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Last time I covered something quite misanthropic in nature, so this time I’m gonna do the opposite and show you how to use EMOTES to express yourself when socializing. While communication is an essential part of the Second Life experience, even though there’s voice chat, you may prefer to show how you feel in text [...]

We intended to have a Search release incorporating a number of improvements in June. We did have one, sort of. During the release, we became aware, both internally and through Jira, that we had another scenario to take into consideration. So, we made the decision to roll back the release. Since then, we have fixed [...]

Following  on from the previous blog post discussing the work we’re doing to fix search – today we’re happy to announce the full release of our fixes and improvements. Perhaps the most important part of today’s release is the fix for the bug that was causing some parcels  to be dropped from the search index [...]

Server 1.40.2 is the new and improved 1.40, containing bug fixes that prompted the rollback of 1.40.0 two weeks ago; see the Release Notes for more detail.  We will have a condensed pilot period of 2 days which should be plenty of time to see if there are any remaining issues.  Here’s the schedule: 2010-06-29, [...]

This week we are upgrading the Second Life Grid from Server 1.38 to Server 1.40. We’re currently on a monthly release cycle on the Grid, but with this release, one of the most important components was our integration of Havok  7, the most recent battle-tested version of Havok’s Physics Engine. Because there are no new  [...]

Sick of strangers bugging you with crap? While Second Life is a rich social environment, there are times you may want to partake in anti-social networking — that is, getting rid of distractions so you can focus on the awesome stuff you care about. New in Viewer 2 and onwards is a feature that should [...]