EOTB: New Linden Viewer - 2025.06 "Inventory Favorites"

 

In the official Second Life blog a few days ago, Linden Lab announced a new official Second Life viewer had been released, one with some features as a result of inventory feedback.

 

The newest Second Life Viewer release is here, and this one is extra special because so many of its features come directly from community feedback. Thanks to the requests and contributions shared on GitHub and through our feedback portal, this update delivers improvements you’ve been asking for.

 

Second Life Viewer 2025.06 adds an Inventory Favorites system, improves avatar behavior, restores full mouselook pitch, enhances chat and mesh upload tools, and refines environment controls. It includes various bug and crash fixes. Read on for more details! 

 

Named 2025.06, the viewer promises new features, including "Inventory Favorites," hiding the Linden Dollar balance (intended for video streamers), a "zoom in to self" option, improved privacy options, the option to timestamp photos, mesh inspection tools, chat and voice enhancements, fixes to allow avatars to move more smoothly, environment and rendering options, and more. 

 

As a reminder, these changes to not yet affect the Firestorm viewer, which is the preferred viewer by the majority of residents.

 

To read more, Click Here.

 

It Came From Bellisseria Chat: "Sorting My Patches"

 

 

Last week, at one point the people in Bellisseria chat were talking about an inventory sorting party, "We decided to start the inventory sorting party early. Come on over and have fun with us while sorting your inventory... or not." At one point, Dreamer Pixelmaid commented, "I keep deleting things, but it keeps increasing LOL!" Then later on, "I'm going to rez all my Patches." Someone commented, "Hey cutout Patch!" Traci Quandry-Marabana (Traci Quandry) remarked, "A Patch a day keeps the cornfield away." Dreamer pointed to the largest cutout, "Touch the big Patch to get candy!" She had rezzed a total of six cutouts of Patch Linden, calling it, "Sorting my Patches."

 

Cartoon of the Day: Grumpy Firefen

 

My Firestorm Fennux from the Fifth Anniversary Firestorm party. Once in a while, I get him out of my inventory. But how often would most residents take out a virtual pet, especially one they didn't need to feed, from their inventory that they got six years ago?

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Reader Submitted: "Ask, And You Shall Receive"

                                             

Have you every lost some of your inventory, land marks, or outfits that took you hours and days to put together? Then you log on and notice they are missing; you panic! You start to sweat, your palms are moist, and you want to cry. You start sobbing. When you compose yourself perhaps after a quart of your favorite alcoholic beverage, you have the courage to enter into the Firestorm Support Chat.

You know who the moderators are in there because they use the bold font but because of your fragile condition it feels as though they are yelling at you personally. They give the best advice and very helpful.
So sit up straight and ask for help.

 “I lost my inventory; can someone help me?”

The chat moves along but no reply so you try again. Did you say please by the way? Please and thank you are two of the most important words in any language, even in a Virtual World.

Finally, you get a reply and it is a link to the Firestorm Wiki Encyclopedia as I like to call it. This is where the challenge comes in because maybe there are residents in Second Life that have learning disabilities or just cannot read. What do they do? Are you one of them?

We all do not learn the same. There are four ways us humans/pixels learn. Which one is unique to you and how do you utilize it in Second Life?

Visual learning is partial to seeing and observing things. They are the notetakers and make lists.

 Auditory learners tend to learn better when the subject matter is reinforced by sound. They like lectures.

Kinesthetic learners, sometimes called tactile learners, learn through experiencing or doing things.  They like using their hands and make excellent athletes!

And lastly, we have the Reading/Writing learners. They comprehend through reading. My assumption is if you are this type of learner, you are home free when you receive that Wiki page.

There is nothing wrong with asking for help and none of us should be fearful of asking for help in Second Life. If someone asks for help, be patient with them.

In Second Life we all have out gifts, as I like to call them. So, what kind of learner are you and what is your special gift?

Rosie (RougeRedHead01 Resident)
 

Linden Lab Announces "Limited Availability" of New Private Sims

With Second Life's userbase increasing in recent months, most certainly mainly due to the Coronavirus quarantines, it was probably expected that there would be an increased demand for sims by the residents. On May 10, someone posted in the Virtualverse forums that the number of private sims had increased by 361 since March 30. Tyche Shepherd seems to be on hiatus, so we don't have his reports to go by.

With numbers like this when the number of private sims usually goes up or down by less than a tenth that, perhaps it should be no surprise to hear the latest announcement by the Lab. Yesterday on Thursday May 14, Linden Lab announced that it could no longer guarantee a new full private sim to someone who wanted one.

Due to the ongoing public health crisis, we’ve experienced an unprecedented surge in demand for new Second Life regions. While we are thrilled by the heightened interest, the increased demand has consumed our available inventory of full regions (there are still many parcels available on existing regions, both on the mainland and from private estates).  

We are committed to maintaining (and improving) the stability and performance of Second Life. So while we are very gratified that we can be of help to people in these trying times, unfortunately, our current server systems cannot accommodate unlimited growth without adversely impacting that stability and performance. This means that region inventory in Second Life will be extremely limited and may not be readily available until early fall.

The Lab stated that one reason for the inability to handle the increased load was their transitioning from their current servers to cloud ones, which hasn't been finished yet, "As a result, we are in the unfortunate position of hitting the maximum capacity of our “old” servers until the “new” cloud servers are fully operational."

While the Lab stated new sims will be made available as old ones are closed, this limited availability will continue until the new cloud servers are fully operational, which they guess will be "early fall." In the meantime, Linden Lab suggested alternatives to full private sims, such as land on the mainland, or renting from an estate owner.

So far, as of the writing of this article, there have been just a few reactions in the official blog and Virtualverse. But they have been positive ones.

Will the demand for new sims continue to outpace supply, or as the US and other nations relax restrictions imposed due to the Coronavirus, will demand drop? Time will tell.

Sources: Linden blog, Virtualverse, BBC

Bixyl Shuftan

How To Second Life : A Guide For Those Who Are New - Part One

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." That can describe day one of a Second Life resident who's been around for a while. But while Second Life is extremely open-ended with lots around to do, it can be confusing for a newcomer whom will find it a lot different than a quest-oriented MMO. To help out new residents overcome these seemingly daunting challenges, Cyfir (Cyfiremmerich Resident) came up with an article with tips and advice that those more experienced with the virtual world can pass to friends interested in joining, or to newcomers they come across.

Read Cyfir's article in Extra.

Virtual Art Project Causes Crash by Inventory Overload

Some of us use quite a few attachments for fancy outfits. And at parties we'll engage in the consumption of scripted food to make it look more like a real life event. But how many of us thought about doing what Mijn Seoung (Martina Menegon), a performance artist in real life and Second Life, recently attempted. She tried attaching everything she had in her inventory to her avatar.



As one can see in this video, early on in the process her avatar was looking less than comfortable. As things went on, she ended up with thousands of objects and eventually "overloading the system" that finally caused her to crash. Unfortunately, she finds that her stunt has rendered her unable to get on.

I was a Second Life resident for almost 10 years, and the only reason I am using the past tense is because I somehow destroyed my poor virtual me for an art project: I wanted to record the result of me attaching everything I owned in Second Life to my avatar (thousands of different hair styles and colors, clothes, shoes, animations, furniture, houses, etc.). I somehow overloaded the system and my avatar started changing, then transformed into a white cloud, and then the software crashed. Since then, whenever I try to open Second Life, the app crashes. I tried some solutions I found online but nothing worked. I will try to contact the Linden Lab soon, because I have to admit, I miss being in Second Life.

For the full story, read Hamlet Au's article on this noteworthy test of Second Life's tolerances as part of artistic expression. To my knowledge, sorry to say Mijin is still unable to log on and could use some advice on what to do. No doubt she's tried calling the Lab for help, though as Hamlet put it, "Not sure if Linden Lab tech support has a 'Performance art' category in its tracking system."

Bixyl Shuftan

A Glitchy Evening

If last night seemed full of glitches, it wasn't just you. A number of people I talked to and chatted with had a number of inventory issues from being cloudy to being unable to change clothes or avatars. As it turned out, the Grid was the subject of some "Unscheduled Maitenance."

[POSTED 2:15 PM PST, 02 January 2014] We are currently performing unscheduled maintenance. During this time, some residents may be temporarily unable to log in, logged off, or transactions may be disrupted. Please refrain from transacting with L$ or rezzing valuable (no-copy) items until the all-clear is given. Please watch this blog for updates.

Although the Lab stated the problem was resolved in a few hours, friends continued to complain of glitches.

Bixyl Shuftan

Gracie Kendel's "Goodbye to Second Life Stuff"

Last weekend, Second Life artist Gracie Kendel closed her "Binge and Purge" exhibit, inviting people to drop by before deleting virtually everything from her inventory. With so many of us having quite a bit of junk on us, the exhibit was a reminder of that. But with Linden Lab's recent change in the Terms of Service, the exhibit had taken on new meaning.

Read more in Design.

SL Enquirer: Change is Good – Even in Second Life

"Change something in your environment and watch how much that single change will uplift your personal vibration, boost your energy and improve your mood.  We don’t realize how much that overflowing Inventory that holds our possessions can block our ability to enjoy a Second Life existence without frustration, lag and system crashes.  Possessing an excessive inventory is the contributing reason to all of the above complaints. "

Read more Here.