The existing Poser marketplaces seem to have trouble finding enough Poser-using content shoppers already, these days. More content options can only be a good thing, but it sort of looks from here (with my admittedly limited observation of the matter) like another marketplace could easily find itself struggling.

My understanding is that Poser itself has an adequate user base and is not in crisis. Poser content marketplaces are having difficulties, but that's not the same as Poser itself. As far as the actual number of Poser users goes, only Smith Micro could address that question, and they've never jumped in with answers when that question has come up previously on the forums.

My current assumption is that the Poser users who formerly bought the most content have been drawn away to D|S in large numbers. Those of us who remain with Poser don't shop for stuff as much or as often as the users who have quit Poser to favor Daz. Poser has been making it easier for us to build our own new content and to convert older content for use with more figures, cutting down on the need to buy content. That's just me, guessing about stuff, though.

Your second question sounds like you're maybe proposing a new way of doing something or other, but I'm not sure what that is...?

Speaking for myself, I primarily use the community-built, free and open-source Antonia figure, for which I create my own content. I'm a longtime, fairly skilled, fairly heavy Poser user, but I rarely buy content. Being a Poser user isn't really the same thing as being a Poser content shopper.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.