✨ 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.

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.

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.

An abandoned group is a group where the owner and moderators capable of changing settings in a group have all left Second Life or the group in question. Problem: Some very old very large groups exist with thousands of users who are unmoderated resulting in constant trolling. Recently one troll who creates a new account every day to bypass blocks was promoting real life violence against minorities. People join these groups trying to find someone to play with because they are large and people want to cast a wide net. Instead they have this super negative experience. Solution: When a group no longer has an owner or officers who can manage the group in the group or the owner / officers have not been online in X time, do one or more of these: Disable group chat for the everyone role. If there's no one to moderate, it's probably best to not have chat. If an owner returns, they can always change it back. This shuts down trolling and compromised accounts. Disable notices in abandoned groups. Same reason as #1. Shuts down trolling and compromised accounts. Disable joining these abandoned groups. They're effectively dead, people shouldn't join them as they will have a degraded experience. If an owner comes back, they can enable this again. Delist these abandoned groups from search. Again, these groups are unmoderated and probably shouldn't be listed. If an owner comes back they can always list it again. After y years of being abandoned, if there are no avatars in owner rank or with access to officer powers, and there is nothing deeded to the group, delete it entirely. These changes will help users in the following ways: Group search will no longer be a graveyard of dead and unmoderated groups. People will be able to find groups with players in them that play. Players will have an improved quality of life by finding people with less seeing trolls promoting violence against people irl. Thanks for reading.

There have been long-standing issues with land leveling tools being left out on regions for too long, which causes performance problems that often require a region restart to resolve. While a restart is only a short-term solution, this has been a known issue for quite a number of years now. I believe it is time for Linden Lab to look into this again and implement a proper fix for a permanent resolution. It would be very much appreciated. Thank you, Mark

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.

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.

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

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.

As of this writing, residents can engage in abusive behavior by sending L$ to people who have blocked them. This enables the unwanted receipt of messages from blocked parties using the L$ Pay notes as an attack vector. When someone is blocked, all methods of communication or interaction should be prohibited at the forefront. People circumventing this are not only harassing people, but exploiting a safety exploit in the payment system to continue harassing people, which given the negligble cost of L$ on an individual level, these attacks could be persistent.