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1. Make Us Laugh!

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2. Blacklisted by a store despite being a customer ㅡ is this normal?

   Some stores have "security" devices in them which detect idling Residents in it, which these devices classify as "suspicious" and which then bans them. So be careful. Don't stand still rooted at the landing point and cam around the aisles for minutes. Move yourself around the store to avoid being classed as "suspicious" and earning an unfair ban.

3. Who are the most influential people currently in SL?

   Yay imagine us all here still in 10 more years and what our islands will be. Ok PBR water will still be broken we all know it LOL. But my god if they can make my island 15K prims but 4 times the size now I would be happy! I HAVE TOO MANY HOUSES TO SHOW. I love OP's thread and her blog, think perhaps things we have done in SL that residents are proud of or have achieved could be a super fun topic too. Also we never any of us really call out our own historical contributions and her posts reminded me we forget so many things, and we don't really have a full archive fully of SL in one central location. So those posts will be amazing too to always refer back to in the future. It may be lovely for people to also post things we are actually proud of at least on this forum that I see. If had to sum my main highlights VICE TV in SL and the indie music coverage with pirate radio. Comic Relief in the UK, for Sports Relief with LL and residents and built it too. We raised a ton on money with an official branded avatar for Sports Relief that LL set up for us. This was part of an augmented charity show and was shown on the BBC with SL doing a sports day with springy shoes on from C Fallingwater. Set up ForMax to help a fellow resident in a time of need. The first SL virtual world conference with BBC, Adobe and a few others working with LL in Brighton for their support. Being Princess Mole (now retired) and still only a few have EVER found my Teddy Bear - it's out there folk. But mostly my contribution is I spent way too many hours creating way too many houses for over 19 years LOL self teaching myself prim building, then mesh building, then fuller 3D, PBR and flying solo from creating it to releasing it and all customer support. Not sure how I lasted 19 years. Will I make 20, and if I don't - iwould anybody even remember the above - likely not, bar a few houses then still floating around. I think that's also the good thing about SL, it has room for who comes next and what they do (which is why I am always banging on about why user growth should be priority 1). I have gone from being a youngster when I started out to now married/family in RL and creating for SL STILL remains part of my creative hobbies most favourite thing to do. Now back to influence, what about Enablers? My first one up would be The Ivory Tower of Primitives - the sheer number of people they have enabled to learn how to build, contribute and create in SL must be 2908439840938490104138904831084013 (or thereabout).

4. Pretty Big News For Second Life in 2026?

   What could it be 🤔

5. Forum Upgrade

   Uhh... OK... this change p'd me off! I liked the dim blue look of the last forum version. I had to turn on the Dark Theme extension in Chrome, in Linux (should work for me in Windows). Not sure this will work in Android, maybe in Firefox where a similar dark mode is available. Also had to reauthorize some account settings...