I post this in case there is a Linden reading the forums and caring at all what residents have to say–they make a big show of caring but the reality appears different to me.

My ISP bandwidth varies quite a bit during a session–or is it Linden’s networks that vary? To get maximum performance I would adjust the Preferences, Network Speed, based on those two tiny indicators raising or lower Network Speed as necessary to cut lag.

Torley’s video shows us what Linden considers the replacement for these two tiny and useful indicators–the Statistics Bar and the Lag meter. Both of these things take up viewer screen space. Thus to keep them open interferes with your SL experience. The tiny Lag and Bandwidth idicators used no viewable space and were there all of the time.

So Linden takes away a useful feature to replace it with a problematic “feature” and Torley makes a video to convince us that this is good. Is this the Linden technicians messing things up again?

Neat trick. Just too clumsy for me to use. Although, if Preferences->Graphics in Windlight would set default focus to the quality slider (or remember any focus for the next open) so I could move it with arrows without the mouse, and if CTRL-P would close the Preferences (in jira for ages, but on hold without a good reason), then I might be using it.

Of course something like distance throttling would need to be incorporated into the core logic of the viewer. And better ordering of the texture downloads. I have that pending for jira for some time now (half finished), but there are just so many bugs and quirks that I can’t get to it.

Not sure why that is, but it´s a relief

Please don´t change, release or fix anything for another few days. lol

Good night