Second Life Answers Hits a Milestone. Forums death watch predictions

Competent drivers don't often do that, of course. Do you think they're confusing milestones with targets?

Hey that's my line!

Not sure about that, apparently they've put off closing these forums for too long. They have talked migration but if SL Answers is a replacement for Resident Answers then it's not going to have a happy ending.

They actively discourage discussion in SL Answers.

Second Life Answers is working well - apart from the software.
Clearspace is awful and there have been a huge number of requests for improvement and a few promises from LL.
NOTHING has actually been done
HOORAH, Lexie says better links to SLA are 'improvements'
No-one likes the software.

The SLX forums were closed-down and everyone was moved to Clearspace.
Yes, there's nothing wrong with preventing discussion in SLA - the commerce forums all them, just like here.
But no-one likes the software
Please repeat above.

LL's stated intention was to have just one 'forum' software to maintain, which makes sense.
With SLA on Clearspace and the commerce forums moved there too, these fora were meant to be moved over too.
That doesn't mean discussions will stop - see above.
But no-one likes the software
Please repeat above

When I have a question, it's usually about a specific technical point, and the first place I'll look is in "search" in the relevant technical forum. That's usually Scripting Tips for me, but I've also found loads of useful stuff in the archives of the other specialized forums, be it texturing or how to use Blender or a problem with the Linux client. If I can't find the answer there, I can ask my question and be confident it will be read by people who know the answer and are generous enough to share their time and expertise providing it.

I really cannot see SL Answers replacing that, not least because it's separating the answers from the invaluable archives in the existing forums.

See Lexie's comments in threads where discussion breaks out on SL Answers, discussion isn't what they want in SL Answers.

No, ANSWERS is not the place for DISCUSSIONS but the other channels (or whatever LL call them), such as Commerce Forums DO allow discussion.

SO -- when LL move these fora to yet another channel they will continue to allow discussion, but still not in the ANSWERS channel. Hence, "That doesn't mean discussions will stop"

But no-one likes the software, just in case I hadn't mentioned that. So discussions might stop of their own accord, even if LL still allow them. I can't remember where it was discussed (ooh, that word again) but I think the commerce forums have 10% or less of the traffic the XStreet fora used to.

Its even better as at least one linden from the thread? is the blog posts considered threads?
put this in another blog about using forums.



here https://blogs.secondlife.com/message/65247#65247

looks like they want the blog only for fast turn over and high number of posts. A look at the numbers not the content

Wow, all I have to do is go over there and pad my post count and I too can be an "expert".

I like the way Torley isn't, apparently, an expert. An enthusiastic amateur, maybe.

I don't think that the fact that extended "discussions" are referred to these forums means that LL won't close these forums when it strikes their fancy.

I doubt that LL has any real objections to SL Answers being used for "discussions" per se. For example, an extended, possibly never-ending conversation on "ways to build" would probably not move a moderator to action. I think what they don't want is protracted hostility or rudeness whether between "residents" or directed at employees, or endless complaints about LL's integrity or SL's bad performance.

When the number of users who have never used these forums but are used to and content with the support and discussions they can have outside of forums.secondlife.com gets large enough that arousing the ire of the users of forums.secondlife.com would not be a big drawback then I would expect LL to archive these forums.

I got tired of waiting.

After two minutes???

It's completely unrelated, these forums are going to be done in.



I'm not sure, what they seem to want is Yahoo Answers or Experts Exchange type answers, a few posts, one correct answer, award points, all fits nicely on one page.



It will happen sooner rather than later, I'd imagine the reason it hasn't gone yet is more to do with time constraints on the Linden involved than any sort of concern about raising the ire of users on forums.secondlife.com

It is a piece of excrement and it smells bad. I visited to give it a chance; I'll shout my questions in Ahern before I try to use it again. The flog software layout makes my eyes bleed, and I didn't find any actually useful answers there.

In one sense they are nuts. LL dislikes, I would imagine, not merely the criticism directed at themselves and their employees (and I actually sympathize with the latter, anyway), but also the way in which SL culture presents itself in forums like this. The point, however, is that at least here such comments are inaccessible to anyone without an account. Force these conversations more out into the open, as is already the case at SLU and SCII, and they will be merely ensuring that more of the app's dirty laundry is being aired in public.

Oh, they most certainly don't care about us; we're thorns in their side and I'm sure they're disappointed and bemused by our continued existence. *On the other hand*, I would not lightly dismiss "time constraints on the Linden involved." Unless killing off this forum is an objective on somebody's list, it's not likely to happen any time soon. Well, any time at all, actually.

If this creaky old thing will just keep running and nobody looses the card deck they must use to load it up... if it can just hang on until they loose infatuation with the Jive stuff, maybe they'll give us a chance. And that Jive stuff has been around long enough now that it must have lost some of that new shrink-wrapped software aroma.

That's why I suggested StackExchange on the blog discussion. If we can just gently erode the sheen of Jive, maybe "the Linden involved" will keep finding time otherwise committed.

The community over at SL answers is not the people here, and not the people at 'external SL forums.'

SL answers serves a very useful function for the new 'Linden regime' - it makes all of the rest of us moot.

They've managed to attract the customers they want to have be visible to the outside world, and screen out the customers they don't want seen. In that regard its a success for them.

Sooner or later, they will close the door here - most likely as soon as they feel the community there is solid enough that once we lose our place, we won't be able to be a noticed presence over there.

As soon as they can be sure we can be made silent on any official SL location, we're going to see the lights turn off around here.

For the moment however, the forum here still serves a vital purpose: it quarantines us. It keeps the quirky culture here from becoming the driving community theme over there. The community here often argues with each other - but just as often is unified in being critical of the Lindens, even when not unified over what we are critical about. The community there also argues a lot, but is more often not critical of the Lindens in a majority sense. Rather it always manages to present those critical of LL as a deviant fringe.

That's us. The deviant fringe. These forums are the lunatic asylum - for the time being. Safely ignored.

*laughs* Well, if we are so fearsome, then when they close this place, they should be afraid, no?



We can dream.

We're like a West End stage show, or "Any Questions" on BBC. Long running and attract attention. We're witty and clever and iconoclastic.

People ar ebound to wanna shut us down because we are all of the above.
If they do, I trust one of the boffs will find a way to keep us running.
Besides, sl wouldnt be the same with us.
Rez Anz Roool Ok.

It would be.....More Predictable.(tm)

Thanks. I looked but didn't see that section or a link to it.

All this in less than a month

wtf with the password login for slpics.com on this page?