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Haravikk Mistral
Registered User
Join date: 8 Oct 2005
Posts: 2,482
06-28-2006 07:27
With this new update appearing with little warning (and the entire grid being updated, wtf, there's basically nothing changed except PvP abuse reports disappeared?!) I thought it would be a good idea to go onto the Preview Grid to do a bit of testing of things I was going to upload today (animations/poses).

However, the Preview app isn't updating, it's constantly warning of a newer version :(

But on the whole issue of updates, I think everyone is fed up of weekly updates that are trivial at best and take down the ENTIRE grid, I see no advantage to this update, and the change in the announcement (which doesn't even mention an update in its title, no-one I know knew there was going to BE an update today!) is a change to registrations, which shouldn't require the entire grid to be deactivated while people are in the middle of things they were expecting to be able to do for the entire day!
It's getting really frustrating that this happens so frequently, and I've not seen any useful advantage to it :(

Can't these things just get lumped into less regular or optional updates for a change? And leave grid changing updates to be less frequent unless they are ABSOLUTELY necessary. If they are absolutely necessary, then please to God tell us with some more advance warning and tell us WHY it's necessary, I really don't care about removing the PvP abuse system, since when was that release worthy anyway?

And if you're going to take the main grid down, at least have preview working so that people who were working on things might still get work done :(

It doesn't even say when the update will be finished! LL's update policy sorely needs to be looked at by someone who isn't blind please, because people aren't paying money to get kicked off for unknown length of time, for an unknown reason, when LL clearly knows what's being done because it's their update.
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Sahira Sopor
Registered User
Join date: 14 May 2006
Posts: 5
Current Upgrade on Preview and Main Grid
06-28-2006 09:55
If you look at the posts in the resident general discussions, you will see that those trying to use preview are getting updates that don't work or install, and then they can't get on the preview grid.

I just tried the main grid, was offered an update that said 1.10.4, installed it, and it asked me if I wanted to install it again and again. I realize the update is probably not ready yet, but seems the problem on the preview grid is already occurring on the main grid. I wasn't sure if a the Lindens are aware of this.
Sasha DaSilva
SL Addict
Join date: 27 Apr 2005
Posts: 135
help with preview
06-28-2006 10:50
hi I have tried to go into the preview and everytime I do it says I have to download the new version and when I install it says i have it already installed do i want to reinstall and i click yes but wheni go to log in it does this again! so far i have done this 3x and still cant log into it, its a cycle of the same thing over and over
whats up with this?
sasha
Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
06-28-2006 20:22
Thank you--the current Main Grid version is actually the fruits of the Preview. We hope to have a new Preview version available soon. I'll let the devs know, so keep watching the Preview page for when it's up:

http://secondlife.com/community/preview.php

Haravikk, re: the weight, *nod* please look at some of Karen Linden's past posts. In the future, it's hoped there'll be updates that don't knock down the grid as they do today.
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