Avatar Marketplace

Issue: With the AVM Update to the Avatars Tab in the Main Menu all the previous options were moved to "My Avatars". My Avatars is missing quite a lot of features compared to live: No more "compact view" You can no longer sort the different categories (e.g. Date Added, Last Updated, Name, Recently Used, Performance) Minimizing the navigation panel removes the categories all together instead of making them icons In general the new Avatars UI feels very weird and not coherent with the rest of the Menu. Expected Behaviour / Suggestion: These missing features should be reimplemented to prevent this being a regression compared to live. "My Avatars" should have imo just looked like it currently does on live with a "Purchased" category edited to it. Currently it just looks really out of place. Attachments: Here are screenshots comparing the two:

opening the avatars menu from the QM launches the explore tab, rather than the last tab i had opened. remember this the same way you remember my microphone state.

The my avatars page in the avatars category is different to the rest of the UI. The font is different, button are different styling, and elements are incorrectly sized

I noticed that the behavior of favorite avatars outside of the first favorites category were changed, and it feels a bit harder on those that used to have VRC+ as you're no longer able to move avatars that you previously categorized if you no longer have VRC+. This change could be seen as a somewhat predatory one, especially to those that are used to the original behavior and can't or don't want to pay for VRC+ again, considering that you're completely removing a feature that was free and making it a paid one. I ask that you please restore the original functionality of this feature.

Add a gifting feature that allows users to buy avatars for other users. Though this idea was already discussed in the FAQ thread in the forum ( https://ask.vrchat.com/t/avatar-marketplace-faq-for-sellers/43555 ) Q: What about gifting avatars? (Asked by @Hammey) A: Not yet, but it’s a popular feature request and we’d like to do it. , I will post this as a reminder and voting place.

Avatars that are unavailable can't be removed from your favorite avatars list. Also, it seems that the UI behaves differently depending on if the avatar was privated or deleted.

I believe that 99% of users want to go to the avatar marketplace to buy a new avatar every time they open avatars page, right? Obviously not! What are you thinking? Has anyone really reviewed the UX design? Not to mention that the new UI removed the sorting option?

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Currently the Marketplace has only information about worlds and groups. It should also link to the Avatar Marketplace, since it's a hub for anything Creator Economy related currently.

The "Try Avatar" button on the avatar detail view is disabled if it is shown via another user's "View avatar details" (QM) or "Avatar Details" (MM) button and if the user disables "Allow Avatar Cloning." Even in this case, it is possible to try the Avatar by finding the avatar from the Avatar Marketplace list (or hopping avatar using "More From This Creator": open other and go back to the one). So it is meaningless to refer to the cloning switch (I guess this is just a bug, but I comment just in case). (video: https://x.com/naqtn/status/1925471655956255155 )