Xstreet SL and OnRez to Join Linden Lab!

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"Some Residents have been banned from Xstreet. Will Linden Lab reactivate those accounts?"
We are looking into this issue and we are going to be getting back to residents on this. ...

Not even if I beg....?

It would literally only take a few hours to write the necessary script to export all the the OnRez data - accounts, transactions, items, images, account settings, and so on - all to XStreet automatically. The fact that Linden Lab is asking content creators to spend thousands upon thousands of person-hours to do this as a tedious, manual process blows my mind.
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I could go on, but as someone intimately familiar with the underlying database, and the technology required in general, it really does blow my mind that Linden Lab are not stepping up to the plate to take care of OnRez users. It is one thing to flush the many features people like - but ridiculous not to migrate years and years of data, which will only make the resulting XStreet product that much better.

Hi, Will XStreet be providing the same type of venders as OnRez do now, and will they be modifiable so that we can edit them to our own purposes and designs?

Let me test their anticompetitive behaviour...
no abuse..no swearing

Encourage competition and show LL your dismay... enrol at APez now

I'm guessing this is why they are going with Street not Onrez.

I have accessed my OnRez account today only to find it borked... the new header that proudly announces the monopolization of our treasured services has bumped everything down so that we can no longer see or withdraw our funds from the header bar. Anyone know another way of doing it? [found it & withdrawn...thank you for your help]

Hi Torin Talamasca,
Thanks for your informative questions.

Our Desire is to give our merchants and users the best experience possible. We don't have immediate plans to change how depositing USD via paypal and withdrawing USD via paypal for Xstreet works. I believe that there are two sides to the equation that we need to keep in balance here: speed of transaction and security of transaction. We won't ever introduce a delay for no reason. However, we will monitor fraud levels and other security concerns and will introduce a delay if security concerns require it. There are not plans to do so right now and we will alert our users to any planned change.

Torrin, there is no shame in having an adult oriented business. This is part of the ecosystem and we intend to support it. As long as you flag your adult items for listing in the adult section, business should continue as usual. What we will do our best not to allow is for adult oriented items to be listed in our general section where youths or professionals may come across them while expecting a family friendly or business oriented experience. So, the adult related policies which Xstreet has will stand for now and we'll refine those as we learn more about what our shoppers and merchants desire for an optimal experience.

Good luck in your business. I hope you sell a lot of items in the coming weeks as we send a plethora of new shoppers into Xstreet.
--Colossus

In addition to the custom vendor feature that has already been requested multiple times, there are a couple of features from OnRez that I would love to see added to XStreet:

- all reviews are signed, including simple star ratings, and all ratings are added to the star rating average. Currently there is no way for vendors on XStreet to judge if a low rating is due to an upset customer or someone greifing the ratings unless the customer adds a written review (which the system doesn't encourage since written reviews aren't added to the star average unless you make a simple star rating vote first, then add your review). Similarly, customers can't tell the source of ratings. Signed ratings would give them more context.

Let's all work together to make Second Life one of the changes that makes Real Life a better place for all, and usher in a new era of togetherness and caring for all of our brothers and sisters worldwide.

Hello T, Colossus and Grant,

LL bought a big responsability now over xstreet. This can work, and I hope it does, and yes I agree its just fair to pay for a quality service. But we hit the same mistake over and over: everyone knows SL and xstreet is flooded with stolen content, sold full perms, and the buyers sells it again and/or change a bit and resell. Original creators cant keep on with that, in 1 afternoon someone's alt sells 100 boxes of full perm skin templates of his skins. These 100 sells more 100, oh is it 10.000 people already? 10.000 dmcas? It is not working! PLEASE would someone be kind enough to tell me what improvements are going to be enforced in that subject, or if its going to stay the same?

"To whom much is given, much is required." — John F. Kennedy

Good luck!

- OnRez looks better than XStreet, the site is much less crowded and "hectic".

- Add the OnRez Section of Freebies and make it easily accessible, like OnRez does with a click from the main page. While you are at it, you could do something that even OnRez has not done: make a seperate category for 0/1L demos and split it from the freebies. It annoys the hell out of me that demos are listed with freebies.

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Can you just hire Flipper for a couple days to take care of this for you?

you can be as unique as you like, it's not really going to go that far in gaining you traction. This was the hard fact that GOM faced when the Lindex was produced - you can't compete when the compeition has such a massive competitive advantage.

please keep this feature

TPing to terminals sometimes is a nuisance... the wallet and vendors are the best features OnRez has to offer. would be a shame to lose those two.

Safari could not open the page “http://shop.onrez.com/user/withdraw/” because the server is not responding.

Being a bit sarcastic here, but that is exactly the quality of service I've learned to expect from LindenLabs.