secondlife / secondlife/viewer

Teleport enhancement

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Since Mar 11, 2026.

enhancement stale team:viewer
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Description

Issue

Teleportation system is rather fragile, can be a cause of disconnects

Suggestion

  1. 'Keep alive' messages from server to viewer. Ones that also reports progress. Viewer runs a timer, if server doesn't report in time viewer disconnects. Having a 'keep alive' would reduce risk of diconecting due to server being slow, having status in those would make teleport progress more responsive
  2. Fallback. If teleport failed viewer should have a way to teleport to previous location.
  3. Better error reporting on both sides and server should pass any errors to viewer, viewer should logout (with reason packed into the logout?) if something is wrong viewer side.


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