Web/Marketplace Features

Please add a required bool while creating a Marketplace listing that asks the creator to disclose if AI generative tools were used in part/all of the products creation. Add this bool to the 'Do Not Show' section of the Marketplace search filter. Allow listings to be reported if they do not honestly disclose this. ---- For the health of the market we need the use of AI tools to be disclosed by creators. I would prefer personally that no AI generation be supported. I understand that tolorance of it is an effort to avoid censorships slippery slope, and is complicated by the sheer variation of AI tools that currently exist. But regardless of opinions or complications, it's existance cannot be ignored. So lets focus on what can be done, by giving some power of choice to the consumer instead. Users should be provided a way to choose products with or without AI generation while shopping, and naturally creators who choose not to disclose or to lie should face the same reportability and moderation as any other creator that would choose to lie while listing. The moderation half of this should not necessarily focus on trying to prove the use of AI gen tools, it doesn't actually need to. Creators who have done the work to provide support and actually prepare the AI generated content for its use in SL are unlikely to warrent being reported, and should not need to lie about the useage anyway. It is products that blatantly lack support, have egregious LOD & LI values that would be inclined to lie, and would want to be reported by users, this is the same for ANY product currently listed. If you buy it, and you don't get what was described, it should be reportable, the same goes for AI generated products, AI generated should not get a pass because you have to 'prove' something first, when the fact remains that you didn't get what thought you bought. So do not focus on "did you use a tool?" focus on "can you fix & support the product?" If it can't be supported, then disclose it was made via AI generation and move on. This is a similar complication to full perm and gacha resales, but also ripped models, copybot etc, in they will all lack support due to not being made directly by the creator of the listing. There is a big difference between fullperm & gacha resale vs ripping & botting, and that difference is honest disclosure.

I think it would be a huge help if the Marketplace had a scheduled sale feature. Something where we could choose specific items, categories, or even our whole store, set a discount, and pick the start and end dates so the sale runs on its own. No more going through each product and editing them one by one, which takes forever. It would be great if we could set either a percentage off or a fixed sale price. Once the sale is active, the discounted items could even show up in a special Sale tab so shoppers can find them all in one place. With Black Friday coming up soon, this feels like the perfect time for a feature like this. It would save creators a lot of time and make running seasonal or limited-time sales much easier. I think sales should have a required start and end date, with a reasonable limit of around 5 Weeks to keep people from abusing the sale feature. I really think this would be a win for both creators and shoppers. If anyone else would love to see this added or have additional ideas to add on this topic please do!

As per the title.. I would love to gift people who have my items in their wishlist. Around Christmas, Halloween, their rez day, just because I'm in the mood to. Stuff like that. I think it would be a helpful thing.

The current design of the Second Life Marketplace seems primarily built for smartphones, particularly iPhones. On a regular desktop screen, the layout is poorly optimized: narrow columns, small images, and wasted space. A professional e-commerce platform should automatically detect the user’s device (desktop, tablet, smartphone) and adapt the display format accordingly. This is the core principle of modern responsive design. 👉 Suggested improvements: Implement two optimized formats: A desktop version for larger screens (fluid layout, wider columns, high-quality images, intuitive navigation). A mobile version for small screens (condensed menus, vertical layout, touch-friendly ergonomics). Ensure the site auto-detects the user’s device and displays the correct format. It is also worth pointing out that many residents mention they may browse the Marketplace on their phone, but they rarely complete purchases there. This shows that prioritizing mobile over desktop does not align with actual shopping behavior, and the design focus is misplaced. Such an upgrade would significantly improve readability, navigation comfort, and overall satisfaction for both buyers and merchants.

The marketplace has a growing, serious problem with this deceptive listing practice, with stores adding ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to their store name to imply that an item being shown in a search result is actually rated 5-stars, even when it is not. The number of stores engaging in this practice is shockingly large, with 'brands I've heard of' already doing it. The practice seems to only be growing. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/en-US/stores/store_name_search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bsort%5D=&search%5Bkeywords%5D=%E2%AD%90 Other unicode symbols that should probably be disallowed: ⭐ 🌟 ✨ ★ ☆ ✪ ✯ ✭ ✰ ⚝ ✫ ☀ 🌞 �

So going into this, I want to disclaim that I myself am not against AI. I personally have used it before, and will do so in the future. A specific chat AI helps me regularly with solving problems. However, I am against people intentionally misleading people about content, and polluting search results with content made in mere seconds, and find it no different than spam. If I made something that randomly generated randomly colored squares on a white canvas, and listed it a dozen or so times, it'd be seen as spam. Additionally, this issue was brought up in the SL Discord marketplace chat. I've moved it here so that it can get more recognition and visibility to LL. Personally, I believe that a policy worded like so would benefit everyone in the long run (canny has messed up some formatting here, so it looks like it has no line breaks, these have been substituted with "---" for readability) Content that is the sole generation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or otherwise Generative Content, except in the cases where the generator was written for the sole purpose of generating a specific element, may not be listed on the Marketplace as-is or as the focal point of the content that is listed. --- AI images must never be used to generate listing images, and must be presented as the content appears in SL. Overlays, such as permission information, price, branding labels, or sales labels, are permitted as much so as they do not mis-represent the content that is being advertised. --- Examples of forbidden listings: * In singular or collection, AI generated content as a texture, image, mesh, sound or other type of asset, as the sole content being listed. * A AI generated image in a picture frame. * A museum prefab filled with AI generated images as a "ready to go" model. * A object that plays randomly generated AI voice clips. * Attempting to pass off or mislead people that AI generated content as original, hand crafted content. * A listing which shows a AI enhanced product preview. --- Examples of allowed listings: * A house that has a AI generated poster in it, where the poster is not the selling point of the house. * A museum model that has some AI generated images, or is focused on the topic of AI generated content. * A NPC, that among other features, plays AI generated voice clips. * A model that has AI generated textures, where the model is not AI generated. --- Listings that make use of 50% or more in it's creation must be clearly labeled as using AI generation or assistance in the listing description. Interpretation of what counts as "50% or more is" left solely to Linden Lab. Listings that use AI but under the 50% threshold are recommended, but not required, to disclose that AI is used in some capacity. In summary, it forbids listing of content on the marketplace, free or for sale, that is entirely AI generated, requires disclosure of AI generated content when AI does a majority of the work, and guards against some loopholes. This probably (as in, very likely. I feel this is implied, but just in case) isn't needed, but: Because this will probably get passed by the lawyers, I hereby grant all permission to Linden Lab to use or transform the above work in any way, without attribution or compensation. Linden Lab has the opportunity to deal with this now before it gets too out of control. Only a handful of residents would be in violation of this policy. This also only applies to marketplace stuff, not in-world content.

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.

the new listing feature displaying update date seems incorrect. many listings i haven't touch in months, possibly even years, are saying it was recently updated. this i a useful feature but its not great that it's innaccurate

Recent changes to SL Marketplace were made to benefit those using mobile phones in portrait mode. But Second Life is still largely used by a majority of desktop computer users and the SL Marketplace should mirror that too. The recent changes have negatively affected the way SL Marketplace now appears on desktop computer screens, with two-thirds of a desktop screen having wide empty side borders of a desktop monitor screen, which are left unused and wasted. So please introduce a Desktop Screen Mode option to SL Marketplace, allowing the entire width of a desktop monitor screen to be utilised, with a wide variety of screen size options too, just as the SL Viewer already has. Secondly, please duplicate the Marketplace's page numbering up to the top of the screen as well, which would allow more rapid page flicking/changing. This would bypass the already slow and unnecessary time-wasting chore of scrolling through a long list of 24/48/96 items just to reach the inconvieniently placed page numbers located at the bottom of the screen. Lastly, the new catagory icons are needlessly childish, confusing and don't always contain content that they appear to represent. They need to be removed and replaced with clearly legible written catagory titles again. Attached are images of how SL Marketplace currently appears on a Desktop PC Windows 11 16:9 screen (1920x1080) and how I would improve SL Marketplace's UI to allow the full width of a screen to be utilised. Unnecessary confusing catagory icons removed and a "Screen Size" option button added.

When trying to find certain sims for roleplay, night clubs, entertainment, there is too much spam of weird sex places. I like Adult content and Adult Roleplay, however that's not what some of these are. Can we have a way to right click somewhere to ignore or blacklist something that comes up? This way we can manually clear out what we are not interested in? This is in regard to searching in world places and events - not marketplace.