SL new user retention, expectation and usability
A comment in a different thread got me thinking and it feels like this is something worth talking about.
SL has always had a shockingly low retention. Signups out the wazzoo, people staying .. not so much. Millions of signups. 50K Online at best.
The blame has always been placed on the new user experience.
We're just not showing the newbies the right combination of things to make them stay forever, maybe the starter avatars are bad, maybe the helpers are bad, maybe it's th
If you take a bit and learn how to use the marketplace tools (a bit of an ask for a new resident perhaps) it's not hard to find all 47967 freebies:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?utf8=✓&search[layout]=gallery&search[category_id]=&search[sort]=sales_rank_asc&search[per_page]=96&search[keywords]=NOT+demo&search[price_low]=0&search[price_high]=0&search[land_impact_low]=&search[land_impact_high]=&search[copy_permission]=0&search[mo
