Reports have surfaced detailing a glitch, or bug, in the listing process. Line breaks placed between paragraphs in the listing description seem to disappear at the last step (step 5 or page 5), resulting in a condensed block of text. It has been discovered that if the user clicks the ‘Finish’ button and the listing is published, all text appears to be formatted as it should be. Read about it here and here.

While trying to provide an example of the condensed description, another somewhat more alarming bug was discovered. A seller provided a direct link (instead of a screenshot)  to the page containing the non-formatted listing description, as an example, and any user who clicked it ended up in that seller’s account. Access was limited to the one page being viewed (for example, clicking on ‘Currently For Sale’ in the left sidebar menu took me to MY current listings, not the other seller’s listings), but the fact that it could be accessed at all was cause for concern. The seller did end up with a duplicate listing of the item being listed. No word on whether that was caused by another user testing out the links and buttons, or by RD behind the scenes while he was investigating.

The security issue has been resolved. In the future, any direct links should lead to the brickwall graphic, accompanied by this textual warning “You’ve reached an error: You don’t have permission to change or remove this information. Go back” Thanks RD for the super-quick response!

The line-break issue is still under investigation.

RevolvingDork says:

There was an issue that allowed that final listing creation step to be viewed if the direct URL was given, but it’s now been corrected and is no longer possible.

Back onto the issue at hand, we’re checking out the spacing on step 5 and hope to have that solved soon…

Posted at 10:18 pm, June 17 2008 EST

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5670311&page=9

UPDATE by GreenMamba 6-18-08
The line-break issue has been resolved.

RevolvingDork says:

Thanks for your help in tracking this one down — it should be fixed up now!

Posted at 10:39 am, June 18 2008 EST

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5670311&page=10