Etsy Finds: Au Naturale
As a child, I remember my brother and I being mesmerized by the giant dinosaur bones and fossils at the Natural History Museum. To encourage our interests in the scientific world, we were given a microscope for Christmas and would make anything we could find into slides. We'd sneak out of bed at 2 a.m. after our …
Etsy Finds: Natural History
Going to the natural history museum was always my favorite pastime as a kid. Nothing, and I mean nothing, made me more excited than dinosaur skeletons, the mummy of an Egyptian queen, or sitting inside a gigantic model of the human ear canal. My interest in nature and its zany hows and whys has not faded with …
World Malaria Day: Don't Get Bit!
Yesterday, April 25th, was World Malaria Day. The World Health Organization (WHO) first instituted this day at their 60th annual World Health Assembly in 2007. While malaria has a particularly large reach in sub-Saharan Africa, it is also a major health crisis for people in Asia, Latin America and the …
Tech Update: Credit Card Gateway Issue
Update 8/11/08: We spoke with our credit card gateway provider, and while they assured us that the refunds were imminent, they told us that those involved may not see their refunds reflected until later this week or beyond depending on how their banks process the payments. We are truly sorry for the delay …
Etsy Finds: Entomological Picks
I was hosting a dinner party in my backyard the other evening, when my friends and I were driven inside, not by rain or nosy neighbors, but instead, by slugs. From ants at a picnic to mosquitoes by the lake, insects have long been the cliche of summer annoyance. What I love most about the bugs on Etsy is their …
Tech Update: View Tally System Upgrade
To the delight of our engineers and (hopefully) our sellers also, we are very pleased to let you know that view tallies should be functioning properly once again. As many of our sellers know, we've experienced a recurring problem for the past several months that caused listing view tallies to sporadically …
Tech Updates: Shop Policy Glitch
UPDATE: This issue seems to be working now, but if you have any more problems, please report to the Bugs Forum.We've had recent sporadic reports of some sellers having their policy pages being "cleared out" some time after they've been filled with content.We have been unable to reproduce the issue thus far, but …
In Case of Emergency: Off-site Blog for Updates
In the event that Etsy becomes unreachable, please head over to http://fix.etsy.com for updates. This blog is hosted off-site, which means it's not inside our main cluster of servers in New Jersey. Instead, it's on a server in Virginia. Since we'll only use this blog in the event that Etsy itself is totally …
Brief Site Outtage Today ( 4/29 )
Today ( Tuesday 4/29 ) at roughly 1:23pm EST, our system suffered from an internal network failure, rendering the site inaccessible. The outage lasted for roughly 15 minutes, after which we restored complete connectivity. We apologize for this interruption, and we're in the process of making the network more …
Etsian Videos: Vanishing of the Bees
Etsy seller OSSMedicineJewelry is making a documentary about honey bees and the environmental effects that may be damaging their habitats and physiology. See her website www.vanishingbees.com for more info. For now, here's a clip from the movie: Please subscribe to Etsy's Youtube channel. Let us know if …
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