✨ Feature Requests

Feature Request: Custom Surname Option for Display Name Changes I’d like to propose an enhancement to the Premium and Plus name change feature: the ability for users to create a custom surname in addition to selecting from the existing list. While I understand and respect the current system of rotating surname options—and the associated fee structure—I believe offering a custom surname option could add meaningful value to users while creating a new revenue opportunity for Linden Lab. This could be implemented as a tiered system: a standard fee for choosing from the curated list, and a higher fee for creating a unique, user-defined surname. To prevent overuse or abuse of the feature, you might consider: • A cooldown period between name changes • A limited number of custom changes per account per year • An optional fee to revert to a previously used name Many long-term residents, myself included, find that the available surnames don’t always reflect our identity or branding needs. By offering a custom option—even at a premium—it would provide greater personalization without undermining the current system. If there are technical or policy reasons this hasn’t been implemented, I’d genuinely be interested in understanding the limitations. Thank you for considering this suggestion.

Okay, so here in Second Life we basically only have two options when it comes to messages. Either you get messages from someone or you block them completely, doesn’t matter if they’re on your friends list or not What we really need is something in between! Like how it works on Discord for example. There, you can just ignore people, even your friends. Everything still works the same, but once you set them on ignore-mode, you stop getting popups, sounds, flashing alerts or any of that stuff. You still get their messages, but you won’t even notice until you actually open the chat and look Total peace and quiet until you decide to deal with it! And the best part? They never even know they’ve been on ignore

Since PBR came out, I've essentially been almost PBR-exclusive with my store creations, mainly because PBR is just so much easier to work with for texture HUDs than Blinn-Phong (aka non-PBR textures, classic textures, legacy textures, traditional textures, etc). Part of this is because all of the textures involved are bundled into materials that are a single object with all of the settings saved rather than having to put everything in manually like non-PBR. It would really help creators offer both options and cut down workload by a TON if we could also bundle blinn-phong textures as materials. I don't know about other stores but I like to really tweak the specular settings and often the specular colors as well for metallic and generally more realistic effects rather than leaving everything white for all colors, and coding that into the HUD is fankly, a gigantic pain in the ass. Even if they were called something different like texture bundle or something to avoid confusion for people who sell them and to differentiate in our inventories that would be fine. I know we would not be able to upload them together the same way as PBR because it involves separate files, but there's no reason we shouldn't be able to create the material in-world manually on a cube or something and save it the same way. Bonus if double-sided can be an option for blinn-phong too! It would cut down on geometry needed on a mesh if we don't want it to be one-sided since we could simply check that on like on PBR materials, rather than needing to solidify a mesh (and essentially double its geometry) in order to get the same look. PLEASE let us manually create blinn-phong material bundles that include diffuse, normal, specular, alpha, glow, shininess, environment, shine color, full bright, and blending mode settings. It would make the jobs of creators working with blinn-phong in any capacity much easier, coding HUDs would be easier, and if double-sided can be an option it would also cut down on mesh complexity since people wouldn't need to solidify or fake edges on their meshes to hide that it's just a plane.

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.

This may be our second life but our first life always runs out. It’s never infinite. I propose a feature where a beneficiary is named so that when that accounts creator passes away, it is then turned over to that beneficiary with the ability to add a date of death. I am a part of several art communities that already do similar to this. If this feature was around, it would’ve saved the valley regions from going off-line.

see : ψ ๖̶̶̶̶ۣۣۜۜζ ͜͡D ψ , they are often dfificult to find and who kow what else they may mean ? sometimg offensive? "Gang" signs ? Occult ? disallowing these will make i easier for someone to find an avatar.

Many stores either accidently put in the wrong keywords (especially with bodies they don't regularly support or no longer make clothing for) or possibly even intentionally do it. This leads to a lot of results that are useless to the person attempting to find things that will work for them, essentially making searching for some types of items frustrating. Currently there is no way to actually be certain they are doing either or there was some kind of search issue because the key words they fill in are not visible. Currently you can only guess and assume blindly then flag it for keyword spam and let Linden Lab sort it out. It would be very nice to be able to somehow let the shoppers see this. Ideally in a way that is similar how you can see keywords/tags/hashtags/etc on various forms of social media posts. That way not only can you see if they are manipulating the system skew search results or being careless with a copy paste template but it likely would make it easier for external search engines to index the pages and give relevant search results too driving even more traffic to product listings.

Now the mesh in sl has no physics at all, you wear stiff clothes, with stiff hair, as you walk, the fabric stretches against your body into strange shapes, when you sit down, your long hair will bend 90 degrees to fit your legs. everything is very stiff. When i see those long flowing hair and those fluttering gorgeous skirts, i miss the good old days. Even though they look messy sometimes, but that's intuitive. But the prims is behind the times, everything is in mesh now. Why not give mesh physics too! Mesh greatly improves the quality of props in sl, but it loses the most intuitive physics, they just look good, but once they move, they will reveal their flaws. This is just like how people used to paint gloss on textures, only viewable from the front, otherwise it will be a mess. Now we have the advanced lighting, PBR, make objects looks more and more real, there's one step left, that is mesh physics! Imagine a cute girl with long flowing golden hair, wearing a flowing dress, dancing gracefully, her hair and clothes fluttering with dance, how beautiful! You must watched MMD dances! fluttering, inertia, collision, make MMD dances lifelike! SL need mesh physics, we can dance in sl like MMD! Many similar games already have these physics effects, but sl has not yet, please! If we have mesh physics, how to deal with rigged object is a problem. Could we make old items physics-enabled with edit? Or only the authors can handle it to release a update? What tools could authors use? There's really many problems.

Kicking person out of group, can we please close the loophole where they can still talk in group unless they relog or log out or their viewer crashes. As they no longer in group and should not be able to post in there no more as it annoying loophole as it currently stands and it too often exploited.

Everyone loves cats. Thus, giving everyone a pet cat that they can walk around with and snuggle would greatly improve everyone's mental health in SL. People could receive cats of random colors and sizes, which would lead to more socialization as people showed each other their cats. I nominate that the cat be named Whiskers Linden, and they would be given to everyone upon rezzing inworld or given to existing residents. People could also rename their cats as well. I believe this would greatly improve the quality of Second Life and welcome your support.