Can map friends from website now?

I just noticed I can map my friends from the website. When did this feature happen? Was it always there cuz I rarely look at my friends list from the website.

Great.

How soon until the website crawls to a halt because there's 1000 people with programs that track all their friends movements 24x7?

/me is creeped out.

It might, if you have the box checked to where they can map you. I can't map anyone from it, because we're not

The friend bot!

You laugh but this is really easy to do.. Far, far, far easier to do than things like land/camp/copy-bot.

I guess the 'they can map me' checkbox is good enough to prevent abuse but it still makes me feel creeped out.

I was just wondering when this feature was added, because I never noticed it before.

wonder if this is used mainly by people at work trying to keep tabs on their SLpartner.

lol

Oooh... I'm dying for someone to do something but I've not the time myself.


Messenger owls.

Get the slurl, dissect it, give it to the Owl and send it off seeking your friend...


*flutter of wings*

hehe - I guess im not the only one looking forward to the next book coming out =p

A new SL gadget....LoJerk.

hmmm they are all wonderful and dreamy "taught me how to love again, meant to be mine, the stars proclaim them in my eyes, we will love for evarz and evarz"

Until found on a set of poseballs in the arms of some "skank".

then they become jerks.

lol

If people had more realisitic expectations in the first place they wouldnt need to map their partners lol =)

As it is what do you think of making one of those house arrest anklets? Something Xcite compatable - detects and records any XCITE green spam for later evidence.

Then sent packing in a UHaul.

Hey - look its not my fault I got you in trouble. I already told you that!

*stalks off muttering bout psycho people in Irish pubs*

Oh sweet! Another useless new feature nobody asked for, no one cared about, and only annoying people will use.

Don't allow annoying people to map you? Untick the box!

I mean you had to tick it in the first place. By default everyone is a sulky "don't map me!" paranoid freak because that's how it's made. If it's an example of how more and more "stuff" is being moved out of the eerie Black Box of Second Life, and into The Intertubes, then I'm all for it. Eventually, when everything is running over the web except for assets and sims I think SL will be a lot happier for it.

It wasn't there yesterday morning. Presumably a new website feature to go with the brand-new bug-free [cough, splutter] viewer

Um.. how? I did't see this on the site.

Mari

If your friends allow themselves to be mapped then you will see their name as a hyperlink in your friends list on the website. But so far it just activates the client map. It doesn't pull up SLurl thankfully. Not sure what purpose it serves really.

It's so subtle I don't know when they enabled it. But just go to the Friends Online page and click their name -- it brings up the SLURL of their current location. Assuming of course they've given you the ability to see them on the map.

-Atashi

Actually it gives a secondlife:-URL instead of an slurl.
Not very useful when I am at work
But I do know in what sim my partner is now.

I don't think I like this feature

It's a greasemonkey script to convert secondlife urls into slurls. And if you point it at the friends page with the images it includes the profile pictures.

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Secondlife -> SLUrl
// @namespace      http://home.comcast.net/~mailerdaemon/
// @description    Convert SL Links in pages to SLUrl Links
// @include        *
// @exclude        http://slurl.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

//escape, encodeURI, encodeURIComponent

String.prototype.trim = function() {
	return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,"");
}//http://www.somacon.com/p355.php

var i, j, link, len, count;
count = 0;
var xpath = "//a[starts-with(@alt,'Visit this user') and starts-with(@href,'secondlife://')]";// "//a[@alt="Visit this user\'s location"]';
try{
	var res = document.evaluate(xpath, document, null,	XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
	for (i = 0; link = res.snapshotItem(i); ++i) {
		var t = link.href.split("://");
		var s = (t[1]+"///").split("/");
		var img = "";
		if(t = document.evaluate("div/img", link, null,	XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null).snapshotItem(0))
			img = t.src;
		var text = "http://slurl.com/secondlife/"+s[0]+"/"+s[1]+"/"+s[2]+"/"+s[3]+"/?img="+escape(img)+"&title="+escape(link.textContent.trim()+"'s location");
//		GM_log(text);
		link.href = text;
		replaces = ++count;
	}
}catch(e){}
try{
	var xpath = "//a[starts-with(@href,'secondlife://')]";
	var res = document.evaluate(xpath, document, null,	XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null); 
	for (i = 0; link = res.snapshotItem(i); ++i) {
		var s = (link.href.split("://")[1]+"///").split("/");
		var text = "http://slurl.com/secondlife/"+s[0]+"/"+s[1]+"/"+s[2]+"/"+s[3]+"/?title="+escape(link.textContent.trim());
//		GM_log(text);
		link.href = text;
		replaces = ++count;
	}
}catch(e){}

if(count != 0)
{
	GM_log(document.URL.concat("\nHas "+count+" broken link"+((count>1)?"s":"") + " with "+replaces+" fix"+((count>1)?"es":"")+ " required!"))
}

Do you have any idea why we would need this feature to activate the client map in order to map our friends Strife? It seems kinda redundant.

In good interface design, if you can put redundancy into an interface without making the interface more confusing or busy, you do so. Interfaces with redundancy are easier to use. For example in the viewer statistics (FPS, ping, time dilation) can be activated in two places in the menu's along with having a keyboard shortcut.

Seeing LL practice good interface design is a good thing.

To take this idea into a practical sense - I've got two machines, each with their own monitor sitting side by side. I use synergy to share a single mouse and keyboard between them. If I were so inclined for whatever reason - I could map a friend from the website on one machine, while carrying on with my other tasks in Second Life on the other, without covering my workspace with the in-world map.

Another scenario- I can't log into Second Life for some reason, and I have an in-world meeting scheduled which I'm late for. Assuming I have permission to map the other parties, I can hop on the website, see if they're at the meeting location, and when it ever gets implemented, even shoot them an IM letting them know the situation.

So yeah, just because it's redundant doesn't mean it lacks purpose.

zk

From my observation the page will only allow mapping to you if that person has checked you to allow it over the friends list. So there is no way for anyone without mapping rights to abuse this. It's not much different then looking at your friends list and pulling up their profile to do it. The only difference is you can log in to the site as the account who can map them, yet use another account to teleport to them. However, they probably know all your alts by now anyway. Most people on my friends list knows most of my alts, because i talk to them a lot with them.