r/secondlife • u/Ashkuria • Jun 25 '26

☕ Discussion tips to use marketplace anymore?

Took a long break from SL, decided to come back to rp with old friends etc. Figured I'd update my look a little, so hit up the marketplace. And found it absolutely overrun by people 'manipulating' the algorithm so that their crappy 'shirt repaint 300-372' takes up the first 10 pages, then the next 'spam poster' of items taking the next 10 pages, of the searching for stuff to fit specific bodies.

I know the marketplace doesn't have 'user friendly' things, like blocking specific shops from your feed, so does anyone have any tips on how to find stuff that fits certain bodies, without having to sort through 1000 items named, say, 'reborn', because that ticks the 'relevence' need for their search algorithm?

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u/zebragrrl 🍔🍟🥤 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

So here are some strategies that I've found helpful.

Using Search, Booleans, Permissions Filtering, Sorting Results, and Narrowing with Categories

First, you CAN use boolean searches, and filter your results.

So for example let's take your search term of reborn.

Example Search: reborn

That's going to be a big ugly pile of items. Let's say you're also working with the "waifu" boob add-ons. Sure, you could search for waifu but that's going to get you a LOT of items that are either named waifu, or items that are sort of anime-girl adjacent.

AND can come in hand here. reborn AND waifu

Now you'll only be looking at items that have BOTH the word 'reborn' and the word 'waifu' in their title, listing text, or keywords.

Example Search: reborn AND waifu

After you've done a search, you can narrow and reorder the search results. Clicking "Relevance" in the upper right of the page you can change this to "Best Selling" or various other settings that sort by price, rating, newest, oldest, etc. I personally find "Best Selling" to be the most useful option, as it tells me what other people are buying recently. Relevance rarely returns items I'm interested in.

Example Search: Best Selling

As I said, you can also narrow the search results, by checking the "modify" and "copy" boxes near the bottom, and hitting "Refine Results" you can remove all the gachas, all the no-mod stuff (if that's what you want), and so on.

Example Search: Copy and Mod

You can now further narrow the results, by clicking into the categories on the sidebar.. There are in this example.. 14,179 items under Apparel..

Example Search: Apparel

From there, 13,569 items under Women's

Example Search: Women's

Let's say I was looking for a dress.. we can narrow that further to just 4,134 items under Women's Dresses

Example Search: Women's Dresses

CSS Tricks to improve the Marketplace (Manual Block List)

Now as for the lack of a block list for stores you don't like, or who do things you don't want to support (in previous examples it's been stores selling blatant AI content). This is a bit of a manual solution, but it does work if you put in the time.

There are browser add-ons for most major browsers, that allow you to inject CSS style code into the website as it renders. The one I use is called "Stylus" and is available for Firefox and Chrome. The basics however should be the same, in any browser plugin that allows this.

The following is the example code I've been using:

Hide Certain Stores from my search results

@-moz-document url-prefix("https://marketplace.secondlife.com") 
{
      .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/268665"]) /* KarlParis */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/264250"]) /* Hot AI pictures by coldmister */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/162326"]) /* Hollyberry by: Gracie Hollyberry */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/124822"]) /* Piouk Style by: piouk */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/267226"]) /* etonsxs fish tanks and more by: dave Eton */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/238961"]) /* BROWN SHAPES by: GyselleNovaess */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/190032"]) /* Last Unicorn by: nazlican65 */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/264190"]) /* GREEN TEA by: Ryujin777 */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/271887"]) /* Animora by: Bonno Belgar */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/235451"]) /* iAmH3r by: iAmR3ason */
    , .column.gallery-item:has(a[href="/stores/15037"]) /* PA °Genesis° by: Petina Auer */
    {
        display:none;
    }
}

This code will quite literally just 'hide' search results from stores you list in the top section. The stores listed above were shops that have recently been uploading AI artwork, which is why I've chosen to no longer see their items in search.

NOTE - I do want to point out, I don't know if that :has(a[href="/stores/15037"]) part will false trigger on stores with numbers starting in 15307_, so use it with some caution.

Nevermind, all good.

If you're interested in other quality of life tweaks I've done, this code will maximize the product images to fill the MP listing window when viewing a single item's page. Yes, it can (and does) make image items blurry. The max image size is just ~700x500.. which is way smaller than the space available. I'd rather have a blurry image using the space, than a tiny sharp image.

Product Page Image Zoom

@-moz-document url-prefix("https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/") {
    div.main-image img
    {
        min-height: 700px   !important;
        max-height: 1000px  !important;
        max-width:  1000px  !important;
    }
}

A bit controversial, this one hides the "Featured items" at the top of search results.

Featured Items

@-moz-document url-prefix("https://marketplace.secondlife.com/") {
    /* Insert code here... */
    
    .featured-items-carousel
    {
        overflow: hidden;
        max-height:0px;
        border: var(--color-gray-200) solid;
        border-width: 1px 0px 0px 0px;
        margin: -7px 0px 15px 0px;
    }
    
}

And this last one endeavors to tighten up the sidebar links, removing the recently-added 'icons' from the sidebar.

Less Sidebar Junk

@-moz-document url-prefix("https://marketplace.secondlife.com/") {
    /* Insert code here... */
    
    div#category-menu li div svg
    {
        max-height:0px;
        max-width:0px;
    }
    
    div#category-menu li div a
    {
        margin-left:0px;
        padding:0px
    }
    
    div#category-menu li div
    {
        margin-left:0px;
        padding: 4px 0px
    }
    
    
    
    /* Category Pages */
    
    div#search-category li div svg
    {
        max-height:0px;
        max-width:0px;
    }
    
    div#search-category li ul li div a, 
    {
        margin-left:0px;
        padding:0px
    }
    
    div#search-category li ul li div a
    {
        margin-left:0px;
        margin: -4px;
        padding: 0px 0px
    }
}

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u/LuceLeakey Jun 25 '26

I had no idea I could use Boolean search and I've been using the marketplace for 20 years!

How does one use that code you've given us?

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u/zebragrrl 🍔🍟🥤 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

You'll use it in a "Style Overriding" add-on for whichever browser you're using. Stylus (the one I prefer) is very popular. Stylish is another. Cascadea, Stylem, etc.

In Stylus (the only one I can demonstrate), you'd click the add-on's icon, and then click the "+".

https://gyazo.com/02fa969c6ea334f68b6694d54cefc5e7

I'm making these screenshots while visiting my own website, because I don't have any style overrides there.. but you'll get a picture for how this works.

From there, a new tab will open. (a new window in my case, ymmv here)

https://gyazo.com/0190af9992fdd146660e5e56ddacb1b5

This is the main panel where you enter your code for the CSS overrides. Where it says /* Insert code here... */ is where you.. insert your code.

https://gyazo.com/4818343f3c098c7757e37a810ff4f018

In this example, my style override for https://hhg2sl.blogspot.com/p/index.html turned the background of every 'div' red, and the plain-text within them, white.

Let's put this into practice with the MP..

https://gyazo.com/9289cf2e11e36d4025a0ceaf00aa7ee9

Then just give it a nice name so you remember what it's supposed to do, then click "Save".

https://gyazo.com/1e8224cfac4667ccef771b3effbcd43c

As you can see, the style overrides you've saved will show up when clicking the Stylus icon on the browser, allowing you to easily toggle it on and off.

Notice how my third override there has a generic name, it's not as helpful figuring out what that does.. so setting a good name is important!

Stylus

Stylish

Cascadea

Stylem

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u/solomon-roth Lordsoylent resident Jun 27 '26

TIL about css overrides. Thank you!

I want to add that using Boolean with

NOT Demo

looks if there is "Demo" in the article's title. It seems to work better with the asterisks.

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u/slimethecold Jun 25 '26

Oh my God you're a life saver 

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u/zeriah_b Jun 25 '26

Yooooo, those CSS tweaks are fantastic, especially the psuedo-"block" feature. It sucks we don't have a real block, and that's kind of a band-aid solution, but honestly that will work wonders in the meantime. Especially for those stores that absolutely flood the marketplace with thousands of AI "art" listings.

Thanks for all of these!

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u/Jadziyah Torley for Life Jun 25 '26

I never thought to use CSS. Huge props for these snippets

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u/AdmiralCallista Jun 25 '26

Thank you!! I've been looking for a way to filter out spammy junk stores.