Great Responses?
It looks like the Lindens are even causing an inconvenience for themselves, as the recent “redeploy” took longer than expected. It’s about time, don’t you think? The Lindens have an event scheduled and are unable to host the event because of problems on the grid… something that their paying customers experience all too often. The grid wasn’t available for the office hours at 3PM on Friday, but they are still planning to hold office hours in Sandbox Goguen MONO on the beta grid at 8AM on Wednesdays and 3PM on Fridays.
The last line in the latest blog post thank everybody for the great response to the Mono beta test. Funny… I haven’t seen any “great response”, at all. Where is this so-called “great response”, Babbage?
Malignant Narcissist @ February 4, 2008
Actually, Babbage is on about all the people who went on the beta grid, tested mono, and reported all the bugs in JIRA. This is the great response. More bugs people find and report from the Beta grid, less problems when it moves over to the main grid.
Also, beaware, mono is not yet on the main grid. So there will be no response in -any- sense from anyone who’s not been and tested it on the main grid.
Okay, so 17 people show up for the January 30th meeting and this is taken as a “great response”? Most people honestly have absolutely no clue what Mono is, or why it’s such a great idea. I ask, again… “Where” is the great response?
Show me, please! It’d be nice to actually hear some good news about SL, once in a while. A great response would be good news. So far, I’ve seen one person say “Nice work”, and that’s it. I suppose one good response must be seen as a “great response” by Linden Lab, with the way the overall response they’ve been getting, lately.
Well, I’ve been involved in Mono beta for a little while now and I’d say there’s been a “great response”, at least from users who know something about it. Many of us have been testing our scripts on the beta grid, narrowing down exactly where they’re going wrong, filing bug reports, and discusing problems with the Linden Mono team (yes, discussing - they’re actually responding to us, often in person). There has been a very good dialogue between scripters and Lindens on this, I think - as good as many software beta projects I’ve been involved with over the years.
Mr. Narcissist, I think the Official Linden blog is the wrong place to look for informed response about the Mono beta. Try Jira or log onto the beta grid during one of the discussion sessions. I think, in this case anyway, you are stretching a bit to find yet another reason why Second Life sucks (and I agree, it often does). Perhaps you are just too committed to the idea and you’ve closed your mind to situations where it doesn’t suck.
Bibbo,
Of course, there may be situations where it doesn’t suck, but there is really no need for me to stretch to find another reason. Look at the main grid, look at the problems, look at the complaints, look at how much it sucks.
If Mono is one of those things that, when implemented on the main grid, is going to solve a lot of the current problems, more power to it! They should explain this (in plain English) on the main blog, and not make it seem like like some sort of “geeks only” club, where, in order to find out any kind of information, people need to dive into the Jira and have a geekspeak dictionary handy. Personally, I do not see how allowing new scripting languages and larger scripts will solve anything, though.
Perhaps I have closed my mind, but when Linden Lab keeps rolling out new “features” and refusing to look at the current problems and fixing them, it gives me little hope that Second Life will ever “not suck”. If and when it is rolled out to the main grid, it will be just “one more thing” that residents will have problems with, while the Lindens are already stretched too far to support or fix the current problems.
Perhaps you are just too much of a Second Life or Linden Lab fanboy that you can’t see the overall picture and just how bad it does suck.
Well, the intention of Mono is to ease some of the Sim lag that so many people are complaining about. You ask Linden Labs to fix a problem and then you complain that they’re wasting time adding new features… You obviously don’t care what they do, to you it will suck no matter what. In addition, you complain that you don’t know enough about Mono and that LL hasn’t done a good job communicating its benefits, and yet you seem to think you know enough about it to criticize its technical merits. So essentially, you’re a troll, and I’ve been wasting my time even commenting here.
I didn’t say that “I” don’t know enough about it. I simply said that they need to explain this to the residents in plain English. I know what will happen.
They are not explaining to other residents “how” this is “supposed” to help, and when somebody asks for it to be explained in plain English, you assume they’re a troll? Great.
Thank you for not wasting any more time commenting here.
Well here is a small dose of reality to all of you “Mono” testers and what not…I think it is great that all those fine folks at LL are trying to make SL a better place and everything for everyone but this is starting to remind me of a Ford Pinto car I owned back in the 70’s. It seemed like no matter how many times I tuned the thing up..changed out the engines..swapped transmissions etc… it still ran like crap O_o