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Shopify is the better Etsy imo. The problem with Etsy is things get lost in the eBay like interface. With Shopify, they don’t attempt to solve (and then fail
by fire_lake 2y ago
Shopify is the better Etsy imo.
The problem with Etsy is things get lost in the eBay like interface.
With Shopify, they don’t attempt to solve (and then fail at) the discovery problem - it’s just websites! The discovery problem is better solved by networks like Instagram, Pinterest, Forums, RL
- jitl 2y agoShopify has Shop.app for discovery across sites
- fire_lake 2y agoYes but it’s not the primary mechanism for interacting with Shopify stores.
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- ToucanLoucan 2y agoI've never had a place to complain about this, but if you haven't experienced it, Etsy's platform has the most remarkably awful, bad idea/execution, ludicrously shitty method to handle accounts I have ever fucking seen and as a software dev I find it actually offensive. If you use one account and buy everything with one account and are always signed in, you're fine. If however you order something and use your email address but are not logged in, you get your invoice and tracking to your email address but that order does not appear in your account, and if you go to the website/app and try to use it to track your order/respond to seller messages/whatever, you can't find it there. You have to go to a different page, a link in the email, and "claim" the order with your account. Oh, also, if you aren't logged in and use a different email, a different account is created, based on that email, and the order is... half-claimed to that account, meaning you can't claim it with your actual account unless you jump through some hoops. Otherwise you can create an account with that half account to track that one order, and there's also no way to transfer orders without contacting support. Also, if you use PayPal and aren't logged in, they just go ahead and create an entirely new account without a password, so you reset the password to eventually track that order, and all the other issues above. I have something like four etsy accounts now and I've never seen a website make such a dog's dinner out of something as otherwise straight forward as accounts.
- llanowarelves 2y agoSame happened to me on Gumroad. I ended up with 5 or so before I had to contact customer support to merge them all.
- wasteduniverse 2y ago[dead]
- acheron 2y agoInstagram and Pinterest are garbage tho. Are there actually still forums for something like this? I agree that would be a better method of discovery.