✨ Feature Requests

I would like Linden Lab to improve the blocking system in Second Life. Right now, blocking someone does not fully stop unwanted interactions, and I believe the block feature needs to provide stronger protection for residents. When I block another resident, I want that person to be completely unable to interact with me. A block should mean that the blocked person cannot: See my avatar or track where I am. Click on my avatar. Bump into my avatar or physically interfere with me. Interact with my objects, attachments, or activities. Continue trying to get my attention after I have made it clear I do not want contact. Follow me around or continue targeting me. The purpose of a block feature is to allow residents to remove unwanted people from their Second Life experience. If someone is blocked, that person should no longer be able to disrupt, annoy, or harass the person who blocked them. Other virtual platforms have stronger blocking systems where blocked users are effectively removed from each other's experience. I believe Second Life should consider adding a similar system so residents have a reliable way to protect themselves from harassment. A stronger block feature would help make Second Life a safer and more comfortable environment for everyone.

Years ago, I was a well-known Second Life creator and my business was very successful. After a period away, I returned to creating, once again investing time, work and money, and producing valid, carefully made items. Despite this, I now find myself left outside the very events that could help me reconnect with an audience. Many important shopping events mainly accept brands that already possess strong visibility, traffic and a large following. This creates a closed cycle: creators must already be known to participate, but they need access to these events precisely in order to become known—or known again. If this situation continues, Second Life will effectively push creators like me out. Creating involves constant expenses: meshes, textures, uploads, group memberships, a main store, advertising and event participation. I cannot continue spending money simply to remain active in Second Life without being given a realistic opportunity to reach customers and without earning anything in return. This is not a lack of commitment or quality. It is economically unsustainable: without visibility there are no sales, and without sales creators cannot continue financing their businesses. I propose that Linden Lab create an official “Emerging and Returning Creators” initiative including: * Places reserved for new, smaller or returning brands; * Selection based on quality and creativity rather than existing popularity alone; * Free or affordable participation; * Regular rotation of participating designers; * Promotion through the Destination Guide and official Second Life channels; * A central page listing events genuinely open to lesser-known creators. I am not asking Linden Lab to interfere with privately managed events. I am asking the platform to provide an official and transparent path through which valid work can at least be seen and evaluated. If Second Life encourages residents to build businesses and invest in its economy, it should also provide a realistic opportunity for them to emerge. Otherwise, it risks losing the very creators who want to invest, work and contribute to the platform.

I'd like to request that TP failures include the reason why they fail.

There would be a huge benefit to creating two separate wearable objects one with the shape settings for heads and another with the settings for bodies. If dividing the base shape is not feasible then having a built in official way to manage the settings for each and upload/download them as needed would be a good alternative. Actual shapes though make it very easy when swapping a head to simply wear the appropriate shape. Another alternative would be to allow shape settings to be adjusted via LSL.

This would need to come after 'mark group as inactive' being implemented, however... I have a group that we started 20 years ago with some friends. I'm the only one who's still around, the other members have not logged in since then, however I'm stuck in the Everyone role. I'd like to take over and continue the work we were doing under the same brand name without having to start my own (losing the historical founder, lineage). In cases where no one cares, in all intents and purposes it would not affect anything, and it would only do good, maybe allow a (reversable, observed) trial takeover period for enthusiastic people who once enjoyed the spirit of an old group and want to breathe some new life into it. This is the first wave of inter-generational hands-changing, but If SL continues on well into the future this issue may start to come up more and more. Wow Guilds have this & have had it for a long time.

Similar to how there are 'notices', maybe even as a supplement to notices, groups need a tool for easily deciding what the majority wants on a particular issue with a list of previous polls, who voted (visibility toggle), and the outcome. "Wait, do we not have that already?" apparently not. Would go a long way towards group cohesion, and it comes to me as a surprise that residents have managed to get anything done so far without this basic feature.

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.

Gesture chat spam in crowded areas is very disruptive and problematic for screen readers and translators. A simple toggle should be added to the viewer that filters chat instantiated by gestures from local chat.

Sometimes you just want to log in without anyone on your friends list knowing you are online. Put a button on the log in screen that will allow a user to log in and be invisible to anyone on your friends list for that session or till you change it.

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.