Kit: Private communications in SL, Forums, MySL, IMs
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Forums: On the web, public and private, lacks integration with inworld
MySL: On the web, public and private, increasingly integrated with inworld
IMs: Inworld, private, partly integrated with the web
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Forum messages
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Forums/ct-p/Forums
On the forums pages you can click on a name and
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Experienced Second life users would not be troubled by the absence of a response, of course. We are accustomed to such communication failures, would assume another Second Life bug, and would try an alternative route (friendship offer inworld).
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send a private message to that person. You can indeed send a private message. I get a few a month. Regrettably, I get no notification of these messages. And I don't check my messages very often. So the messages I see are usually a week or more out of date. Too late to answer.
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MySL messages
https://my.secondlife.com/
Within MySL, you can click on a name and:
Inworld IMs and friend offers
Usually the recipient sees the message inworld or in email (if email the recipient has email delivery turned on). IMs are capped if the person gets a large number of IMs at one time. In that case, IMs are silently lost. IMs can also be lost in other ways, such as a sim crash on login, before the incoming IMs are read.
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Compare and contrast
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Forum messages and friend offers
As currently set up, forum messages and friend offers don't work as people would expecta and seem to be of little use. They would be useful if the link pointing to them went to the person's profile, as does the link in MySL
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Inworld IMs and friend offers
These usually work as expected, except when IMs get capped. In contrast to MySL, the inworld message system, keeps no permanent record of the messages; Users can have permanent records only by keeping their own logs.
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MySL home page
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Forums: On the web, public and private, lacks integration with inworld
MySL: On the web, public and private, increasingly integrated with inworld
IMs: Inworld, private, partly integrated with the web
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Forum messages
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Forums/ct-p/Forums
On the forums pages you can click on a name and
- open a page about that person's forum activities
- send a private message to that person.
- ask that person to be your friend.
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Experienced Second life users would not be troubled by the absence of a response, of course. We are accustomed to such communication failures, would assume another Second Life bug, and would try an alternative route (friendship offer inworld).
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send a private message to that person. You can indeed send a private message. I get a few a month. Regrettably, I get no notification of these messages. And I don't check my messages very often. So the messages I see are usually a week or more out of date. Too late to answer.
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MySL messages
https://my.secondlife.com/
Within MySL, you can click on a name and:
- open a page* about that person.
- send a private message to that person.
- ask that person to be your friend.
In this case
- the page that opens is the person's profile, the same as you see inworld.
- the private message appears on your MySL profile.
- you get a notice about the message
- the invitation to be your friend works like an inworld invitation of that sort
MySL, Private messages, offline
-Inworld IMs and friend offers
Usually the recipient sees the message inworld or in email (if email the recipient has email delivery turned on). IMs are capped if the person gets a large number of IMs at one time. In that case, IMs are silently lost. IMs can also be lost in other ways, such as a sim crash on login, before the incoming IMs are read.
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Compare and contrast
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Forum messages and friend offers
As currently set up, forum messages and friend offers don't work as people would expecta and seem to be of little use. They would be useful if the link pointing to them went to the person's profile, as does the link in MySL
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Inworld IMs and friend offers
These usually work as expected, except when IMs get capped. In contrast to MySL, the inworld message system, keeps no permanent record of the messages; Users can have permanent records only by keeping their own logs.
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MySL messages and friend offers
These seem to offer the most useful for serious communication. Probably more reliable, web based, and with a preserved record.
MySL messages and friend offers
These seem to offer the most useful for serious communication. Probably more reliable, web based, and with a preserved record.
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