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And that's a very short-sighted approach. I, also, couldn't care less about G rated content, it's probably been years since I've visited any G rated region aside of an odd store with such rating. And I would be totally fine if they closed every single G rated region (2487 as of this week, 917 of which are private estates, the rest owned by LL) and forbid children avatars completely. But it would affect general health of the platform. And cutting adult content would pretty much mean a very fast and painful death of SL, because unlike G-rated regions, which are very few, adult ones are very popular. Out of 18.2k private regions, 7.8k are adult. Sure, some would find workarounds after converting to M rated regions, but a lot would quit, which would affect creators who make adult things, and that's pretty much how you kill the platform. That said, the sky was indeed falling when Tillia happened a few years ago, and that investment company took over LL, and now it's falling again. Usual few people shout it every single time, and over lesser things. I'm not going to say that it'll be good for SL, just like previous few things weren't, but it's likely nothing/not much is going to be changing either.

Artists come and go, too, and obviously not just in SL. Some retire, some switch genres completely so they are essentially "gone" for those who don't enjoy new style/direction of their work, some pass away. It's okay to be sad when it happens, but it's also not something uncommon in either life.

Big events are more than just hype and long lines over one product, like in your iPhone example. In a way they have some form of a symbiosis. They are popular because a number of high-profile creators join, a few mid-tier ones as well. People check galleries and booths at the event and see it all together. Put singular listings on such shopping HUD and you get what... a slow and likely badly designed version of MP? Well, it already exists, the badly designed MP by LL, that many creators don't even bother with.

Pretty much what I was going to post myself. And given how it affected store's popularity it wasn't just us and a few more people who felt the same way. Back into 2015-2019 a new full priced release of theirs meant the store was impossible to get in for a few days, even worse with free credits or sales. Last 3 years or so it was just a shadow of its former self. And the last couple of years, especially 2023, saw an obvious change of strategy there, that wasn't oriented to provide good experience to their customers, but to maximize the profits. They went as far as retiring all previous TSS packs/releases last Xmas. It wasn't some ancient stuff, most of those were updated (with modern mesh bodies sizes) popular releases in the "value packs", like light/dark denim packs with 10-15 textures and other options for jeans. But the deal was "too good" apparently, so yep, those got retired. Also while it's always creator's free will, but for years she has been generous with store credits for store's bday, Xmas, some shop and hop events, last year and a half had none. Not that she or any other creator had/has to, nor do I really need those free credits from any store, but also points on the change in mindset regarding the store/business.

Plenty of reasons. Not being happy with their choice they've made years or sometimes decades ago. Scripted objects that tend to "announce" the username instead of the display name. Just vanity stuff, because it's not really any different from buying new outfits/avatar pieces. Having display names disabled because many of those "sane people" tend to have gibberish unicode in their display names. 50$ is too much for it (it's 15$ for premium plus users, which is a lot better), but as one-time purchase it's fine really, at least for the actively used avatars. In L$ it would be 12k or so. Depending on how much one shop it's really not too bad for something that is a part of your avatar at all times vs a few fatpacks of clothes that you'd likely to wear a couple of times and forget they exist. That said if it was 10-15$ as is, I would probably swap name on this account as well, even if it's permanently parked in my region and used only for the testing/building purposes.

I have yet to meet anyone who would like those media based shopping/event HUDs. And from what I remember majority of weekly/weekend events that were HUD based all pretty much failed/died. Ones that are still around have their HUDs as an option. So it's not a new thing at all, it's just Seraphim's owners beating the dead horse while trying to squeeze into SL's shopping scene again (outlet was their first attempt, and it was dead from day 1). I wouldn't bother in either case, but thanks to their site promotions and ads spam it seems like most merchants that they managed to get to join that HUD shopping experience are the same(ish) ones they have at their outlets store. And aside of a couple there it's just not where I shop at all. So they can keep their deals, gifts and promos.

Around 3.8k extra li for me or ~13% increase. It's pretty nice, but yeah, I'm going to wait and see for when PBR is in actually usable state to see how much of that free li I want to use on reflection probes and extra lights, if any.

Known issue from last week's RC server update, and now this server version got rolled out for the main channel. https://feedback.secondlife.com/server-bugs/p/hovering-on-log-in

Another year, another terrible idea. That one might actually be worse than the another currency one from a while ago, since it's not just useless, but would likely cause chaos for both creators and customers alike. I'm glad LL are not taking some of those "great ideas" seriously, from forums and various in-world meetings.

The answer is this: #14 : Maitreya - Lara X : 7194 : 1.3% #44 : Maitreya - Lara X Petite Body : 890 : 0.1% #298 : Maitreya - Lara X Flat Body : 41 : <0.1% Same "picture" with daily stats by bonnies. If anyone makes any for this mod/body right now they probably do only because they use/like it themselves, from commercial perspective it's a giant waste of time.

Khara is more like Lara if anything, and just odd looking. Probably as visually unappealing body as Slink's, especially original female one. Obviously a subjective opinion, but given how it didn't do well I'd say it's what most people thought about it. And market really didn't need/want another not pretty take on Lara, so it didn't reach even 200 users detected so far I believe, bonnies didn't detect even a single user of it in last 24h, too. And that's with their non stop giveaways. It's actually a miracle it got any clothes at all with such numbers. It's nothing like a Reborn. Bottom half is literally a legacy/perky, with zero changes, and chest is also nothing close to either original Reborn's or waifus. It's very implant-like, which I dislike a lot.

The less you listen to what random people have to say about it the better. There always will be someone who will have something like this to say about your avarar. Thick/thin, face traits, hairstyle, hair color etc. There are still those giant 2.5m tall classic avatars around, and compared to them anyone is a child. I suggest you utilize the block/mute button on such "suggestions" instead of wasting your time on them. Nothing new either. Places owners also can (and sometimes will) kick you for any reasons they can think of. But it's not a reason to say how people "treat petite bodies as a disease".

You don't, at least most (all?) of them. You use one and forget it exists. I've used a few for some "shady" sites where I didn't want to use my normal payment methods. They are issued with a certain balance on them, which can vary from a very small amount like 5$ to quite large numbers, but no way to add more to them. Just think about them as a giftcards, just not limited to any particular store. --- As for the topic: of course it's not. There's many countries in the world, and not all of them have weird rules/laws like US does regarding this.

I do keep up with that, and I did read/listen to the parts of that last TPV meeting I was curious about. She knows the current complexity formula is useless (and given her remarks in chat it was obvious) there's no way she'd want any limits until it's all redone, and then it would be a whole different story than trying to force it now. The rest of that part of the discussion? Lots of yelling, especially by a certain person in chat, and a lot of "wishful thinking". And yeah, given how it's one of the main sources of income for LL, the whole avatars ecosystems, there's no way they'd shoot themselves in the foot and enforce new limits on the old types of content. "Yesterday you could buy and wear 38 things, and today it's 20, or less." Pretty obvious how much less people would spend on their avatars customization. And that's mainstream stuff, fantasy community would just die as they need a lot more room already. So it can only work with new types of content, e.g. animesh. It was released like this already, 1 only (2 for premiums), and a heavy li "tax" if it's rezzables. I'd argue all that made it far less popular than it would be otherwise, though, especially rezzable ones as some bigger/heavier ones are too much for tiny plots where they'd take half of li. But even then, it's a new content, with its own set of rules, and not quite breaking 21 (soon) years worth of stuff because "complexity purists" can't be bothered to use provided tools to avoid seeing those that don't fit their idea of a "good avatar".

With the gamed complexity formula that is going on for as long as mesh exists? Yeah, it's definitely will be an unpopular idea. It's funny to see some people (like above) still think that ARC matters one bit. There are 4.5m triangle attachments with 3.5k "complexity". Here was Beq (lead developer of Firestorm) had to say about it not too long ago.