When I was a lad I spent a lot of time on the Second Life Forums, not being productive. Now that I’m older, I spend a lot of time on blogs or other websites, such as dio, not being productive. However it has to be said that there are very productive sections on the Second Life Forums, your mileage will vary on what you consider productive, but the creation forum is a good place to discuss creation issues. There you can discuss your creation issues, ask questions, provide replies and discuss a lot of pros and cons of content creation. There are forums for fashion, Art, Music and Photography, animation, machinima, building and texturing, mesh and LSL Scripting. Therefore pretty much all the bases are covered and yet, there is a glaring missing link.
There are no stickies pointing people to the wonderful world of the Second Life Wiki. The Wiki has some superb resources, that’s where you’ll find the LSL Portal, which has so much information about scripting functionality, this should be being highlighted.
The Wiki will also take you to the excellent Creation Portal, where you’ll find information on all your old creation favourites. In many ways things are arse about face, people go to the main site for information, they go to the forums and ask questions. The only link to the Wiki from the main page appears to be the Second Life Developers section, but really, Linden Lab should be promoting their Wiki all over the forums.
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