close my galleries.

[11:57]  Ozzie Drucker: mhhhmmm

[11:57]  Master Kane: teasing jack :)

[11:58]  Ciaran Laval: Plus the measuring of all Mono scripts as 64K Qie, well it’s an accurate stat as it stands but later in the year people will be able to fix it, sure made me realise how many scripts are in a hipporent box though!

[11:58]  xeena Zenovka: the new V2 search will kill us all

[11:58]  Jack Linden: Vanity, agreed. Search is number 1 there

[11:58]  Vanity Bonetto: THANK YOU

[11:58]  Talarus Luan: Yeah, Hippo is really inefficient.

[11:58]  Lady Sakai: Jack .. I see advertising for places like Wow on tv etc .. its infuriating when SL isnt promoted

[11:58]  Master Kane: i can do with the 1.38.1 ,, just not the new viewer.. that shit made me sick

[11:58]  Chaley May: how long till search is fixed?

[11:58]  Tararose Violet: Hippo is high on scripts too

[11:58]  Jack Linden: Ciaran, were there surprises in the numbers then?

[11:59]  Ciaran Laval: 13 Mono scripts per box Jack, I hadn’t really thought to check that

[11:59]  Lady Sakai agrees on the Hippo statement

[11:59]  Jack Linden nods

[11:59]  Jack Linden: Yeah, my alt changed furniture too. :)

[11:59]  Ozzie Drucker: we all agree on hippo…lol. one thin gin common

[11:59]  Talarus Luan: Jack, before you go, can you give us an idea of current average mainland prices and microparcel counts? Please?

[11:59]  Nema Galicia: I have seen the Sims advrtised on tv and on FB and we are tons better then those

[11:59]  Qie Niangao: most surprising to me was a bunch of scripts hidden in child prims of attachments I had no idea were scripted at all

[11:59]  Jack Linden: Tal, sure.. let me grab those

[12:00]  Lady Sakai: hippo give me a headace lol

[12:00]  Ozzie Drucker: whats your alts name jack?

[12:00]  Ciaran Laval: I saw you post about that Qie, it’s really useful to see that sort of thing

[12:00]  Ozzie Drucker: cmon…

[12:00]  Motor Loon: Jackie

[12:00]  Master Kane: lol motor

[12:00]  Motor Loon giggles

[12:00]  Master Kane: grandmajackie

[12:00]  Techwolf Lupindo: current mainland, 1.3L$/m2

[12:00]  Lady Sakai: more to the point .. is he married ? (J/K)

[12:00]  Motor Loon: No, we’re just dating… lol…

[12:00]  Alexxa Despres: lol

[12:00]  Ozzie Drucker: his alt anme is…theyinsultme soi hide

[12:00]  Lady Sakai: ewww Motor :p

[12:01]  Master Kane: lmao

[12:01]  Driftwood Miles: Supersim?

[12:01]  Melody Regent: dont forget the pictures dear

[12:01]  Ciaran Laval: haha Drift

[12:01]  Motor Loon: Danes are openminded as you know Lady ;-)

[12:01]  Jack Linden: Tal, average Mainland price for individual buyers is low.. trending around L$3.7 per meter. Sometimes a little higher but around there

[12:01]  Driftwood Miles: :)

[12:01]  Melody Regent: How are SuperSims coming Jack?

[12:01]  Talarus Luan: Cool

[12:01]  Ciaran Laval: You get that one in every week

[12:01]  Talarus Luan: About what I figured

[12:01]  Lady Sakai: yea yea but somehow that just creaped me out :p

[12:01]  Master Kane: so go with 4 tal :)

[12:01]  Jack Linden: Tal, there are 2288 16m parcels for sale right now.

[12:01]  Seattle LeShelle: i need to run rl bye all bye jack :)

[12:01]  Jack Linden: About the same as last week

[12:01]  Motor Loon: Jack looks really cute in a dress actually

[12:01]  Master Kane: bye seattle

[12:01]  Jack Linden: cheers Seattle

[12:02]  Driftwood Miles: LOL

[12:02]  Master Kane: lmao

[12:02]  Uni Ninetails: O.O

[12:02]  Melody Regent: He has asked 3 or 4 times and no reply

[12:02]  Lady Sakai: cya Motor .. btw I want oics ;)

[12:02]  Melody Regent: so I figure I yell lounder

[12:03]  Qie Niangao: gee… they’re so rare and valuable, those microparcels… You’d think it would make the neighboring parcels more appealing. :o

[12:03]  Motor Loon: I’ll do video

[12:03]  Motor Loon goes back to work

[12:03]  Lady Sakai: yum yum

[12:03]  Master Kane: lord

[12:03]  Driftwood Miles: agrees with Melody ;)

[12:03]  Talarus Luan: Nope. just means I give up and sell out. :P

[12:03]  Melody Regent wiggles and waves at her biker

[12:03]  Master Kane: later all

[12:03]  Melody Regent: that I am louder or that you have asked with no reply?

[12:03]  Driftwood Miles: :D

[12:03]  Jack Linden: I tend to just absorb driftwood rather than reply to every sentence. like a wine.

[12:03]  Jack Linden: :)

[12:04]  Driftwood Miles: whine???? ouch

[12:04]  Lady Sakai: would that be a good wine or ?

[12:04]  Jack Linden: hehehe

[12:04]  Jack Linden: okay guys, I’m late for my next gig. Thank you all for coming along

[12:04]  Lady Sakai: tc Jack :)

[12:04]  Uni Ninetails: ty jack have fun

[12:04]  Sarah Nerd waves

[12:04]  Jack Linden: have a great week. take care!

[12:04]  Sophi Humby: Thank you Jack have a nice week

[12:04]  Talarus Luan: Next week, Jack. Same Jack time, same Jack channel.

[12:04]  Driftwood Miles: Thank you Jack

[12:04]  Qie Niangao: thanks Jack. Kill an extortionist when you get a chance.

[12:04]  Melody Regent: Well, I have a kid that need to see a dentist. I will see you next week jack. You should be ready, you know what my focus is!

[12:04]  Ciaran Laval: Cheers Jack

Jack Linden meeting of 04/08/2010

April 15th, 2010

I was not able to attend this meeting but the transcripts were provided by Lady Sakai

[11:01]  Sarah Nerd: People with signs and all!
[11:02]  xstorm Radek: Jack why did not Linden Labs just admit its error and given back all them homesteads money and remove the damn homesteads ?
[11:02]  Jack Linden: I see signs! Looks like 7 – 7 – 7 ?
[11:02]  Equinox Pinion: lol
[11:02]  Aztek Aeon: better than 666
[11:02]  Lady Sakai: thats T-T-T .. Jack lol
[11:02]  Equinox Pinion: can someone gag xstrorm lol
[11:02]  Sarah Nerd: They are so evil, 6 didn’t want them so they had to go with 7
[11:02]  Callie Cline: we are here represeting over 4000 owners or more and we are doing this with only a few of us here to represent them so that there is not griefing or profanity, or anything that would detract from our proposal to you.
[11:02]  Jack Linden: Oh right, sorry.. they haven’t rezzed yet
[11:03]  xstorm Radek: lol
[11:03]  Lady Sakai: nope .. this is only mature .. wed have to go to adult for that
[11:03]  Callie Cline: we think your announcement was a good step in giving people time and we like that you gave notice, we think you did great in that and we propose this in order to cover something you may have not seen which is the fact that on May 1, we will lose 75% of our land’s value which is not just in tier but in resell.
[11:03]  Aldus Comet is Online
[11:03]  Callie Cline: we think our proposal is a fair and nice compromise that keeps current owners protected AND informs future buyers.
[11:03]  Callie Cline: we wish to work wiht LL In creating a more stable environment for land owners NOW and in the future.
[11:03]  Callie Cline: 1. We propose the May deadline lifted for transfer of tiers for grandfathered sims.

2, We propose that the current owner and ANY owner prior to MAY 1st receive th is ONE time GF transfer.
[11:03]  Callie Cline: :)
[11:03]  xstorm Radek: Jack see if you had them HTTP Texture servers up and running you no be having to watch stuff rez this slow
[11:03]  Julie Carpathea: well as for notice I only found out about it yesterday :(
[11:04]  Callie Cline: that’s why were are here
[11:04]  Jayson Perway is Online
[11:04]  Callie Cline: many ppl did not know about it
[11:04]  Callie Cline: we are here to offer a proposal to you on what we see as a fair compromise and open up possibilities.
[11:04]  Jack Linden is reading back
[11:04]  Chaley May: Jack… Why exactly are Homestead tiers higher? did you ever change anything with the hardware and software to need this increase in cash?
[11:04]  Callie Cline: :)
[11:04]  You decline Jack’s Office Hours Landmark from A group member named Ozzie Drucker.
[11:04]  xstorm Radek: lol oh this will be fun to watch
[11:05]  Chant Juran: )
[11:05]  Alliez Mysterio whispers: Pass Callie some vitimans
[11:05]  Jack Linden: Hey Callie.. first of all, I really appreciate that you guys have been constructive about this
[11:05]  Callie Cline: hehe im focused that’s all :)
[11:05]  Callie Cline: :)
[11:05]  Callie Cline: ty jack
[11:05]  Jack Linden: Can you talk more to point 2? Are you saying that the grandfathering should always be in place on transfer?
[11:06]  Callie Cline: no
[11:06]  Andree Wierwight would hold a sign.. but does not believe that a huge sign works like it did back in the 70′s during strikes
[11:06]  Callie Cline: wel of course we’d like that if it owuld be possible
[11:06]  Callie Cline: but we’re offering a compromise
[11:06]  Ozzie Drucker: jack…it is unfair i think with an arbitrary date,,to de value sims bought by those of us who have invested , and trusted, that the value would be there. many have paid up to 2000 usd for gf fulll sims. they will now be worth 500 usd ? how can you rationalize that as ok?
[11:06]  Callie Cline: which would elminate the may frist killing of GF
[11:07]  Equinox Pinion: more 300 ozzie :)
[11:07]  Callie Cline: It keeps the VALUE of our land from falling 75% on MAY 1, AND it lets the new buyer KNOW what they are getting. Something we did not know.
[11:07]  Aztek Aeon: 500 on a good day
[11:07]  Ozzie Drucker: we propose a one time lifetime priveliege to pass ont he tier
[11:07]  Sarah Nerd: They have been talking about making all tier 293 for at least a good few years.
[11:07]  Ozzie Drucker: yes
[11:07]  Equinox Pinion: jack..did you ever send out an email to people who owe gf sims..or was there just the blogpost? if so i think many really dont know about it yet
[11:07]  Jack Linden: okay, so what exactly are you proposing on 1st May?
[11:07]  Gooden Uggla: sarah, hear them out, they have a fair compromise
[11:08]  Jack Linden: Not sure I understand
[11:08]  Callie Cline: any compnay that raises a price from195 to 295 at one time will not insure confidience in fture buyers
[11:09]  Lady Sakai: Sure Sarah, but that is still overprices .. especially in the days market
[11:09]  Callie Cline: we dont not want to argue abou ttier
[11:09]  Jack Linden: Ahh okay, so you’re suggesting that 1 more transfer of the tier rate be allowed *after* May 1st, but that after that it gets nailed down?
[11:09]  Huntr Gustafson: and cost LL nothing
[11:09]  Group Invite Request:  StarDurt Winterwolf has requested to be added.
[11:09]  Callie Cline: a ONE TEIM allowance to any person who owns on may 1 OR u perhaps could extend the deadline to june
[11:09]  Callie Cline: this way
[11:09]  Aztek Aeon: at the very least… with land having lost as much value as it has, this really has been the final nail in the coffin for so many
[11:10]  Callie Cline: those of us who own… wil NOT lose 75% value
[11:10]  Callie Cline: in may
[11:10]  Callie Cline: that’s 80K usd to some in this room
[11:10]  Callie Cline: that creates a very unstable marekt
[11:10]  Ozzie Drucker: yes,,one time…lifetime…that would aslo slow the rate of all these trnsfers..and the destability that causes
[11:10]  Gooden Uggla: Jack – i think i was just curious when the emails about this were going to go out
[11:10]  Callie Cline: new ppl do NOT want to buy land
[11:10]  Ciaran Laval: you’re still saving a lot of money on tier though, so the 80% claim isn’t fair
[11:10]  Callie Cline: with things like this that can happen
[11:10]  Julie Carpathea: i spoke with Aquarius Paravane, who runs the largest business for landowners in SL and even she was unaware of these new policy changes until i told her just yesterday
[11:11]  Callie Cline: many are unawayre that is why we are here
[11:11]  Driftwood Miles: removing the deadline would be a good compromise and maitiain the value for those that bought
[11:11]  Callie Cline: and why we wnated to offer a proposal
[11:11]  Ozzie Drucker: some are going to lose thousands and thousands of usd due to this
[11:11]  Callie Cline: we KNOW u wish the confidence to be restored
[11:11]  Ozzie Drucker: when they don’t have to
[11:11]  Aztek Aeon: and many have sold out and left already
[11:11]  Ciaran Laval: You’ll only lose if you intend to sell
[11:11]  Callie Cline: and we want to work WITH you
[11:11]  Sarah Nerd: Yea they have had a $100 a month advantage for a very long time so I think it evens out the higher buy price argument.
[11:11]  xstorm Radek: Why not point out how low the Homestead prims are at the cost your paying ?
[11:11]  Callie Cline: to ENSURE tha thappens
[11:11]  Jonathan Yap: Is this about the old Class 4 regions that have been paying less monthly tier?
[11:11]  Aztek Aeon: Sarah its not any different than the Open Space debacle. YOu remember how upset you were about that
[11:12]  Callie Cline: if poisslbe jack.. we’d like to hav ea meeting to discuss further
[11:12]  Ozzie Drucker: one person told me..they estimate a loss of 60000 dollars usd in value
[11:12]  Ciaran Laval: Yes Jonathan, although I don’t think there are many class 4 sims left if any and some of these regions were always class 5
[11:12]  Equinox Pinion: if many dont know it 3 weeks before the deadline it is real problem jack
[11:12]  Aztek Aeon: I bought my GF sim 1 week before this was announced
[11:12]  Ozzie Drucker: thats just not tolerable is it?
[11:12]  Gooden Uggla: sarah, people are buying them on transfer with neither party knowing about may 1st
[11:12]  Aztek Aeon: aaaaand he crashed
[11:12]  Jayson Perway is Offline
[11:12]  Lady Sakai: Callie, if I may ? Some do have another suggestion to put to Jack .. dont mean to put a stick in your speach but :)
[11:12]  Chant Juran: laffs
[11:12]  Ozzie Drucker: lol
[11:12]  Chaley May: hes had enough :)
[11:12]  Ozzie Drucker: he will be back
[11:12]  Callie Cline: if this is not the place. the point is…. many of us including myself were told the GF was ALWAYS transferable i have it in chat…
[11:12]  Callie Cline: np, we’re just here for a purpose :)
[11:12]  Driftwood Miles: the deadline is the issue and has created a pretty nasty market out there
[11:13]  Callie Cline: that’s why we are here
[11:13]  Chaley May: what does GF mean?
[11:13]  Aztek Aeon: Lady I am sure after she speaks, others will have their turn
[11:13]  Nimh20 Vandeverre: Yes what does GF mean?
[11:13]  Ciaran Laval: USD$100 a month less tier payments Chaley
[11:13]  Lady Sakai: yes we all are .. but there are other solutions to this issue .. thats all Im saying :)
[11:13]  Aztek Aeon: we’re all here hoping for some kind of change
[11:13]  Callie Cline: well i came with a goal representing thousands of ppl :)
[11:13]  Ozzie Drucker: if you want to join us..join TTT…..open to join
[11:13]  xstorm Radek: lol
[11:13]  Andree Wierwight: at an estimated 60k in losses, if that person were to up and leave, 10 others in same situation leave, what would LL gain?
[11:13]  Julie Carpathea: sarah you have been around long enough all of your sims should be GF…no?
[11:13]  Gooden Uggla: grandfatered – GF is the land market term
[11:13]  Ardy Lay: Did you scare Jack away?
[11:13]  Chaley May: ok
[11:13]  xstorm Radek: then you will have a T Party lol
[11:14]  Callie Cline: im sure jack just crashed and will be back ;)
[11:14]  Nimh20 Vandeverre: And is this about about a Tier increase for homesteads?
[11:14]  xstorm Radek: WB Jack
[11:14]  Chant Juran: i think if the lindens agreeto a one more time we should be pleased
[11:14]  Callie Cline: wb jack!
[11:14]  Jack Linden: sorry crashed
[11:14]  Gooden Uggla: wb Jack
[11:14]  Alliez Mysterio: Definitions
grandfather clause
noun
A clause or section, especially in a law,
granting exceptions for previously existing or sufficiently
old conditions that might otherwise be affected.

Many building codes include a grandfather clause exempting
older buildings until some amount of remodeling occurs
[11:14]  Callie Cline: missed you!!!!
[11:14]  Jack Linden: on hotel wifi here
[11:14]  Jack Linden: right so..
[11:14]  Callie Cline: thank you
[11:14]  Aztek Aeon: Nimh for all grandfathered sims
[11:14]  Jack Linden: let me just repeat what i was typing..
[11:14]  Ozzie Drucker: wb jack
[11:14]  Andree Wierwight: if that is 60k est losses, what is that persons actual monthly tier? 400k?
[11:14]  Talarus Luan: I’m for cheap sims as much as anyone, but everyone has to know that grandfathering of service rates has to end sometime. <.<
[11:14]  Lady Sakai: complain to the concierge jack ;)
[11:14]  xstorm Radek: Jack no Info like that its not permited remember the TOS ;-)
[11:14]  Driftwood Miles: those Kings Cross Hotels are the worst
[11:14]  Sarah Nerd: No, I have never had a GF sim. All mine always had the $293 tier.
[11:15]  Julie Carpathea: yes i was told on the phone line it would lways be transferable, but I knew that I was giving a rid to a scorpion too
[11:15]  Ciaran Laval: Novemeber 2006 this grandfathering thing started, that’s a hell of a lot of savings for folks
[11:15]  Jack Linden: was the belief with you guys that grandfathered pricing would last forever for a region? And isn’t the value of those regions in the monthly fees, which we’ve extended again for everyone?
[11:15]  Ozzie Drucker: we want a one time lifetime priveliege to transfer them
[11:15]  Callie Cline: i was also told it would be tranfering ALWAYS
[11:15]  Callie Cline: that’s all we carea bout so we have that option to retain our resell value
[11:15]  Callie Cline: and help the market confidence
[11:15]  Julie Carpathea: some of us have not had them that long.. bought my first last march
[11:16]  Gooden Uggla: cieran, as a concierge customer, were you emailed about the 2010 pricing schedules?
[11:16]  Jack Linden: These regions have been grandfathered for a very long time now. The purpose of that grandfathering was as a thanks to the original buyers who had invested so much and so early. That was why we did it.
[11:16]  Ozzie Drucker: jack…in the re sale world…they have an added value…and we …many of us…bought htem..all that will be lost in a click
[11:16]  Ciaran Laval: I can’t rmemeber Gooden, I did see Jack’s blog post about it
[11:16]  Julie Carpathea: no email here
[11:16]  Callie Cline: we lose lalnd value may 1st.
[11:16]  Callie Cline: no email here
[11:16]  Gooden Uggla: yes, we saw the blog, how many didn’t?
[11:16]  Callie Cline: i di dnot utnil i was told
[11:16]  Ozzie Drucker: we are not opposed to ending the transference of tiers jack
[11:16]  xstorm Radek: lol
[11:17]  Ozzie Drucker: we propose allowing us one time…whenever we sell them..to pass them on.
[11:17]  Gooden Uggla: people that own grandfathered sims are told every day and didn’t know
[11:17]  Driftwood Miles: How does one square away with the High Prices people have been selling at before the deadline and those feeling they had to sell prior to the deadline…..if this all changes there will be an awful lot of upset people
[11:17]  Jack Linden: Callie, we have never said that grandfathering on transfer would always be allowed, in fact I’ve alluded to us changing that quite a number of times.. I do understand the concern here, but we have worked really hard to play fair on grandfathering generally.
[11:17]  JAYT Foxtrot is Online
[11:17]  Callie Cline: the prices have been around 1500 to 2k for over a year
[11:17]  Callie Cline: thsi has not changed htat
[11:17]  Callie Cline: for full sims
[11:17]  Vandor Graves: When I bought my wife her GF sim last year, we were warned that the tier might increase. Resell value is irrelevant to us – it’s a roleplay sim, not something for trade. If the tier goes up, the sim will close.
[11:17]  Ciaran Laval: In the original blog bost back in 2006 they hinted grandfathering on transfer could end February 2007
[11:17]  xstorm Radek: spilt milk jack and if not clean up has a bad smell in time
[11:18]  xstorm Radek: have a good day all
[11:18]  Driftwood Miles: what people selling Callie?? Your sugesting that peoplehave not decided to sell because of the deadline?
[11:18]  Ozzie Drucker: again jack…we are not opposed…we just one this small thing..
[11:18]  Callie Cline: some have some haven’t
[11:18]  Callie Cline: i have not decided
[11:18]  Chant Juran: i totaly agree with ozzie
[11:18]  Driftwood Miles: exactly so how do you deal with those that did?
[11:18]  Equinox Pinion: problem is drift…i really think many dont know about it as it was just a blog post
[11:18]  Driftwood Miles: they are going to be a little annoyed
[11:18]  Gooden Uggla: jack, the lack of notice is the main problem, you put together a sane and well thought-out policy… then didn’t tell everyone
[11:19]  Callie Cline: they can buy them back if they wish… and also, we’re being proactive
[11:19]  Aztek Aeon: dissemination of information has not always been LL’s forte
[11:19]  Ozzie Drucker: jack….if you were losing thousands of dollars on this, you would be holding a sign too
[11:19]  Callie Cline: what others do is their choice
[11:19]  Julie Carpathea: i am thinking of selling due to the deadline
[11:19]  Jonathan Yap: It seems there should have been/be a notice when one of these gf regions is bought by a new person, so they are aware of upcoming pricing changes.
[11:19]  Equinox Pinion: lol
[11:19]  Seattle LeShelle: why do homesteads sim teir need to be raised? besides to increase LL profit? what is the justification for raising tiers on them what benifit do we get by the tiers going up? besides losing tenants?
[11:19]  Lady Sakai: If I may put out a differnt suggestions to you jack that might benefit all and be more fair ?
[11:19]  Julie Carpathea: i am waiting to see if you will grant the one time transfer befor i decide if i will sell
[11:19]  Driftwood Miles: I agree with you on that Equi and that is an issue for LL , but most people work to the market that is created….worst thing that can happen is for that market to be unstable….LL get hammered for it
[11:19]  Callie Cline: lady that would be great to hear
[11:20]  Lady Sakai: here it comes .. Its long so heads up ;)
[11:20]  Chant Juran: yes
[11:20]  Lady Sakai: While I understand the frustration from the GF sim owners I dont, however, think the solution is to just let the GF stand / continue as is. I can fully understand the devalueation of the GF sims as they loose GF status. Its not unlike what we experienced years back when LL with no warning lowered the purchase price to 1000usd from 1675usd while almost simultaniously releasing hundreds of regions on mainland. I myself lost a pretty penny at that time.
What we need is to level the “playing” field and make the compertition amongst Estate more fair.
My suggestion would be;
1. even out the tier on ALL full regions to 225usd max
2. HS should be lowered to 65usd max
3. OS should with the low prim count get a serious pricecut, 25usd max
4. Raise the purchase price to 1500usd from LL on a full region, 500usd for a HS and 50usd for a OS (again considering the low prim count rendering them useless for anything but a rowboat). The land market is way to saturated and raising the purchase price wil have a dual effect. A:
[11:20]  Lady Sakai: raising the inwold value of the regions B: Making sure we dont get tons of regions flodding an already strained market
5. No more adding regions to mainland this is unfair to compete whit your customer base.
I got more point that contains mainly cleaning up of mainland making parks and roads.
On top of that its is imperitiv that LL starts to seek new ways to gain new customers, advertising teaching people that SL is more than making money and getting cybersex. We all need new blood, across the board content creators, estate managers etc. What is good for the customer is good for the company.
[11:20]  Jack Linden: Ozzie, the loss of here is only a loss if you actually intend to sell. So we allowed you 3 months in which to realise the value. Right now, the value of a grandfathered island transfer isn’t much different than it was 6 months ago.
[11:20]  Jayson Perway is Online
[11:20]  Driftwood Miles: There would be a loss also Jack if people bought because of the deadline and then you upped tier!
[11:20]  Callie Cline: we sholud not have to make a desicion to sell to NOT lose that is why we propose what we are
[11:20]  Ozzie Drucker: i believe that. but why is it not possible to allow us to sell one time lifetime? why not?
[11:20]  Jack Linden: We do the transfers so we can see what the trade values really are
[11:21]  Ozzie Drucker: well..they are about to drop huge jack
[11:21]  Callie Cline: we are here to offer a proposal to you on what we see as a fair compromise and open up possibilities.
[11:21]  Callie Cline: it i snot good busines to have a person who’s worked for years to lose 60K overnight
[11:21]  Gooden Uggla: how you liking those trade values Jack?
[11:21]  Jack Linden: Driftwood, agreed. Having stated a policy, people have managed their land accordingly.. to backtrack now is going to once again frustrate those people
[11:21]  Julie Carpathea: jack… i only recieved about 3 weeks notice…
[11:21]  Callie Cline: taht does NOT create buyer or consumer confidience
[11:22]  Seattle LeShelle: lady makes very fair buisness points
[11:22]  Aztek Aeon: kinda like the OS thing
[11:22]  Ciaran Laval: How about those who want to be able to allow to sell a sim at a grandfathered rate stump up USD$295 a month from now on, to keep the value of their sim when they want to sell, the new owner could then pay a grandfathered rate of USD$195
[11:22]  Lady Sakai: thank yo Seattle, I tried to concider all in SL including LL
[11:23]  Jack Linden: Lady, thanks for that feedback.. I’ve copied it away so that I can properly read it through
[11:23]  Callie Cline: i htink lady has good points too
[11:23]  Seattle LeShelle: it is the most logical proposal for all concerned and makes the most buisness sense
[11:23]  Julie Carpathea: Q?… is there room for compromise or are we wasting our time? Are your minds made up jack?
[11:23]  Chant Juran: yes she does
[11:23]  Lady Sakai: Il throw the note on you Jack :)
[11:23]  Callie Cline: though i still think we need a DEED or somtthing so that whim changes are not made
[11:23]  Sarah Nerd: You do have good points Lady
[11:23]  Callie Cline: very good
[11:23]  Callie Cline: there is not a lot of confidence in LL
[11:23]  Gooden Uggla: Jack… did you ever consider loss of value in the amounts described?
[11:24]  Talarus Luan: How are people losing money in this? GF rate stays if you keep it, then all sims will sell for the same rate later anyway. Is it the extra “bonus” value of a GF sim you think you are losing?
[11:24]  Lady Sakai: we need this Jack .. all areas in SL is currently strugling !
[11:24]  Alliez Mysterio: LL would sell many, many sims if they took Lady Sakai suggestion, all would be happy
[11:24]  Ciaran Laval: 1200 bucks a year in savings
[11:24]  Ozzie Drucker: ajck…look…its really simple. people are going to lose money..value that they have. and, if you do what we propose…they dont. What you are doing is causing an a ton of people to give up. whole estates are selling off. large and small.
[11:24]  Callie Cline: the value of land is NOT only in tier BUT the resell value it carries
[11:24]  Sarah Nerd: I like the even tier rates for everyone myself. Makes it a more even playing feild.
[11:24]  Seattle LeShelle: agreed sarah
[11:24]  Jack Linden: Julie, we are absolutely listening. We had a tough call to make because as announced the plan had been to end that homestead grandfathering. It was not easy for us to get to a decision to again extend that GF pricing but we really felt that it was fair and were happy to do it. The only tradeoff there was that we felt we needed to end the pricing on transfer
[11:24]  Talarus Luan: I should point out that losing value is not the same as losing money.
[11:24]  Aztek Aeon: especially Open Spaces which you cannot even give away
[11:25]  Callie Cline: well i appreciate your thogufullness…
[11:25]  Ciaran Laval: As we found out when they lowered the price of sims in the island store Tal
[11:25]  Callie Cline: we think your announcement was a good step in giving people time and we like that you gave notice, we think you did great in that and we propose this in order to cover something you may have not seen which is the fact that on May 1, we will lose 75% of our land’s value which is not just in tier but in resell.
[11:25]  Julie Carpathea: we are “losing” money because we have an asset value in our sims that we are counting on… no we do not intend on selling today (unless we have to) but someday we may want to
[11:25]  Lady Sakai: Ill take one Aztek ;)
[11:25]  Callie Cline: me too aztex
[11:25]  Callie Cline: k
[11:25]  Jack Linden: Ozzie.. as I said – they are only losing value if their intent is to sell *and* the intent of the buyer is to sell. Otherwise there is no loss.
[11:25]  Alliez Mysterio: Jack, I think it should be a priority to send email on on things like this
[11:25]  Gooden Uggla: once grandfathering ends on homesteads, they won’t be sold, just abandoned
[11:25]  Ciaran Laval: Julie your asset saves you USD$100 bucks every month, that’s a nice deal
[11:25]  Aztek Aeon: too bad, Lady, I had one I about abandoned
[11:25]  Callie Cline: it is a loss jack, as it devalues our asset
[11:25]  Equinox Pinion: i do think it ws easy jack..if you would take away the gf hs status you would again get tons of sims back and create the same mess as you did last year
[11:26]  Vandor Graves: “The value of your investments may fall as well as rise.”
[11:26]  Talarus Luan: You still will be able to sell it, for a reasonable market value for any sim, as opposed to an over-inflated value due to a “gift” that LL gave you and allowed you to profit over for 3+ years. <.<
[11:26]  Driftwood Miles: If LL removes the Grandfathered tier next year isn’t this kinda moot?
[11:26]  Julie Carpathea: we do know that you put a lot of thought into this announcement and it was clear that we thank you for but the idea of a one time tranfer of Gf is it even possible in your mind?
[11:26]  Aztek Aeon: Tal not everyone has had their GF sims all that time, be real
[11:26]  Driftwood Miles: or are we just looking for longer to flog GF sims
[11:26]  Ozzie Drucker: it would make the sell of more even, more fair, less disruptive, promote trust, promote faith.
[11:26]  Ciaran Laval: Well that Drift would be a huge mistake, if Ll did that then people will be miffed, that would hurt
[11:26]  Callie Cline: yes
[11:26]  Sarah Nerd: Ty Talarus
[11:27]  Driftwood Miles: I agree Ciaran totally, but they have said they will revue it
[11:27]  Seattle LeShelle: iuf tier was placed on a more levle playing field as suggested by lady her thoughts and proposals need serious comnsideration jack.
[11:27]  Callie Cline: and also i was TOLD before i obught mine that i would ALWAYS be able to tranfer the rate
[11:27]  Huntr Gustafson: Jack – is the GF rates on Homestead sims going away? If so, when???
[11:27]  Callie Cline: when i sold
[11:27]  Driftwood Miles: and have offered no promises
[11:27]  Callie Cline: i have that in writing
[11:27]  Seattle LeShelle: if you wish to keep people here doing buisness and keep a good repuationg something has to change.,
[11:27]  Driftwood Miles: *review
[11:27]  Equinox Pinion: when you sell it after april huntr
[11:27]  Talarus Luan: I think I am being real. It’s kinda silly to pin the true value of a GF sim on what you can sell it for. The true value is and has always been the 33% cost savings on tier.
[11:27]  Callie Cline: we’re jsut aksing you consider our proposal
[11:28]  Jack Linden: Huntr, we’ve stated it will stay through this year. We’ll review again mid year and make an announcement then. We’re committed to giving people some long term stability on those decisions
[11:28]  Callie Cline: value is tier AND resell value
[11:28]  Driftwood Miles: agrees with Talarus
[11:28]  Huntr Gustafson: ok, thanks
[11:28]  Aztek Aeon: somethign does have to change, Seattle,…. it seems every quarter they do something to devalue land, especially. Look at mainland
[11:28]  Vandor Graves: Exactly, Tal. Not all of us trade land all the time.
[11:28]  Ciaran Laval: Saving USD$100 a month is plenty of reward, it gives you a huge competitive advantage
[11:28]  Drongle McMahon: have any of you guys read tyhe new TOS? It says land has no monetary value. It is a license to use a server.
[11:28]  Ozzie Drucker: We dont wan tto sell off our grandfathered sims by may 1. this pushes us to do so. but, we want to retain their value..till we decide to sell them. how is that a bad thing? let us have a one time lifetime ability to do so?
[11:28]  Talarus Luan: People expecting more are just looking to profiteer, is all. GF sims didn’t cost you any more than they do now (sans the $675 price decrease, which affected everyone)
[11:28]  Gibbo Slade is Online
[11:29]  Callie Cline: we are aksing for this proposal as a compormise
[11:29]  Ciaran Laval: Agreed Tal
[11:29]  Andree Wierwight: so IF you do lift the GF on all estates then ALL estates will now be the same cost as of that date?
[11:29]  Talarus Luan: If you paid more to someone else for a GF sim, that was your choice, but look at it this way.. you have the 33% less tier, in perpetuity, at least until LL decides to end it, too.
[11:29]  Jack Linden: So Callie, Ozzie, Julie.. I’ll take an action from this meeting to discuss your views more within the Lab. I’m afraid I can’t guarantee that there will be a change, but I can promise that we will discuss it
[11:29]  Jack Linden: Is that fair?
[11:29]  Callie Cline: well we’d like to call a meeting with you as well
[11:29]  Seattle LeShelle: and do not forget lady’s proposal please jack
[11:29]  Callie Cline: to discuss further
[11:29]  Chant Juran: its no more than i would expect jack
[11:29]  Gooden Uggla: tal, many people paid 1500+ USD for those sims in the last year
[11:30]  Drongle McMahon: The new purchasers will know they won’t be able to transfer with GF and so you will lose value anyway.
[11:30]  Vandor Graves: Callie, it seems o me tat yousee yor sims as an investment to be resold. Most of us do not see them that way.
[11:30]  Equinox Pinion: and dont forget to send out an email to people who owe a gf sim!!
[11:30]  Driftwood Miles: people also paid 3k for mainland sims
[11:30]  Ciaran Laval: Fair is sticking to yout guns Jack, the only genuine complaint I can see is that people were unaware of the changes
[11:30]  Gooden Uggla: get your facts straight, very few of them still belong to the original owner
[11:30]  Callie Cline: well lannd is an inveestment
[11:30]  Callie Cline: period
[11:30]  Julie Carpathea: but talarus we paid the value of the 33% savings and the value of the sim.. not just the 33% savings
[11:30]  Aztek Aeon: LOL
[11:30]  Ozzie Drucker: Yes Jack, but please have an open mind when you discuss it. i think it is a good idea..what we propose. and one in your favor. the labs that is.
[11:30]  Lady Sakai: Jack I honestly belive that the proposal I made would benefit all .. Ive talked on the CIG about it several times and I havent heard anyone say they didnt like it :)
[11:30]  Callie Cline: i like lady’s plan as well for the furture
[11:30]  Jack Linden: Lady, can you drop your feedback to me in notecard too please. Just want to be sure i have it
[11:30]  Jayson Perway is Offline
[11:31]  Chant Juran: iyes so do I
[11:31]  Callie Cline: but let’s remember
[11:31]  Callie Cline: early ppl get certain benefits
[11:31]  Callie Cline: if those are not honored
[11:31]  Gibbo Slade is Offline
[11:31]  Driftwood Miles: Can I as well Lady please
[11:31]  Callie Cline: it hurts the ocmpany
[11:31]  Callie Cline: many ppl get free tier for life
[11:31]  Seattle LeShelle: mne to lady:)
[11:31]  Callie Cline: and they should
[11:31]  Sarah Nerd: I’d like your card lady. I can help distribute to land folk
[11:31]  Callie Cline: they paid 75usd
[11:31]  Callie Cline: for free tier for life
[11:31]  Callie Cline: i thnk the fact they still have it is great
[11:31]  Chaley May: most of these people who rent out homesteads all this time passed on the 33% saving to their renters so nothing changed for them.. the profit they gain from being 33% less than other homsteads doesnt exist
[11:31]  Jack Linden: Lady, I can see that it would be popular but there is also whether it makes sense to us as a business. But I’ll certainly take the ideas on board
[11:31]  Ciaran Laval: Early people still have the benefits.
[11:32]  Driftwood Miles: Ty Equi :)
[11:32]  Alliez Mysterio: I thought it was a lifetime membership they received
[11:32]  Equinox Pinion: yw:)
[11:32]  Callie Cline: jack, creating confidence in your customrs is good business
[11:32]  Callie Cline: period
[11:32]  Jack Linden: Callie.. agreed!
[11:32]  Lady Sakai: I did Jack . and you accepted it ..twice .. second I put my name and todays date on it ;) :) )
[11:32]  Callie Cline: u dont have htat now :9
[11:32]  Callie Cline: sadly
[11:32]  Seattle LeShelle: if you wish to expand people coming to SL jack you need to do more than offer then a free home. yo uneed this eco systme to work for all not just LL
[11:32]  Aztek Aeon: there is no confidence anyomre
[11:32]  Andree Wierwight: some owners will stand to lose more than 60k usd per month, who here would like to have that 60k? if you were told to pay 60k extra, would you stay?
[11:32]  Callie Cline: and wiht ohter worlds rising in popularity
[11:32]  Jack Linden: Ah thanks Lady. I get zillions of notecards so apologies if i missed it
[11:33]  Callie Cline: htink LL needs to take notice
[11:33]  Callie Cline: we LOVE SL
[11:33]  Julie Carpathea: chanley that is a very good point… the lower tier is not jsut to our benefit but those that rent the land as well..how many non landowers will be forced out by the higher tier
[11:33]  Callie Cline: as do you
[11:33]  Lady Sakai: no worries .. my fault not putting my name on it the first time :)
[11:33]  Callie Cline: i dont want to lave SL
[11:33]  Callie Cline: leave
[11:33]  Callie Cline: for blue mars
[11:33]  Callie Cline: or other places
[11:33]  Callie Cline: i LVOE SL
[11:33]  Jack Linden: Can i get that in writing callie? :)
[11:33]  Ciaran Laval: This is pure profteering
[11:33]  Callie Cline: and i want to get MORE ppl to buy land :)
[11:33]  Callie Cline: yes
[11:33]  Alexxa Despres: LOL Jack
[11:33]  Talarus Luan doesn’t understand how the change would cause a loss of $60k/mo.
[11:33]  Jack Linden: hehe
[11:34]  Sarah Nerd: Since your calling a 60k (per month) and not one time loss, your saying that they make 60K profit now from having the $100 a sim advantage?
[11:34]  Callie Cline: hey dont tink they aren’t courting ppl
[11:34]  Callie Cline: to get them over there
[11:34]  Callie Cline: i believe in the foudning values of SL
[11:34]  Vandor Graves: Where does this 60k figure come from?
[11:34]  Andree Wierwight: I am not sayin they are making 60k profit
[11:34]  Callie Cline: OUR world….
[11:34]  Callie Cline: OUR imagination…
[11:34]  Driftwood Miles: Estates would be decimated with that proposal Lady ( at first scan)
[11:34]  Equinox Pinion: we all love sl alot callie…why do you think we take all the slaps we are getting from linden :)
[11:35]  Sarah Nerd: You siad 60k per month loss, I was just trying to understand better.
[11:35]  Jayson Perway is Online
[11:35]  Kristaki Hudson: Good Evening dear Lanldords and anyone here:)
[11:35]  Aztek Aeon: well said, Equinox
[11:35]  Callie Cline: well i dont love it enoguht to lose 8k on may 1
[11:35]  Callie Cline: sorry
[11:35]  Chaley May: Can we talk about MEGAPRIMs? Meaning when will you let us officially have them to build with beyond 10m with the building tools? :)
[11:35]  Callie Cline: and im little
[11:35]  Ozzie Drucker: we have put this forward as an honest attempt to compromise
[11:35]  Callie Cline: yes
[11:35]  Jack Linden: So guys, I’d like to move the conversation on to another topic if that’s okay
[11:35]  Callie Cline: we have
[11:35]  Alliez Mysterio: You mean in selling the sim, Callie?
[11:35]  Talarus Luan: Chaley-> That’s a question for Andrew Linden’s Office Hour. <.<
[11:35]  Kristaki Hudson: heh Zoha ca gaze
[11:35]  Kristaki Hudson: hi there alliez
[11:35]  Ciaran Laval: Jack I paid L$15/m for some of my mainland, will LL stump up the difference for me if I decide to sell? It’s worth around L$2/m now if I’m lucky
[11:35]  Lady Sakai: Jack, as many others I also love Sl and Id love to stay put. Sadly Ive been strugling and holding on for dear life due to the economy in Sl … its very very tempting to see other grids advansing with lower tier prices .. see where Im going ?
[11:35]  Nimh20 Vandeverre: Yes Please new topic
[11:35]  Chaley May: yes topic megaprims… i think Jack gets a huge say on megaprims
[11:36]  Sarah Nerd: Sure Jack, whats on your mind?
[11:36]  Kristaki Hudson: GOOD EVENING MISTER JACK LINDEN
[11:36]  Alliez Mysterio: Kristaki Hi
[11:36]  Callie Cline: ok jack will u follow up wiht us?
[11:36]  Jack Linden: Hi Kristaki.
[11:36]  Alliez Mysterio: I have a new topic when we are set
[11:36]  Seattle LeShelle: hi kristaki
[11:36]  Callie Cline: ok done :)
[11:36]  Jack Linden: So.. I want to talk about Linden Lab promoting estates more
[11:36]  Callie Cline: thanks for listning we’ll be in touch :)
[11:36]  Alexxa Despres: <<all ears
[11:36]  Alliez Mysterio: New TOS
[11:36]  Alexxa Despres: (en->es) < \u003call ears
[11:36]  Aztek Aeon: lol
[11:36]  Lady Sakai: oh yes lets do that jack ;)
[11:36]  Ozzie Drucker: :)
[11:36]  Jack Linden: After last week I had a number of tasks assigned me by my good friend Equinox…
[11:36]  Ciaran Laval: Hola Alexxa!
[11:36]  Drongle McMahon: Jack. Does LL have any view on the implications of the Digital Economy Bill for SL residents in the UK?
[11:36]  Seattle LeShelle: ahh TOS yes indeed
[11:36]  Alliez Mysterio: We cant put in a will who we wish to leave our estates to now?
[11:36]  Equinox Pinion: wow…did i just heard you saying that jack :)
[11:37]  Alexxa Despres: hey CIaran ;) )
[11:37]  Alexxa Despres: (en->es) Ciaran hey;))
[11:37]  Callie Cline: EQ rocks :)
[11:37]  Jack Linden: Equinox may want to sit down at this point.
[11:37]  Callie Cline: heh
[11:37]  Equinox Pinion: lol
[11:37]  Talarus Luan: <.<
[11:37]  Lady Sakai: SL or RL ? lol
[11:37]  Callie Cline: sit on me!
[11:37]  Kristaki Hudson: Jack Linden i have few questions I like to ask you… if its possible if you are not too busy of course Sir
[11:37]  Callie Cline: hahaha
[11:37]  Chaley May: hmm digital economy bill… i havent heard of this
[11:37]  Chant Juran: nor have i
[11:37]  Ozzie Drucker: hey…equinox…can i know you! lol..oh..i do…lol
[11:38]  Jack Linden: So, I’ve kicked off an internal project to push estate promotion into various places around the website, etc. There are a number of places where we need to talk more about the benefits of the estate rental option
[11:38]  Equinox Pinion: lol ozzie
[11:38]  Jack Linden: One issue has come up though, as we think this through.. and I’d like you guys to give me some feedback.
[11:38]  Kristaki Hudson: heh pinion:)
[11:38]  Lady Sakai: Jack, I take it that you will make sure that this wil be equl to all Estate and not just the big ones ?
[11:39]  Aztek Aeon: what Lady said
[11:39]  Kristaki Hudson: Sir jack may i ask you few questions professional about lands please?
[11:39]  Jack Linden: If, for example, we put some general promotion in various web pages for estate rentals, those ads need to lead somewhere when clicked. But of course there is no central list or page that we can point them to for more info.. and we can’t drop them to an inworld location because we’d bury that region
[11:39]  Jayson Perway is Offline
[11:39]  Jonathan Yap: Kristaki, please wait for the current discussion to be over
[11:39]  Jack Linden: So how would you see that sort of general promotion working? Where would it lead the resdient when they click?
[11:39]  Kristaki Hudson: oh sure sorry….
[11:40]  Talarus Luan: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/08/digital-economy-bill-passes-third-reading
[11:40]  Equinox Pinion: you can lead tehm to the xstreet listings jack
[11:40]  Zoha Boa: Xstreet Land Listing
[11:40]  Callie Cline: hmmm thinks
[11:40]  Driftwood Miles: happy to be buried Jack
[11:40]  Equinox Pinion: there everybody can post and it is fair
[11:40]  Callie Cline: taht’s a good diea
[11:40]  Callie Cline: eq
[11:40]  Lady Sakai: Xstreet Listings .. or the Estates own website ?
[11:40]  Ciaran Laval: The Xstreet land listings are awful
[11:40]  Callie Cline: a central place to browse would be nice
[11:40]  Lady Sakai: true that Ciaran
[11:40]  Equinox Pinion: xstreet lady…so all estates can benefit
[11:40]  Sarah Nerd: I’d be happy with simple classifieds where everyone could list land.
[11:40]  Jack Linden: But would dropping a new resident into a long list of varied land listings really be a good experience for them?
[11:41]  Callie Cline: i have NO information on estates really and i’d LVOE to see a central place
[11:41]  Drongle McMahon: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmbills/089/en/201089-en.pdf
[11:41]  Aztek Aeon: the xstreet listings need an overhaul, but they are still the only effective way to list
[11:41]  Equinox Pinion: we have so many estates jack…any fair listing would be long
[11:41]  Seattle LeShelle: yes not just target large estates all must gain some benifit
[11:41]  Sarah Nerd: It would be better for them than no information at all
[11:41]  Lady Sakai: Equinox, would it then be possible for Ll to spruse up the listing area ?
[11:41]  Chaley May: you really think people will teleport to a sim in their thousands if you had a direct link to the sim? thats unlikely :)
[11:41]  Ozzie Drucker: well..hopefully it doeesnt lead him to a previously, now deleted grandfathered sim..lol..sorry..couldnt help myself
[11:41]  Callie Cline: i’d love that personally
[11:41]  Ciaran Laval: Sure it would Jack if they can sort results by land size, land type and price per week
[11:41]  Driftwood Miles: Three points Jack that are a great start. 1. FIX SEARCH 2. REPLACE THE LAND FORUM 3. FIX LAND SEARCH
[11:41]  Callie Cline: hahahahaha
[11:41]  Callie Cline: lol ozzie
[11:41]  Lady Sakai: oh and FIX SEACH
[11:41]  Jack Linden: Agreed that it should be fair and ‘general’ promotion
[11:41]  Alexxa Despres: and FIX SEARCH!
[11:41]  Callie Cline: lol
[11:41]  Alexxa Despres: please ;) )
[11:41]  Gibbo Slade is Online
[11:41]  Ciaran Laval: and FIX SEARCH!
[11:42]  Lady Sakai: could you please FIX SEACH whie your at it ?
[11:42]  Jack Linden: Driftwood, we’ll do those anyways but yeah
[11:42]  Sarah Nerd: agrees with Drift. Fix land search please
[11:42]  Callie Cline: i have NO clue about estates and relaly i’d love to find a centril place to chieck out ones large and small :)
[11:42]  Equinox Pinion: xstreet would be fair as every estate can post their
[11:42]  Jack Linden: I’m talking to the forum folks about what we can do there
[11:42]  Alexxa Despres: When can we expect that fix, Jack? ;) )
[11:42]  Driftwood Miles: Timescale Jack…people are hurting
[11:42]  Drongle McMahon: Yes Fix land Search!
[11:42]  Driftwood Miles: ?
[11:42]  tinamama Abon