RevolvingDork says:
Hey all,At noon today we opened up showcase sales for the next month. Because of the number of people signing up for the showcase at the same time, it brought the site to a crawl and may have caused some pages to time out completely.
This should be cleared up within the hour as the spots are all taken.
We recognize that site stability is more important than showcase sales, so we are now making plans to move the showcase to its own database so this won’t happen again.
We apologize for any inconvenience this slowdown has caused.
Posted at 12:35 pm, August 15 2007 EST
They are moving Showcase to its own database. Chris read our minds!
If Showcase dates were not charged to your Etsy bill earlier, check again! It should be there now, as per Chris in this thread.
For people having other issues regarding Showcase (for example: charged for 2 spots on the same day), Chris has rectified issues through this thread. You may try posting in there to get his attention.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Thanks, that explains a lot.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
That makes sense, giving it its own database. Thanks!
August 15th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I only bought one spot but it says I bought 2 spots. It wouldn’t allow me to buy a 2nd. Argh!
August 15th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Starry,
Do you have a future Showcase day you signed up for in the last round? If so, it may be counting as “1.”
I wish they’d stop messing with billing. Fees should not be randomly appearin/not appearing/disappearing. Fee incurred -> charge. Leave charge there.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Nope. Apparantly I bought 2 spots on the same day. But it is all fixed now.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Looks like there’s 39 people in the Showcase today.
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5194692
saggitariusgallery:
There are actually *39* people in the showcase today - every time it gets opened, refreshed, whatever, you will see, if you look closely, that 3 end up popping up behind the rest at the bottom. Reason I realized this was because the first time I went to see how mine looked *I* ended up being one of those poor three in the background.
Ick. This whole showcase thing between the site being down for an hour during a peek time yesterday, confusion over billing and who had what showcase and how many, and now this is? I really hope it’s fixed.
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