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Tech Update: Site Maintenance 2009 Schedule

UPDATE: Our engineers will be working on the site on Monday, November 2, but the site will not be taken down for this maintenance window. That the site will be accessible during maintenance is actually part of the improvements that have been made. We apologize for the back and forth. We are getting down to the …

Tech Update: Caching and Site Speed on Etsy

In recent weeks, Etsy has been experiencing record site traffic, and we are grateful to the buyers and sellers who are visiting Etsy now more than ever, even in summer months. In fact, the past three weeks have been the three biggest traffic weeks in Etsy's history. With the surge in traffic, the demand on our …

Talking Shop with Etsy Admin: Chad Dickerson, Sara Hicks, Matt Stinchcomb & Maria Thomas

Hi All, Thanks for listening to this podcast (otherwise known as online audio files) and for participating on Etsy. We asked for your questions in the comments of this post, and below we've embedded audio files with our responses. We are creating a written transcript of the audio files as well. With each …

San Francisco Etsy Meet Up June 9, 2009

REMINDER: We can't wait to see you tomorrow! Please RSVP if you can come. [The following was originally published on May 29, 2009.] Greetings to our Bay Area friends! As we mentioned in our Summer Tour post, a group of Etsy Admins will be meeting up in San Francisco, California on June 9th, 2009.  We will be out in San …

Billing Alert: Clarifications to the Billing Collection Process

UPDATE: This article was corrected on March 16, 2009. We have removed the message on the Sign In page about overdue accounts at this time. We have decided to postpone implementing this billing reminder change until later this spring. We will communicate in advance when this will take effect. (The article …

Unscheduled Site Maintenance: Thursday Morning 3/12, 2am EDT

We apologize for the short notice, but we need to take Etsy offline for unscheduled maintenance for approximately 20 minutes at 2am EDT (follow this link to convert to your local time zone).  During this time, all users will be directed to a page noting that we are undergoing maintenance. During this …

Talking Tech with Etsy CTO Chad Dickerson

When I wrote my last update in September, the days of summer were retreating and I was sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of my new Brooklyn apartment, waiting for my household goods to arrive from California, and more importantly, quietly begging for the summer heat to subside. I got my wish, and was …

Tech Updates: Handmade Code & Etsy's Beta API

I just moved to NYC in September, and I am still finding my way around the subway. For a while, I carried around a paper subway map, but in the rain and snow, it quickly became tattered and was very inconvenient to unfold in a crowded rush hour train. Then one day I heard about iTrans, a subway map application for …

Etsy Alert: Scheduled Site Maintenance - Sunday November 30 at 4am EST

UPDATE: Success! All fixed. [the following was originally published on November 28, 2008] During our last site maintenance window, we discovered an unanticipated network issue that prevented us from completing the network maintenance successfully.  To correct this issue, we will be doing network …

Etsy Alert: Site Maintenance November 21, 2008 from 4-5 am EST

UPDATE: Success!Tomorrow morning from 4-5 am EST (Friday, November 21, 2008), we will be performing emergency network maintenance that should not interrupt service to the web site; however, we wanted to let you know in case you experience any issues during that time.   We will be posting updates to fix.etsy.com …

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