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December 4, 2008 at 7:49 pm · Filed under Categories, Search · By JB
Etsy has changed the pagination display in search results and categories.
For an example see here
the page numbers are now displayed as
173980 items 1 2 3 4 5 …
The old system would show the number of the last page too, like this
173980 items 1 2 3 4 5 … 8285
Now there is no link to the last page and no way to quickly jump to the last page. The ellipses are not clickable. You have to page forward one at a time using the arrows, or use the jump button (without knowing what is the max number you can type in).
Admin replied in this forum thread
stellaloella says:
This is a new, small change we just made. Etsians are so observant, we can’t slip anything by unnoticed. ;)
As I mentioned in another thread moments ago, this pagination change was made primarily for the the search results & categories pages. We will try to get the Your Etsy view tweaked to show a quick link to the last page for easier shop management.
Etsy’s reason for this change is explained by Stellaloella
stellaloella says:
There’s sort of a psychology of online shopping to this change. Our usability testing revealed that casual shoppers can get overwhelmed by seeing there are so many pages of results. The thought kind of is, “I have to look through 500+ pages of scarves? Oh my!” So showing just a few pages at a time makes the browsing experience feel more manageable (even if the total number of results is still up there).
Posted at 4:49 pm, December 4 2008 EST -
Another side effect of this change will be that sellers will have to renew more often to constantly stay in those first 5 pages of results, which is all a buyer will know exists.
Originally the new pagination system was also applied to alchemy, favorites, pages within our shops, but users complained and Etsy changed it back, just for those areas. (not for search and categories)
In this forum thread Marymary says
marymary says:
Hey guys!
So glad you noticed, and yes with your positive feedback throughout the day we have added a final page back to Your Etsy pages, Alchemy pages, Shop home, and Favorites.
UPDATE: December 9, 2008 — Search result pagination will be restored to its original form
September 30, 2008 at 6:13 pm · Filed under Categories · By Deja Vu
On October 6, 2008, at 6 PM Eastern U.S. time, a new top level Category will be launched for Dolls and Miniatures. See this thread from HeyMichelle for complete details and commenting, including a request for feedback and ideas about sub and sub-subcategories. The corresponding Storque article gives details to sellers about how to add items to this category. They have also advised that they will be creating a Category Showcase for Dolls and Miniatures which will launch at a later date (not on October 6).
This has been a long time coming, and there must be some happy DAM sellers today.
September 25, 2008 at 12:23 pm · Filed under Categories, Listings, Search · By GreenMamba
In this Storque article, admin stellaloella follows up on Etsy CTO Chad Dickerson’s Honest Beginning article, speaking frankly about the current state of Etsy’s search feature and the lag time in batch loading to category pages.
Excerpt:
Last week Etsy’s new CTO, Chad Dickerson wrote an honest account of some of the technical challenges Etsy.com is currently facing, specifically in reference to the search function. In that article, Chad mentioned some new hardware and “other tweaks” to improve things. Many of you may be curious about what we’re working on, how it’s helping and how it will impact your ability to shop and sell on Etsy. So let’s get right into the nitty gritty …
New Hardware
Without getting into too many technical details, last week we added some new hardware with the goal of improving speed. We’re happy to say so far it’s helped, and some of our slowest queries more than doubled in speed. This is a great improvement, but still below our internal goals — which means there is more work ahead. The Engineers are continuing to monitor search speeds and page load times.
The article goes on to address the following topics:
Simple Searches Redirect to Categories
Limited Number of Search Terms (or “My nots are not working!”)
Batch Loading in Search and Categories
What Does This Mean For Sellers? (or “How will shoppers find my items?”)
Excerpt:
Looking Ahead
Chad and the Engineering Team are working on longer-term solutions to our current search issues. We don’t want to disrupt site performance during the holiday shopping season, so in the meantime, the above measures are aimed at the goal of ensuring people can find and purchase the many incredible items available on Etsy.
We’ve closed commenting on this article. If you would like to comment, please join the discussion in this Forum thread.
September 3, 2008 at 8:45 pm · Filed under Categories, Forums, Miscellaneous · By GreenMamba
A plea from a frustrated polymer clay artist brought a lightning fast admin response and resulted in a new sub-subcategory under Supplies. See this thread for details.
Editorial comment follows:
I’m going to take this opportunity to ‘call out’ admin HeyMichelle. She entered the fora this evening and has been super-busy answering questions and moving relevant threads into Ideas from other sections, to give them the exposure they deserve.
So, !Kudos Michelle! for a job very, very well done! Your efforts have not gone unnoticed and are much appreciated!
June 23, 2008 at 3:37 pm · Filed under Categories, Listings, Search · By GreenMamba
As detailed in this Storque article, Etsy delivers on its promise to give a one-time listing extension, of four full months, to eligible vintage and commercial suppy listings. This offer was made to compensate sellers of these items for changes to the default search feature which separate their listings from the pool of handmade items.
Excerpt:
Dear Etsians,
Back in February when Etsy announced upcoming changes to the way search would work, we made a promise to our Vintage and Commercial Supply sellers that we would extend the life of their item listings by four months, for free.
The search changes took effect May 5, and we are now ready to honor our promise. We intend to start rolling out the additional four months beginning on June 30, 2008.
The four month free extension will apply only to Vintage and Commercial Supplies sellers.
Here’s the Plan for the Four Month Extension:
- Only properly tagged listings will get the four month extension, so this is a great opportunity to make sure your Vintage and Commercial Supplies items are properly categorized. In other words, make sure the top tag is “Vintage” or “Supplies.” In the case of Supplies, items should also be tagged with “Commercial.”
- On Thursday June 30, Etsy will capture a snapshot of all Vintage and Commercial Supplies listings on the site.
- Immediately thereafter, we will begin rolling out a free four month extension on all of these listings.
- The rollout will take approximately 30-45 days from June 30.
- We will keep you updated on the progress and will announce when the process is complete.
- After the process is completed, if you have any questions or concerns about specific listings, contact support@etsy.com. Please include the following words in the subject of your email: “4 month extension.” This will help us target your questions and get back to you more quickly.
Please see the article for a list of FAQs regarding this extension plan.
Also follow the announcement thread here.
June 6, 2008 at 6:37 pm · Filed under Categories · By GreenMamba
Prompted by Etsy artists’ ongoing - and long-standing - questions, comments and suggestions about how best to tag their listings, Etsy hosted a Treehouse Chatt With Matt this morning (Friday, 6 June 2008) to begin addressing their concerns. Minutes can be found here.
Pursuant to the coming changes and clarifications to the top level Art Category, which will include new sub-categories, Etsy admin HeyMichelle has been seeking input on a variety of specific areas.
HeyMichelle says here (excerpt):
Hi there everyone! We just had a meeting in the Virtual Labs with the Artists of Etsy (those who are listing work in the Art Category). What a great meeting! Now, it’s time to get more feedback on some things we discussed, so I’ll be posting a few more threads today.
Posted at 1:54 pm, June 6 2008 EST
Visit these threads to join in the discussions:
The Art category- let’s talk about it
The Art Category- digital art!
Printmaking has been added as a subcategory under Art
Art Category: originals
May 22, 2008 at 3:08 pm · Filed under Categories · By JB
On Thursday, May 29 at 4PMish Eastern U.S. time, Etsy will be adding Collectibles as a top-level category.
The Collectibles category is for handmade items, and is intended to include dolls and doll accoutrements, figurines, miniatures, plush animals, and other “toys” for adult collectors. As well, some items of non-functional home decoration, such as ornaments, or a tole-painted teakettle that is for decoration only, will fit into this category.
source: this Storque article
Discuss the new category in this forum thread.
UPDATE:
The Collectibles category has been withdrawn for reconsideration.
May 5, 2008 at 4:43 pm · Filed under Categories, Features, Search · By GreenMamba
This Storque article briefly outlines the changes.
Today, we launched some exciting changes to Etsy’s search engine. These changes were requested by the community and we think they help improve the shopping experience on Etsy.
We’ve separated item search into three new searches: Handmade, Vintage, and Supplies. The default is Handmade, with Vintage and Supplies available in the drop-down. You can also select “All items” to search Handmade, Supplies, and Vintage all at once.
Consequently, it is critical that sellers categorize and tag their items correctly in order to place them within the proper search. Last week, we posted some information that will help you with that process. You can read the initial heads up here — Tech Updates: Upcoming Changes to Search and Categories — and its companion, follow-up article here — Upcoming Changes to Search: Your Questions Answered.
Just to clarify, category bleed is addressed when searching via specific top-level categories, rather than via the search bar at the top of each page. The drop-down menu does default to handmade, and includes the other search options, both new and old, but searches the entire database, not within specific categories.
HeyMichelle says here:
I mean- the “no bleed” is for categories. By categories, I mean the category browser. Search does not search just within that category…
If you would like to search *just* the art category, type in your additional search terms from the Art category, a subcategory, or subsubcategory from the Categories pages.
There are numerous threads following this change, in several forum sections. There is also some speculation that the change has affected the ability to list new items in at least some categories. See this thread in Bugs.
update by JB:
The bug linked above appears to be resolved and was not a true bug, but a problem on one user’s computer.
April 29, 2008 at 8:39 pm · Filed under Categories, Search · By quirke
This Storque article answers some of the most frequently asked questions regarding the upcoming changes to search and categories.
The discussion is still continuing in the related forum thread here.
April 28, 2008 at 12:09 pm · Filed under Categories, Search · By quirke
In this Storque article, Marymary describes the long-anticipated separation of vintage and supplies from handmade items in the Etsy search function, as well as other important changes to categories and search. An excerpt from the article:
Hello Etsians!
On Monday, May 5, 2008, some important and exciting changes are happening with searching and categories. These changes are in response to feedback from all around the Etsy community, and were first introduced back in February with Rob’s Focus on Handmade Storque article. Here’s a rundown of what is to come:
We’ll be separating item search into three new searches: Handmade, Vintage, and Supplies.
Handmade Items – This is the default search. This searches all items on Etsy that are not tagged with “commercial” and do not have “vintage” as the first tag. Handmade supplies will still appear in this search. You can search tags and titles or tags, titles, and descriptions.
Supplies – This will search all of the supplies on Etsy, both handmade and commercial. Any item tagged “supplies” will show up in the results.
Vintage – This special vintage search returns only items within the Vintage category. This means items with vintage as their first tag (selected from the dropdown menu in the listing process).
The existing search will also remain available. Just select “All items” from the search bar to search handmade, supplies, and vintage all at once.
We’ll also be making changes to the category browser. Currently a top-level category such as Jewelry shows only items within the Jewelry category. The subcategories and sub-subcategories contain any items that have the tag “jewelry,” but are not necessarily in the Jewelry category. We call this “category bleed.”
The changes on May 5 will eliminate category bleed. All subcategories will only show items from within that category. Meaning the subcategories of “jewelry” will no longer pull up jewelry supplies.
The Patterns category is also gearing up for change, although this will not be part of the May 5 update. In order to help keep things organized, Patterns will be moving into the supplies category. A new drop-down will appear in the listing process for Patterns, prompting you to select handmade (if it’s your own pattern) or commercial (if it’s someone else’s pattern)
There is an accompanying forum thread here.
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