Lyndka Cochrane

The Destination Guide in the floater in the client has been revamped to make it "new user friendly" - I'm guessing "Premium" confused folks? https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/8796-highlights-from-the-second-life-destination-guide-08272021/

It's not the land image - there's a separate facility to set group images (the group in question might not have any land for example). Keep detail in the image you want to use low i.e. no fine lines or lettering and use a small image size around 512x512 and let SL do the rest.

If part of your body shows red - it's often because there's an Alpha layer still worn - either for the body or the head. Try removing the alpha layer and see how you fare then.

Aaaah - that does indeed seem to be what's happening - I just tried it with our Smartbot - thanks @Qie Niangao It'll be another piece of legacy code in the viewer that was for some cool feature back in 2005 then

Hmm - I thought that too but I checked one of our DJ's yesterday who was wearing his own "business tag" and yet he had our VIP group showing in Bold. I know that it's true on your own profile but it would appear not to be so for another AVie.

I've google'd & can't see an answer but does anyone know what the significance is of a group name being in bold in a users profile list? All their other groups appear in normal font & I'm not the owner of the group concerned - just curious what it signifies? Anyone know?

It might also be an "SL thing" that detailed shadows aren't rendered? It would be one way of keeping the render queues short by only rendering "real" objects fully but not so for shadows?

Isn't that the end task for Level 1? The primary task of Level 1 is how to get rid of that blasted torch..... At least it was when I joined - carried that darned thing round for two weeks until someone explained "detach" 😁

YES!! All of this... You have to find somewhere you feel comfortable, become a "regular" and then people will begin to chat with you and you'll make friends. Don't be "Johnny No Mates" and IM everyone in view asking for friendship, be patient, take your time... Do NOT be that person who lands in the venue, stands in the doorway without talking then poofs 3 minutes later because no one spoke to you. Although I hesitate to use the word "game" - the part of Second Life that is "making friends" needs perserverance & some effort like levelling in any other game does.

I have to say that group chat has always been frustrating since Day 1 but I'm surprised over the last 12 months that Linden Labs haven't been talking to the likes of Discord to see if there was a proven technology they could leverage. It probably wouldn't work now to replace group chat - heck there's so much legacy code, it's too much of a job but including more than just a Discord button that launches an external server that folks have to join (and in a community where folks don't know about Outfits, Picks etc. it's asking too much of them to log in to Discord - set up a user ID there - link it back to SL). I'm sure it's not beyond Linden Labs or Discord to provide a "seamless" experience as an alternative to group chat - which might then even reduce the overall load on the group servers?

You can try visiting Flamingo Bay, The Sexy Brit or my venue ShenaniganS Music Cafe during UK evenings - you might meet some new friends then? We all operate from about 6pm UK til 11pm so there's plenty of room to hop about to find new friends. ShenaniganS Website there's a "live" calendar on the right hand side of the page.

You're all welcome to use ShenaniganS to meet up if you wanted... 6pm SLt is out of our normal operating hours so there won't be many folks around - you have a choice of places to meet on the same SIM too... ShenaniganS Music Cafe

Depending on your time zone - try us out - ShenaniganS Music Cafe... Destination Guide - we're mostly adults that hang out there but all that means is that the conversation in local can go anywhere from bodily functions to food to movies, we don't get crowds there (probably because we're not a pickup joint) but the folks that do come tend to be interested in sharing music and enjoying themselves in a way that doesn't involve being cockwombles to each other. You can see what's happening by visiting our website - there's an "active/live" calendar on the right side of the screen - ShenaniganS website

It depends on the land that you're based on - the rating is for the whole sim. If you're only a rented portion/parcel of that SIM then you can't change the rating from what the sim owner sets it to - if they have other tenants that are using the "moderate" definition then they probably won't change the whole sim for just one person.

A lot of clubs won't rate themselves as "G" but go for "Moderate" because of this in the Community standards... "General regions are areas where you should feel free to say and do things that you would be comfortable saying and doing in front of your grandmother or a grade school class. Institutions such as universities, conference organizers, and real world businesses may wish to designate their regions as General. Likewise their users (and others) may wish to employ Second Life's General search setting to focus and filter search results appropriately." SL Maturity ratings They're afraid that folks with nothing better to do aka busybodies will show up a report venues (or even worse call them out on Social Media) because someone used a curse word in local or showed up wearing short shorts.... Believe me - it's less hassle to have a Moderate rated venue overall.

Everyone seems to celebrate St Patricks day - well after the year we've all had, let's celebrate St Georges Day too! We won't have any dragons to kill (unless some of our team get very creative) but we do have a castle to bounce on and a Spitfire to pose on There'll be fab music from Carl & Eria with catering by a suspect Chip van (bring your own antacid!) - you can dance in the barn or just sit and listen, the choice is yours. You can come dressed in something patriotic if you wish or just in your usual clubbing outfit - as long as you come! The music starts at 10am - we'd love to see you there.

Well there's one thing I should have learnt about Second Life in 14 years - don't speak too soon... The count did appear to be fixed but now it's solidly stuck on 2 visitors and has been for the last 5 days

The Destination Guide floater in the viewer was borked since Christmas - just after the uplift completed. I did file a support ticket (it was costing us customers who thought we had closed down!) and was told "there's no timescale to fix it", However - it seemed to spring back in to life last weekend & now seems to be reporting sort of reliably. If you want to be included in a category in the floater - you can ask but inclusion isn't guaranteed.

We found pretty much this at ShenaniganS - folks turned up as they explored then hung around, some were oldbies returning & discovered that the reason they stopped coming to SL (the drama & general unfriendliness of younger players) was still around so they sit in their Linden homes with occasional visits to Uber and so on it would seem. The folks who cherish & love "community" seem to stick around and come back - those are the folks we built our venue for

I take it you mean you want to provide stalls for people to rent from you? If that's the case - then I wouldn't bother unless you have a really unique SIM to offer - Gacha yards & resale places used to be all the rage until about 3 years ago but when Second Life moved to a viewer focused Marketplace for merchants - it became easier for people to sell Gacha items without renting stalls on a SIM. Gacha markets that used to occupy 4 SIMs no longer exist and the few gacha yards that do still exist only have about 50% of the spaces rented out - it's also why you see so few "small" shops on the grid these days - it's easier for a creator with 10 or 12 items to sell off the marketplace rather than maintain a "physical" presence - online shopping came to Second Life

I bet if you re-install Firestorm now - it will work now that you have the LL Viewer installed. WIndows 7 isn't going anywhere soon - there's far too many out there for that to happen so it's not a problem with WIndows 7. Don't let anyone con you in to buying a new computer just because... Firestorm uses the same codebase as the LL Viewer - the only difference is that they change around the User Interface and add some bells & whistles so if the LL viewer works - so will Firestorm - it's NOT your computer. If you tried everything else then a clean install of Firestorm will usually help by letting the Firestorm installer do the un-install (don't rely on just deleting the desktop shortcut & the program folder. Windows does screw up occasionally & can cause you some swearing & frustration but perservere - I use Windows 7 and have very few issues with Firestorm. LIke I say - if you re-install Firestorm now - I bet it will work...

Definitely this ^^^^ Don't be afraid to explore SL - yes there are weirdoes but there's an awful lot of nice & good folks too.

Sunny Coventry... Which is why I prefer the beach at my venue in SL - no sand in me bits & the sun always shines

That sounds like an excellent suggestion - Don't head for the clubs with large traffic numbers, the music could be good & there will be lots of people there but they tend to be either meat markets or drama festivals sadly... Look a bit further down the first page for the middle ranking clubs - TP's cost nothing to find out & it has the assurance that folks aren't popping in and out all the time - the people there are after good music & company... Yes (before anyone says it) - my own venue "ShenaniganS Music Cafe" is one of those venues & we do focus on company, friends and folks talking

@Ardy Lay - Lol - yep - that'd work 😆