The following notes cover the key points from the Web User Group (WUG) meeting, held on Wednesday August 6th, 2025. These notes form a summary of the items discussed and is not intended to be a full transcript. The official video is embedded at the end of this summary.
Meeting Overview
- The Web User Group exists to provide an opportunity for discussion on Second Life web properties and their related functionalities / features. This includes, but is not limited to: the Marketplace, pages surfaced through the secondlife.com dashboard; the available portals (land, support, etc), and the forums.
- As a rule, these meetings are conducted:
- On the first Wednesday of the month and 14:00 SLT.
- In both Voice and text.
- At this location.
- Meetings are open to anyone with a concern / interest in the above topics, and form one of a series of regular / semi-regular User Group meetings conducted by Linden Lab.
- Dates and times of all current meetings can be found on the Second Life Public Calendar, and descriptions of meetings are defined on the SL wiki.
Updates
- The Marketplace team hope to release the mobile responsive marketplace search updates in the next week or so.
- Note this updates is only for MP search, but there will be future Mobile updates for Marketplace in due course.
- Time is being given to some general web property quality of life updates.
- Work is continuing on some technical upgrades to critical internal services, defined as “not very glamorous but help keep things running smoothly”.
- New bank pay-out options are due to be deployed “in the next week or so” for Brazil, Canada , France, Germany, Lithuania, Malaysia, the UK, the USA and Turkey.
- A reiteration on the upcoming ending of the Character Designer programme (see: LL announce a pause in the current SL AI character designer project)
- Kermit Linden will be leading Web User Group meetings for a while, and may be willing to host twice monthly meetings.
- There is a “new offering” due to be announced in the next couple of months.
General Discussion
- Several issues with maps.secondlife.com were raised, with the feedback that “some” are being worked on. Those raised were:
- CasperVend integration: reported as “no official updates but we do want to take it on soon”.
- Kali Linden noted that she has been working with Casper to develop product specifications for integrating some CasperTech features in to the Marketplace.
- Marketplace variants / styles (i.e. multiple option for a product (such as different colours) in a single listing: the Marketplace team has yet to “get back” to this, and the request was for people to keep asking about it.
- A request was made for a formal means for AI-generated content to be properly disclosed on MP listings. The broad response to this was content disclosure has generally been treated as being differed to the creator.
- The group was asked that if they could create one web feature in SL, what would it be? Responses included:
- A 3D SL Map.
- Marketplace:
- An ability to users to see a 3D preview of assets on the Marketplace.
- Formal inclusion of item creation date (not listing creation date) and and the date on which the item was last updated for Marketplace listings. This has actually been looked into, and a plan to offer something “more stable” for creation date is in development, but last update date requires more work.
- Filter options for removing specific creators / stores from Marketplace searches. This is acknowledged as being a popular request, and something the Lab wants to look into.
- Ability to search the MP by body type. This is something that has been specified internally, and so seen as as something that could be delivered in the future.
- Multiple Marketplace wish lists / favourite lists. Again, this has received a lot of requests and is being thought about.
- A request for multiple stores under one account. This was seen as a nice idea, but currently hard to implement.
- Making the Land Use Fees page more intuitive, and perhaps include a way to calculate group bonus, etc.
- The use of AI agents to assist in Marketplace searches was raised, in order to increase accuracy of results, etc.
- There is nothing specific in the works for this.
- Training AI tools for Marketplace search was seen as a major undertaking, simply because of the size of the MP, and that search could generally be improved a lot more directly without necessarily requiring the use of AI tools.
- A discussion on people’s favourite / least favourite things in Second Life during the past week which flowed into a general conversation – refer to the video for details.
Next Meeting
- Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025.
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