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Llauren Mandelbrot
Twenty-Four Weeks Old.
Join date: 26 Apr 2006
Posts: 665
09-14-2006 14:03
From: Torley Linden
Also, what would also help is sending me links to documentation you currently enjoy so we can get a better understanding of your favored style.
Ok, Torley, you asked.;)

I enjoy this style of documentation: SL Forums. For example:
  1. Artificial Life
  2. Announcements & News
  3. Linux Client Alpha Testers
  4. Linux Users
  5. Scripting Library
  6. Scripting Tips
  7. Second Life Answers
I still find myself adding Forums to my list from time to time. Then of course there`s the LSL Wiki.

[By comparison, a link to documentation that I do NOT enjoy is the official Second Life Blog. I personaly find it unusable. I understand the Forums. I do NOT understand the `blog. [This isn`t to say that I don`t find the information there useful when I can **find** it.]]

However, This style is not sufficient documentation in and of itself. I personaly like both very dry and very colorful "official documentation". I strongly recomend the colorful documentation for learning new stuff, and the dry documentation for reference purposes.

Now, if Second Life **has** any "official documentation" similar to that which comes with other software, I`d like to know where to find it. I`m seventeen weeks old, so you`d think I`d have found it by now if there is any.:confused:

Still, I have to thank you all at Linden Lab.

You [collectively] may have bitten off more than you can chew [and it certainly LOOKS from time to time like you have], and the toy you have given us to play with may be badly broken [and it certainly IS!!!!], but even badly broken, it is still better than the other people`s UNbroken toys!

Keep up the good work, and --above all-- learn from your fiascos so they don`t keep happening over and over again.

::hugs::, Llauren.
Jeska Linden
Administrator
Join date: 26 Jul 2004
Posts: 2,388
10-12-2006 14:26
Thanks for the great feedback. One of my personal issues has always been adding/highlighting our documentation and I hope as we grow we'll be able to dedicate more resources to this very important issue :)
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