It's not you, it's been happening to others. A lot. Before Christmas it happened much less frequently, but since then the phenomenon's been occurring at least once a day. Sometimes they're ??? at login, sometimes they show properly at first and then flip to ??? on their own. Sometimes the ???'s remain throughout the session, and sometimes they flip back to show the correct names. It happens regardless of whether the user has a Display Name set or not.
I've also noticed that if someone with a ??? name types an action in group chat (line starting with /me) it displays their user name. Also, sometimes, if you look up the profile of a person showing ??? it shows the correct name on the profile. As far as I can tell, it's a server-side condition that only appears to be happening on Display Names capable viewers. https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/DN-202 On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Ponzu wrote: > ....Last night I was using the 2.5 beta I had just built from the weekend's > changes, and this odd thing happened... > > I logged in. My friends list showed ???. (Odd, the pictures load OK, but > not the names.) I had been logged in about 15 minutes. > > Then I got an IM from Grumpity Productengine. So far as I know, I don't know > Grumpity. I assumed it was someone from this list. The text of the message > was something like, "Hi. I was between Highland and La Brea on Franklin, so > I thought of you." This message is significant to me, but I don't know how > any Productengines would know that. > > So, I started having a conversation with Grumpity, trying to hide my > embarrassment about not really knowing who it was. > > After two or three minutes, I noticed that Grumpity was now ???. After a bit > of conversation, I finally figured out I was talking to a friend named > Aphrodite Tagore. After ten minutes more, the ??? changed to Aphrodite > Tagore and all was more or less normal (snafu 8-). > > No, I do not have a repro. No, I was not stoned beyond oblivion. > > Just reporting on the off chance that someone will find the information > useful for debugging some display name problem or something. > > regards, > ponzu > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
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