So, I had a friend chime in on group chat the other day wondering where her chat-line teleport history went…<\/p>\n
If you don’t know, it has been a feature in SL clients to leave an SLURL of where you teleported from as an aid to know where you’ve been. \u00a0It could be used to return to your prior place or even used as a time-stamp, logging when you’ve hopped over. (^_^)<\/p>\n
But, now, it’s gone… As of SL version 3.6.10. (>_<)<\/p>\n
I asked about it on the forum to see if anyone else knew about what was going on and eventually someone posted a reference to a maintenance Jira entry. \u00a0It followed a request to remove “long distracting messages in nearby chat”. \u00a0It was also mentioned that it was a rather small piece of code and any TPV or self compile could add it back in. (^_^)<\/p>\n
But, that’s the thing. \u00a0It’s something that LL has been quite bad at. \u00a0The users will request something and LL delivers that something, all or nothing. \u00a0They don’t seem to take into consideration that some people still like how something works. \u00a0So, like above… What was “distracting” was probably helpful to others in one way or another. (>_<)<\/p>\n
Remember the big blue popups of the old V1 clients? \u00a0I remember complaining about how cumbersome and distracting they were. \u00a0I remember when V2 came out, missing out on announcements and popups since they were made so small and unobtrusive that they were practically invisible. (>_<)<\/p>\n
Here’s the thing…<\/p>\n
When people ask for something; we’re usually asking for THE OPTION to have that something. \u00a0Now, I know that the preferences menus are already quite complex. \u00a0But, that’s not reason enough to add an option here or there. \u00a0In this case, it could have been a Chat option “Include SLURLs In Chat History” or something of the sort. \u00a0Don’t just bloody kill the thing. DX<\/p>\n
LL almost got it right with the 3-side dockable buttons thing. \u00a0It helped my faith in their dev skills that they made something with nearly universal configurability. \u00a0But, they kinda just stopped right there. \u00a0(>_<)<\/p>\n
Oi, Lindens… There were people who didn’t like that feature and wanted it gone, yes. \u00a0But, there were also people who liked it. \u00a0Give us the option to have one or the other without dropping the bomb on a function… (=_=)y<\/p>\n
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So, I had a friend chime in on group chat the other day wondering where her chat-line teleport history went… If you don’t know, it has been a feature in SL clients to leave an SLURL of where you teleported … Continue reading