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Browsing Daz store, and lack of filters

sewerynmajdasewerynmajda Posts: 33
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Daz store filters are very limited compared to other digital stores. As a relative newcomer, finding stuff is incredibly time-consuming. I can't exclude bundles. I can't set a minimum or maximum price. I can't hide products from PAs I have no interest in, or highlight my favourite ones. Not to mention stuff like dForce vs non-dForce clothing or hair.

This is even more evident in special sales. For example, the Doors to Madness sale has almost 7 thousand products, and the only valuable sorting options are figure, popularity, and genre. There are no categories or subcategories, so if I'm interested in only environments I have to comb through hundreds of clothes and poses.

Does Daz plan to expand filter options in the future? And what do the veterans here think? Does it get easier as your library grows?

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  • Lucky13guyLucky13guy Posts: 92

    @sewerynmajda, I'm with you. I've been using Daz since 2022, and that has always been one of my biggest pet peeves. I've spent many HOURS at a time sifting through sale items to find the best deals, but not everyone has as much free time on their hands as I do. Lol.

  • TesseractSpaceTesseractSpace Posts: 1,582

    If the store didn't suffer horrendous bugs with almost every alteration I'd be more in favor of making better search and filter options. As it is, I'd rather the store be usable if difficult than simplified but broken.

  • NetherFalconNetherFalcon Posts: 885

    I'm all for more filters, but I doubt they'll implement any changes.  The scrolling tends to lead to more spending, which is what any company would want.

  • Cam FoxCam Fox Posts: 390

    Sort by popular or trending, then rapidly scroll through pages. If you see something you like in the search results, open it in a new tab (so the original tab maintains your search), then click the artist's name in the new tab to see everything they offer. Many artists specialize in one thing (critters, clothing, environments, etc) so you can quickly discover their whole catalog. It's possible to overlook less prolific artists this way, but helps consolidate items by kind to avoid trying to consume tens or hundreds of pages of randomized offerings.

    Alternatively you can browse the sale using Artist filter category and toggling names on and off, one by one, or by using the tiles on the sale page to filter artist-by-artist.

    When I was newer to the shop, I also kept categorized bookmarks of artists to help me remember who made what.

    In my experience, the daz shop filters are incomplete and omit many items. Animals, custom figures, environments, props, tutorials for example are hard to isolate in the sale search. A useful filter is Software > Daz Studio 4xx, which eliminates poser-only and carrara-only content. Afaik there's no way to exclude excessively prolific things like the VERSUS texture sets (600ish items and always expanding) when shopping for clothing, and no reliable way to exclude specific artists/types of content but keep the rest.

    Interestingly, if you browse the Shop by going directly to the Shop link, you might see a way more granular filters breakdown which doesn't appear in sale searches (see attached). No idea why!

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    365 x 845 - 34K
  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    sewerynmajda said:

    Does Daz plan to expand filter options in the future? And what do the veterans here think? Does it get easier as your library grows?

    Shopping here for about seven years and there has been no real improvement on the filters or the shop in my opinion. And if you don't buy as fast as new items are published, the chances to keep up with the chaos will be slim

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