Phase 2 · World Explorer in progress
The community layer for Second Life.
Oxide Social is where residents share, discover, and celebrate the world they've built together. A dedicated community, events, and destination discovery platform, crafted for the people of Second Life.
Community
Connect with residents, share updates, discover creators, and follow the people and communities you care about.
Join the communityWorld Explorer
Explore destinations, events, galleries, museums, live music, roleplay communities, and hidden gems.
Open World ExplorerCommunity Spotlight
Coming soonRecognizing the residents who make Second Life a better place.
ROADMAP
Where Oxide is going.
PHASE 1· COMPLETE
Community Foundation
The social layer, identity, and community basics.
- ✓Resident accounts and profiles
- ✓Feed, posts, comments, and reactions
- ✓Follows, blocks, and mutes
- ✓Notifications
- ✓Moderation basics
- ✓Second Life identity linking
- ✓Events platform foundation
- ✓Discover directory
PHASE 2· IN PROGRESS
World Explorer & Live World Data
Destination directory, canonical world-location model, and live Second Life data.
- ✓Destination directory and detail pages
- ✓Search and category filters
- ✓Saved destinations
- ✓Community favorites
- ✓Featured destinations
- ✓Recently added destinations
- ✓Destination submission and review
- ✓Community Spotlight integration
- ✓Canonical sl_regions model
- ✓Canonical sl_locations model
- ✓Places model
- ✓Shared SLURL parser and generator
- ✓Coordinate utilities
- ✓MapProvider abstraction
- ✓LocationResolver chain
- ✓Demo/test destinations and events excluded
- ✓Destination Guide adapter repaired
- ✓Authentic Destination Guide dry run completed
- ✓Production Destination Guide import
- ✓Public Second Life events adapter
- ✓Scheduled destination and event synchronization
- ✓Region grid coordinate backfill (GridSurvey)
- ✓Real Leaflet World Map with Linden tiles
- ✓Destination map markers
- ✓Public map data API
- ✓Event end-time authenticity (unknown-duration handling)
- ✓Event map layer
- ✓Happening Now map filter
- ✓Starting Soon map filter
- ·Marker clusteringPlanned
- ◐Rust viewer map APIsIn Progress
- ◐Location and sync Operations toolsIn Progress
PHASE 3· COMPLETE
Community Expansion
Communities, creators, and public platform services.
- ✓Communities
- ✓Unified resident profiles
- ✓Creator portfolios and galleries
- ✓Creator directory and role landing pages
- ✓Public Platform API v1
- ✓Expanded moderation tools
- ✓Cross-feature resident, community, event, and destination relationships
PHASE 4· COMPLETE
Messaging
Direct one-to-one messaging with real-time delivery and moderation.
- ✓Direct messages
- ✓Message requests and privacy controls
- ✓Realtime delivery
- ✓Read state and read receipts
- ✓Archive and unread state
- ✓Reporting and Operations moderation
- ✓Platform and viewer messaging APIs
- »Group chatsDeferred to V1.1
PHASE 5· IN PROGRESS
Media & Creator Tools
Unified media uploads, AI/content-origin disclosure, and the blogger network.
- ✓Demo and test data controls
- ✓Unified media upload system
- ✓Avatar uploads
- ✓Banner uploads
- ✓Post image uploads
- ✓Gallery uploads
- ✓Portfolio uploads
- ✓Community media uploads
- ✓Event media uploads
- ✓Destination media uploads
- ✓Signed-image rendering
- ✓AI-assisted and AI-generated disclosure
- ✓Content-origin disclosure
- ✓Alt text and media metadata
- ◒Blogger and RSS database foundationFoundation Complete
- ◒RSS/Atom adapter foundationFoundation Complete
- ◒Blogger Friends and invitations database foundationFoundation Complete
- ◒Privacy-safe tracked-link analytics foundationFoundation Complete
- ◒Blogger feed importerFoundation Complete
- ◒Tracked links and aggregate click recordingFoundation Complete
- ◒Creator analytics data modelFoundation Complete
- ·Resident-authorized Second Life profile synchronizationPlanned
- ·Blogger directoryPlanned
- ·Blog pagesPlanned
- ·Blogger profile integrationPlanned
- ·Blog feed claim and verificationPlanned
- ·Blogger Friends user interfacePlanned
- ·Blogger invitations workflowPlanned
- ·Creator StudioPlanned
- ·Creator analytics dashboardsPlanned
- ·Links dashboardPlanned
- ·Audience dashboardPlanned
- ·CSV exportsPlanned
PHASE 6· PLANNED
Oxide Viewer Integration
Native Rust viewer integration built on top of the shared platform APIs.
- ◒Public Platform APIFoundation Complete
- ◒Viewer authentication endpointsFoundation Complete
- ◒Viewer messaging endpointsFoundation Complete
- ◒Notifications endpointsFoundation Complete
- ◒Profiles and communities dataFoundation Complete
- ◒Shared location architectureFoundation Complete
- ·World Map viewer endpointsPlanned
- ·Destination panelPlanned
- ·Event panelPlanned
- ·Current-region contentPlanned
- ·Nearby contentPlanned
- ·Teleport handoffPlanned
- ·Saved placesPlanned
- ·Event remindersPlanned
- ·Viewer integration documentationPlanned
- ·Native slide-out social panelsPlanned