Tag: Inworld Classifieds

Inworld paid classifieds have generally been pretty straight forward, best price wins. However there’s a frustrating aspect of this, one which was at one time addressed by the paid classifieds bar only showing exact phrase matches. The problem is that if you search for say: Medieval Market, you’ll get the top paid results that use either of those words, rather than the phrase or both words:

The above search was done searching everything, so groups, places etc. will be in the left hand side, on the right hand side are paid classifieds which automatically sort by price. The results on the left hand side are relevant, the results on the right hand side, they aren’t really relevant.

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The latest edition of the official Second Life viewer isn’t too bad, it has some nice features, the ability to be able to put buttons on toolbars and move things around means the experience has a better level of customisation but one area where it falls down badly is with regard to inworld classifieds, which really are in need of some care and attention from Linden Lab.

Let’s start with the most obvious problem, the create a new classified link doesn’t work, so how do you create a new classified, or even find your old classifieds to edit them? This is where you start to realise how shoddily inworld classifieds are being treated, because it’s not obvious at all.

To get to your classifieds you need to get to your picks, and these aren’t the picks on your web profile, they are a different set of picks, well they’re the same picks in a different module, but they aren’t the droids you’re looking for if you want to play with classifieds, the picks you need are a toobar button, so to get started you need to go here:

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