Web/Marketplace Features

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!

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 most recent re"design" of the Marketplace overloads you with bright bold text in Dark Mode. A lot of people use Dark Mode to avoid sensory overload. The recent design choices make that impossible. Please revert to the old design.

We hold various "UG" meetings fortnightly/monthly, depending on the team, covering many aspects of Second Life. However, no one seems to address Caspervend/tech systems specifically. When LL purchased the system, many content creators adopted it for the added security, knowing it was less likely to close down compared to other platforms. There are numerous feature requests both here and discussed grid-wide. Having the opportunity to speak directly with the team responsible for Caspervend, share real feedback, and hear about upcoming developments would be highly beneficial. This visibility could also spark renewed interest in the system if people could see it actively evolving.

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.

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.

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: ⭐ 🌟 ✨ ★ ☆ ✪ ✯ ✭ ✰ ⚝ ✫ ☀ 🌞 �

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

As time goes by, there are more and more different body meshes, and creators offer more and more content for it, but not necessarily for all bodies every time, or they also don't update their old models every time a new mesh body is released. To promote visibility and make browsing on the marketplace more pleasant and easier, it would be very useful to add a "show only -BodyMesh Name-" option for the clothing and accessories categories. To make it clear, while creating their product listing, Creators could just click on the different buttons corresponding to the bodies already added to their products in a pre-defined list instead of writing everything in the description of their item. I think this would really make life easier for both creators and customers!

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.