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    SL new user retention, expectation and usability

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    9 minutes ago, Henri Beauchamp said:

    Just like you, when I joined SL, flexi prims just got implemented, and we did not yet have sculpties either... But building in SL was fun and easy, even for the newbie I was back at that time !

    So, I cannot agree more (see third advice in this old post of mine) : we indeed need in-viewer (possibly with servers cooperation) build tools adapted  to SL modern features.

    In-viewer build tools for the current features would be a godsend. 

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    Male Mesh Bodies

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    3 minutes ago, Marianne Little said:

    You are very welcome. ❤️

    Here is a video tutorial. I have not found many new tutorials for Belleza Jake version 3. All videos older than 2021 does not show the Bakes on Mesh feature. You can start watching from 1:50 to see the HUD.

    Later in the video he shows an optimizer script to remove layers we really don't need. This reduces the complexity of the body. This is possible because Belleza includes a modifiable version! No other human body does that, I think. Furries have always had mod rights on their bodies.

     

    Fantastic info! Again, thanks so much, you've been a tremendous help!

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    SL new user retention, expectation and usability

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    7 minutes ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

    Speaking as someone who has spent 30 years designing things that are easy to use/understand, isn't this the issue? The learning curve? In my work I try to eliminate or drastically reduce the learning curve of a thing/product/process for a user. Remove the pain points. Make it seem effortless. And that begs the questions in SL ...

    What are the three (let's start small) main pain points in engaging and then retaining new users? What can we agree are those three things? What can we do to eliminate or reduce them?

    I'd love to be in the LL offices asking and addressing these.

    Is one of them the janky new user avatars that walk like stilted robots being addressed with the new avatars that are coming? Is it isolation and a lack of anything meaningful to do? An empty arrival experience? Lack of any concrete "directions" or help?

    Heck, who is even joining SL? What are their expectations?

    Why is someone willing to spend a few hours growing into something like Cyberpunk 2077 and not Second Life? (I know the analogy is no where near perfect, but it's still interesting to consider.)

    *shrugs shoulders*

    If anything, I think the learning curve for certain things in SL, at least when it comes to content creation, has become steeper instead of easier. I've been away a while, but when I first joined SL flexi-prims weren't even a thing yet. But most everything could be created in world using prims and uploading custom textures at most. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but now with mesh being the big thing, most of that content has to be created client side in programs like Blender and then uploaded in-world? Sure, it makes things look nicer and more up-to-date, but it also appears to require more time, tools, and specific skillsets to create things than it once did. Somehow in that regard it feels like one step forward and two steps back. 

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    Posted · Edited by Garrett Laramide

    Coming back from a very long hiatus, all these mesh bodies and attachments are new to me. So I'm trying to learn and navigate my way back into SL with as little pain as possible. What I was wondering, are there any popular male mesh bodies with somewhat realistic proportions and has a good assortment of mesh clothing options available? I have no desire for my avatar to run around looking like he spent the last 20 years overdosing on steroids. 

    SL new user retention, expectation and usability

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    4 minutes ago, cunomar said:

    Decide who you are trying to attract .

    To me that's the allure of SL. It is so multi-faceted that it can be whatever one wants it to be. SL is what you make of it. Of course, that's probably also what confuses so many people, as there isn't any one set purpose paved in stone, so people spend too much time just trying to figure out what it's about and they get frustrated and give up. SL has always been an enigma of sorts, but one that requires more time and patience to learn that most people aren't willing to commit towards the learning curve. 

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    FC Hangout makes it to the Destination Guide

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    Rhonda Huntress wrote:

    We had a guy stop by this morning who started looking for stuff to complain about.  He went on about the (non-working) HUD being against the law  (his words, not mine) because it was remote monitoring.  He also accused someone who was there for the first time of using a hacked viewer.  Turns out he owns a bar that is not the top of the destinations list.

     

    Eh, that joker left my alt an offline IM telling me it was against the law. I was tempted to tell him to call his local police dept. to report the crime, or better yet the FBI, but I decided to be nice by biting my tongue and ignoring him.

    I guess I should have at least acknowledged his complaint by thanking him for bringing such a heinous criminal act to my attention and rewarded him with a half eaten box of stale marshmallow peeps.

     

    Do you treat your avatar...

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    I treated my avatar to a premium account for the first 3 years, always thinking I would get around to buying more land than the First Land 512 for L$512, but nothing ever came of it. The L$400 a week stipend was kind of nice though.

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