https://www.tindie.com/
Article
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Tindie marketplace went down for multi-day ‘scheduled maintenance’ with little warning
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Staff cited accumulated technical debt and fragile infrastructure as the cause
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Sellers unable to pull orders via API; buyers’ payments stuck in limbo
Discussion
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Sellers angry: orders paid but inaccessible even through API, contracts at risk
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Long-term concerns: decade of neglect, ownership changes, half-built API, no sales tax support
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One commenter’s old privacy.com burner card saw a fraudulent charge post-purchase — trust concerns raised
Discuss on HN