A quick reminder that the Second Life Marketplace will be undergoing infrastructure upgrades for an estimated period of one hour, commencing at 10:00 SLT on Wednesday, May 31st, 2023.
This work will involve, among other things, a reset of the shopping cart functionality, and any items users may have placed in their shopping carts for future purchase will not be saved.
To to avoid any upset in having shopping carts emptied, Linden Lab recommends shoppers take one or both of the following steps:
- Finalise all purchases ahead of the maintenance period, and complete pending transactions to clear your shopping cart.
- For those items you are not in a position to purchase ahead of the maintenance period, or do not wish to purchase at this time but would like to keep recorded for future reference, list them either in your favourites or your wishlist.
During the maintenance period, the Marketplace will be unavailable for either shoppers or merchants to access. For complete details, please refer to this official blog post, and to the SL Grid Status pages for updates.
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 
For all the hullabaloo, I was hoping they’d make some improvements in how it looks and functions. In the categories, search results, or vendor pages, it would be great if they used an infinite scroll instead of pagination. For apparel and accessories, it would be great if the shopper could add a filter to only find items that were designed for their avatar’s body. The Marketplace is better than nothing, but it doesn’t mean it couldn’t be improved.
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There has been talk of a potential ground-up rebuild of the MP, as per my summaries of the monthly Web User Group meetings. It’s not clear how definite this might be, but should it go ahead, it will offer the opportunity to increased functionality / alternate approaches to existing functionality to be added to the MP. As it is, LL has been seeking feedback on possible changes people would like to see as a part of that work / in general – again, notably via the monthly WUG meetings, and through questions being asked of users active in social media, all of which may also inform future plans.
In the meantime, LL are constantly working on the MP and building new features and capabilities – the recent overhaul of ElasticSearch being one example; the upcoming ability for merchants to offer different “styles” (e.g. different colours) of an item in a single listing, and so on. As with all things SL, changes tend to be made with a degree of caution in order to try to avoid as much disruption as possible (although this doesn’t always work out!).
If you have specific ideas for improvements, such as those you mentions, the best way to get them in front of LL is via a Feature Request (if you’ve not raised one before, these notes may be of assistance), and then raising the request as a point of discussion at a WUG meeting, if you are able to attend.
These meetings are held in-world on the first Wednesday of the month, at 14:00 SLT; at this venue.
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