I feel for you, Non standard skin color. I lke my face and want to keep it, my avatar is short with a slight build.
Just a small snapshot really, but my event at Club Noir last night was the best-attended I've had in a very long time, and by a significant amount. I even made a comment that if it gets any busier, I will need a bigger dance floor. Club tips for this month have exceeded my monthly goal already, with still another week to go. That has never happened before.
So, it's not Second Life, but I logged into OS Grid last night, just for the hell of it.
A club is a bit different from a shop though. For now, I think people are just craving social contact. I think businesses like yours may pick up soon though, as returners-to-SL decide they want to stay, and want a home. I bet you'll see an uptick in sales when the Linden Homes log cabins are released, and everyone wants new furniture.
Mostly they are buying houses. And yelling at me because they forgot how to open a box.
This is a good time for Linden Lab to ditch Sansar, dissolve the Fantasy User League, and serve to the user base they actually have.
I've tried for a few days to come up with a pithy answer to this and it's 2 fold.
I’d recommend giving blender another try if you haven’t in a while. Blender 2.9 is an entirely different program made like to be easy to use by people who have used Windows program interfaces. (Left click to select, shift left select or left drag box to select multiple, right click for context menus, position, rotate, and scale tools easily visible on the UI, etc, etc) Old blender behaved like no other Windows program which constantly threw people off.its honestly made by sane people now. I’d argue it’s easier to learn than learning Second Life at this point.
It was crazy busy - nothing compared to the big places, but for a small club like Noir, it sure was. They kept pouring in the door. I was very busy trying to say hi to new arrivals, thank tippers, invite people to dance with me on my HUD, and maybe even talk about the music I was playing a little bit.
It was only my second time there, and my poor little 'puter couldn't handle that many people; even with the lowest settings and my camera pointed at the floor, I still crashed. Didn't dare try again. I went back yesterday for the new informal social thing they're doing; that wasn't as busy but there was at least ten people there from 1pm to 2pm.
If you know where the people are, or you can find them, then Second Life is still a decent space for socializing. And we need that right now.
