Web/Marketplace Features

With the wildly varying quality of mesh clothing, most customers and many creators have realized the usefulness of providing a demo of clothing to test fit, skin weights, in-world appearance, complexity, and many other qualities of a given item. It has, therefore, become frustrating to see something I'm interested in, click on it, only to find I'd be gambling if I bought it because there's no demo available. I never buy clothing without a demo, and manually checking to see if a demo is available can slow down the shopping experience. Add to that the bad actors that state "Demo available at in-world store." To date I have never found an in-world demo, and am instead barraged with a maze of other items they're trying to sell to me (a good portion of which won't even fit my body and also have no demo available) while I look for said demo. In many cases, I come to doubt that the demo even exists. This is VERY poor business practice, as I already have a mental list of stores to avoid while shopping because I know there will be no demo on the MP. Vendors: NEVER make your customer jump through hoops to buy your product. This is a poor idea and just a stupid thing to do. If I am shopping on the Marketplace, I'm not interested in switching to shopping in-world. Actual clothing stores have fitting rooms that are easily seen and accessible, not hid somewhere in the back behind the restrooms. You've just lost your sale. If a filter can be added under the "Do Not Show:" category that specifies "Items with no Demo" it would speed up my shopping experience as well as allow me to more readily award those that perform best practices and provide demos for their products. I believe this will also have the added benefit of inspiring those that presently do not provide a demo, or claim to have one in-world, to actually provide a demo on the Marketplace to allow for shoppers to quickly and easily try on clothes.

At the moment, when you visit the Name Change page and are presented with the list of available Last Names, they are not in any kind of order, which is an issue for us folks with ADHD, autism or other forms of neurodivergence. Having the list in alphabetical order would both prevent sensory overload and potentially make for a quicker process. Related to the above — when new Last Names are announced, those should be listed in alphabetical order too. And if any Last Names are being retired it would be nice to know which ones those are — I note that this did happen initially after Last Names were reintroduced, but seems to have been dropped.

Like geographical stats, etc. Our business is your business - if we make money - you make money. Having some market data that is about who is entering SL - cultures, age groups, etc. would be super helpful in planning our own marketing strategies.

It would be amazing to be able to block a store's content from showing in Marketplace. Instead of adding a store as a favorite you could click to add store to a blocked list and then their content would no longer show in your search results.

Currently, creators can upload gifs to their marketplace listings (Limit 1 I think?). GIFs are heavy, even if they are low quality and low frame rate. That's three cons: Low frame rate, low quality, and heavy bandwidth wise. Many sites, including Tenor, Giphy, Reddit, and Discord, convert to gifs to webm when possible. However, they also allow uploading of webms now. The benefit is the low size of webms while retaining relatively good quality and frame rate. This will allow creators to better demonstrate their objects, especially animated objects, animations, or otherwise show case special features of a product with extended play time, quality, and resolution, while still maintaining a less than 1 megabyte upload limit. The server can use ffmpeg to sanitize webm uploads (I.E. remove audio, constrain resolution, etc), as many other sites do. The upload limit could be addressed separately. Alternatively, allowing linking of youtube, vimeo, sketchfab, etc as a preview. This offloads the need to host the video, though this means the video can disappear at any time. I feel that this is important, as gifs are a underutilized feature on the marketplace, which I feel is in part due to the low quality of them, and the fact it doesn't do the product it is advertising justice.

A refreshed Marketplace with a responsive web design would be great. More content could be shown and could also increase ad revenue for LL

Since the change in the sale of LS was made, breeders have been suffering from the inflation generated by the change. Selling for LS is becoming more and more disadvantageous and we have to work harder and harder to earn the minimum we used to. At the same time, we don't want to affect customers by increasing the price of products and, on the other hand, the grid has not been able to get more customers to compensate for the new increase. Currently, as I write this, in the market sale option: Offer to Sell Linden Dollars (Limit Sell) Sale of the day: 262 LS for 1 dollar. In this conversion, we have to make 310,000 LS to receive 1,0000 Dollars (already discounting the sales and PayPal fees). In the other option, it's even worse! Sell ​​Linden Dollars (Market Sell) Number of LS: 325,000 LS To receive 1,0000 Dollars (already discounting the selling and PayPal fees). Please return to the old version of the market, but with a quick withdrawal of one day per month or at most TWO days per month, so that the economy is more controlled! Or buy and take LS out of circulation to reduce the inflation generated by your decisions. We have kept the game alive for years, many have more than one store and live off of Second Life! Please think of us and protect the economy! Thank you!

Currently, avatars receiving weekly stipends as part of Second Life Premium or Premium Plus memberships do not receive any notifications or system messages when these L$ deposits occur. This presents a challenge for users and scripted bots that rely on transaction notifications or listeners to track and respond to incoming funds. Use Case: At SmartBots, we provide bot services that help users manage avatars, track transactions, and perform automated tasks based on L$ deposits. Many of our users have asked for the ability to detect when a stipend is received by an avatar. However, since there is no event trigger, message, or transaction notification for these stipend payments, bots and automated systems are effectively blind to them. This impacts: Accurate financial logging and visibility Triggering user-defined automated behaviors (e.g., announcements, logging, reactions) Customer support debugging when tracking deposit history Building reliable in-world systems that depend on timely detection of all L$ inputs Proposed Solution: We are requesting the implementation of any of the following (in order of preference): A notification event (similar to standard L$ transactions) that is sent to the avatar upon stipend deposit. An LSL-accessible event or updated balance notification that bots and scripts can listen for. Webhook support or API endpoint that allows us to fetch or receive stipend transaction data with timestamp. A transaction log entry (visible in the viewer or via API) that clearly marks the stipend arrival with a distinct type. Impact: Adding notification support for stipends would improve transparency, enable a smoother user experience, and allow for broader functionality in user and bot systems. It would also reduce support load by helping both Linden Lab and third-party providers verify fund arrival more easily. Thank you for considering this request — we’re happy to provide additional use cases or technical details if needed.

Please add a search bar in the 'profile' module of casper site ... it's getting exhausting to search through so many items to list, thanks

Marketplace images are limited to 700x525 pixels. This really needs to be increased so we can actually see what we're buying.