Worst proposals VOTE NOW!

Prop: 84 - Partners
...Be able to have the option of having more than one partner name in your profile.

Some of us have more than one wife in RL we should have more partners in SL too if we want.

Prop: 53 - Import Meshes into Second Life

Feature Detail: Because we all know we want to.

We do.????

I guess that script to turn meshes in to prims never existed either.

-Thoughtful Response-

If a human tries to "hug" a horse what happens???

In a bad system... Mr. Ed would probably maul the person.

I have to agree that the one about the ability to be invisible and even have your little green dot be invisible has to be one of the worst ideas ever known to mankind.

I have done some voting already - I know I gave 5 votes to be able to round the edges of prims.

coco

My favorite so far is Prop. 52

"allow avatars to be invisible when they want and even just to certain players which would also remove the green dot from the map allowing more privacy"

Does this mean we can conclude that we have 300 potential stalkers?

*see my thread on ponies*

technically, it's not very feasible just yet.

But what happens if SL finally hits a glut wall and has to make sweeping changes to the client that could *gasp* make older [scripts, animation, avis, buildings] obsolete!

Our desire is to balance changes with backwards compatibilty. We take content as built today very seriously, since there are so many great works in-world already. Given that, we think we've architected fairly well for allowing incremental changes. To answer Tiger's original question - we are very much behind SL expanding and retaining content - we don't see the existing version as an experiment that can be wiped out. As discussed, we think versioning and adding functions can allow expanding LSL while still retaining all previous functionality. Admittedly, this is often a challenge. We've already been able to do 'rolling' deployments, where we upgrade some sims but not others (we are doing this now with updates to the OS version under the sims, for example).

Longer term, we are trying to architect in such a way that upgrades can be made progressively to some sims and not others - this should allow a balance between preserving older content and allowing more radical or non-backwards-compatible changes. One has to imagine that with thousands of sims this will become the norm. A challenge to this sort of model is to normalize the sim-sim messaging and interactions to a standard protocol that will support such changes.

I'll speak for my own gut here, allowing that I'm sure this will be a long and interesting discussion in the years to come:

My intuition is that open source and open standards are the only way to go for SL long term - for us to reach the whole world in the way that the web has will probably only happen under this sort of model.

I don't think becoming more open would be a bad business move for LL, because there are so many central services that we can offer for a fair price - once SL goes to truly global scale those charges can create a very large and sustaining business.

Pragmatically, there are things that need to happen to make this possible:

We have to preserve some sort of system to protect the rights and permissions of content. This means that in some manner the servers must become untrusted - a 'man-in-the-middle' from a crypto perspective. Today, the SL servers are totally trusted - if you owned a server you could take all the money and copy all the objects of anyone who walked into it. I can imagine that long term you get a notice on entering insecure servers, and you can choose what objects and how much money you want to 'carry' when you go in. Coding this is going to be a big change, and lots of work.

Additionally, as also discussed here, we need to make the protocols between servers very simple, so that folks can start from scratch with server code if they like. HTTP got really widespread in part because it was really simple - you could write a basic server in a few hours. Ideally something like SL needs to be comparably simple - you should be able to write a 'hello world' server and connect it to the grid very easily.


Projects like OSMP are great, and something that helps us understand what priority we should give to these changes. Ideally I'd like to see the metaverse get built as quickly as possible, which means that everyone is working on interoperable code and content. If big projects get underway that are challenging SL in scale and capability, it means that we are doing something wrong - not being open enough fast enough.