Listings all reverted to Handmade

[512HSDesigns]

Has anyone noticed that all listing have reverted back to “Handmade Item”? Yesterday, all of mine were “Designed by”. What is going on?!?!  I’ve only been with Etsy a year and so this is my first experience with a major change. Is this disorganization and shoddy rollout typical? I’m so frustrated. I have 100’s of listings in my shop. To adhere to the new policy, I now have to go into every single listing and change them individually. There’s no bulk update option. It’s going to take me hours and hours. Others in my niche have thousands of listings. I just don’t see them making the necessary changes without a bulk update feature. I’d love I hear your thoughts on these 2 topics (the changes back to handmade item & the need for a bulk update feature for the core details & category fields)

[NanaLetha]

Mine are still the same. My patterns are shown as designed by.

[WestofChelsea]

Mine are all now saying "made by..." 

[NancyQstudio]

There are some errors happening with this very new program.  This means Etsy is working on it which is a positive thing.  We will likely see some funky stuff until they get it sorted out.  

[ButterflyFeetDigital]

Mine still say designed by. And that calendars and journal pages are party decor. 

[512HSDesigns]

I think I've figured this out. On a web browser, my listings say "Designed by".  In the Etsy app, everything still says "Handmade item". This indicates to me that the app is quite different from the desktop.  Clearly it's a bug that was overlooked during the rollout. Testing should have caught this.

[LastCentury]

the app is useless and unreliable in so many ways.

[audreytherese]

I'm pretty sure they don't test before they implement anything.... they seem to just roll things out and see where the most commotion is. 

[LilMissSweetPea]

Testing? That doesn't seem to be a word in the Etsy vocabulary. Lately it is just roll it out, then worry about the bugs. I have an issue with the new setup. I sell sets, one piece is handmade from scratch, and the other paired item is made from supplies and assembled. I need to choose 1 of those to list it. As of now, I am doing the one that says I made it from scratch. That is the main part of my sets. 

[FancyTogs]

The coding for each of the Apps is completely separate from the coding for the website.

The website constructs the whole page on the server and sends the layout as formatted text to the browser every time you access the page.

The Apps downloaded from Etsy/Apple/Google are pre-programmed with all of the page layouts and formatting, only the relevant data is sent to your device when you access the page.

This means that changes to the website can happen straight away.

Changes to the functionality or layout of the Apps requires changes to the App software and distribution of it to your device as an update. This takes time and they're not going to do changes to the Apps until they've sorted out the problems using the website.

Lawrence (Clare's other half)

[BrimstoneHillDesigns]

My handmade ones say "Made By" and my vintage handmade(by me) still say "hand picked by".

[audreytherese]

"Is this disorganization and shoddy rollout typical?"

Yes.

100%.

Actually, this is probably the least trouble I have seen with a major change rollout yet. 

I wouldn't bother taking the time to fix anything quite yet. Even before when people were fixing on their end, it didn't change what was being displayed. I'd give them some time to continue their tinkering before worrying about anything being categorized incorrectly. 

[Adorabilities]

I agree. No use in putting any time into trying to wrangle listings into the category we feel they should be, until we're sure that Etsy's done adjusting the system. There's nothing like spending hours on something, only to have it undone, and have to do it all over again.

[OrangeGroveBeads]

This is the Etsy way. Roll something out half baked and let the cards fall where they will. Sometimes they come back and fix things. Sometimes they do not. The dev team is probably on to working about eleventy seven other new projects by now. 

[BeachberriesShop]

Mine have also changed from handmade to designed by.

It drives me crazy constantly things are changing.

It finally needs to be tested before changes are implemented.

It is time to hire qualified personnel for this who will also properly set up the bot system, which also constantly causes problems.

We are not going to change anything anymore and will stop when we have sold most of our materials.

I went from an Etsy lover to an Etsy hater.

I went from an Etsy lover to an Etsy hater.

Especially because of all the mistakes made by the Bots and the fact that only one person else looks into this.

When contacting us by email, we always get the same copy and paste response and the call center located in the Philippines is also not helpful and never understands where the problem lies.

[BeachberriesShop]

It is best not to adjust anything, if they might do something about this then we can adjust it again.

Adjusting a problem afterwards is much more difficult than testing it before it becomes active.

But I haven't experienced that yet.

We are the ones who have to test this and if it goes wrong then bad luck