Alright then! I thought I'd write a blog post today to wish everyone a happy earth day, and to bubble a bit about the change I made to the new RLV Folders feature that ships with Peanut 9 Build 203 : )
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​Every year on April 22 I celebrate Earth Day, and it's actually a really important day to me for personal reasons. Yeah, I know, I usually don't write posts like that but why the heck not this once. ♥

I love nature, and thanks to this love I was able to overcome many big challenges in my life.

When I was little I had these huge allergies always in the spring. I'd have to use inhalers, and when everyone else played outside, I'd sit in my room reading Momo or Sophie's World, and only ended up having adventures in my head, when I really wanted to be outside and have real adventures....

​I wouldn't accept this, and eventually my little girl mind came up with the following logic:

If I would love nature strongly enough, it would eventually make peace with me and stop hurting me. I grimly exposed myself to the outside world, blew dandelions with teary eyes, petted bunnies and fed ponies breathing like Darth Vader, and rolled around in the grass until I was itching all over.

And it actually worked. Most of my allergies became less and less severe in only a few years.

I don't know how it did scientifically? Maybe it was positive outlook boosting my immune system, or maybe I got  hyposensitized from excessive exposure to allergens, probably something like that, but what I took from it for life was that almost anything can be fixed with love. ​(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ ♥

So... I cooked up a neat, little update for my Peanut N°9 collar version. Build 203!

​The important difference is a change in the new RLV Folders because these caused so much drama recently. I already updated the manual page which should be a bit shorter now than before.

Some users wanted to have different categories than the ones we chose with our community, others wanted to have the new "wear & lock" style but with everything else the same as it was in the old RLV Folders feature, but these old folders unfortunately can't function like that as both scripts are a fundamentally different logic, this is not something I can (or would even want to) mix.

It's not easy to please everyone, and yeah, there will always be someone who can't be fully satisfied, but I think for the vast majority of users every wish can be fulfilled if they follow this simple advice:

• If you want to have many categories, subfolders of subfolders, and a very, very large #RLV Folder structure that is comparable to some kind of file system within SL dialog menus, then please go ahead and grab a new copy of Legacy Stuff, after you installed Peanut N°9 Build 203, and install the Legacy Folders on top of it.

 

• If you rather have a fast, simple and manageable #RLV Folders experience for both the collar wearer and those others playing with the collar, then please make yourself familiar with my new feature. It is really easy to learn and the best choice if you change partners frequently.

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My new feature uses a flat hierarchy. It has two categories where each can fit 54 folders, without any subfolders. That equals 9 pages in the dialog menu of the collar that you and others can flip through at leisure. Thanks to the new logic (and Otto's German engineering ♥) the new #RLV Folders menu is extremely responsive and runs very snappy when compared to old #RLV folders.

​Collar wearers see a choice of either Shared or Private categories, where the Private category is only for the wearer of the collar, and the Shared category is for the wearer and authorized avatars.

The Private category is very useful if you want to quickly add or remove HUDs, such as the Maitreya body, or Catwa head HUDs, or different foot shapes, or a hug tool, and also lock this stuff.

The Shared category is what you want to share with those people who play with you, so they can attach stuff to your avatar during role play. That can be bondage gear, or a binky, or some prop!

The previous version of my new folders feature had generic categories that were determined by the feedback I got from the Fire Flower community. Now, it's not a big secret that I didn't really dig these categories, but I did my job and fulfilled this demand as promised. The outcome was that a lot of people who first chose to not to participate in the folder discussion, got angry, rude and incredibly toxic at the prospect of having to create a handful file folders in their SL inventory....

I still don't understand why those users didn't simply opt-in for the legacy folders and save themselves the effort. I also don't understand why they had to egg other users on to refrain from using the new folders feature. I've read some chat history where a newbie is trying to figure out #RLV Folders and got so discouraged by the back-to-the-stone-age commandos that she gave up.

It doesn't have to be this way. If you don't like something it is OK. It is just fine. You don't need to validate not liking something by getting others to not like it either and spoiling it for them. Keep in mind that you are on Second Life® to have a great time. I can't for the life of me imagine that getting super worked up "because Wendy Starfall made a new feature" is your idea of a great time.

​Happiness is only a chill-out away. Hey, and don't feel addressed if what I wrote above ain't you. ♥
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Sigh... I didn't want to conclude this post with another salty rant.. but it is what it is, is it not? <:D

Anyway, you can grab Build 203 out of the box in all virtualdisgrace.com collar releases and it's also pre-installed in all of my "Gift of ..." series collars, aaand in the OpenCollar Originals. That's right! The free classics that I retired, announced that I retired them, and then didn't have the heart to see it through because people were so nice. Let me post a bunch of links..

If you happen to be in the market for a new collar, go ahead and check out Cae's release for FaMESHed X. Hmhmm! It says babygirl and it runs Peanut Build 203 out of the box (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ ♥

​Alright. I made a rather intense post yesterday. I'm not going to delete it (you can expand it at the bottom at Read More) because that's sneaky and shitty and I stand to the things I say and do, but I have to follow up because after a few glasses of red wine and some sleep, I realized that if I really took all my stuff away, it would hurt a whole lot of people I care about and who have believed in me.

It's one thing if I self-destruct but I won't take others down with me. That's not who I am.

Firstly though, I want to thank everyone who has left a comment. Thank you. Some of you are so nice it breaks my heart to think that I upset anyone and I feel ashamed for being so impulsive. Sigh.

I was checking out the listing and the worst of it seems to be gone anyway, so my thermo-nuclear approach yesterday must have ruffled some feathers, unless I'm really getting delusional now.

My friend Grey always told me after releases that there was a way to disable the notifications from marketplace, just how you can disable offline messages. I totally forgot about that in my self pitty.

​So I checked it out and after some digging on the web interface, I found it!

If any of you are having the same problem, or if you have a hard time and need to disable these god forsaken review notifications temporarily until thicker skin times, you can actually do that!

Let me show you how:

Just go to ​https://marketplace.secondlife.com/account/email_settings and do like I do in the GIF.

​You can also get there if you sign into marketplace. At the top right you have a teensy, tiny down-pointing arrow next to My Marketplace. Click there and select My account from the drop down then you have on your left a baby tiny text option called Email settings, and that's where shit gets real!

I also disabled the Flag alert in my own email settings cause that would be even more disturbing. ♥

Make sure to click Save Email Settings at the end. If you want to test it, better be careful though because I think you can get into troubles if you review your own stuff, so best have a friend do it if you need to test it for peace of mind.

See? You seee!? Can't touch me now with your mean shit! Review my ass! : )~

I also found something similarly awesome on YouTube but it's a bit more complicated.

For this you have to go to https://studio.youtube.com and then select Videos on the panel to the left. If you can't see Videos as word, it will be that button with the play icon. You won't miss it.

Then just do how I do in the GIF:

​​Now. If you are having a YouTube channel and do this in earnest you can't just disable comments.

​It's a big no-no because you want to engage at least a little bit with your audience (hearting comments and stuff) but in this tutorial case stuff when you already have a help chat and group, it might be better to do it cause you will have people trying to use the comments for getting support.

What you could do though is hiding the Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down at "Users can view ratings for this video" but I don't recommend that either. It only hides it for others but not for yourself.

I really think that Build 190 is the one. That is it now. That is as far as "OpenCollar" can be pushed with its current architecture and anything else would require substantial changes in what most people would call the "core" of this software. For me the "core" is the stuff that handles authorization, creates the menus and takes care of communication inside and outside the collar.

Changing that will come with the inevitable reality that things like Legacy Stuff will no longer work and updating that old code? Really, with all the love, I can't bring myself to do that. Not after the shit storm with the new folders script. If you are unaware, the folder script in Daisy Chain is brand new.

The folders problem is that existing users who made use of this script at all, would already have their old, familiar structure. Something they got from some tutorial years ago or came up with on their own. Having those users change their inventory folder structure is going to suck for them.

​That's why the Legacy Stuff has updated Legacy Folders, specially provided for those users. You see? I do that for those users! Just because the standard package doesn't have it how they want, they can still get it, but those users attack me for providing something that was particularly with them in mind. Just because they are so full of themselves it would be too much effort to click one more box. Guys, I take weeks, months for developing this stuff. You just have to do a flipping mouse click and in the most "extreme" case spend 2 minutes reading a manual page. Come on! >: (

Anyway, new users do have a much better experience with the new folders. They don't lag as much, they can apply it well to the type of content they own and they can help each other more easily.

Hopefully many people understand that we have to make things more simple for younger (avatar age) residents because the SL world is terminally ill and new residents are the only medicine that can keep this place alive. They are more willing to spend money, they are not as jaded and tainted from all the weird sex stuff that is going on in SL, and they bring us joy when they have fun with the things us oldbies can show to them, and no, I'm not just talking about your Aeros weenie!

Why... do all my blog posts digress into weird rants......

​I want to conclude this post with a list of changes in the latest Peanut releases. Not a change log how I used to do them with GitHub Milestones, just a neat, little list of interesting changes.

You can get the update for free through my marketplace store at:

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Wendys-OpenCollar-Updater/6620453

If you need old folders or old poses and some such, you can get that for free on my friends store:

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/OpenCollar-Legacy-Stuff/14538806

And talking about virtualdisgrace.com they just shipped Update Cards to all of their customers. You can read about those on the page for Update Cards which I strongly suggest to read, but in a nutshell they are used in Arcadia to get updates for your apps, accessory, ao, remotes, builder kits..

I hope that I could have redeemed myself with this updated post. As I said in the beginning, you can click Read More to see what was going on yesterday. I only struck the parts through that are no longer true, the rest is unaltered because as I said, I don't do the shitty-sneaky thing and stand to what I said and to the little messes I make.

​That also means I will have to take my break, this time around though with fortified peace of mind.