Beta Grid causing weirdness in SL.
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CatalinaHunter Resident
I was working in the Beta Grid. I came back to the SL grid and was sitting around with friends. Suddenly, one of the friend's name changed. I asked: oh, why did you change your name? She said that she hadn't. I showed a screenshot, and the others showed another screenshot showing what they saw, her correct name. Only I could see the odd name. It turns out, my friend had this name 10 years ago. It was a real pity, it turns out my friend had had a bad time 10 years ago and had changed her name to get out of a bad situation. She left in tears because I had seen that old name.
For info: I had not seen this friend in the Beta Grid, I doubt she has ever been. I had not even looked up her profile there. I looked up her profile afterwards in the Beta Grid to see if it was the Beta grid that had perhaps caused this issue.
So I ask why did this happen, and how can it be prevented from happening again?
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Dan Linden
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Dan Linden
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Dan Linden
Thank you for the report, CatalinaHunter!
This issue is tracked at https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/3520 . We have no estimate when it may be implemented. Please see future updates here.
CatalinaHunter Resident
Just to confirm. I was in Beta alone. Then I came back to SL, and the display name of my friend, who had not been to the beta grid, changed (for me only), to what she had 10 years ago.
Maestro Linden
I confirmed that I can reproduce this with Second Life Release 7.1.11.12363455226 (64bit). My steps to repro were:
- Set a new/aditi-only display name for 2 test agents
- Login to aditi with both agents to the same location, and observe the display names from (1) appear in both viewers
- Login to the same location on agni with the same agents
- Observe that both viewers show the aditi-only display names for themselves and the other agent
Looking in my viewer cache directory, I see that display names are locally cached in ~/Library/Caches/SecondLife/avatar_name_cache.xml (this is on Mac; on windows it should bel be somewhere in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Secondlife ). The xml file contains the aditi-only display names of my test users, and does
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separate by grid. After deleting avatar_name_cache.xml connecting to agni, the aditi display names were cleared.In summary, this is a viewer bug - the viewer does not separate its display name cache by grid name, but definitely should.