[How updated is the wiki?]

The map and areas change all the time so how often do people look through the wiki finding errors?

['What's hot now' on the website]

Is there a section for what's hot now on the website itself, not just the viewer? I ask this because I'm emulating my viewer (built for Windows) on Linux and the scaling doesn't work properly for it, the text is hard to read, etc. I know on the website there's "popular places", but is there anything on the website that displays some sort of real-time - roughly - how many people are in a place at a given time?

[Reputation in the Forums]

This is completely irrelevant to the topic but I really do miss forums in general on the internet. Yeah, they're still around, but they're an endangered species, and they were such an interesting part of the 'net growing up; they've become subsumed by all the big platforms

[Firestorm update reset my keybinds and I can't remap some of them?]

Since a FS update a little while ago (I don't know which one exactly), alt+ctrl+s doesn't sit, and when I try to remap it it tells me "ctrl+s is already used for the menu"; additionally, I can't press alt and the arrow keys to rotate the camera (as opposed to my avatar) anymore; what can I do about this?

[Firestorm buttons disappeared]

Hi, my Firestorm (6.5.3.65658 - I know there's an update to Firestorm but it hasn't appeared on Flatpak yet) buttons along the bottom row just disappeared; how can I get them back?

[The Shelter]

Just to be clear - it's called Abitibi now?

[World Economic Forum organizing to do something about the Metaverse.]

Inviting Meta as a partner... I suppose they have to, but anyone with half a brain should understand they're not interested (and certainly not interested in playing fairly) in it, if anything their Metaverse proposal is just a distraction

[Nick Clegg, former British politician, writes about the Metaverse for Meta]

12 hours ago, animats said:

Nick Clegg, a former British politician who now works for Meta, has written a paper on the Metaverse.

A few key points:

• Facebook/Meta claims to be pro-interoperability

 

Why do I have a hard time believing this? They lie more than anybody else

[What do you think of Mark Zuckerberg?]

A fairly well known sociopath who seeks to dominate and control all forms of social interaction

[Discontinued items you miss. (RL or SL)]

Vanilla coke

[Ever had any dreams about Second Life?]

...would dreams about Second Life make it Third Life? 🤔

[2 Billion USD funding for a metaverse.]

Honestly, if I could bet on only one company to build any sort of Metaverse (I hate that word btw) it would probably be Apple, if they got serious about it

[2 Billion USD funding for a metaverse.]

On 4/11/2022 at 2:46 PM, Cali Souther said:

hahaha @ Barbie & Ken......     I agree,  and obviously (by their large user base) so do the masses...    but even the upgraded version is still too cartoony for me.  Not only that,  but while there may be adults there,  it does seem to be an overwhelmingly younger clientele.  I am not putting it down in anyway,  they are doing a lot of things right!    I just prefer the look and feel of SL better, and maybe a more mature crowd.   

I did get addicted to Minecraft for awhile.  First,  because my sons played it and it was a way to spend time with them.  Then,  I found myself playing it on my own, but that's because it's creative and you can get lost in building.   I never did much socializing there as some do,  for the same reason - it felt like a younger user base.

 

Second Life - for the woman who never outgrew decorating her dollhouse. 

I... I want that dollhouse

[Hey, we all live in the Metaverse.]

2 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:

Yes, we are aware that there is already a different, tangentially related topic on the board.

I wasn't trying to imply 'there's already another thread about this, go away, loser', just more of a link for reference if people wanted to read it

[Hey, we all live in the Metaverse.]

https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/475049-zuckerberg-comes-for-the-metaverse/

 

[Tell us about your homes]

On 3/8/2022 at 2:35 PM, Katherine Heartsong said:

I rent an amazing (double prim) 4096 parcel on Nautilus from a sweet friendly landlord, at an amazing price, and have the following set up on it ... zen garden, my warehouse gallery space built with the cool warehouse kit from Urban Jungle (taking up 2048 of it), my house and garden, plus a 64x64 mirror box and cyber-themed platform up above it all. Could not fit that all into 4096 without the double prim allowance. All shown below ...

How does renting work in this game? As opposed to just owning something outright?