Cloud Party Needs Community Tools to Grow (Comment of the Week)

Responding to news that ex-Linden VP Cyn Skyberg has joined Cloud Party's development team, reader Ezra made a compelling argument on what the company needs to do next:

"The social and community tools are still very much lacking. There's no radius based chat (whisper, say, shout). There's no groups and so no sub-communities with specific interests and purposes, collective ownership of land, isolated chat, notices and hierarchies. The few social tools Cloud Party does have like friend lists leave a lot to be desired; like more prominent and fleshed out profiles connected to things like people search.

"The tools for developers have been above and beyond great from the start and have only gotten better. Things like island prices have satisfied and been little complained about, and while they're far from getting Cloud Coin as fluid as L$, progress continues to be made there as well. I'll bet though absolutely no one is heaping praise on how good socializing and community building is in Cloud Party. It's almost non-existent.

"What hasn't been address nearly at all though is the lack of community building, and hires and tools to assist with it. This is the only area I'd label 'early stage'. The best advance we had in recent months were custom chat channels, which still leaves Cloud Party's social tools somewhere pre-MUDs.

"We've had user-initiated dev meetings and classes, and I'd like if those kept going, but it'd also be great if there were official meetings.

"I think any focus towards community hires like Cyn and hopefully focus on developing community tools would be great."

(Ezra comments lightly edited by me.)

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Comments

[JoJa Dhara]

I never forget the speeches of all mighty Philip Linden telling that he wanted to give people land, buildings tools and be creative and what they did was they created a house a dog a car...

A limited created all beyond our imagination... Fun to see that people want to recreate SL...as the house the dog the car...

I adore cloudparty but do not want to recreate but see Cloudparty as a new world with own identity.

But in that case what are the basics for a user created virtual world?

True are the basics for a user created virtual world.

* easy download interface
* good building tools
* proper chat / instance message
* Voice (optional)
* media audio / video
* groups (optional)
* exchange currency (optional)

Honest as they know I hope for an another great feature that will be more advantage of the rest.
From Virtual to Real.

regards
JoJa

[Rus]

I had a try on cloudparty. There is no incentive reason for me to create anything. Building tools to me the feeling is not well. It is difficult to say what is wrong with them, it just too primitive or nor of good control. I dislike the graphic, but if it can use on mobile with browser, it can be tolerated. I find that the answer is not, at least, on ipad. IMHO, I even don't think Second Life can success to recreate content again from the fresh nowday. At least, I think user create content strategy won't for CP in any near future. Besides, social content is none at the moment. I would revisit it a year later, if it is still here around.