Second Life Community Roundtable with Philip Rosedale - November 1, 2024

Thanks I want to express my deepest gratitude for all these years that Linden Lab has brought happiness into my life. Thanks to Second Life, I have had the chance to meet thousands of people and make truly great friends. These have been years of hard work, and for me, Second Life has been a sanctuary, a place where one can come to relax, create, and enjoy.

To everyone who works tirelessly to make this wonderful world possible, my sincerest thanks. Thank you for creating such a special space for all of us.♥ Att Fahrah Rajesh

Welcome back Philip!

Some good ideas, I particularly like better ways of animating, moving the avatar!

sailing is one of the few things left other than content creation that i do on SL anymore. everything else just kinda fizzled out (combat systems, and SLMC) tried taking my South African friend on a sailing trip around the Blake sea a couple years ago and he just kept crashing because of sim crossings. i do hope that gets improved in the coming years. additionally i think the puppetry tech will be huge in paving the way for "non-verbal communication" when that gets expanded on and added. very glad to see Philip back at LL and i feel like he's going to be instrumental in making this platform that i practically grew up with much better for everyone.

also super stoked for Lua coming to SL. i feel like its going to be way easier to get started with scripting via Lua. used to toy around with it in Gmod back in the day.

Adult themed content is now allowed on Twitch, for real life people. There is a disclaimer about the content then you can click to go ahead and see the content by that Twitch user. So I think SL should be able to be streamed on that platform.

Just to through this out there... Maybe take a look at what the development team at Star Citizen is doing with Server Meshing... it's groundbreaking work...

ty for a great 21 years

So excited for the new era of SL with the return of this icon xoxo

Awesome, welcome back Govnr' Linden

Happy to see Strawberry Linden in the crowd.

love video

I was late. Welcome back, and you are spot on. I always remind myself that you don't know who and what the individual's life is behind the pixels.

worlds need leaders. thank you Philip. lead on.

Absolutely amazing town hall, Philip Rosedale's vision is honestly inspiring. It really feels like we got fresh yet familiar wind blowing through the virtual trees!

Thank you for SL. You have eased suffering and brought joy to so many people.

I'm Beragon Betts in SL. This was super interesting!

Why did I try to cam in the crowd?

There seemed to be an over emphasis on "Feelings" and pleasing everyone, but as we know in rl not everyone's feelings are spared nor will everyone be happy. life is hard 1st or 2nd, better to do what's right for the majority and leave it up to the individual to resist being triggered, trigger easily try Sim City or some other safe space. SL has had a adult theme since I got here 15 years ago and in that time I have seen unbelievable things I did not like but I didn't run away crying and freaking out, no I just TP'ed away and moved on, that's part of being an adult isn't it?

Welcome back!

The first thing is SL should migrate from old and outdated OpenGL to Vulkan

So beautiful the story you told about the person with physical problems, respect. You give lots of hope, thank you, Imbolc Sirbu

VR headsets are too expensive.. the adoption rate is extremely low..
Someone would have to make a rather affordable headset.. like around 100 to 150 dollars in order for it to become more adapted.. but instead of finding a way to make more affordable decent VR, companies insist on making rather expensive VR headsets..
Maybe one day that'll change..

Welcome Back Philip Rosedale! You've been missed!

As someone who's grown with SL for over 18 years, I remember well those early days and I am looking forward to seeing what comes of Phillip returning! This amazing platform that came out of his vision has given me so much in so many ways and I am ever grateful for that!

Welcome back Philip!!! Had to give up my region on Mainland last year. Could not justify paying for it. Being that there is so much abandoned mainland, why not auction it off at a much lower price. Better to get something for the land versus getting nothing for it.

Like the good old days! Welcome back, Phillip!

Saludos desde Argentina

Back when I joined SL in 2006 I tried to "onboard" every friend & family member I had, because I was in love with SL, I got maybe ten people to sign up and try it out, some of them tried it for a few weeks but eventually they all quit. They just didn't see or feel the magic that I did. So IMO it's not for lack of trying that die-hard second lifers can't help grow the user base. I eventually came to the conclusion that SL is for highly technical people with above average intelligence and unfortunately that's a minority market.

For the first time in so many years i am excited for Second Life's future. I joined back in 2008 and i have been unable to pry myself away. It has become a second home to just relax and talk to friends. Here's hoping many good changes will come cough inventory management cough and that SL's popularity will go up again.

Good to see you back Philip! Maybe wander over to BlueSky as a number of us moved there after the blue bird died.

I'm so glad there's a recording of the event and that Philip is back 🥰🥰.

Sorry I missed it I need to get back to second life myself its been 7 years since I was last on.

C# , not Lua wow really?! Lua? Kids language is what that is. Roblox/WoW/Eso , come on, go C#

Now bring back Cory Ondrejka as Director of Internal Design.

To be able to see this LEGEND litteraly the father of all us avatars, come back, Oh la la 🥺🥺🥺 Welcome back and thank you for recording this important roundtable whoever did !

Since both Autistic users and nonverbal communication have come up, as an Autistic person I’d like to point out that we don’t all want to use voice chat, let alone facial expressions since those are some of the main reasons we’ve been pushed out of society.

Love SL. But Firestorm is terrible now. Interesting the Lab is giving it a nod. I've used it since inception but looking elsewhere until it's fixed. 15 years in SL and I've no friends in world. It's incredibly time consuming to develop real relationships inworld. Welcome back. I'm 71 with business in SL since 2009.

welcome back