vaivanat

Uuuhuuuu!!!

WoollyWonka

Thanks!

TheSilverDog

Excellent Etsy!

OnePunkPosy

So 173,000+ shops with at least one item listed? Cool.

clevergirl

Sweet! Thanks!

sherrytruitt

This is so great, thanks!

CloudCatDesigns

I love the way you guys are constantly making improvements to make Etsy better. Thank you!

FancifulForm

Great idea!

moonofglass

How does this affect shops that are in vacation mode? Will they not be in the directory?

worksofwhimsy

Great idea, thanks!

t17b17

Sounds great, I'm interested in the answer to the vacation mode question above though....

GemmaBeads

Love that Etsy is always working on improvements and more tools. Fabulous!

StudioYTE

That's really a wonderful change, thanks!

emmaray

Any way to make it easier to search for shop name, period? If you're not familiar to etsy and don't know to leave out spaces in the seller search bar, you won't find the shop you're looking for.

jelvehdesigns

cool, great idea...keep up the good work etsy...
jelveh
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PenelopeAndAnastasia

Emmaray...I've had the same complaint from some of my local clients regarding the spaces in our shop name when searching...

odiliafu

Sounds great!! Thanks!

ModernMeetsWhimsy

MUCH BETTER!

slinkymalinkicat

Thank you!!

bubbletime

This is really cool, thank you!

voleurdebijoux

awesome!! thank you!! :)

RubyBeets

Excellent! Thank you!

EJPcreations

gOOD jOB!

ScottieinaCanoe

So Cool!! Thank you :)

novadesigns

yay!!!

pawandclawdesigns

So, how does this work for shops in Vacation mode?

are inactive items considered "stock" or not?

livefunky

Excellent! This will surely make the buying experience easier and more user friendly for buyers. Thanks again Etsy!

twolefthands

Yahoo!

ShesFancy

This is good news. Thank you very much!

tinahdee

Great update and thanks so much. :)

lucybluestudio

That is great change. I'm also interested in the vacation mode question...

Midnightcreations

I like this switch too, wonder how it would work with shops with shops that have only 5 or 10 listings??? Just a thought.

TaylorMarie

So we still have to relist to stay on top. Unless a new user to Etsy knows to click on the tabs at the top to search alphabetically...

vivilian

very cute ~ I love the stuff

redyellowandblueink

color me embarrassed. I didn't even know about this page. and even from the direct links in this Storque article I had to struggle a bit to find it. There are so many nooks and crannies to Etsy, just when I think I have found them all......oh, look, there's more.

IceCreamCandy

great change:) nice work etsy!!

fineartstoneware

Thanks for the info!

jorgensenstudio

very good idea!

walkonthemoon

this is great! nice improvement :)

BeadsInTheBelfry

pawandclaw - looks like vacation mode shops don't show up. I'm currently in vacation mode and I did a search using terms that should bring me up and I wasn't there.

BeadsInTheBelfry

oops! seconds late. hee hee

cachecache

Awesome! Thanks cool Etsy dudes! It was so frustrating to sift through page after page of empty shops.

andrewsreclaimed

Thank you etsy we love you!!!

topsyturvydesign

How wonderful!

Softpencil

It´s a good idea!

truLuxe

Off to check it out!!!!

treasurehuntvintage

Very Nice!!! :~)

zombuki

Makes sense to me!

HelloVictory

Great idea! Appreciate it!

greenchairpress

I'm confused. Pages 7273-8700 are blank. You still seem to be counting all sellers but not *displaying* the empty shops. Doesn't that mean that there are about 145,440 sellers with items in their shops (not ~174,000 or 20 * 8700).

boodlesofbeads

Impressed!! Thanks Etsy!!

Waterrose

Wonderful....so much less to weed through for the buyers.

ManoCelebrates

thanks great idea, lets see how it works

eclipse

I like it but now there is no way to see the total number of seller accounts on Etsy. I'd like if there was a toggle or something- see all shops vs. see stocked shops (which could be the default)

PipingHotPapers

Going to check it out now!!

LaCometaLab

Thank you, thank you! I love to hear about these type of improvements to the site and shopping experience!

crochetgal

Thanks for the change. But it would still be nice to be able to find out how many seller accounts there are..even if their shops are not stocked.

thestapeliacompany

I puffy heart you Etsy Admin! :)

Kyliebugs

Fabulous! Thank You!

pawandclawdesigns

Thanks, Beth

fifthquadrant

makes sense....I like discovering shops that way

AutumnLeavesJewelry

wowzer, i just renewed about 5 mins ago, and I was on page 24...like 3 mins later, it moves fast??? :P

loopyboopy

I seem to be the only one who may think this way..but I dont' really see this as a relevant way for buyers to shop and it's just another link to clutter up the buy page.

Most shop names are irrelevant to the items listed..so why would anyone shop this way??

Honestly it just seems like another angle to get our money as it appears the shops listed on the first pages are the ones that are renewing.

Honestly what am I missing here. Who would use this feature??

loopyboopy

Ohhh I see you can change the list to alphabetical order (though there is no direction on how to do this I just had to figure it for myself) I guess that might help in finding a shop you only think you know the name of.

I also forsee lots of shops named 0000000000aaron:)

StudioCherie

I like this list and I would also like to be able to sort a list like this according to category. So I can see a list of all of the active vintage sellers or jewelry sellers or soap sellers. Then it would be more useful to me. This way it's a little random.

esdesigns

It would be really great if we could do a search on that page, narrow it down by letter of the alphabet, category, or some part of the username. I think some people don't notice the pull down menu search for usernames because it's just a menu option & might click on sellers expecting to be able to search for a seller there. But this is definitely an improvement, thanks!

eclipse

I have items in many several categories though, StudioCherie. Where would they put me?

CutieDynamite

Cool!

sandisparkles

I like the idea of another way to find our shops, but scrolling thru the names/recent postings there seems to be the same shops over and over. Am I doing something wrong?

uknowuneedanother

I noticed the same thing. Wouldn't it be better to give each shop a single slot? Or is the formatting doing double duty to spur renewing since it goes in a chronological order?

esque

How about a Shop Local search for specific products? Thanks for the updates!

pinknwhimsy

Thanks so much!

hoganfe

Thank you!

circ

Yeah! This is a great idea, one I was thinking of recently. It would be really great if they were further divided into general category of shop(jewelry, purses, beauty, etc...)!

stephaniek

Thanks for the update!

It seems there are many blank pages at the end of the list. If you click back to the last page and work your way backward, many of the pages are blank. It appears the blanks start somewhere between pages 7200 and 7300. Will these later be filtered out later?

Iammie

Thanks.

loopyboopy

To me it seems like just another random way to shop. There are plenty of random ways to shop on Etsy. I think a means to shop more specifically could be helpful.

artsyclay

this is great! thanks!

asundrynotion

Checking it out! Thanks.

raegunfabric

oh that's really nice thanks but loopyboopy has a good point

BayMoonDesign

I appreciate all the help we can get in selling. I personally am not selling anything other than to my daughter. It is frustrating.

I have to agree with loopyboop on all points. I also agree that most people don't know about the spaces being left out in the names. That really complicates searching.

PrettyFaces

I just checked it out. It's amazing to see how many stores are updating their sites when you page though the sellers.

Also - I love the silhouette picture with this article:-)

LoveMeKnotCreations

sweet, thanks!
Also, (not that its a huge deal), but when I try to sort the Shops w/ Items by how many items (default is highest # to lowest), and I click on the last page it gives you (8,792 page) it is empty. and its empty until page 7285.
1500+ pages of emptiness seems like a waste of space, maybe getting rid of those empty pages might help speed up the site?

I don't know. Just something I noticed.

AkumuInk

good job etsy :)

LexyArt

I like the idea of being able to list the active shops by alphabetical order, but is there anyway you can click through to say, shops starting "M", without having to just punch in a page number in your address bar to guess where the M's might start?

ToxicInk

Awesome!

TheCrimsonCrow

yeay

FancyThatCookies

cool

craftsfromtheheart

how does one get to be the first few listings? iS IT by relisting, renewing, changing something in shop?

craftsfromtheheart

shouldn't there be an alphabet choice for buyers to click like A B C ....

Giftbearer

I was just thinking about that. I notice they're not in alphabetical order. Is that coming?

lavalleygirly

That's GREAT!! Oh and I would like to see the a b c thing for clicking...I'm not s good guesser!

jenglo

Woo! Great idea. This will also inspire us to keep our shops stocked...it's great for everyone! Thank you!

uknowuneedanother

The list is in CHRONOLOGICAL order, let the renewing and batch loading begin. Too many flaws to be exploited. It could be feasible if there were lists to correspond to the catagories within the site.

Based upon appearance, to be within the first pages, either a newly listed item or renewing, will help position.

ArtFromTheHeartBySue

Thanks for the info!!!

summerground

Awesome! Thanks.

RockisSupplies

Wonderful news - thank you!

diymaterial

Havn't seen these before

PhineasandLou

This is great! You guys are always so busy making a great thing greater :)

Much appreciated.

DuBuhDuDesigns

My work tends to sell out whenever I have a shop update..might be nice to feature shops that like somehow..I still would like future customers to find my shop.

DuBuhDuDesigns

*like that

rokstudy

Thanks for making search easier.

beyondthelens

Thanks for all of the feedback.

strawberryluna

This is a great update, thank you!

bayberryfolkart

Can use all the help I can get... Thanks

freeforged

I'm cool with that =)

SomewhatHip

You know what I think would make this better? Is if the moment someone entered the sellers page that the entries became static in order for that IP. Shop updates happen so quickly that as soon as I've quickly scrolled through a page and clicked to go to the next, half of the next page is already shops I just saw on the "previous" page! I can only imagine how frustrating it would be as a buyer who stopped into a shop and then had to advance 10 pages to get back to where they left off!

littlemoandfriends

i agree with loopy and other comments above, it's quite disturbing to imagine someone sitting infront of the computer scrolling through 7000 shop lists this way!

It would be cool to find sellers in product categories or find them in alphabets.

Anyway all this just means everyone is going to try and renew as much as they can to stay on top of the list:)

BizzieLizzie

Hip Hip Hooray!

AmorDePlata

Great!

TheRoyalDetails

Great idea, thanks!

SelenaEon

now if only etsy could change search parameters... it's so frustrating to have potential clients remember my last name-- and search for me on etsy but i don't come up on the search because Eon is the last part of my etsy name! any plans to fix this?

ACLOSETOFTREASURES

thanks for all you do!!

weeefairy

It would be an awesome feature if you could search sellers subtitles. for example if I want to find a seller selling DIY alternative clothing or something, many sellers actually have this in their subtitles, but barely any in their name, and I could search for that in the regular search bar but some sellers may not have anything up at that moment with those search terms while they normally do sell it.

angelstuff

Interesting idea... too bad that vacationing shops don't show up. It seems like etsy is treating shops in vacation mode as being closed... but I think that there's a difference between being closed permanently or for the foreseeable future and being closed temporarily (ie in vacation mode). Too bad vacation mode isn't everything we need... but that's another comment.

Why must the default for everything on this site be the latest updated? Can't we have alphabetical instead? The only time people use a feature like this is to find a seller... and a non-alphabetical search doesn't help them do this. Just make it the default.

angelstuff

One other thing - the fact that the sort is based on updates and renewals means that as the person scrolls to different pages, information is repeated.

THIS DRIVES ME CRAZY. Seriously. Once the list is presented to the person, it should be fixed and SHOULD NOT CHANGE. Unless you're trying to annoy your customers, in which case, leave it as it is.

MomsTreasures

Awesome!!

planetartstudio

Thank you for the update!

MsMoffatt

I have not advertised at all.
How many advertising options do you have?
When I have some spare time I will research my options.
Thanks for reminding me there is yet another way.

rschiffbauer68

Great idea...

moonstarpottery

Thanks for the improvement! But here's my problem, when you type in Moonstar Pottery (instead of moonstarpottery), you get 0 results. Any way for it to recognize my shop name????

gaylepritchard

Thanks for the update. There is still an unresolved problem on all of the search pages, however: If a viewer wants to scroll through to browse, you need to allow the choice to view more items / sellers, etc. per page. I Twenty is not enough.
I also agree with moonstarpottery: the search engine needs to recognize a seller or shop name regardless of how it is typed in. If someone knows I have an etsy shop, and searches for me by just typing in my name "Gayle Pritchard" they will not find me.

ArtPeaceStudio

great!

dayinthepark

You all are doing great offering new ways and means for everyone, so three cheers for all the hard work!
I think the main thing i noticed by reading through the comments about the Seller's Directory is that the instructions on how to search are probably lacking a little. If Etsy shop sellers have a hard time figuring out how to search through the sellers alphabetically etc. Just think how hard it would be for a total novice to the internet, let alone a novice to Etsy.
"Find Etsy sellers from all over the world. You can sort them by most recently updated shop, number of items for sale or their username." I read this instruction, which sounds pleasant and like i have a number of options but even when I am very familiar with clicking on links to sort items, the first thing i looked for was a drop down menu like we have on our shop pages - which wasn't there and my first reaction was that the features that were described were not there. I think directions have to be step-by-step as if everyone needs to know exactly how to access the features they are offered.

theduskyjewel

Thanks a million, great idea!

FinalTouch

Thanks much. Great idea!

WadeCreations

I only looked throughabout 30 pages and I saw so much repetition, it was frustrating to see the same thing over and over without really knowing what they were selling. I would like to see some type of listing by type of product being sold or by type of craft.You get a general idea of the sellers product but nothing specific. Otherwise its a step in the right direction!

jackandmolly

This is such a great idea. Good job, Etsy! I look forward to using this feature.

mckenziescloset

Great! i will check for my other shop as well Pickles on my Porch.