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Linden Lab acknowledge the Teen Grid

Published on 14th of November, 2007 in Second Life. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

They’ve decided to hold a Town Hall on Tuesday (at 4pm PST – is this chosen specifically so everybody’s either at school or sleeping? *sigh*), and re-enabled PayPal signup. Well, if you’re in a specific subset of users, I guess. Why don’t they like me? :(

PayPal attempt
The message is even self-contradictory and false (no email was sent). And what’s “PalPal”?

Bonus points if they announce it on their blog. Even more if it actually works for me. It’d be nice if the Town Hall wasn’t at midnight too, but that’s just timezones for you.

One down, a whole load to go. Keep trying! ;)

UPDATE: The email eventually arrived, albeit very delayed. It turns out the failure message was wrong, because it actually had succeeded. Right… Anyway, yay! Now I shall instead complain that, although we still have the old (from at least 2005) Orientation Island, we get the new HUD. This is totally confusing. Two points for LL, however. They just need to fix their lying error messages.

AjaxLife revived

Published on 28th of September, 2007 in AjaxLife, Development and Second Life. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

No thanks to Linden Lab, I’ve fixed AjaxLife. It no longer relies on the map API – it instead builds up the missing data based on MapBlocks. It was already doing this to fix capitalisation, but was also assuming that sims already existed in the map API. As such, assorted assumptions had to be removed and various changes made (plus there’s now a really ugly bit on the server side for logging in, yay. >.>)
Note that this has two side-effects – you may have to wait a while before any given sim can be focused, and it can no longer tell when you’re trying to select a nonexistent sim. It’ll just consistently fail, and ask you to wait a bit.

But hey, we’re back! :D

LL killed AjaxLife

Published on 27th of September, 2007 in AjaxLife, Development and Second Life. 16 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

[20:29 BST] And now it doesn’t exist at all. Hoping they’re doing something other than ignoring it… :(

[20:03 BST] It’s not fixed. The file now exists, but doesn’t have any region names. So it’ll still crash out. Boo LL people.

[20:00 BST] Apparently it’s fixed, at least for now. Yay LL people! :D

LL seem to have pulled the MapAPI (yes, I know that’s a 404. That’s the problem.) without any form of announcement. So much for their blog.

Some research indicates that they have intended to do so for a while, and were going to make a wide announcement before doing so. Breaking it does not count as a wide announcement.

As such, AjaxLife (which was heavily dependent on the API for the map functions, among others) will no longer function. Furthermore, the replacement lacks an important function to make it work, is still in beta, still has assorted voice-map related things hardcoded in.

Additionally, I don’t want “Powered by Google” stuck in the corner of AjaxLife. Especially since nothing was wrong with the old one – well, at least, not my fixed version of the old one (now also broken due to loss of its data source).

So, Linden Lab. Until you do something about this, AjaxLife is dead.