Archive for April, 2007
April 23, 2007 at 1:46 pm · Filed under Site Terms · By Elizabeth
Although yesterday was the day the Dos and Don’ts went into effect, the Terms of Use have not been updated to match, as stated in this blog entry. (However, it does look like the FAQ’s have been changed - I don’t know if they’re final or not.)
In addition, once the TOU are updated, this clause therein:
We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Use at any time. If the alterations constitute a material change to the Terms of Use, we will notify you via internet mail according to the preference expressed on your account. What constitutes a “material change” will be determined at our sole discretion, in good faith and using common sense and reasonable judgement.
seems to indicate that email should be sent to all registered users of the site, since the D&D include fairly substantial policy changes.
However, Etsy has no plans to send emails regarding the changes to the TOU (whenever they show up) to anyone, other than the email that was sent to sellers two weeks ago about the D&D (with no links to anything, and no mention of the TOU).
April 23, 2007 at 10:45 am · Filed under Bugs, Site Use · By Elizabeth
No details.
April 22, 2007 at 11:16 pm · Filed under Bugs, Site Use · By Elizabeth
From the blog:
Fixing
We’re headed back to the datacenter at 4am at which time we hope to be fixing what’s wrong. We’re sorry and that’s all we can do right now and come 4am we’ll be back in there.
15 comments April 22nd, 2007
(Originally posted by Soap in the post below)
April 22, 2007 at 5:05 pm · Filed under Bugs, Site Use · By Elizabeth
As of 5:04 p.m. EDT.
EDIT:
Site Maintenance (Concluded)
*All done!*
It took a long time, but we’re back.
There were thousands of people waiting at the door, so the site’s acting a bit strangely. We’re investigating the issues now and will do our best to take care of them quickly.
EDIT: by Soap:
FYI - Any page starting with http://uploads.etsy.com/ won’t load - feedback, re-listing, listing, editing, leaving feedback, etc. I’m sure the guys are working on it.
I also edited the title from Elizabeth’s original “And… It’s Back!”
April 21, 2007 at 10:46 pm · Filed under Bugs, Site Use · By Elizabeth
Per the blog.
EDIT: (by Serena) According to the blog, site maintenance is now extended to 11:30am (see this in your time zone).
Update (10:35am): Okay, it’s taken *way* longer than anticipated. We’re finalizing things here and are working as quickly as we can to get the site back up soon. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. :[
EDIT: (by Elizabeth) According to the blog, site maintenance is now extended to 1 p.m. EDT:
Update ( 11:26am ): There are still a number of things left to reconfigure, so our next hope is to be done by 1pm. Believe us, we want to be done *even more* than you want us to be done.
EDIT: (by Elizabeth) According to the blog and Flaming Haim, site maintenance is now extended to 2 p.m. EDT:
Update ( 12:49pm ): Everything is just about ready to go, but we want to triple check everything before coming back online to make sure it’ll work as smoothly as possible. Blury vision is slowing us down, but your kind words in the comments are keeping us going. We wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t for you!
EDIT: (by Elizabeth) According to the blog, site maintenance is now extended to 3:30 p.m. EDT:
Update ( 1:49pm ): Murphy is giving us a thrashing today. All of the little things that we never have problems with are taking up hours of our time, delaying us more and more. Haim just spent an hour and a half straight debugging our image clustering software, which allows all of our servers to access the entire library of images stored on Etsy. Fortunately, he just worked it out, and let loose a shout that could be heard all over the entire data center. The end is in sight!
EDIT: (by Elizabeth) According to the blog, site maintenance is now extended to 4:30 p.m. EDT:
Update ( 3:31pm ): We’re still sorting out a few remaining issues with server-to-server connections, but all of the big ellusive riddles have been solved. Now we’re pushing through the grunt work.
April 21, 2007 at 2:42 pm · Filed under Site Terms · By Elizabeth
April 22 is D&D-Day! For more information on the new rules and implementation thereof, please see this blog post.
April 21, 2007 at 2:17 pm · Filed under Etsy Labs, Marketing, Seller Opportunities · By Elizabeth
Etsy will be choosing an artist each month to create press kits/gift packs. Extras will be sold in the Etsylabs shop. From this blog post:
Every month, we commission an Etsy seller to design custom kits. We send these kits out as Etsy handmade press packs, in promos, and as gifties for Etsy contest winners and the like. We make everything in limited edition here at the Labs and at the artist’s studio.
[snip]
We choose the Artist-of-the-Month based on what we see as their clear, unique style and ability to make a high quality product. The seller may be new to Etsy or relatively seasoned. We are just starting with this program, but we’re hoping to represent the many different types of art and craft on Etsy. So far, the response has been great.
April 21, 2007 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Bugs, Site Use · By Elizabeth
From this thread:
RevolvingDork says:
Hi all,
Me, Haim and Mike will be doing some heavy-duty maintenance at the datacenter tonight. We’ll be reorganizing our network and will be adding more image servers to alleviate the speed issues we’ve been experiencing. Unfortunately, it will require downtime this evening.
We can’t yet post a specific time for the outage, but we will update you as soon as we can. It will begin some time after 8 pm.
In the meantime, here are kittens: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&gbv=2&q=kittens
Posted at 12:41 pm, April 21 2007 EST
(Thanks for the heads-up, Maggie/littlegreycatdesigns!)
EDIT:
One of the street teams had a long-planned, well-promoted event scheduled for tonight (5 - 10 p.m.). In response to their pleas to postpone the maintenance, in this thread:
RevolvingDork says:
Unforutnately, we can’t make any changes to our schedule — this is the only time we can do this work, and we need to do it as soon as possible. There’s a possibility that it will take several hours, so starting it sooner rather than later is a priority for us. In any case, it will be a very long night.
Posted at 5:54 pm, April 21 2007 EST
EDIT: Looks like the Etsy Bead Team party is gonna be okay; according to Rokali in this thread:
Rokali says:
Yes we’ll keep the site up for as long as we can. It’s 9pm now here, and Chris, Haim, Mike and Jay are at the datacenter planning the upgrades. It’ll be at least another hour.
Posted at 9:01 pm, April 21 2007 EST
Also, regarding affected showcase spots, from
this thread:
RevolvingDork says:
If you have a showcase scheduled for the outage time, you can contact matt to work out a make up day.
Posted at 5:56 pm, April 21 2007 EST
April 21, 2007 at 1:06 pm · Filed under Features · By The Janitor
RevolvingDork says:
The time machine only updates sold items every hour — it’s not updated in realtime.
Posted at 12:33 pm, April 21 2007 EST
The Source.
April 20, 2007 at 2:25 pm · Filed under Copyright / Branding, Marketing, Site Terms · By The Janitor
Vanessa says:
I’ve been talking with Sarah, who works at Etsy in a lawyerly way, to figure out how to keep track of the use of our Trademark (logo and the name “Etsy”). There’s legal issue that we were unaware of, that Sarah told us about: if we just let anyone use the trademarked stuff without permission and without us keeping track, we could lose the right to our own trandemarked stuff! Which would be bad for all Etsians!
So, we’ve made a simple release form that gives you permission. Obviously, we are psyched to have Etsians promote Etsy and your shops. And we are in no way trying to pull a Cease and Desist thing here. And it’s not even about Etsians making a profit off of selling stuff with the Etsy logo. It’s just about protecting our customers from fraudulent, mean people who might use our logo in bad ways!
Rob wants this to go into effect with the Dos and Don’t on Sunday. At that point we’ll have the form you can download and send in to us. It will be available through the Dos and Don’ts and through the Downloads page of the Team section.
Posted at 3:24 pm, April 19 2007 EST
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