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1. Commercial Bellisseria

   I always receive some sort of notification when the Covenant changes, which has only happened once, a day or two after April 15, 2019. I understand there was another change to Covenant when Meadowbrooks were released and then its Covenant changed. There's always a date of the last Modification in the bottom right corner of the page on About Land... This is for my Camper, last changed over a year ago. I'm sure there is an automatic process which does this so LL itself has a correct changelog.

2. Fully Furnished (Or Not) - 399/wk - 527 Prim - Crossroad at (M) Woolybear

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3. How Does Your SL Look Today?

   I dropped by Owl Dragonash's new gallery in West Marinet to check it out, and as I was looking around, two guys strolled in and started spraying the place with a flame thrower. Yes, Maddy would have been both proud and jealous. Unfortunately, Owl seems to have left rez perms open, with the result that her entire gallery is pretty much being consumed by flames. It would seem she's not the only one -- I went outside to discover that probably about a third of the stores in West Martinet are in flames. Somewhere off in the distance I could hear Nero fiddling. Kinda funny, really. Pretty harmless, of course, and I haven't run across this kind of old-style griefing (for want of a better word) in quite some time.

4. What are you listening to?

   Playing for Change cover of Steve Miller's Fly Like and Eagle ♪

5. Since we have new onboarding, you know what time it is!

   Last I checked there was a Community Gateway furry welcome area. If I recall it is a city scape which offers free furry items from furry creators and what not. The trouble is that despite being mentioned multiple times in these forums, LL refuse to change how the community gateway welcome areas work. As of now to get to these community gateways the creator has to have a website where they have a link on the website to Join SL. This link directs them to creating an account and what not and then will land them at that relevant community gateway. The only other way to get there is to hope that they are on the Destination Guide (website version) to find. What should happen and has been requested multiple times in these forums (that we know LL dont listen to) is for those direct links to be on the actual Second Life website. This way they can be easily found. All that needs to happen is when people go to the SL website and click 'Join Now' they go to a page that offers the complete selection of gateways based on categories people would be interested in. Want to RP, you click the RP section and create an avatar and go to an RP Welcome Hub. Want furry, click and go to a furry welcome hub. Want sci-fi, fantasy, shopping, houses, etc click the pick create your account/avatar and you land at those gateways. This is how it should be and would be a huge improvement to retention as you are funnelling people into places directly that they want to find. Not the current system where You either have to know the website for the direct link or spawn at the horrid LL created dental clinic Welcome Hub and try and find a welcome hub from there. Until there is a direct connection from the main SL website and each themed Welcome Hub (even the new ones they announced) Linden Lab will NEVER fix retention. As mentioned though, this has been mentioned to them here in the forums but it always falls on deaf ears. You will be waiting a long time as the whole basis for that to work is for the viewer to have a complete UI redesign. The viewer needs to be more engaging and personal to each person as well as offer the same systems with less UI bloat. The last time we saw that kind of UI redesign was over 16 years ago! Once that happens and the complexity of the viewer is reduced to something people not using SL are used to and a proper inworld destinations finder with current people on region number, then you will start to see an uptick in retention which means more people, more money through their fees rather than land therefore once fees overtake land as their main income source they can reduce land cost. I.e. exactly what Ebbe said in 2018 that they want to do. As a side note and technically probably not the place to put this... modernising things in the ui and what not to make it easier to find where people are or what places are like, make it more personal to the user etc., is needed. The viewer is not modern. It offers no personality to be expressed. Look at places like Roblox and VRChat, the profile is a lot more personal with badges, places for your socials, bio, groups, languages, etc. Now I dont like the look of their profiles (or ui) but as far as what a person can express in those profiles is far better, the layout is easier and all of the navigation is done in one window. Everything is found in one window and place. There are no multiple window popups for social thing's, it is all in the one place mainly to make it easier on a tablet or mobile device. I couldn't be bothered using photoshop to do a ui design, so used Ai which was more trouble that it was worth. The UI design below wont be everyone's cup of tea (probably no one will like it lol), but at least it is more modern, offers everything in the one window without all the other window popups we have now and allows for easy transition to tablet, mobile and removes the clutter and complexity and makes finding things a lot easier. The profile window allows for a person to take and use a pic of just their avatar (the wolf). The background is a separate image that can be changed to personalise the profile more than just the avatar like now (either an uploaded pic or one taken in SL or even someone's store logo - anything). The inbuilt SL Feed is used instead of PrimFeed as it offers the same ability as PrimFeed but make it built into the viewer itself not a webpage (or reads from the webpage and shown in the ui so there is no loading wait) or make deal with PrimFeed to show it but it needs to be either or. Having two different social media systems for SL just adds to confusion. All profile text and what not overlays onto the background as shown. The arrow up the top left is to go back to the navigation screen which allows you to add widgets as needed and when the tile is clicked it opens up the section in the same window and not all these separate windows we have now. Keeps things easy to find, reduces complication and clutter, etc. Could even have a compact view that you click the edge of the window (where an arrow bar would be) and it compacts it to just navigation with the relevant info panel (i.e. profile) slides out and back in and even have it so you right click the navigation tiles to 'open in separate window' if you want to do that. Lastly and because I was getting frustrated at AI doing stupid things with the image generation, this is what VRChat's search is like: vrchat world search and world info Ignoring the ui, notice some things glaringly obvious about it and different to SL's search? It isn't text heavy and has all the relevant info a person wanting to find active places needs. A picture, its category and the most important thing - how many people are there right now. It even has how many of your friends are there. Click the location tile and the world info comes up. Now compare that to SL's search, which is text heavy, absolutely complicated in UI design and at first glance, no info on how many people are there and when you look at the place info, a traffic number that any new user would think the region has 2114 people there now. Then LL wonder why people are leaving as just to find a active place is near impossible as not only is it hard to search but the traffic number is meaningless to any normal user just wanting to find people. This should be the search/destinations home page, and it shouldn't be a curated selection of places it should be ALL places. Instead we are stuck with the god awful search images above.