Comments on: Second Life Home: Redesigning the User Experience

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Community-Chest » Bookmarks for décembre 15th through décembre 17th — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:40:34 +0000

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By: Metacam Oh

Metacam Oh — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:43:53 +0000

Every idea by Linden these days is looking for more money in their pockets, why can’t they actually fix the broken things on their platform? I know this is a big company that can work on many things, but it seems like they are working on everything BUT stabilizing the grid. I don’t want a crappy 512 house. Work on keeping the existing customers or else there won’t be any left for your newbs to come in and hang out with.

By: What are people saying? – « SLookable

What are people saying? – « SLookable — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:26:27 +0000

[...] On In Second Life?What are people saying? -#secondlife Home: Redesigning the User Experience : http://bit.ly/91S0THLinden Lab goes begging, again: [...]

By: brinda Allen

brinda Allen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:35:02 +0000

@Prok…Amen to your old *ex friend* Dirk being less warm and fuzzy to some.
I watched him scoping out my pixel breasts at a Sutherland dam meeting a few weeks ago while he castigated me for alting at the HIs.

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:49:51 +0000

Stroke of luck, my ass.

Your receipt of this invitation — when your 512 m is already taken by your own home on the mainland — indicates that the Lindens not only “randomly” sent out invitations to those with “spare 512″ as they claimed, but deliberately sent it to some top insider bloggers like yourself.

You’re definitely on the VIP Linden blogger list with a statement like this, “But having said all that I applaud the move, primarily because it was executed so beautifully.”

Beautiful execution is all that matters, Dusan?! Really.

And the social and economic consequences? They don’t? And…just an opportunity for more…sculpty furniture? Out of what survives the Social Darwinism of the Xstreet moves?

BTW, the reason Dirk Talamasca has an extra 512 available for his, uh, random invitation is because he pulled it out of the SL Public Land Preserve which he formerly supported for ages because I de-friended him. Why did I defriend this actual non-friend who I used to at least keep as a contact? Because the number of well-documented cases of sexual harassment by him of people, including friends, just piled up too high to continue.

By: Garmin Kawaguichi

Garmin Kawaguichi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:20:20 +0000

By a stroke of luck Dusan was chosen as a tester!Nice!
And if I’ve unserstood the region and the place cannot be chosen by the Premium holder!
LL as lotto!

By: Dusan

Dusan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:20:11 +0000

Eris – the house wasn’t so bad actually, had nice texturing and a nice feel. The row housing approach to placement left me a little cold, but I don’t think it’s meant to be much of a ‘community’ and more of a place to TP in with friends or whatever before you head off for somewhere else. I keep looking at it through a new users eyes – will be interesting to hear any data about retention and uptake.

By: Dusan

Dusan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:17:24 +0000

Daniel – I won’t disagree about the Lab comment generally, but I don’t see in this instance why it’s a problem. The program is meant to encourage first time land/home ownership. If you already own a plot on Mainland, this probably won’t be of that much interest. Which doesn’t solve the riddle of the premium account, maybe, but might encourage the premium/new user to settle down a little.

By: Eris

Eris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:15:55 +0000

Totally agree, the interface is very good, one of the best things they’ve ever done – but the houses are a complete anti-climax, I didn’t bother getting one. I doubt landlords have much to worry about, I think this will do what it’s supposed to do and boost land sales/rentals in the longer term.

By: Daniel Regenbogen

Daniel Regenbogen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:26:26 +0000

Well, aside the problem with LL now competing even more with the land businesses in SL, I guess I had a misunderstanding after the first announcement. I thought this was about an additional premium benefit, on top of the tierfree 512sqm. Looks like I was wrong – now premium members who already use their 512sqm and want to have a “Home” will either have to sell their old holdings or pay more. Should have expected that, the only things LL introduces on top of something else are fees and limits.