Extrude Ragu
Hi! I run a medium sized Community in Second Life.
Over the years, my community, like many others moved from using the Group Chat features in Second Life to discord due to the need for the ability to have persistent discussions that happen over the long term.
However, I feel that this has had the side effect of giving my community less of a reason to log into Second Life. After all, all of the community discussions happen outside of Second Life now in discord instead.
I believe that if we had a persistent group chat, many users will log into Second Life, simply to see what messages they missed in the group chats whilst they were away, which will ultimately lead to more activity.
Communities like mine would be able to transition back to using Second Life as our primary communication venue, which will be good for Second Life's long-term health as more people will be engaging with the platform and helping it to grow, and in turn help financially justify other much-needed improvements to the group chat system.