Persephone Emerald

While we're talking about making Inventory easier & more fun to use, how about adding another Phoenix feature. Let people narrow the scope of Inventory searches by the type of item they're looking for - eg objects, clothing layers, landmarks, or notecards. Also give them a "Worn" tab on the top, so the don't have to type "worn" into the inventory search bar window to see what they're wearing.

"...The bottom line is V1 is the past and there is no reason why LL should continue to accommodate those unwilling to move forward." Yes there is actually. The bottom line is called money. If enough current users can't afford to get a new computer that can handle Viewer 2, then those people will disappear as potential paying customers for Linden Labs. It's that simple. People will generally use the best equiptment they can afford, but many users can't afford nice new computers that will handle Viewer 2. Many (about half of the users) also prefer TPVs based on Viewer 1, and it doesn't make sense for LL to just thumb their noses at that many users.

The newest Phoenix Viewer includes fixes for that sound clip crasher & one other critical issue, as well avatar physics. This allows folks to watch bouncing boobies on Viewer 2 users or make their own.

You named a specific piece of clothing - glitch pants - so I don't think this sounds like a skin layer problem. To me it sounds like an underwear layer problem. If you're a teen, you can't remove or edit an underwear layer once it's put on. Might that be your problem? If you're a teen, you just have to find underwear or a tatoo on an underwear layer that isn't too obnoxous & wear that. Or you can get a friend to make you some "invisible underwear" ( transparent texture on the underwear layers). It's also not too unusual for clothing to not want to come off sometimes, but I'm not sure of a better fix than taking everything off & then trying to put on something different.

I don't mind if a live model says hello & welcomes me to the shop. That lets me know they aren't bots or AFK. Then if I have a question or need help, I'll ask them.

Thank you to everyone who anwered. I did a clean uninstall & installed the newest version of Phoenix today, which finally fixed the problem. All of you who said the problem was probably hidden files were right. I got rid of them before installing the newest Phoenix Viewer & now I'm back on SL again,Yay!

I tried to do that, but when I create a folder with the same name I used to have, it seems to just disappear off my desktop. I get a pop up asking me if I want to merge it with a pre-existing folder of the same name, but I don't see any pre-exiting folder. When I rename it something different, the viewer tells me the change will take affect after I load it, but then it won't let me load it. It just crashes instead of loading.

Try putting on a new bald (brow shape) & see if that helps.

My roommate says she sees herself as being Ruthed on Viewer 2 even when other people see her as looking fine. I pretty much only use Phoenix & I don't think I I've ever seen myself as completely Ruthed. I've had orange skin, but my body shape looked ok.

I should probably ask this question on the Phoenix forums, but this isn't specifically a Phoenix problem & I'm having trouble registering on their unofficial forums. A few days ago I apparently uploaded a trojan of some kind. My anti-virus program tried to catch & contain it, but for some reason my desktop cache folders for my Third Party Viewers disappeared. I cleaned out the trojans & restored my hard drive to an earlier point, but they are still missing from my desktop. ( I put my viewer caches in separate folders on my desktop as a work around for frequent crashing with the Phoenix viewer. When one shares their SL cache between different viewers, this can cause crashing.) When I try to log into SL with any of my TPV's they close before I can log in. When I try to change in my Preferences where the cache should go, the viewer says that change will take effect *after* I load & close the program, - but then it won't load because it can't find the cache folder that's supposed to be there. I tired re-downloading Phoenix, but that didn't work either. Should I delete my TPVs & then re-download them? Or is there another way to fix the apparently missing cache folders? (Edit to update.) I uninstalled & reinstalled Phoenix, but it still crashed every time I try to log in. The only way I can get into SL right now is wirh Viewer 2, and I hate Viewer 2.

Right! And sculpty plants & rocks also create annoying boundaries around them if they are not phantom.

Here's a couple videos from a couple who look like they have alot of fun in SL.

Here's a good one. hee hee

"I had been wondering about sorting into subfolders if people were breaking apart whole ensembles to put tops in one folder and pants in another. " Oh, no! I did that when I was new in SL & it was the worst mistake I ever made. You can't ever find a unified outfit again when you do that. I also lost any pictures that came with the outfits because I didn't have enough sense to save them. Thankfully, most of my early freebie clothes were pretty ugly anyhow, so I could delete the stray pieces without losing nice outfits. When we're new in SL, we doesn't realize how much nice clothing is available free or very cheap. We all start collecting items because we think we might use them someday, Then they sit in our inventories collecting figurative dust & lagging us down. By the time we learn to be more selective, our inventories are over 20,000 & we don't know how we'll ever get them sorted out & fully usable again. Start with good sub-folders in your Clothing, Landmarks & Objects folders. Try to keep your primary folder list as short as possible, so you can see all of it in one glance, but give each folder some sub-folders & some sub-sub-folders. Think about how you really use your inventory when you decide what kind of sub-folders to have. For instance, you might have Dresses -> Gowns, Casual Dresses, Gothic, Short & Sexy. You might subdivide your clothing folders by the style of clothing as well as by whether it's a dress or pants outfit. As has been stated above, keep pictures of the clothing & change the folder name so you have some idea what kind of outfit is in it. I also like to use little * symbols at the front of items that are my favorites, so they'll come up at the top of the list when I search alphabetically. If I'm naming items to keep similar items together, such as putting the word "Victorian" as the first word, then I put the little * symbol as the last character in the title, instead of as the first. I sometimes put the name of the creator at the end of the folder title, sometimes at the beginning, & sometimes remove it from the title altogether. Usually I add qualifiers for the color or style. For instance: "Black Jeans w/ belt - Nephaline", "Eastern Empire - Asian (TWA)", or "+DV8+ Salem Boots (short) - pewter. Having the name of the item in front & the color behind puts all the same style of a particular item together. Having the color first helps you find a particular color quickly.

This is a very cute travelogue. I'm going to read it in installments.

The cloud body is a common problem in SL. The easiest way to fix it is to put on a new bald ( the part of your body that gives your eyebrow shape). Once this is done, you can go back to the bald you had on before & usually everything will be fine. If you ever want to transfer inventory, the easiest way is to box it up & send it to whomever. As long as the items are transferable you can do this.

Right now with so much abandoned land going to sale for $L 1/ m, there are probably many 512 lots available cheap. Before you buy, though, create a group and either have a friend or an alt join it. They you can have 560 meters of land (as well as more prims) without having to pay more tier. All land is sold in units divisible by 16, so the next larger lot you can own with the 10% group bonus is 512 + 48 = 560 m. If you were to up your tier to the next level, you would pay for 512 m, but still get 512 m of free land. Then your land group could own a maximum of 1024 + 96 = 1120 m. Expecting to get your money back when selling land is probably a bit optimistic now, since the market currently favors buyers over sellers. (Edit to correct calculation error.)

I tried a couple different types of 1 prim scupty grass & found Blue Field to be the best. Their pack comes with several different sizes & shapes, but each piece is Copy/ No Transfer. All the pieces below megaprim size (under 10m in all directions) are also modifiable, so you can stretch them to fit your space better. The textures are really nice on these pieces, so they look good from a distance & when walking through them. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/39345 http://slurl.com/secondlife/StormWind/170/112/24 Blue Field meadow grasss Another meadow grass (Edit to add pictures & SLURL for shop)

Here's an idea for dealing with the junk accumulation problem. AR the Adult junk, then fill up the lot with small inconspicuous prims, so nobody else can rez junk on it. You might even try to hide the junk with some nice folliage & rocks.

Here's another product on SL Marketplace that spoofs building basics. OMG, It's a Cube! https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/NSi-OMG-Its-A-Cube/1470252: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/NSi-OMG-Its-A-Cube/1470252

I love this thread. I think some of the funniest "jokes" in SL are the actual conversations & experiences we have in world, like the newbie who pops into one's bedroom or the boyfriend who goes AFK while trying out a sex bed in a store. Since most of those aren't my own stories, though, I'll just share this video about Inventory hoarding.

I like to window-shop in world, but when I think I know what I want, it's much faster & usually cheaper to shop on SL Marketplace. If I want to see the item in world or don't find enough choices on Marketplace, then I go back in world & slog through the in world Search function.

So if filtering out land set to specific other people works in Viewer 1.23, does it also work on Third Party Viewer based on V-1? I think it probably does.

While I agree with the majority of your post, I don't agree with "it's just the way things are and always have been." Men's fashion styles have changed thoughout history almost as much as women's have . We are in a cultural period of the last 300 years or so, in which it has not been considered "manly" for European & American men to dress in as much color and variation as women do. However, look at Tudor & Elizabethan clothing, or any Renaissance clothing of the upper classes, and you'll see just as much color & ornamentation in men's clothing as you do in women's. Then look at the traditional styles of non-European clothing. Traditional African & Asian fashions are just as colorful for men as they are for women. Look at modern fundamentalist Muslem countries too. Full burkas tend to be in only a few drab colors. Yet when women are restricted to this style of dress, men are not so severley resticted. (Note, I'm only commenting on full burkas. Most Muslem women wear just as much or more color in their clothing as Muslem men do.) (Edit to correct typo)

I'll have to disagree with point B. While removing linden dollars from the SL economy may not help other residents. The person who buys something from a dead account still gets to keep that item. They are in effect buying from Linden Labs rather than from another resident. The process is akin to how paying Tier benefits LL, but doesn't directly benefit other residents, while paying rent to them would. (Edit to add word)