[sldev] Re: More plugin / platform harping..

[Tateru Nino]

Matthew Dowd wrote:
> Mmmm, i personally think that this is a red herring.
>
> "A steep learning curve has led a large percentage of new users — as many as 90 percent, according to Linden Lab’s own estimates — to abandon the service within a few months of thier arrival in-world."
>
> I'm not convinced that many of this 90% who leave are because of UI issues - in any case anyone having trouble with the viewer UI would likely give up after a few hours, not months!

I have to agree. Having ushered in around about 12,000 new residents,
the UI isn't so much of a problem. For beginners there's just too *much*
UI and you could hide 60% of it for them - but their problems are more
about being overwhelmed and without direction or peer support. Any UI
difficulties are just icing on that making the already difficult, just a
little more difficult than it needs to be. That needs to be dealt with
at some point, admittedly - but it's not the scary UI that's frightening
people away.

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Tateru Nino
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