✨ Feature Requests

I suggest an enhancement to the Bakes on Mesh (BOM) system by introducing an opacity option for BOM layers. As a designer, the current limitations of BOM force us to add additional mesh layers, particularly for makeup applications. This increases mesh complexity and necessitates the use of complex HUDs. Enabling opacity control on BOM layers could eliminate the need for extra mesh layers, thus optimizing mesh complexity and enhancing overall performance. Additionally, this would allow for greater flexibility and creativity, as BOM makeup layers wouldn’t be limited to one or two mesh layers (depending on the number of mesh layers created by a designer). With the recent introduction of 2k BOM textures, the capability to adjust blend modes directly on BOM layers would be highly beneficial for both designers and users. It would offer more customization options and improve the user experience. It would positively impact the creative community and contribute to a more streamlined and efficient design process.

Lately a lot of SL groups have been getting hit by spammers posting phishing links that look like real Marketplace stores. Here’s an example of the kind of thing going around: [12:16:37] Rẙaḽīể (ryalie): New store! Outfit + Shape, Everything is free, limited quantity https://marketplacsecondlife-style-body-mesh-catwa-185089.store It’s clearly meant to trick people, and residents are falling for it because it looks close-ish to a legit SL URL. People are losing their Lindens because their accounts become compromised, thinking they’re logging into a trusted site. The scammers then use those compromised accounts to spam other groups (sometimes even pay-to-join ones), which just keeps the cycle going and leads to more stolen Lindens and MORE hacked accounts. My suggestion is to remove clickable URLs in group chat and IMs unless they’re from trusted sites. Maybe have a whitelist for known, safe domains like: marketplace.secondlife.com secondlife.com community.secondlife.com flickr.com primfeed.com gyazo.com Or other KNOWN and trusted sites. Everything else could just show up as plain text or with a warning before opening. Other possible options could include: color-coding links (safe ones in green, unverified ones in grey or red), adding a short delay before opening non-trusted URLs (“This link will open in 5 seconds”), or even giving users a setting in Preferences to allow clickable links from trusted domains only. This would stop a lot of the spam and protect people from phishing. It would also cut down the workload for in-world group moderators (who constantly have to boot spammers) and reduce support tickets from compromised accounts; meaning less work for your support team, cost savings for you, and a safer experience for everyone. Thank you!

As has been noted over and over again, the increase in phishing spam links is or has gotten out of control. In the following, I propose a practical way in which to address this issue which would seriously curb the issue if not altogether get rid of such an activity. Create new role abilities. New abilities would have defined rules for group owner, group moderator(s) or other trusted individuals to be the only allowed individuals to post links in a group. Sub-classification for members who don't fit the aforementioned roles to be allowed only to post image links from known/well established image sharing sites. (This too should have a on/off toggle to prevent any type of abuse as needed) Group owners/moderators can have/create an allowed list of URL's that are permitted in their group. Example: Marketplace.secondlife.com Defining permitted URLs allows only those that are an exact match and prevents misspelled and misleading links. In the event a user attempts to post outside of their role abilities, the post is blocked from being sent and user notified as to why. In the above proposed solution, spammers would not by default be allowed to post spam links in any group as the default persons of the established "everyone" role would not allow it nor any other default role as defined by the group administration. In consideration of what to do with groups whose administration has been absent for a period of 6 months or more, by default all link postings should be disabled until such a time (if ever) a group owner logs in and establishes who may post links. While some may see this as an unpopular option, it prevents those groups that some still use from being exploited. I propose this solution as if there is no ability to post phishing links, then there is less likelihood that users are entering in their credentials and their accounts being compromised as well as serving the great community good of people who just don't want to see this mess as there are other means of advertising for those who are interested. Regards, DJ Vicious

Being able to lock your inventory folders to the inventory so they can not be accidently deleted. Maybe done by right click context menu or a different way, But make it so they can not be accidently deleted and will stay put until you want to move them or delete them. This will insure that user error and possibly proofing inventory possibly.

I have a general problem understanding my foreign friends that speak either japanese, korean or any language I don't understand. For that I use a translator hud when they are in local chat which of course works quite well. However, when in IM's it becomes an issue since I can't use it and would need to keep translating each sentence in Deepl which is tedious. Such a solution would mitigate the major language barrier on SL.

This would work like reflection probes, preventing the object from being interacted with unless "Select Reflection Probes" was active. It should require very little effort to implement, as it can tie into the reflection probe behavior, and would benefit users and content creators alike, by preventing unwanted touches of particle emitters, light sources, and invisible prims that only serve to provide collision boxes for mesh. Weather systems, for example, flood the region with invisible particle generators that get in the way without this feature.

As someone who is one of the many people in the polyamorous relationships of secondlife, it would be nice if we could have multiple people in our partner box rather than having to prioritize or choose And only having them there who would be nice to have multiples there.Thank you

Allow group owners the ability to see when new members join by adding a date joined section.

The recent addition which allowed users to add pictures to Inventory items was a game changer for many of us looking to organize ourselves. However, there's another big problem that makes invetory management difficult: the inability to "tag" items with searchable attributes. It would be incredible if there was a menu similar to the one we use to add pictures which let us tag items and folders with searchable attributes. For example, if I had a shirt called "Georgia Tank - Salmon", I could tag it with more useful info that I might think of when searching for that item later, like "pink, tanktop, shirt, midriff, legacy". Creators have all sorts of off the wall naming conventions that make it hard to find that one particular pair of black jeans when you're looking for them. Tagging would let us label items with terms that make sense to us, in our own languages, and find what we need faster.

It would be nice to have an Universal Alpha which has all the options available for the universal layer options like LEFT_LEG LEFT_ARM AUX1 AUX2 AUX3 ...