You need to take better pictures, no wait...

If you've sold or tried to sell anything on Etsy and tried seeking 'critiques' to see why your shop wasn't selling then you've heard the tired old line: "you need to take better pictures."

Now the marvelous circle jerk team aka Etsy 'engineering' has rolled out new quality image improvements. Tooting their horn, Etsy engineers have "built a new system for processing, resizing, and storing the image files that you upload to the site."

Well good job Etsy! The opening post shows a shop banner before the improvements, and after the improvements. There's only one problem; try as you might, you really can't discern any improvements. Some even dared to mention this to the circle jerk crew right in the middle of their mutual self-congratulatory phase. That's when Captain Obtuse, aka mgineer/Matt admits:

That sample banner is a case where there isn't much difference between the before and after. One characteristic of banners is that they are sometimes better suited to GIF or PNG format. Since our system only supports JPEG right now, we have to convert them, which can lower the quality. This change is the first step in a series of changes to make it possible to upload a PNG or GIF and have the site display it that way instead of converting it.

I'm sorry mgineer, did you just say that you guys implemented a system which will make some of our pictures look shittier? Really? Oh and while your at it, could you guys think far enough in the future to show a banner that signifigantly show your "improvements?"

The ultimate goal here is apparently to give everyone the option to upload images in .gif and .png as well as .jpeg. Yet - get this - Etsy's system still does not render any uploaded .gif or .png images well. So the engineers recommend that you convert them to .jpg yourself before uploading them "for a little while longer."

Highlighted Admin posts further dig a contradictory hole:

The feature is more a means of providing extra help to make your pictures appear just a little bit brighter or a little bit sharper.

Which is it ya geniuses? Are you helping us make our photos "better"? Or "lowering the quality?" Some post that they can see the difference, others not, to which Admin helpfully comments:

To those of you who can't see a difference, great! You see Etsy in it's most beautiful state. To those who do see a difference, great! Get ready to experience Etsy in all her glory.

Get that folks? Etsy is a girl. Write that down.

So the upshot of this? Your avatar, your shop banner, your product images will get a little "help" from Etsy. Yes, that's right folks - particularly you photographers - Etsy has changed how they tweak images.

Oh, before I close this post, let me note that:

The team working on this deserves a huge public thank you, so...thanks, guys!
You've put in a ton of effort making this rock.

Oh yeah guys..... you really rock. *eyeroll*

Etsy Security Breach - What Happened to That Privacy Policy in the Contract We All Signed?

::headdesk! headdesk! headdesk! headdesk! headdesk!:::

Some days you wonder how any one at Etsy every gets a job, let's alone keeps it! We're posting this ASAP (thanks for the heads up tipster!) because it's hidden in the bugs forum and as we all know, that's where topics go to die! Posting here will make sure they see it, since we KNOW for a fact they come all the time. (Tracking stats are a lovely thing!)

So what did they fuck up today?

Treasuries are showing items with the seller's REAL NAMES. Its past merely laughable, it's downright pathetic how bad at their jobs they are. Do they EVER spot check before they release code? If they would have loaded it once... just ONCE they could have fixed it in seconds as I know it's just a phrase in code that tells what to load there, but they couldn't even check their work???

Feel free to send your outraged words to this thread here. (closed)

Morons. Fucking goddamn morons. Put the guitar down and do your goddamned jobs!

EDIT: took 30 min but they fixed it. But feel free to keep screaming over there, it was a fucking astounding breech of privacy they are making out to be a hiccup. PLEASE careful what you say to admin though, don't get into name calling we don't want them shutting you down for hurting their wittle snowflake fweewings.

Comment on this thread instead started by Pants. BE ANGRY! DEMAND ANSWERS! BUT DONT BE MEAN! DON'T CALL NAMES - THEY WILL AND CAN SHUT YOU DOWN OR MUTE YOU!

**Title edited by The Stubborn One at the suggestion of one of our readers. I didn't ask Cranky first, but I'm pretty sure she'd agree with the change.