In a thread about Treasury bugs, Jared/Etsy Admin/Programmer replies:
jared says:
“unable to connect please try again later” means you are behind a firewall. Talk to your system administrator to allow communication across port 9100. Perhaps you are trying to connect at school or work?“takes forever to load (several minutes, not just one or two)” a very slow Treasury is the result a slow or poor connection between your computer and our servers. This can happen anywhere along the path. If you’re on wireless, try switching to ethernet. If you’re on dial-up, consider upgrading to high-speed.
Despite several rewrites and optimizations, the Treasury requires considerably high technical specifications. Not all computers are cut out for the job. Thank you.
Posted at 11:55 am, April 26 2007 EST
April 26th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
1) The Treasury didn’t use to have this many problems; I’m not sure I believe the explanation given addresses all the possible causes. It seems to be a scaling problem to me, but I’m not a programmer.
2) I’ve always felt (and said) it was unwise that so much of the site depends on the shopper having a state-of-the-art system.
April 26th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I have a pretty fast/powerful computer and am on broadband, but the treasury completely crashed my browser a couple times recently. (firefox) I don’t know if this is new, though, because I didn’t go into the treasury that much before.
The treasury isn’t something you need to use etsy though, you can buy and sell just fine without ever using the treasury. I think they try to make the core features work with all systems and the extras are the things that only work on state-of-the-art systems.