OpenSim pet peeve + meme; CW: cursing, violence
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Okay, so you're invited to some event on a sim where you've never been before, probably one you've never even heard before. It should give you to think that the sim isn't listed on OpenSimWorld. Or if it is, it was just recently added, and not a single in-world picture shows any mesh, only prim builds custom-made for that place.
Then you arrive there. And you find yourself on a sim that runs #
OpenSim 0.8.1 or 0.8.0 or even older, and that isn't necessarily a stable release. Maybe it's whatever development version was the most up-to-date when the grid was set up, and the grid has
never been upgraded. Or it's Arriba which, to my best knowledge, has never arrived on the level of 0.8.2.1 either because that fork has been dead for some three years. And 0.8.2.1 was the very first version with at least basic support of Bakes-on-Mesh.
Either your avatar is half-messed up because it relies on BoM (you usually can't simply switch BoM off and still look the same), or it's completely messed up because the entire sim is neither geared towards nor really tested against today's mesh avatars, especially not mesh avatars coming through the Hypergrid.
It's like the grid/the sim and its owners have spent some five, six or more years under a rock and just recently crawled out, unaware of any changes since they crawled under it in the first place. Like they don't even roughly know what the current version of OpenSim is. It's 0.9.2.2, by the way, and even from 0.9.1.0 to 0.9.1.1 or from there to 0.9.2.0, the changes were often staggering.
So, of course, they don't put out a warning concerning the hopelessly outdated version their grid runs on. And then they wonder how come people complain about problems with their grid/their sim. "What's this BoM thing anyway? Do you have to use all that newfangled stuff, can't you use the system body, layer clothes and prim attachments like we did back in my days?" Only that BoM isn't "newfangled"; I've been a BoM avatar for almost two and a half years already.
Too much has happened between, for example, 0.8.0.0 and the current 0.9.2.2. It may not seem much by mere numbers, but we're talking about six of the fifteen years that OpenSim has been around. However, not having upgraded for such a long time means that you can't simply upgrade in one go. You'll probably have to upgrade in small steps and test each new version for inconsistencies because OpenSim is infamous for new versions not always being fully backwards-compatible. It's all still technically beta after all.
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