Etsy Sellers See Stars - Black Stars

by: The End

YEP >>>>> ALL BLACK STARS.
Retards at the helm of Etsy.
Simple as that.
Law Suit.

by: maxmad

typical do something, for no reason, that does nothing, accomplishes zero, but it's actually something, a black star is born

Must be nice to land an etsy job, like winning the lottery,

by: Moonwishes

>typical do something, for no reason, that does nothing, accomplishes zero, but it's actually something, a black star is born<

You would think their IT guys would have better things to do with their time in fixing actual problems!

by: Rexford

"typical do something, for no reason, that does nothing, accomplishes zero, but it's actually something"

It's maddening isn't it?  People justifying their jobs and their existence.  Always trying to fix what isn't broken.

by: Fly on the Wall

Here we go again. Making stoopid changes. At least if they'd give us a reason WHY. The more CHANGES they make, the more people will complain. The more people complain, the more their stock price drops. CHILL, Etsy.

by: maxmad

yes quite maddening for sure,

What these idiots fail to understand is buyers can be alarmed at the smallest change , buyers often visit a site multiple times before they purchase, they need repeatability and the site needs to be stable, a buyer needs to feel comfortable, even a small change as meaningless as changing a color, can be enough to alter their thoughts subliminally, they might not even be aware of the change, but something is different, something not the same, some thing wrong, and next thing you know they are going somewhere else.

by: Ina

A product manager explained Etsy has been making changes to make its site easier for those with disabilities. (See update above.)

Baffling it has yet to announce the changes.

by: maxmad

This company honesty makes it up as they go, if impaired vision was the reason, they should be starting with the light grey text, instead of the huge stars because that's the worst offender for people with even a little bit of bad vision, , light grey text will make you blind., and etsy has a lot of it.

by: FidoMaster

I worked with a start-up that was launching an extension of their existing *youth* sports product and the company was choosing a name for the line.

The CEO wanted to name the line ''BlackStar'' because he thought kids would think it sounded cool.

Clearly being the only Bowie fan around, I filled them in and fortunately they went with another name.
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Applaud Etsy's intent, but according to colorblindawareness.org, Colour Blindness affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women in the world.

It seems odd this option wouldn't simply be a part of a site ''theme'' selectable as a user configurable option instead of thrusting it upon all their users.

''Dark mode'' toggles are fast becoming common in mobile apps (and even desktop browsers), it would seem something similar could be employed for color-blindness.

by: Flying Childers

They have a lot of people on the payroll that have to make it look like they are doing something.  Think of it as a kindergarten for coders.

by: iheartjacksparrow

I wonder how many people are going to look at the black stars and think that's a gauge of negative feedback.