![]() It’s highly inconvenient and wasteful of database resources to copy inventory all over the place but for the basics like clothing, skins, hair and shapes I am obliged to do so. Recently I had to make some alts in OpenSim. I’ve got used to “Starflower Bracken” hovering over my head but even I have some use cases for temporary tweaks in specific, quite useful situations. It might make sense to be Starflower (Display Name) and Starflower Bracken (full, official or formal name rather than the peculiar SL term “legacy name” that only makes sense in their business context). But otherwise Starflower Bracken has been my name for a long while. Who knows? One friend who speaks Welsh calls me Seren (a Welsh name meaning Star) and I’d rather like to use that in her company. I don’t do roleplay but I might temporarily need another name for some such reason, if I later became so inclined and developed that as a hobby. Bracken, Starflower I of Wales and so on. ![]() At a conference or event, I may wish to be Dr, Prof or Reverend Starflower Bracken, Her Sublime Highness S. I may perhaps have a title like Reverend, Doctor or so on that I use in certain contexts. My neighbour probably calls me Starflower or, if she knows me rather better, Star. Imagine my name is really Starflower Bracken offline – it isn’t, despite me having used this identity exclusively as my primary identity for 14 years at the time of writing. However, while I am not interested enough in Second Life (and very rarely go there) to be bothered, it does make rather more sense in the more informal situation of being at home in my own grid or in the more liberal environment of the open metaverse via Hypergrid. I have never myself used Display Names in Second Life and have only a marginal interest in them in OpenSim. This undermines basic trust among the community in one of the main killer features for many people. It already exists and, despite previous assertions that they would accept patches implementing the feature, they have not and will not. They do not want to write the code, fair enough – but they don’t have to. This post is about the peculiar policy of the OpenSim devs to refuse Display Names as a feature in the face of very widespread and long-standing demands for them. ![]()
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