Popular Places is now gone from the main Second Life client. Woohoo! Maybe this means that people will stop trying to artificially inflate their Traffic numbers with hordes of undead bot avatars. Maybe not. At any rate, I think it’s a step in the right direction. After just a quick trip through the list I see many more sites that are interesting to me than with the old Traffic based system.
Popular places has been replaced with the Showcase tab, which features (hopefully) interesting spots chosen by Linden Lab. Glad to see that they are including an Arts & Culture tab in the Showcase, although I think an Education tab would be nice, too. I’m sure there is a huge rush at the moment, but you can submit your own suggestions for places to add to the showcase.