Web/Marketplace Features

Second Life has many regions and communities dedicated to education, non-profit work, charity, accessibility, arts, culture, STEM, museums, health support, mentoring, and public-good community projects. However, these spaces are often difficult for new and returning users to discover unless they already know the exact name of the group, region, event, or organisation they are looking for. At present, Search separates content into broad areas such as People, Groups, Places, Land Sales, Events, Classifieds, and Web. These are useful, but they do not clearly surface Second Life's educational, charitable, non-profit, and community-support spaces as a distinct area of value. As a result, these regions can become buried among commercial listings, clubs, shopping destinations, and general places. Adding a dedicated "Non-Profit / Education / Charity" category would make these spaces easier to find and would help show new users that Second Life is more than shopping, entertainment, and private social spaces. It is also a platform for learning, cultural exchange, accessibility, public service, creative collaboration, and community support. This category could help users discover: Education and university regions STEM and learning communities Museums, galleries, and cultural projects Charity and non-profit regions Health, disability, accessibility, and support communities Mentoring groups and public-good initiatives Classes, workshops, talks, and community learning events This would also reduce the pressure on the Destination Guide as the main route for discovering these spaces. The Destination Guide is valuable, but it should not be the only practical discovery path for educational and non-profit work in Second Life. A dedicated search category would benefit residents, educators, non-profit organisers, event hosts, new users, returning users, and Linden Lab itself. It would make the platform's positive community impact more visible, easier to access, and easier to explain to people outside Second Life. In short, this is a small interface change that could make a large difference to discoverability. It would help users find meaningful spaces faster, support communities doing public-good work, and better represent the educational and cultural value already present across Second Life.

After a conversation with Spots Linden, I'm requesting again a way to recover from being locked out due to MFA not working, lost device with MFA on it, or whatever. Locked out as in cannot use the disable-MFA feature on the web. I can't enable MFA before there is such a method.

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.

Ok, so I favorite a lot of stores. Some I've bought from, some I plan to buy from, some are brands I want to keep track of, others I want to keep around and share with friends. The problem is I am at a point that this list is 200+ stores buy now. I know, crazy. I would just like a way to organize them or categorize them. Even if it is just predefine tags I can put on the stores so I sort them via tags, would be fantastic. As for the stores themselves I've followed: clothing stores, shoe stores, full-perm stores, texture shops, hair stores, fetish stores, furniture stores, buildings/home stores, jewelry shops, magic/script stores, etc etc. You can see that browsing for a particular thing I wanna check up on say full-perm items leads me to browsing dozens of other shops, making it hard to find that one I just remembered from 3 months ago that has this very thingy I want and can't track down again! You know what I am talking about right? lol

When mesh came out, marketplace added the ability to state whether a item was "No Mesh", "Partial Mesh", or "100% mesh", as well if it is fitted mesh. I propose that with the addition of PBR, it is made so we can see if something is using PBR with "No PBR", "Partial PBR", "100% PBR", as well as a flag called "Blinn-phong Fallbacks" (MAYBE? Since some people will be using non-PBR viewers apparently). This will benefit creators and buyers in the following ways: Buyers will know if content is using PBR or blinn-phong. Creators will be able to clearly disclaim in a visible, uniform way that something has PBR without fallbacks. Buyers who use old viewers will know if content will be compatible with their viewer. It would be useful if this is a searchable filter too!

I'd like to see a creation date of items shown in the marketplace and the ability to search by year created.

Let's invent a label - something simple, like "GenAI was used in whole or part in this object's manufacture" and then /require/ creators/vendors to label all of their relevant sales items with it. Let this label also be a tag or flag as part of an object's or sales vendor's properties, so that Residents don't have to struggle to know if an object is GenAI-"containing." Let this also be a tag or flag on the MP and in any other searchable interface where it makes sense to exist, so that Residents may include or exclude GenAI items in their search results. GenAI is not going anywhere. The ethics of its use are a separate matter. But Residents have a right to be informed of the tool's use in the creation of their purchased items, just as we have a right to know whether a food IRL has been genetically modified. Let Residents be advised of the use of GenAI to create purchasable goods, and thereby purchase according to their own preference. Please disregard, and accept my apology, if this issue has already been discussed/addressed. Thank you.

EEP are a important part of the SL experience now. Could we get a category for them under Home and Garden or some other place? Right now they are all over the place and more difficult to find than they should or need be.

As the title suggests I'd love an ability to hide/block certain creators and their items from showing in my search/feed. I don't wanna see poopy butts, diapers, pissplay or whatever its called, animal genitalia. Don't wanna see children oriented items and their stores. Sometimes i wish i can filter out a creator that spammed 4-5 pages of the same item just different colors when looking for something new. I wish when searching for "Butt tattoo" i could block an item/store that showed me the entire lowerbody of a human being covered in excrement. Please for the love of God consider that quality of life change.

Recent changes were made to benefit those using SL Marketplace with 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 now having wide empty side borders which are left unused and wasted. 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. 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, with a "Screen Size" option button added.