Unified Passwords and a Login Fallback Option

We updated our system today with several improvements that make it easier to login to the Kitely grid.

Unified Passwords

Some Kitely users have two passwords: a Grid password, used to login from the viewer; and a Website password, used to login to the Kitely website. (If you signed up to Kitely using your Facebook or Twitter account then you don’t have two passwords, so this section isn’t relevant to you.)

Keeping track of two passwords can be confusing, and quite a few people had problems logging into the grid because they changed their website password when they had intended to change their grid password. We’ve therefore decided to unify these two passwords: now the same password will be used to login to both the Kitely grid and to the Kitely website.

This change will only affect future passwords; not existing passwords. This means that for existing users, your passwords have not changed; you can keep using Kitely as you usually do. This change will only make a difference if you decide to change your password in the future: at that time, the new password that you choose will be set as both your Grid password and your Website password.

Login Fallback Option

When you try to login to the Kitely grid from the viewer, sometimes the world that you want to enter isn’t available. This can happen if the world was deleted; or if its permissions don’t allow you to visit it; or if the world has been suspended.

Until now, when such problems occurred we showed you an error message in the  viewer’s main screen and prevented you from logging into the Kitely grid. You therefore never got to enter the grid, which is annoying. Today’s update solves this problem: now, when you enter valid login credentials (username and password), we always let you log into the Kitely grid. If you can’t log into your desired destination then we send your avatar to the Kitely Welcome Center instead. Once you’re there you can teleport to other worlds, talk to people, etc.

Other Changes

Based on user requests, we fixed the LSL function llGetWallclock to return the current time in the PST timezone.

Published by

Oren Hurvitz

Oren Hurvitz is the Co-Founder and VP R&D of Kitely.