✨ Feature Requests

Optically you can see from a region to the next one - the sim border is invisible. Physically though the next region does not exist until you travel over the border between the recent region and the next one. Let's suppose you are traveling by boat. If you hit a pier in a region, your boat is bounced back. But if you hit a pier located on the next region reaching until the region's edge, your boat first travels over the sim border and suddenly gets caught in the pier bouncing like crazy. Suggestion: the physics engine of each region should also load (render?) the physical shapes of the neighbor regions borders, which are pointed to the region, so a vehicle is bounced back and does not enter the next region where it is blocked by some object. Advantage: physical experience would be far more natural, collisions on sim borders would not be special. Since it is very common to build right until the sim borders, this is issue not a trifle at all imo. Vessels that have a damage system responsive to collisions (to make sailing more challenging) use to sink immediately when hitting these sim edge builds (since being caught on an object causes plenty of collisions in a very short time), while they would only take some damage while hitting the same build from the other side. This particularly is annoying, if there is a very tiny or even invisible object on the sim border, so you have no chance to recognize it before your ship suddenly sinks for no obvious reason.

Block feature shoud go both ways. If, for example I block someone, I see them gray, but they are still able to see me. The purpose of blocking someone is to keep them out of our lives. If they can still see us, then this block is half achieved purpose. It should go both ways. If one block someone then both avatars should be gray. I have a friend that blocked someone and he can still see her and follow her in her usual spots. She sees the view crosses fixed on parts of her body even though he is blocked. This is making her uncomfortable and should not be allowed. Blocked people should not be able to see the person that blocked them. Thank you

People see the dots and a bot, and assume it's contributing to traffic then some people will actively avoid such a place. If there's such an option I'm unaware of it but I'd love to hear solutions!

(see picture) This is our old friend twisted torus. Twisted torus doesn't get out much anymore because the moment a modern texture is applied (material or PBR), the Li jumps from 1 to 306 This is and has always been clearly wrong and broken. A texture or six doesn't change the actual impact of a thing by a factor of over 300. Prims are always going to be heavier than mesh, but keep in mind this was all we had back when our graphics cards had MEGABYTES of memory. Our hair was 200 twisted tori and nothing bad happened. Why does a texture flip the new calculations on .. because legacy builds would get auto returned en-masse. For all their sins, please fix prims so they are at most 1 Li under all circumstances. Prims are accessible, fun and core part of the platform.

As has been noted over and over again, the increase in phishing spam links is or has gotten out of control. In the following, I propose a practical way in which to address this issue which would seriously curb the issue if not altogether get rid of such an activity. Create new role abilities. New abilities would have defined rules for group owner, group moderator(s) or other trusted individuals to be the only allowed individuals to post links in a group. Sub-classification for members who don't fit the aforementioned roles to be allowed only to post image links from known/well established image sharing sites. (This too should have a on/off toggle to prevent any type of abuse as needed) Group owners/moderators can have/create an allowed list of URL's that are permitted in their group. Example: Marketplace.secondlife.com Defining permitted URLs allows only those that are an exact match and prevents misspelled and misleading links. In the event a user attempts to post outside of their role abilities, the post is blocked from being sent and user notified as to why. In the above proposed solution, spammers would not by default be allowed to post spam links in any group as the default persons of the established "everyone" role would not allow it nor any other default role as defined by the group administration. In consideration of what to do with groups whose administration has been absent for a period of 6 months or more, by default all link postings should be disabled until such a time (if ever) a group owner logs in and establishes who may post links. While some may see this as an unpopular option, it prevents those groups that some still use from being exploited. I propose this solution as if there is no ability to post phishing links, then there is less likelihood that users are entering in their credentials and their accounts being compromised as well as serving the great community good of people who just don't want to see this mess as there are other means of advertising for those who are interested. Regards, DJ Vicious

I've a large amount of content that I'd like to have access to on my alt. Things like clothes, like vehicles and the sort. Having to rebuy these items can be costly, especially if I like to create different accounts for personas and the sort. We could solve this by allowing users to designate up to two (given the current 3 accounts/user restriction if memory serves) accounts to have access to a 'master' inventory, much like how the SL Library is accessible. That being said, I can hear the lamentations of creators and the sort already, though let me posit this: To which percent of your sales are from people making alts? I doubt it's very many. And as for the legal and other concerns, I posit this: require residents report alts to Linden Lab, and make that a pre-requisite for being able to share inventory, along with having to agree that this service is for only the use of one legal person, and providing access to inventory to another person can be grounds for both accounts to be banned. I'm even for the idea of making this a premium feature. Furthermore, I'd suggest that 2FA be a prerequisite for alts accessing inventory unless access is in a NC/NM/NT configuration on 'guests'.

Like many other users, I periodically get spam notecards and IMs from SL business owners advertising their new products. I have NEVER signed up to any notecard mailing list, I have always been added automatically without my knowledge. There's already a feedback post here about the ability to block these objects: https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/blocking-an-avatar-should-also-block-blacklist-all-of-their-rezzed-objects however I think that is only a band-aid solution. Signing users up onto your "subscription" service without their consent should not be allowed in the first place. It falls under spam, yet every time I have submitted a report against these objects, & explained in the report that they are spamming me (and others) without my consent and sometimes without a way to opt out, nothing seems to come of it. So I can only assume that, currently, this isn't against the SL TOS, or for some reason the reports are falling on deaf ears. Every time this has happened to me, the ads I get are from a brand that I don't recognize. This is because every time this happens it's nearly always happens one of two ways: I was added to the mailing list because I bought ONE item from the store in question; often a long time ago, sometimes years or more, from the Marketplace. This implies that the store owner is manually adding all Marketplace customer usernames to a mailing list or automating the process somehow. I visited the sim one time, and my mere presence was enough to get me on their mailing list. I need to stress that not only do these users add you to lists extremely easily, but they often make unsubscribing very difficult. At best, it'll be through a system like "KioskNet" - which at least has an inworld location you can go and get a HUD from, and unsubscribe from any mailing lists using that system. But if they use their own system, you're often out of luck. Some tell you "unsubscribe in the mainstore" but when you go there, there's no unsubscribe button, no matter how you look. Others say "contact me to unsubscribe", meaning that you have to actually talk to the person to convince them to take you off. And even if you find a way to unsubscribe, some will automatically put you back on their list later! I periodically check the KioskNet thing because every 6 months or so, a store has added me back as a "subscriber." As the other thread on this issue says, though, blocking either the user or their mailing object usually doesn't work because they tend to rezz multiple copies of the object, and keep going. Once you're in their system, you will be contacted by any object they rez going forward. I ask that Linden Labs considering making these unprompted spam subscriptions disallowed on the platform, and actually punishable. You should ONLY be able to get a "subscription" by opting in. Intrusive ads we did not ask for are spammy, disruptive, and extremely annoying.

how about a decent editor in notecarda allowing things like columns and so on. Our notecard are pitiful

I'd love to be able to have the body and my head shapes be separate. Right now the shapes are tied together as one shape. I would love to be able to say, purchase a head shape someone has created and be able to apply it without changing my body shape as well.

Some kind of cloth simulation would be great, I think everyone agrees on that. Except that it's computationally very expensive, and while it's practical in a game where you've only got one main character and care can be taken to avoid much simulation happening at any one time, SL needs to render up to a hundred (sometimes more) "main characters" at a time. There's already a feature request in for some kind of cloth simulation tracked here: https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/weighted-clothing-material-with-collision -- in the thread people have discussed some things like collision volumes to stop the mesh intersecting, which was always a problem with the old flexi solutions too. All these things would be great, but maybe there's a computationally cheap way we can at least get part of the way? People have tried things using spare bento bones and animating, but that doesn't coincide with actual avatar movements, so it's really no more than a gimmick. I admit this is a bit beyond my wheelhouse, but I had a crazy idea, spoke to a few people about it, and they seem to find it intriguing, so I'm bringing it here. I call it "Velocity Bones". Imagine we have an extra (or maybe a few) bone in the skeleton, which mirrors existing bones, but all motion is delayed . When you move your avatar, the velocity bone starts moving a second behind the rest of your avatar, and stops moving a second after it. When you play an animation, the velocity bones will animate as per their mirror bones, but start a second later. This gives a bone that rigged mesh can be weighed to, which will be where you just were a second ago, and catch up with you when you come to rest. For example, imagine a ponytail with the end of the tail weighted to this velocity bone. You move left, the ponytail will trail to the right. You stop, the end of the tail catches up with you. You jump down from something, it bounces upwards. You dance, the end of the tail takes a little time to catch up with the top of the tail, giving a basic simulation of inertia. This doesn't solve collision problems, doesn't allow for things being moved by wind, but otherwise could provide us with something akin to what people used to use flexi for with attachments. We could have a cape flowing behind us, that moves dynamically as we fly. We could have moving hair. Clever people might even be able to put a bit of reasonably convincing movement into a dress with it. Best of all, it should be pretty computationally cheap. As I say it's beyond my technical wheelhouse -- I'm not sure how practical it would be to split-animate a skeleton in this way. However people have been crying out for flexi mesh or something for years, and since the idea occurred to me I thought I'd throw it out there and see if it gets any traction.