1.11.0=Complete Disaster

Well, if they know anything about MOs then they know most stuff goes on in general forums, no amtter how many feedback or suggestion forums you may have, so if they don't have someone at least skimming this then..................

...at least me and Zoe agreed...

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.

I've been saying shut the gate to new 'shinies' and put ALL the developers on fixing bugs since before 1.9. But no, I was a 'whiner.'

Just a harmless li'l bunny isn't it?

Nah fuck it - I WILL go there.

Flexi prims and light objects and water ripply and all that rot - and yet a deeded object returned will STILL go to the creator - even though I was personally told that was fixed.

Hell even the 'shiney's don't even get finished properly - look at the camera controls for instance - shoddy and half finished.. even for the some of the things they were touted as being for (machinima) they are woefully inadequate and half arsed.

The current dev mode is really just making a lot of these things worse and worse as time goes on. The method of letting someone work on what they want until it's 'not fun' (that is to say a stumbling block or bug is encountered) at which point they go onto the 'next cool idea' is introducing more and more bugs while the older problems are not being fixed at all - because they are 'not fun'

Sorry - but someone at some point has to do the grunt work and do the ever increasing 'not fun' stuff in Second Life... thats life....

Andrews BLOTTD should read:

Fix bugs.






And thats about it atm.

Cripes, just /building/ has been damned near impossible for me, because the prims keep jittering away no matter what I'm doing! I'm not even going into how many textures I have to wade through to make something match, and I'm absolute disgusted by the fact that LL broke texture picking functionality while giving us a dipsh*t little dropper.

W. T. F.

When I fidget in SL it's in the form of building, but I've built ONE thing - ONE - since the update, and a job that would have taken me five minutes to complete instead took an hour because of the utter USELESSNESS of this update.

The new chat functionality is crap. The camera movement has been giving me headaches since day one.

I don't give a flyer at a rolling donut about the popping pie menu. It's cute. IT'S NOT WHAT WE F*CKING NEED.

I've been here since New Year's and I've watched SL go to hell on an express train made of wicker. Stop giving us toys. Give us the functionality we've lost. FIX the bugs.

Address the problems we have instead of slapping cutely-patterned bandaids over the wounds.

I guess that's where we differ. I didn't find anything spectacularly wrong until this update. It began here as far as I'm concerned -- here and no sooner than here, and it's important to me that that distinction is clear because I'm specifically not throwing in with the "everything LL ever does is bad because there are some bugs that still exist" crowd.

My issue is only with the fact that this update specifically both added nothing while breaking several things. I've never before seen an update strictly make the game worse (not counting the awkwardness right after the update).

just edit an attachment, use edit linked parts, move the parent prim, resize it, hit undo twice...

Oh, nonononono, don't even go there. Don't try to compare this update and the complaints against it with the meaningless bitching at actually very nice additions like flexi prims and light-generating objects. Granted, more effort on bug fixes may be nice, but that notwithstanding, those updates didn't actually break existing features while simultaneously adding no value whatsoever, which is what this one has done.

Don't compare this to the whining that's gone on in the past because that cheapens it by association. This is a real, legitimate gripe that people who've defended LL repeatedly in the past, such as myself, are also angry about. This is a real problem.