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Tech Update: Dolls and Miniatures Category Coming Soon!

UPDATE: Sellers, please start adding your items to the new category at 6pm ET! For your reference, we have made a PDF with all the sub-categories and sub-sub-categories. You can download the PDF file here.[the following was originally posted on 9/30/08]We're happy to announce that on Monday, October 6, 2008, at 6 …

Tech Update: Holiday Gift Guides Launch!

The holiday shopping season is upon us, and with that in mind we've added a brand spankin' new Holiday section to the Gift Guides. Do the right thing and support indie artists this holiday season! The Holiday section of the Gift Guides will include the following exciting categories to shop from:  …

Etsy Alert: Scheduled Storque Maintenance

On October 7, 2008, Tuesday morning at 1:00am ET, the Storque database will be going down for five minutes of necessary maintenance. This should be just enough time for you to make a cup of tea (or for those of you in Australia, have an afternoon beer), listen to a favorite song, or read a short magazine article …

Tech Update: Tweaks to the Storque

Dear Readers, (sound of airhorn)Did the new Storque reach out and bite ya? Have you noticed? We've made some tweaks to the Storque's layout: The homepage of the Storque now defaults to the "all articles" lay-out. Many of you wanted a more blog-like layout in order to see the most recent posts at a glance. This will …

Community & Tech Updates: Updated Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us at Etsy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store and distribute the personal information you share with us while you use the site. In an effort to make the Privacy Policy easier to understand and more user-friendly, we have made a few revisions. We have also …

Tech Update: More Info on Search & Categories

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 …

Tech Update: Vacation Mode for Sellers now live!

We're thrilled to announce today that we've just launched two new helpful tools for Etsy sellers to manage their shops: Vacation Mode and Batch Deactivate. These features provide different solutions for sellers to quickly and temporarily "close" a shop or make certain items inactive when they will be …

Etsy News Alert: Necessary Site Maintenance for Conversations

UPDATE: Maintenance is now complete!  Thank you for  hanging in there!The following was originally published on September 19, 2008:We will be performing necessary site maintenance to the Conversations feature on Etsy this weekend.The maintenance will take place from 7pm Sunday, September 21 to early …

Tech Update: An Honest Beginning for Etsy's New CTO

Chad Dickerson joined the Etsy team on September 2, 2008 as our first CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Below Chad shares his personal account of his first two weeks at Etsy as well as some important information about the site, search functionality, and looking to the future.Welcome to Etsy ... Now Get to Work!I …

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