Legacy Shops Retirement Plan!

EDIT: For those who don't know what a legacy shop is, legacy shops are older shops created before the updates we made in 2016. If you have a legacy shop, it will show up with an exclamation mark symbol next to it in your shops list to make it clear. If you joined the site more recently, you should have nothing to worry about. :)

We understand that removing items from legacy shops can be a laggy, frustrating affair - and that's the fault of crumbly legacy code, not you! To solve this, we've created a new tool to streamline the process of transferring items out of your legacy shops.

Found here, the new "Move Items to Vault" tool will transfer items into your vault - into any vault category of your choice. Simply click a button to start the transfer; it will happily chug along behind-the-scenes, and you'll receive a sidebar notification when it is done. Once the items are in your vault, they'll be easier to access and deal with, and you can take your time sorting them from there :)

Without further ado, here's a mini-FAQ on how this works and what you might like to know:

How long will the transfer take to finish? This is hard to say, and depends on several factors such as the size of your shop and how many other shops are being processed at the same time. The item transfer itself is very fast; In testing, a legacy shop with over 22,200 unique items finished transferring in about 30 minutes.

Once I click "Move Items", how can I tell that the transfer is working? You will be able to see the items appearing into your vault.

What happens when the transfer is done?

• Any profits in your legacy shop till will be added to your on-hand amount.
• The now-empty legacy shop will be deleted.
• You will receive a sidebar notification informing you that the transfer is done!

Won't these big item transfers cause the website to lag? Transferring everything at once would definitely break the site, so your items will be put in a queue and processed at a controlled rate (every few milliseconds). This happens behind-the-scenes, and the rate is controlled so that it cannot put too much strain on the website.

You should not experience increased lag while this happens, since it will not be happening on the webpages you visit. You may experience increased lag when accessing your vault while the transfer is in progress, because of items getting continuously added into it.

Is there a risk that I will lose items if something goes wrong? We've put several failure checks in the code to anticipate and prevent this from happening. For example, if an item fails to get placed in your vault, it does not get deleted from your legacy shop; the transfer attempt is cancelled and the code tries again a few milliseconds later.

With all that said, click here to check it out! A link to this will also be added soon to the usual Legacy Shops page and/or the navigation bar for easier access.

Legacy shops will be officially retired in April, 2020. We will announce a more specific date as soon as we have it. On that date, the Legacy Shops page will be taken down. The Move to Vault tool will remain up until further notice, as a way to remove items from your legacy shop.

At some point AFTER that date, we may schedule downtime to migrate remaining items out of legacy shops. We will make sure to give ample notice if that happens.

For those asking what a legacy shop is: In 2016 (three years ago!) we made some major updates to our user shops system. Legacy shops are all the shops that were created before that update and still running on the old system.

If you joined Subeta after those changes, you should have nothing to worry about :)

If you still have any legacy shops, you'll know because they will show up with a "caution" symbol in your shops list, the page for them looks totally different and you can't change the items prices, only remove items.

These FAQ sections should answer your question :)

Yes, and yes :) The transfer happens in the background, so you can keep playing the site as usual while you wait for it to finish.