To better find them,
we have added a new category „clearance sale“ for all the products, that are no longer being manufactured or that we will not restock.
new category „clearance sale“
Improving search
We checked the statistics for the most often used search terms in the YiffyToys shop.
After removing an immense amount of failed attempts to hack the shop software via SQL-injection or Javascript-insertion,
we added a large number of synonyms.
Now you will find the results are where looking for when typing a number of common misspellings, synonyms, french or spanish words.
Of cause apart from the full-text search, there is always the advanced search,
where you can select species and features.
Sadly the shop-software doesn’t allow us to have search-ranges for the sizes.
For that we have created the „tiny“, „small“, „regular“, „large“ and „extra large“ categories.
New sub categories for life-cast toys
As our categories grow with more and more toys,
we have found the need to subdivide them a bit more.
So as a first step, we have added two new subcategories:
We also enabled „Anchors“ for the „canines“ and „equines“ categories,
so you can filter the long lists of toys to find what you are looking for.
Alto size fixed and price adjustments
A customer notified us that the given size of the Twin Tails „Alto“ was that if the „mini“ and not of the „Small“ variant.
We have taken new measurements and fixed this.
Twin Tails prices
While checking this, we noticed that Twin Tails had raised some and lowered other prices.
We have chosen a very optimistic exchange rate as we adjusted our prices to match.
Improved descriptions
We also improved some old-style descriptions.
For example, the Mocha and the Atlas now links the two size variants
(Also for the different versions of the Sidewinder „Arashiin“).
Also it seems that the Small Hidora was missing an english translation,
Atlas medium was showing a default photo of an Atlas small in English (it was correct in German).
And while at it, we consolidated the wording for „ejaculating“ in German and English product names.
Layout improvements
We have made a number of improvements to the layout of the home page.
- The Brexit text is now more concise and uses up less space.
- The footer is not horizontal and does not cause excessive scrolling
- advanced search (often not found) is now prominently in the center
- We added a widget to display products that are currently reduced in price (if any)
Size category descriptions
Looks like we never got around to translate the decriptions of the size categories.
(So you all know what „tiny“, „mini“, „small“, „regular“, „large“ and „extra large“ mean for us.
We also updated them fron plain HTML text to the new design editor and made them bold, so they stand out more.
Experimenting with Mastodon (updated)
We are experimenting with integrating the ActivityPub protocoll (e.g. Mastodon) into the YiffyToys blog.
The integration is even tighter then what we did with Twitter.
You should be able to follow @YiffyToys@rect.al in the Fediverse.
The list of people who are following us is private and not shown to anyone else.
Status
We moved to a new instance and things are working now.
DKIM and DMARC
All emails from the YiffyToys.de -shop (and the english Yiffy.Toys shop of cause)
should now be cryptographically DKIM signed.
This is, so that no spammers can use our domains for faked sender addresses.
We also have a DMARC policy, so all email still arrived but we get a report about how everything is working from the receiving email sercers.
Once this has shown no problems for a while, we will change the policy to first quarantine and later reject all unsigned emails with our shop as a (fake) sender address.
New server
We are currently in the process of setting up a new and bigger server for our shop.
This Blog has already been moved to the new server and we are making preparations to move the actual shop within the next few days.
Update
On Sunday (the morning after) we noticed a misconfiguration that broke the unencrypted website.
It was not noticed right away because modern browsers would alway try the TLS encrypted website first but easily fixed.
We also forgot a Reverse-DNS entry causing GMX to refuse a single email but this was easily fixed.
Update 2
On Sunday evening we identified and fixed an issue causing a „We can’t add this item to your shoppingn cart“ for some (but not all) products.
- Customer website works
- Shopkeeper website works
- Email works
- Ordering seems to work.
- Credit card payments seem to work.
Automatic DHL label creation seems to be broken but we can’t find out why just yet. We can however do that manually to continue operating.DHL issue fixed too.- Waiting to see if any live Paypal orders are coming in
- While at it, we also performed a larger software update of the shop software
„by manufacturer“ selection fixed
After an update the „by manufacturer“ section was broken.
It would display ALL categories of the shop and not just the different manufacturer names.
This has just beed fixed.
Sorry for not detecting this earlier.