Comments on: FAQ

By: Rika Watanabe

Rika Watanabe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:23:47 +0000

No, it is not. You get one shot per subscriber. At the same time, on any given day no more than 1% of all existing subscribers will receive your item, so there’s always more subscribers where those came from.

By: Floyd Mistwalker

Floyd Mistwalker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:23:58 +0000

If I delivered an item to a number of subscribers, then I decide to change the item and I want it to be able to redeliver to all subscribers again, is that possible?

By: Rika Watanabe

Rika Watanabe — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:25:21 +0000

No, there's no way to do that without an update to all dropboxes. Also, removing this message is very likely to create situations where people don't know that they should have gotten an item but didn't, or when they don't know where the heck it came from.

I'm working on code that will try to time deliveries to when you're usually online, though, so it should become less of a problem in the future.

By: Skell Dagger

Skell Dagger — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:37:33 +0000

Quick question: Is there a way to disable the notification that you have received an item from a DSN Dropbox? I’m subscribed to several channels and, together with the other offline IMs, group notices and suchlike that I receive (usually overnight, when I’m not logged inworld) the extra DSN notices (“The object ‘DSN Dropbox: Home and Garden’ has sent you a message from Second Life: You have a subscription to the Designer Showcase Network, channel Home and Garden…” etc) are contributing to a much faster capping of my messages than I would like.

By: Pud

Pud — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:49:20 +0000

here’s an idea … and it would be a solution to the data retention issue, as well … every 3 months, say, reset the database, give everyone a clean slate with each other. I’m with Cherry, on this one. It’s one reason, as a designer, that I wouldn’t pay ANY kind of fee. I’d only ever have one chance at reaching people. Feels a little like playing the lottery.

Other than that .. I think this is a dynamic solution and as a consumer, I’m loving it.

By: Cherry Tungsten

Cherry Tungsten — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:47:24 +0000

Are there any plans to make it so that the one chance thing could relate to a specific item rather than a specific designer? While I may not like the pair of shoes I get from Jane Shoemaker when she's just learning to make shoes, I may very well dig her shoes after she's honed her craft. It seems a disservice to the designers especially if say they put something in their box only to realize that a piece was accidentally missing - then they have a good number of folks looking at their stuff the next day and not checking out more of their work because whatever they received did not look or wear correctly.

I'm just not sure I completely understand the need for the "one chance" policy.

By: Peter Stindberg

Peter Stindberg — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:23:41 +0000

Oh, the items I have in are transfer in fact – and on purpose, since this will add additional exposure should the recipient has no use for them.

By: Roblem Hogarth

Roblem Hogarth — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:21:13 +0000

Full on linden delivery fail is rare but does happen, so a one time redelivery might be a nice future feature. One time redelivery would cover the rare chance of delivery fail and keep abuse to a minimum. I’m assuming no one would put a trans item out as a freebie but you never know.

By: Tapika Tomsen

Tapika Tomsen — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:23:46 +0000

I was not offline, so that post does not apply to me, I was online at the time. While your system might be scripted correctly, SL’s delivery of things isn’t perfect. You can click accept on items and they still don’t arrive in your inventory, and no, clearing cache won’t fix it.

By: Peter Stindberg

Peter Stindberg — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:44:11 +0000

Please look at this blogpost for an answer to your question: http://cleverthings.info/dsn/lang/en/2009/05/on-items-lost-in-transit