✨ Feature Requests

Second Life has many regions and communities dedicated to education, non-profit work, charity, accessibility, arts, culture, STEM, museums, health support, mentoring, and public-good community projects. However, these spaces are often difficult for new and returning users to discover unless they already know the exact name of the group, region, event, or organisation they are looking for. At present, Search separates content into broad areas such as People, Groups, Places, Land Sales, Events, Classifieds, and Web. These are useful, but they do not clearly surface Second Life's educational, charitable, non-profit, and community-support spaces as a distinct area of value. As a result, these regions can become buried among commercial listings, clubs, shopping destinations, and general places. Adding a dedicated "Non-Profit / Education / Charity" category would make these spaces easier to find and would help show new users that Second Life is more than shopping, entertainment, and private social spaces. It is also a platform for learning, cultural exchange, accessibility, public service, creative collaboration, and community support. This category could help users discover: Education and university regions STEM and learning communities Museums, galleries, and cultural projects Charity and non-profit regions Health, disability, accessibility, and support communities Mentoring groups and public-good initiatives Classes, workshops, talks, and community learning events This would also reduce the pressure on the Destination Guide as the main route for discovering these spaces. The Destination Guide is valuable, but it should not be the only practical discovery path for educational and non-profit work in Second Life. A dedicated search category would benefit residents, educators, non-profit organisers, event hosts, new users, returning users, and Linden Lab itself. It would make the platform's positive community impact more visible, easier to access, and easier to explain to people outside Second Life. In short, this is a small interface change that could make a large difference to discoverability. It would help users find meaningful spaces faster, support communities doing public-good work, and better represent the educational and cultural value already present across Second Life.

Texture animation is baked into the object properties but can only be modified by temporary scripts. Would it be possible to surface a UI for adjusting texture animations & timing, without having to rely on scripts? It would lend better to real-time experimentation being able to tweak all of those properties directly in the edit window.

COMPONENTS: Server / Land & Parcel Options PROBLEM: Premium Linden Homes covenants permanently lock parcel public access to open. This creates a security loophole that griefers exploit to violate resident privacy. Using camera-zoom from outside parcel borders, unauthorized avatars can click and "force-sit" on furniture inside a house. Because Linden Home security systems enforce a mandatory 15-second warning delay before ejection, malicious users have a massive window to execute this exploit. Even if furniture scripts (like AVsitter) are strictly set to Group Only, the Second Life engine physically moves the intruder onto the object for a split second before the script can un-sit them. This micro-second interaction completely scrambles the animation layout, shifts camera angles, disrupts the current residents, and triggers script engine error crashes. IMPACT: For many premium members, Second Life is a vital medium used to sustain and explore real-world, long-distance relationships. Our leased homes are personal sanctuaries. When anonymous users exploit camera mechanics to force their way into a private room and disrupt intimate furniture animations, it constitutes a severe violation of privacy that triggers real-world emotional distress and trauma. Leaving paying customers unable to protect their private spaces actively drives them to look for alternative platforms. PROPOSED SOLUTION: Please add a toggle feature inside World > About Land > Options (similar to Object Entry or Run Scripts filters) that states: "Allow other Residents to: Sit on Objects" with checkboxes for [ ] Everyone and [ ] Group. If the Everyone box is unchecked, the server should completely reject any click-to-sit raycast actions originating from an avatar who is not wearing the parcel's active group tag. This server-side check completely neutralizes the camera-clicking exploit. It keeps Linden Home regions physically accessible for mainland exploration while giving premium residents the baseline privacy protections required to feel safe in their homes.

Why can't we have a plugin system for the official Second Life viewer. So a developer could create an advanced phototools plugin (like the Firestorm version) etc., that is selectable and installable from a checkbox list. This way we get the best of all worlds and only install the added features we really use. We also get the latest UI updates and performance from the official viewer.

Now that outfits can have subfolders created by user and the number of oi outfits has grown exponentially please add filter to search for outfits as a filter. I have accidentally placed outfits into folders that are not THE outfit folder, I can't easily find these. Also if you create a new folder in Outfits and accidentally move it you cannot put it back. please fix these things or add them.

Would love people to be able to add more info about their parcels. The current character limit for parcel descriptions is quite low.

I am very limited in only 38 attachments for me I need at least 50 yes I link but theres lots of things that are not linkable. I think a perk that would get even more people to buy premium plus would be to increase the attachments from 38 to 100 or the very least 50. I need the freedom to express myself 38 is limiting my freedom.

Putting that little logo in there is a really good idea. Only trouble is that, since URLs are often long, it ends up on the line above the URL where it is easily missed. My suggestion is simply to put it at the END of the URL instead of the beginning. I think that's where your eye lands anyway, and it's way more likely to be right there next to the URL instead of on another line. (Heck, if it's important enough, have it show up in both places.)

Hello. My housemate and I own a private region. The width of a region is something like 256x256x4096. I would love if instead we could choose to configure our region to be 1024x1024x1024, creating a short fat cube shaped roleplay region instead of a thin tall region with sky platforms. Thanks for reading.

Two new notifications have invaded the SL viewer for reasons that baffle me as they are distracting, unnecessary, disruptive of work flow, and potentially privacy-busting. The notification that you have typed an invalid character now pops up in the precious upper-right hand corner of the screen usually reserved for far more important notifications such as payments and announcements from the region owners or Lindens. It does not appear as a hover or toast or message at the workspace itself while editing. You can already tell you have an invalid character as you look at the object window or other type of editing window you are working with because your work STOPS. You already know it is invalid because your prompt STOPPED. You don't need your eye dragged up to the upper right-hand space for an invasive, duplicatory message. The notification that you have taken a screenshot that saved to your computer's inventory folders now also invades the upper right-hand corner. You already know that you took a screenshot because...you set up the location of where screenshots go when you selected the settings in Preferences. You do not need a distracting constantly repeating notice of this event happening each time when...you selected this option permanently -- and could change that location at will. The notice displays to the owner of the browser only, but if you copy room chat to make transcripts of office meetings, other various community and public resident meetings, you will see the notice then included -- outing the name you have used to label your system folders on your own computer, which might even be your full real name -- that you have to painstakingly edit out. These are features no one among the general user base asked for to my knowledge. They have the feel of technologists' perfectionism in systems like CAPSLOCK notices which you already can see because you already have capital letters. The "invalid notifications" proposal was suggested here and simply immediately passed through without debate -- but does not have some mass community demand: https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/961 (I will provide a screenshot of "invalid characters" when I can catch the next one) If these intrusive notifications cannot simply be removed, then provide the user with the option to mute them in Preferences. Currently they DO NOT APPEAR in Preferences as an option to mute.