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Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
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Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#12About Sunday/Monday last week right before it went down I noticed the site was supper buggy and failing to add things to cart, I emailed support and got a "we are checking the issue". Since it went down all I've heard from support is "Please be patient. Tindie will be back up soon as we are currently performing maintenance. At this time, we do not have an estimated timeframe to provide."
The fact that it wasn't communicated at all prior and not having a timeframe makes me thing this was probably an ops screw up.
Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#13Unfortunate. Tindie is (was?) a pretty unique marketplace. Amusingly, a lot of what they were selling was probably illegal due to FCC rules: for the most part, you can't sell electronics without EMI certification and "I'm just a hobbyist" is not an excuse. Kits get a bit of leeway, but finished products don't. Before the tariffs, I noticed that Chinese companies were trying to undercut them. I've gotten multiple mail…
Can you share more information about the undercutting? I've heard of places like Elecrow trying to incentivize people to sell via their platform/OEM service but it sounds like you've had people asking you to license your designs?
Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#14Unfortunate. Tindie is (was?) a pretty unique marketplace. Amusingly, a lot of what they were selling was probably illegal due to FCC rules: for the most part, you can't sell electronics without EMI certification and "I'm just a hobbyist" is not an excuse. Kits get a bit of leeway, but finished products don't. Before the tariffs, I noticed that Chinese companies were trying to undercut them. I've gotten multiple mail…
Can you share more information about the undercutting? I've heard of places like Elecrow trying to incentivize people to sell via their platform/OEM service but it sounds like you've had people asking you to license your designs?
I never followed up, but I didn't read it as some serious IP licensing thing. It sounded like they've come to the conclusion that they're making the stuff that's sold on Tindie anyway, so might as well set up a website and ship directly to your customers.
Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#15They must have really bungled something if they can't roll back and get the site operational again.
Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#16Unfortunate. Tindie is (was?) a pretty unique marketplace. Amusingly, a lot of what they were selling was probably illegal due to FCC rules: for the most part, you can't sell electronics without EMI certification and "I'm just a hobbyist" is not an excuse. Kits get a bit of leeway, but finished products don't. Before the tariffs, I noticed that Chinese companies were trying to undercut them. I've gotten multiple mail…
Free market is a good thing.
Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#17I don't have the links handy but I believe there are some comments from staff on social media that give more details. Edit: https://hackaday.social/@tindie/116427447318102919 https://hackaday.social/@tindie/116436988752373293
The maker people I know have been migrating away from Tindie because it has felt like a sinking ship for a long time.
I really like the idea of Tindie so I hope they can succeed. I don’t understand what sequence of events led to this being such a large problem that they can’t even keep their site online. The post says something vague about the engineering team is hoping the migration work is close to finished, but it’s been years since I remember any engineering team knocking out the entire site for days without being able to restore it during a failed migration. Are they outsourcing dev work to the type of agency that bills by the hour and perpetually churns low hourly cost work to make their money in volume fixing their own code?
Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#18I've bought some cool stuff off Tindie. My latest purchase was this set of earrings that alert when you're near a Flock camera https://colonelpanic.tech/#products
This really tickled me, I wasn't expecting them to just be a pair of esp32 dev boards you attach to your ears
Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#19I don't have the links handy but I believe there are some comments from staff on social media that give more details. Edit: https://hackaday.social/@tindie/116427447318102919 https://hackaday.social/@tindie/116436988752373293
The maker people I know have been migrating away from Tindie because it has felt like a sinking ship for a long time. I really like the idea of Tindie so I hope they can succeed. I don’t understand what sequence of events led to this being such a large problem that they can’t even keep their site online. The post says something vague about the engineering team is hoping the migration work is close to finished, but it…
> The maker people I know have been migrating away from Tindie
To what? The only alternative I know of is Lectronz.
Re: Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
#20I don't have the links handy but I believe there are some comments from staff on social media that give more details. Edit: https://hackaday.social/@tindie/116427447318102919 https://hackaday.social/@tindie/116436988752373293
You have to wonder why it's so hard to put that on their 503 error page. I suspect something's much more broken than they're letting on.
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