Emerald Viewer featured on BBC Radio 5 Live

[Takeshi357]

@Flowgeta That argument is ridicilous at best because you could also apply it to any strictly RP environment on the internet like World of Warcraft.

[chickadee248]

Emerald viewer rocked, linden labs was just pissed cause no one wanted their viewer it sucks ass it is big and all the inventories is a whole box for one catorgory.

[MonsterMunchAreAce]

I think viewer 2 is great , people just like to complain for the sake of it and are too lazy to bother to learn how to use the new viewer.

I also find it quite amazing that a team that released malicious code with their software still has any degree of trust within SL , they may have changed the name and claimed that all of the "bad guys" are gone but why just believe that ? The only "bad guys" that are gone are the ones that got caught !

[Takeshi357]

@MonsterMunchAreAce No, people like to complain because the new viewer's interface is unnecessarily cumbersome and in some places just plain doesn't make a lick of sense. That, plus it represents an attempt at a shift towards a facebook-like social networking, something which is not welcomed universally (Whereas Facebook is real people on the internet, a lot of folks use SL as means of getting away from exactly that).

[RFKonoko]

Also FYI I still do use so called Malicious Viewers, because my Viewer is not listed on the Third Party Viewer Directory List. Also I knew about Emerald over 1 year ahead of time of what they were doing to its residents which is why I went to different friends viewers which were considered Malicious. I have never had any problem in SL using the viewers, suspension from LL, or any ban, other than Skills Hak who illegally violates privacy of residents, accusations with no evidence ect.

[RFKonoko]

Just some info, Skills Hak, should also get the ban hammer from SL. He was part of the Emerald Team helping them to Data Mine SL Residents IP address, Illegally track alternate accounts, & do many illegal privacy violations. I Talked to Lonely BlueBird/Ph0x about his CDS system not detecting my Malicious viewer, where he turned around back stabbed me, data mined my info and illegally stored it in his system. WIth all requests for data removal of everything it has been denied

[RFKonoko]

As a result to such, I have filed Internet Crime Complaints, Complaints with the Federal Trade Comission, and Linden Lab about Privacy Violations within Second Life, I doubt these will do any good, but he is violating our privacy, refusing to provide customer service, or answer any requests in SL or out of SL. He deserves nothing more than to be removed from SL just like the rest, but fact is he owns many bot accounts, Owns the biggest cyber punk city LL doesn't want to remove this.

[MichaelJFindlay]

I myself have been using Phoenix also, it does seem to be a good viewer, crashes once in a while but, as does every bit of software.

I am glad that someone continued with the Emerald Code giving users the option not to use 2.0!

[thebestplayerful]

@MichaelJFindlay can u help me with phoenix viewer?

[thebestplayerful]

@MichaelJFindlay can u help me with emerald viewer plz?

DO I NEED LAST NAME ON THAT VIEWER?

i have more viewer like this

1: phoenix viewer

2:emerald viewer

3:shardana-life

[ZealonChaosMagi]

Emerald is now blocked from accessing SecondLife, so they created Phoenix, so you can still run Emerald, just with a different name this time around.

[genskitty]

@ZealonChaosMagi

The Phoenix Viewer is not Emerald. True, it has the features of Emerald, but it also has new features, Along with some of the old Emerald dev's and support plus alot of new dev's and support people.

AleiaSerenity Sapphire

Phoenix Support Team

[ZealonChaosMagi]

@genskitty Yeah, I've edited some of the files in the Phoenix Viewer's Directory, i.e: Added some of the skins which were on Emerald.

Such as Gemini, and the PSL skins, etc.

But I do miss some of the things that Emerald had which Phoenix doesn't. -- The world shading and graphics aren't as highly detailed or processed, but oh well, small price to pay.

[genskitty]

@ZealonChaosMagi The viewer is still quite new. It is only about a week old now. Things are improving everyday that the dev's are working on it. Just be patient and give it some time. A lot of the dev's and support staff are working almost non-stop with little to no sleep. I think the dev's did a great job so far at getting a viewer out so fast.

[ZealonChaosMagi]

@genskitty Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree, and I am impressed on how fast it was released prior to Emerald being blocked.

I really do hope it turns out better than Emerald, but at the same time, I myself will miss 'Emerald'.