Second Life changing Group IM

In all my years in real life, I have been the type of person to embrace change. Jump from the frying pan into the fire? Sure! Why not? The fire just might be better.
However, in my Second Life the frying pan is definitely safer than the fire. Every time Linden Labs "updates/upgrades" Second Life, I have to achieve a new level of comfort. I have to learn a new set of workarounds to the new set of bugs.
My Second Life has taught me the devil I know is safer than the devil I do not know.

clipped from www.massively.com Peering inside: changes coming to SL's group IM interfaces Starting from viewer 1.19.0 (as was planned, anyway) you would not receive IM messages from any group, unless you already had that group tab open. If the tab was open in your IM window, you'd get IMs as and when they came through - if it was closed, nothing. Group notices and voting proposals would come through normally, but to monitor a group's IMs you would need to open the tab for the group manually, and then leave the tab for that group open. If you logged out, you would need to open the tabs manually again when you logged in. Why the change? Apparently all this was to essentially ease the load on group IM subscription/session management systems. Whatever it is that we end up getting, it probably won't be half as interesting as the process.