[DAO:7fdd35b] Should LinkedWearables be shut down?

Hello, everyone! Thank you for all your comments. Please view this poll as an opportunity to pose a question, outline a situation, gather community input, and collectively make a decision. I’m bringing attention to this issue because it’s a real concern, and despite efforts from the partnership team reaching out to API owners over a couple months, we haven’t achieved satisfactory results.

Client performance remains a consistent concern in Decentraland, and this issue introduces a dependency on external APIs that is challenging to manage and affects all users. While there are alternative solutions to explore, such as creating a LinkedWearables indexer and asking third parties to provide a snapshot of owned assets, or even dynamically shutting down services based on SLAs (flaky), these require careful analysis.

It’s evident that this poll may not pass, and the valuable feedback and comments received contribute to exploring alternative solutions. Your input is crucial as we consider different approaches to address this challenge.

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Hi Paralax, as far as the performance aspect that can be fixed. The design is putting way to much emphasis on the validity and integrity of the appearance of someone’s avatar in DCL at any millisecond. If someone appears with a kid called beast for 1 minute after they sold the NFT it’s not the end of the world so long as they can’t completely disable the sync. The link should be checked/synced only a couple times per hour at most probably. This isn’t realtime fort knox on the Avitar. That’s going to give the collection less api calls and expense on both ends. I still would like to hear a valid reason why the creators can’t come make a separately traded skin in DCL. All I got so far was puppy dogs, sunshine, name drop, therefore linked wearable. For a fraction of the expense artists could have been approached, coaxed and even given support in creation.

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Nifty Island is way easier to use. hundreds or thousands of islands in 2 days.

I’ve been in the trenches with all of these amazing creators for a long time. and i am infinitely a better gamer than you i can garuntee.

DCL is sub par to most platforms out strictly on performance, let alone the rest of the problems.

We want DCL to be like Nifty Island, a statement i cant believe im saying about a product 2 days old VS 2017

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I’m not an expert in this field…

Until there is a standard amongst wearable APIs, I don’t think it’s a good idea to compete with other metaverses on this one.

I believe VRM is the current best alternative. But the technology is not developed enough to swap to a different solution.

Since we have an MVP for linked wearables and some people are using it. It’s easier to keep it and think about it later.

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Should LinkedWearables be shut down?

This proposal has been REJECTED by a DAO Committee Member (0xfb1afa4dc069ffb47b19dbee196045d508fcd5a2)

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