In order to keep all you readers up to speed on what’s going on at Etsy, I’ve compiled a very short list of recent smaller changes or little-known facts.
- The Storque is now referred, and linked to, as ‘Blog’ instead of ‘News’ in the grey top navigation bar that appears on each Etsy page.
- You can find minutes for many Virtual Lab Meetings at this URL: http://team.etsy.com/chatt.html
- Links to Etsy Teams or other Etsy shops are now live, clickable links in your shop announcement. Tip: it must be a complete URL, beginning with http://. UPDATE 6.09.08 by GM - On-site Etsy links are ‘live’ in all public areas/pages of your shop, provided they are complete URLs and are both preceded and followed by a space.
- You can sign up for a variety of Etsy mailings here. Choices include News, Finds, Teams, Success, and Labs. UPDATE 6.09.08 by GM - There is a new ‘Sign up for Etsy Emails’ link at the top of the main forum page, below ‘View topics you’ve posted in’ and ‘Visit The Storque for Etsy News’.
- Looking for more exposure for your listings? Try GoogleBase. Not an Etsy feature, but a way to put your Etsy shop RSS feed to work for you. Dingo, Etsy member extraordinaire, covers the basics - complete with tutorial - in this thread.
Know of anything you think should be added to this list? Send us a tip!
edit by JB:
Another small but useful change is that in the chat lobby, where the various chatrooms are listed, the avatars of who is in each room no longer overlap the room title. The avatars used to completely obscure the title when a room is full, but now the avatars are on a separate line.


June 6th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
you also have to include a space before the url, and a space after. Even if the url is on it’s own line, it won’t convert to clickable without a space.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Thanks for the additional tip, JB. I missed that one.
June 7th, 2008 at 3:36 am
The clickable links is a good change! Makes it much easier to link to other Etsy shops.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:50 am
hmmm my second shop name doesn’t have http or www in from of it and it is a link now and I am pretty sure there is no space in from of it either. I was surprised to find out that it was a link!