Friday June 9th (PDT) - Release Discussion Thread

Thanks for the alert. Always good to know. Is this Phase II ?

Good luck
Rosemary

No. This is just a release of new features for eBay Live. Phase II is still in development.

thanks for the heads up and for the externally hosted image options.

(and sorry about replying in your news/notices thread)

externally hosted images - will be nice. most of mine are already on my site and always thought it silly to move 'em over and eat up more bandwidth, time, etc. sure, could code 'em in by hand, but still...

thanks again

quote:

Originally posted by wayoutwest:
(and sorry about replying in your news/notices thread)

you noticed that I removed that

and i didnt even get "pink slapped"

Hi,

Does this mean that the images hosted on this website will also be down ?

Has Auctiva emailed EVERYONE about this site outage? Remember that there are users who don't visit the community boards or use the website to list. I don't know if they will be affected by this but they screamed the loudest last time there was an extended site outage.

I got the nod via a pop up message when I logged in to Auctiva good idea!

But as I was logging in specifically to do some listing, I too want to know whether the image hosting will be down - and I need to know ASAP otherwise I won't bother!

Please advise ASAP!

This 'update' will not impact images. The alert will give everyone ample warning.

quote:

Originally posted by bartonsbargains:
Remember that there are users who don't visit the community boards or use the website to list.

The only users who do not use the website to list are using our classic software which is not impacted by this update.

Bill

Early Friday morning we'll be doing a site update. It's not a server/hardware change.

The main difference between this site update and all of our previous ones is that we've held off for a few months instead of just doing weekly updates as we added features. With this new process, we've actually done a lot more testing than normal.

I expect it to go just as smooth as our normal site propogations and for the site to be back up within 30 minutes of the end of maintenance. But, just in case we have to revert to the old version of the site or do a quick fix and re-release, we wanted to put the warning up for everyone.

-Kevin

Sneak Peak of our new features
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For those who'd like to see what the new features will look like on the site before it goes live for everyone, you can try our beta site out.

A few things to keep in mind though:

1. The beta site is using your LIVE auction data and is connected with the LIVE ebay site. So, if you post an auction, it will actually post to eBay.

2. Auctions that you create on the beta site will NOT show up correctly on the current Auctiva site.

3. Scheduling will NOT work on the beta site. If you do want to Post to the live eBay site, you'll have to use the "post" button. Keep in mind that the same auction will then not be able to post/schedule back on the current Auctiva site.

4. The Auto feedback service is NOT running on the beta site. You can leave feedback though from the transactions page.

5. Custom templates will NOT work properly between beta and live site.

All of these issues will not be issues when we make the beta test the new live site.

And finally... the link to the beta site:
(Link removed as the live site now has the same site as the beta previously had)

Feel free to post comments here.

-Kevin

Thanks so much for the information. When you are finished on Friday evening, is there some place we go to make sure the feedback is not automatic? In other words, will it be on and we have to turn it off if we don't want automatic feedback?

It's defaulted to off, you'll need to turn it on if you want it on.

Poke around the new site, test out the new images selection pages and options on that page, the feedback area, and etc. You probably just don't want to try using it for real work. It's just a sneak peek.

Thanks, fellas. I feel better. You guys are alway so helpful.
Good luck
Rosemary

quote:

Originally posted by wayoutwest:
and i didnt even get "pink slapped"

Steve..

You mean like this?
<smile>


HA!
Enjoy eBay Live!!!!!
Donna

LMAO @ Donna!

Hey, I need a button with that image for ebay live! been awhile since i've been pinkslapped on ebay forums, though. guess i need to try harder *grin*

slightly off topic (my pinkslap story) -- i'm the one that caused ebay to start warning people about spoofs on their main pages (rather than only warning in forums like they had been).

I nearly fell for a phish and after some digging found the warning buried in the forums. i felt that wasnt enough and went to CBS News and got them to run story on national news (as part of their friday consumer alert series) about ebay spoofs and phishing in general. when preparing the story, they asked me to try to find people that had been victims (instead of near victim like i was).

so i posted on ebay forums about it and that was going to the media about it and asking for any victims to step forward. got pinkslapped because all requests for info by the media have to go through their legal dept. (nevermind the fact that i was just a concerned private citizen and not the media themselves).

and got pinkslapped again for complaining about the pink slap on the forums.

CBS news ran the story (using my email acct so they could show the spoof email on news), ebay began putting warnings on main pages of site, and ebay spent quite a bit of $ running a series of commercials about how great it was to shop on ebay.

So, i'm not the most popular guy when it comes to ebay's upper mgmt - laf!

just found where system updates are (in a way) affecting images.

click to enlarge isnt working on active auctiva listings.

here's url from an auctiva listing with click to enlarge (the url that loads when you click) -
http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/showimage.aspx?gid=...2&formats=0&format=0

as you can see, gives you a message about system being updated.

store window appears to also not be working.

i spent yesterday getting sister set up for selling on ebay (getting her ebay acct id verified so can use as a seller acct, getting her a photo area set up, teaching her auctiva -- heaven forbid she'd use one of those other places , etc). Anyway, store window was working on her listings last night (before the update). today they say "No Items Available"

here's one of her items if you want to look http://cgi.ebay.com/Metal-Antique-Finish-Elk-Candle-Hol...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem