It's About DAM Time

After years of suggesting, campaigning, complaining, Etsy has been dragged kicking and screaming into the DAM light. That's right ladies and gentlemen, Dolls and Miniatures finally landed their own category.

HeyMichelle posted this afternoon that the Dolls and Miniatures category will be rolled out on October 6th and referred everyone to this Dorque article. She also went on to detail the category and it's sub, and sub-sub categories:

ART DOLL
- ooak
- Editions
- Fantasy
- Folk Art
- Horror
- Goth (or Gothic? please discuss.)
- Victorian (?)
- Primitive
- Ceramic
- Porcelain
- Polymer Clay
- Fabric (or cloth? or sewn?)
- Paper doll
- Needle felted
- Animal
- Anthropomorphic
- Assemblage
- Babies (wording may change)
- Children (wording may change)
- Altered Dolls
- bjd Ball Jointed Dolls
- Characters

AMIGURUMI
- Plant
- Food
- Animal
- Figure (or person, or human figure?)

PLUSH
- sewn (or sewn fabric? or fabric? or cloth?)
- felt
- food
- animal
- human (or human figure or person?)
- plant

CLOTHING FOR DOLLS
- Blythe (this could go to 2nd level)
- dress
- pants
- shorts
- skirt
- shirt
- blouse
- sweater
(considering for clothing for dolls, and accessories for dolls some style sub-subs: kawaii, historical, horror, fantasy, etc)


ACCESSORIES FOR DOLLS
- Blythe (this could go to 2nd level)
- Reborn
- hat
- scarf
- shoes
- jewelry
- purse
- socks
- (other types of items for clothing/accessories- may add now, or add later as people list.)

ARTIST BEARS
- jointed
- miniature
- real fur
- recycled fur
- mohair
- plush
- felted
- teddy bear friends (hmmm? not sure about this. What does this mean?)

MINIATURE
- Animal
- Figure (or person? or human figure? or Character?)
- Plant
- house
- Book
- Artwork
- Ceramic
- Wood (or wooden)
- Polymer Clay
- Felted
- Horror
- Fantasy
- Folk Art
- Primitive
- Victorian (?)
- Waldorf (?- may get mistagged. I'm hesitant because of that)
- Indie or cute (good idea? not sure about this)

DOLLHOUSE MINIATURE
- half scale
- quarter inch scale (or one 48th scale)
- eighth scale dollhouse miniature
- one 12th scale (is there a "name" for this?)
- Playscale one 6th
- pottery
- turnings
- furniture
- decor (?)- can we/should we get more specific here?
- food
- Artwork
- books
- plants
- Needlework
- flowers

DOLLHOUSES
- full sized dollhouse (can anyone suggest a better name?)
- roombox

SOFT SCULPTURE

REBORN

Good ol' Etsy! There's nothing like ignoring a group of sellers over, and over when they could have given them a simple "hold your panties, it's coming soon, we swear!" Kudos Etsy to finally making the category.

On an interesting side note when one buyer asked "Do you foresee this kind of restructuring of any other large categories in the future?" HeyMichelle had this tidbit in response: "yes, I do foresee things happening in the overall category system...alas, I can't give specifics right now..."
....tease

New Etsy "enhancements" - joy!

After two years they have finally caved in and let us be able to rearrange pictures. It's a kind of crappy implementation of it. Most sites use some kind of flash or ajax to let you drag pictures around, etsy? Arrows. Cumbersome arows.

18 months of bitching well spent.

Other announcements were that they have added a collectibles section (which should finally shut the ACEO people the hell up), and that they have a new site to go to in the sure event that Etsy goes down for some reason and are spasming for info.

This seems to be another half-assed way to providing a fix to this old web dog. Take Flickr as a example of a nice way it can be done. When they go down they have a page come up (or more likely they set up a redirect) to a page that informs you "Flickr is getting a massage" and that you should visit the Flickr Blog for further updates. It's assuring, since they appear to know it's a problem, and informative as well as convenient. It also lets you know backup systems are in place.

Etsy can't even make that middle step, instead they provide you the info in advance and you have to know it's there for you to be able to go to it. You can't be automatically directed to it when you need it because that would 1: make sense and 2: require more infrastructure, and Etsy higher ups can't spell that.