Has the body become too big for the brain?

Etsy is STILL down. But at least I know the reason why. Etsy moved their servers to a new data center…which means that their IP addresses have changed. Some ISPs update daily on these things but others are slower, more like once a week. So anyone who has an ISP like that is completely screwed for a day, two days…maybe FIVE days. It’s already been over two, for me. No matter how much you click it, your internet connection will not be able to locate Etsy’s servers, so you can’t load the site at all because your computer can’t FIND it.

Now, Etsy isn’t responsible for how often ISPs update, and they can’t do anything to change it, either. But they should have given a warning that this could happen. Not COULD happen…it seems inevitable that it WOULD happen, for some people. They knew the IP would be changing, and you have to know that every ISP updates at different intervals, so this should have been a problem that was foreseen. This is actually affecting Etsy sellers and buyers all across the whole world. And because they didn’t warn us, I wasn’t able to put a note up in my shop to explain to customers who CAN get onto Etsy that I am currently unable to respond to their convos and so on.

Etsy has handled this rather badly, in my opinion Apparently they sent emails out, but I didn’t get one…and in their email they sent out links to more information, that is hosted on Etsy, where those with this problem CANNOT ACCESS IT. Oh, yay. I guess it doesn’t even matter that I didn’t get the email. then. Etsy.

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