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Pituca FairChang
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05-22-2005 18:11
I haven't a clue as to where to post this plea, so I will put it here.

I think we need more "New Product" forums. A Designer one for sure! The new clothing, skins and accessories that come out are advertised and bumped a lot by their fans, so the ordinary post about new vehicles, trees, scanners ............. whatever plunge to the bottom of the page never to be seen again.

Please do not construe this as a complaint against the designers and their fans as I shop here too! I love to see the new stuff out and as a Live Helper whenever someone IMs and wants to know where to buy a certain item, as well as telling them how to use Find I also tell them to check out the New Products thread in the Classifieds.

Please! Just divide it up into 3 or 4 sections?




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Baba Yamamoto
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05-22-2005 18:13
Great ideas ;0 The feature suggestions might be aplicable, but its kinda fuzzy. This seems aplicable to the General forums tho ;0 !


As to the ideas ;0 I totally agree!
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Torley Linden
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05-22-2005 18:17
and bettah yet would be RSS/ATOM feeds that could be subscribed to, notifying consumers about the latest-n-greatest in SL goods in the topics of their choice, live-n-direct! :)
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Enabran Templar
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05-22-2005 18:18
Yeah, everytime I post something about a new robot, it quickly plummets to the bottom of the forum view.
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blaze Spinnaker
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05-22-2005 18:22
Yeah, torely, that's an awesome idea :)

SL needs to ride the blogosphere more.

But, in the meanwhile,I think pituca's idea is great too. It's pretty cheap to just add another forum.
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Susie Boffin
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05-22-2005 18:29
I couldn't agree more. Every time we come out with something new I post it and it gets buried mighty quick.
Varian Neutra
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05-22-2005 18:32
In-game classifieds would be even better.
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blaze Spinnaker
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05-22-2005 18:40
In game classifieds *would* be better, but we all have to be thoughtful about development effort.

Not only will it takes weeks to set up something like that, changing the client can lead to memory leaks, bugs, and other problems.

Adding a forum is like 60 seconds on the forum administration console.
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StoneSelf Karuna
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05-22-2005 19:01
From: Pituca Chang
I haven't a clue as to where to post this plea, so I will put it here.

hotline to lindens forum gets a good response time from lindens
features suggestions forums seems another likely place.
and general works for most things.
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Cocoanut Koala
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05-22-2005 20:08
I think this is a great idea.

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05-22-2005 21:40
Totally a good idea. If anything, it'll also make sorting through products a bit easier.
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Cristiano Midnight
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05-22-2005 22:24
http://www.sluniverse.com/forums/Group59.aspx
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05-22-2005 23:15
Hey Cristiano, if SLUniverse.com is a business that we can libel, then posting links to it in here is *spam*.

Can't have it both ways.
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"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Pendari Lorentz
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05-23-2005 04:41
I think this is a great idea Pituca! And love your idea too Torley!!

I support this idea/suggestion! :D

And Blaze, if that were true, then slboutique, slexchange, etc. would never be able to post links in these forums. As long as it is SL related, I doubt it would be considered spam. It seems to me you are just trying to start trouble. :(
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Pituca FairChang
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05-23-2005 05:35
Thanks for posting that Crist, I will have to visit SLUniverse more often.

I am glad I have so many in agreement. I haven't thought about naming the threads though, maybe we all need a brainstorming session?

Just off the top of my head I had thought of

1.) Clothing and accessories
2.) Housing, Stores and furnishings
3.) Vehicles
4.) Nursery
(ie. trees, flowers, fountains and all the good stuff you might find at Armstrong's or Roger's Gardens)


Anyhoo it is a beginning,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Thanks everyone for your positive feedback



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Torrid Midnight
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05-23-2005 05:52
I agree Pituca, I think we need more forums because so many threads get lost in there before they get a chance to be seen. People feel the need to get their threads bumped over and over just to have a shot at being on the front page for at least a day. Designers generate a great deal of new product daily and it can overpower other types.
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Cristiano Midnight
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05-23-2005 07:52
Another thing that would help is to have the posts sorted in those forums by thread creation date, not last post date. While it is nice to have your thread bumped by praise (or occasional drama), it makes it difficult sometimes to see what is in fact new, since the same thread keeps coming back to page one.
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Jonquille Noir
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05-23-2005 08:50
Very good idea, Cris. I sometimes have to go back a page or two to see what I've missed that's been pushed down. It would be nice if the latest remained on top.

I also like the idea of seperating it up into sub-forums, even though I'd probably look through them all anyway.

From: Cristiano Midnight
Another thing that would help is to have the posts sorted in those forums by thread creation date, not last post date. While it is nice to have your thread bumped by praise (or occasional drama), it makes it difficult sometimes to see what is in fact new, since the same thread keeps coming back to page one.
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Ale Bukowski
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05-23-2005 11:42
I endorse very much everything said here, the way "New Products" is designed now is mostly useless.
Brace Coral
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05-23-2005 13:29
From: Pituca Chang
I am glad I have so many in agreement. I haven't thought about naming the threads though, maybe we all need a brainstorming session?

Just off the top of my head I had thought of

1.) Clothing and accessories
2.) Housing, Stores and furnishings
3.) Vehicles
4.) Nursery
(ie. trees, flowers, fountains and all the good stuff you might find at Armstrong's or Roger's Gardens)


Anyhoo it is a beginning,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Thanks everyone for your positive feedback



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Great idea Pituca! I wholeheartedly agree - subsectioning would be wonderful :)

Continuing the brainstorming:

Avatars (including bots, mecha, full body armor and so on. I guess anything that needs a custom avshape?)
Gadjets & Animations (For things like emote-a-rama, cheers, poses, anim balls, new dances etc)
Home & Garden
Was thinging to consolidate things for the furnishings & plants; with the recent baby boom nursery takes on its additional meaning).

Good lookin out Pituca HUGGS :)
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Lash Xevious
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05-23-2005 14:15
Hmmm ...

The fashion ones could do better if it was split into several groups ...

But here's what I wouldn't mind seeing:

Animations (Dances, Gestures, Poses)
Vehicles, Scripted gadgets, Particle Effects, Scripts
Prim Creations (that aren't extensively scripted like vehicles) > Houses, building kits/sets
Prim Creations > Sculptures, Textured plants, animals
Fashion > Clothes
Fashion > Skins, Tattoos
Fashion > Accessories (hair, shoes, jewelry)
Textures

That's all I can think of right now. :o
Beryl Greenacre
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05-23-2005 15:29
From: Cristiano Midnight
Another thing that would help is to have the posts sorted in those forums by thread creation date, not last post date. While it is nice to have your thread bumped by praise (or occasional drama), it makes it difficult sometimes to see what is in fact new, since the same thread keeps coming back to page one.
Now this idea definitely has some merit. It makes so much sense to have threads in the New Products Forum listed in the order in which they are posted and unable to be bumped; that's the whole idea behind something new, after all. I could go back and bump threads in that forum for products that were posted months ago; they'd no longer be "new," but they'd float to the top of the forum just the same.
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Pituca FairChang
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05-23-2005 15:30
From: Brace Coral


Home & Garden
Was thinging to consolidate things for the furnishings & plants; with the recent baby boom nursery takes on its additional meaning).

Good lookin out Pituca HUGGS :)


Good call,,,
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05-23-2005 15:38
I notice that "Unviewed" posts become "viewed" sometimes if I just hang out here while at work. I might not get to them all right away and I use the actual "unread" label to see if new messages and/or new replies have occured in a topic. After a weekend of not reading posts I will go back three pages to at least see what I have not read and browse it over so it is marked as read usually.
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Arwen LeMay
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05-24-2005 06:05
Great idea, Pituca.

How about a forum (or even just a thread) where people can post advanced news of any really exciting new products which are imminent, but not yet quite ready for the market?

I've made a start here:
/120/b3/47750/1.html

so if any of you want to see the future, or maybe want to volunteer as beta testers (rewarded by a free final object) pop over and have a look see. My interest is in sophisticated scripted behaviours, so I think you'll find they really are quite fun.

Why not add your own pet projects to the thread, so others can enjoy your excitement too ?
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