1.11.0=Complete Disaster

Troll, thats what they called me for continually asking and telling LL to STOP ADDING THE BELLS AND WHISTLES TO THE GAME, WE DON'T WANT THEM YET, WE DON'T NEED THEM YET. Been sayin' it for a while, now who's the Troll?

Yeah I saw that too, guess I won't be buying a wand anytime soon

It seems that the trend of pushy shoddy, half thought out functionality out the door quickly for no apparent reason did not end with the inventory window problems. After all kinds of assurances that they have an improved development process and quality testing, we have the single worst update since version 1.5. How is this progress, honestly? I am all for saying thank you and praising the Lindens when they do something right, but this complete mess of an update is fucking inexcuseable. To highlight the severity of what is wrong:

* An estate tool bug that allowed all scripted items in the sim to be inadvertantly returned, destroying the sim (at least they have resolved this quickly).

* An eyedropper tool that allows content theft. While not at first apparent how to do this, it is actually quite easy.

* A bug that causes group members to become officers, exposing the group to having their land sold and builds destroyed.

* A widely panned new snapshot tool that is a giant step backward in usability. It seems time was put into adding stupid, nauseating effects and flashy features like a Matrix-freeze frame zoom system, but that no thought was given to how people actually use snapshots or to hiding any of the complexity at all. You can no longer take a series of snapshots in rapid succession until you get the right picture, something that you could easily do before.

* A gratuitous change in the way the enter key behaves with the chat window, causing people to jump in the air because the chat window is unexpectedly closed

* Script problems that broke existing objects.

* A texture picker that now makes it extremely difficult to actually apply textures to objects. Again, a giant usability step backward (though you did get the bonus of being able to steal any texture).

* Pointless UI changes like detachable menus and changes to pie menus so that they fade in.

There is probably a lot more, but this list is enough. There are several show stopping, serious bugs on the list. I recognize the complexity of updating SL at this point, but there is absolutely no excuse for the poor quality of this update. We as customers deserve better than this, and Linden Lab should be ashamed for shoving this out the door so quickly without more extensive testing. God help us with the 1.12 update, which has dramatic changes to group functionality. If it is treated as poorly as 1.11 was, then who knows what will be broken.

Philip Linden has talked extensively about Linden Lab's development process, and how they use a system called the Love Machine. Note to Philip: it's not fucking working. You can't just let people do what they want on a whim, but apparently, that is how the development is handled. A Magic 8 ball would be more effective at this point. I know there are all kinds of improvments that SL needs and that it is a balancing act trying to figure out what to do next and what the priorities are, but there is a single priority that is more important than anything else: STOP BREAKING THINGS THAT ALREADY WORKED FINE. Until you can figure that one out, perhaps you should hold off of wasting time on detachable menus and gee-wiz camera effects. The customers of Linden Lab deserve better than the Russian Roulette updates you keep shoving out the door in rapid succession.

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They broke the wand??? I don't even HAVE a wand! I can't AFFORD a wand! But I hate it that they broke it!

This is indeed an undocumented new feature of 1.11. The tragedy is that I wrote up the release notes for it, submitted them, and someone didn't add them to the list.

agreed. the bugs in this update have made the creative end of SL unenjoyable...that's problematic when you consider "enjoyability" as the primary reason to stick around and keep making stuff.

good post, cristiano. i hope the Powers That Be are listening to the frustration in this thread.

personally, im out of here for a while. pushing a real brush across canvas is looking nice and stable and FUN, compared to how cludgy and bugged the in world tools have become.
sad.
as bad as some updates have been in the past, that's never been the case prior to now.

Bye now, take care, and DO stop bitching and moaning, you aren't that good at it sweetheart...

Yeah, it'd be really nice if they sat down and stopped breaking the tools that many folks now rely on for their livelihood.

Fix the f*cking content creation bugs, at least. Kthx.

Of course. Some acknowledgement of the issues and a little transparency about what they intend to do to fix them would go a LONG way towards dissolving some of the angry dissatisfaction. Bueller...?

hmm. does anyone think a rollback is even possible at this point?