http://etsynews.com Unofficial news for Etsy's buyers and sellers. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:17:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's the official Storque announcement: Dear Etsians, Etsy will be conducting site maintenance at 2am EDT (e.g. early Friday morning eastern time U.S.), July 25, 2008. We are not anticipating any issues — in fact, we hope you will not notice the change at all — but we want to give members a ... http://etsynews.com/719/fyi-scheduled-maintenance-friday-july-25-2am-edt/ marymary has started a Forum thread to discuss the Storque article on Rob Kalin's changing role at the company, changing titles, and the hiring of a new Chief Technology Officer. Dear Etsians, Here are a couple important news items, one from Rob and one from Maria. From Rob: I am happy to announce that, ... http://etsynews.com/718/new-roles-at-etsy-inc/ Although there's no official announcement in either the Etsy fora or the Storque, members have verified that the e-mail auto-reply system is finally up and running. Now, when members attempt to reply to a convo through the duplicate e-mail, they will get a warning message via immediate auto-reply. Thanks go out to ... http://etsynews.com/717/e-mail-auto-reply-now-in-effect/ Admin marymary announces, in this thread, a terrific new addition to all Etsy 'Sold Item' pages. marymary says: Dear Sellers, We're happy to announce a new feature on Etsy: your sold listing pages will now show available related items from your shop. This means whenever shoppers come across one of your sold items, they'll see ... http://etsynews.com/716/new-in-sold-listings-three-currently-available-shop-items-also-featured/ According this this post by Etsy: daniellexo says: Hi Guys! We're upgrading servers this week so there may be some quirks with the virtual labs. Hang in there! ~Danielle Posted at 2:33 pm, July 15 2008 EST http://etsynews.com/715/etsy-is-upgrading-servers-this-week-may-cause-some-glitches/ In this thread, admin EmilyBidwell addresses reported issues with Etsy checkout. Some users are getting error messages from PayPal, which prevent completion of purchases in the Etsy cart. emilybidwell says: RE: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5695780 Hi Everyone, Thank you so much for your patience! We have been meeting with PayPal to find out why certain customers are ... http://etsynews.com/714/bug-alert-checkout-issue-paypal-error-messages/ In this Etsy forum thread admin marymary introduces the latest new feature. marymary says: We are pleased to announce the addition of an Invite a Friend feature to Etsy. Registered Etsy members can now send an email to a friend or contact, inviting them to check out Etsy. Eventually, this new feature ... http://etsynews.com/713/new-feature-invite-a-friend/ Fromt this Storque article: Dear Sellers, You asked for it, and now it's here!  We've just integrated the step of placing an item in your shop sections into the listing process.  No more annoying extra step after you are finished, and no more forgetting once an item is listed.   Here's a screen ... http://etsynews.com/712/new-sort-items-into-sections-during-listing-process/ Etsy founder Rob Kalin and new Etsy COO Maria Thomas have posted the following article on The Storque. (The first part is by Rob, the second part by Maria.) Hello out there, Etsy just turned three, and we're at a turning point. Some people reading this have been part of our community ... http://etsynews.com/710/the-long-view-rob-and-maria/ Etsy has gotten rid of the old "brick wall" graphic that you used to see when trying to access deleted shops or accounts that never existed. The new error page has links to continue shopping. This improves the navigability of the site and is much more buyer-friendly than the old ... http://etsynews.com/708/etsy-replaces-brick-wall-for-deleted-accounts/