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1. Vintage search is back in the SL viewer.

   The worst disadvantage of the legacy Search interface is that it still displays microparcels for sale. They yeeted those from the "web" search ages ago. Maybe overdid it, though, because they set 512 m² as the floor, whereas 144 m² is the minimum sized parcel for listing in "All" Search. Also the Lab defined some permanent no-join 400 m² parcels in Mosh, possibly elsewhere, that were always intended to be bought and sold so it's kinda dumb not to list them among the For Sale parcels. But the 16s and other abusive micro garbage has no business being listed… nor given markers on the Map… nor be sold at all, for that matter.

2. LL Should Skip a Step -- Hear Me Out Now - and Put in Gemini for Search

   The new Linden viewer will have the "legacy" search that some Firestorm users seem to find appealing. It's in the current Release Candidate viewer under the "World" menu. (It's not the default Search nor bound to Ctrl+F.) It's a older front end to the same search engine over the same text corpus, so… yay. The last time SL Search worked reasonably well was way back when they used Google Search Appliance, and there was a whole user-browsable web structure under world.secondlife.com/ which I think they kept intact for some time after they stopped using GSA. I learned today that GSA itself was discontinued only six years ago, in 2019, but SL switched long before that, I think to Apache Lucene or something based on it, but I have no idea what happened after that. Fine with me if they want to hang some AI on top, but I don't expect miracles: the data are what they are. I used to think Marketplace Search was awful because all it found were a gazillion copies of crap. Now I think the real problem is Marketplace contains a gazillion copies of crap and not much else.

3. Vintage search is back in the SL viewer.

   I'm glad they put back something good. See, they're making baby steps!

4. My 2026 SL prediction

   This is a joke for second life . Second life's whole appeal that makes it superior to other online games , is the level of customization , being able to truly make the proportions you want... Unlike every other game that limits you to vanilla proportions and forces everyone to look like a clone. Also, thank goD were not stuck wearing maitreya @Arielle Popstar @Demonica Wicken 🤣... Thank God we're not forced to use SENRA... Thank GOD for legacy and reborn , truly diverse bodies with decent levels of details that none of the mait mait users don't notice anyway. The irony in this , is the fact that we don't like a universal body purely as to not conform to it.... Yet those who are begging for a universal body , are doing the exact same thing; refusing to conform to mainstream bodies . It really only takes one and you're set for years . Like Legacy or Reborn .... Or for men , just legacy . Forget the others . 🤣

5. Should SecondLife be Part of the Web Revival?

   I still do all of my coding in Notepad by hand, and I was once a part of the Web 1.0 Movement, which was about plain web pages with information on them being preferred over web pages where everything was animated and a page takes three minutes to load. I even built my own message board system using no JS or anything, just basic PHP. We were going to take back the internet from all of those cruft-heads who required Dreamweaver just to make a homepage. We failed. I'm okay with it, I have SL now.