From @Kozz:
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ShopDB is undergoing maintenance and some large changes!

Instead of chest shops being updated by a bot, they will now updated via a server plugin.

What does this mean?

ShopDB will now be updated near-real time. Every 10 minutes, shops are updated.
A true 'chest is full' indicator is now possible and included. The ability to hide BOTH out of stock AND full chests is now available.
This also opens up the door for lots of new features that were previously not possible.
When a shop application is filled out and accepted, all of the signs for that shop will instantly appear on ShopDB.

This is quite a big change, and required all items to be cleared out.
Shop owners, your items will show up again on ShopDB AFTER:
- You have opted-in and applied for shops in your town to be shown (if you have already applied, you do not need to re-apply.)
- You open/close the inventory of the shop.
- Somebody uses your shop.

If your shop was previously included on ShopDB, then the quickest way to have your signs show up again is by opening/closing each of your chest shops.
After you do this, it will take a maximum of 10 minutes for your shops to appear once again on ShopDB.
Alternatively, you can do nothing and once players use your shop, it will also start appearing on ShopDB.

As with any change, this could create new bugs. So please report them here if you find any!
I will be keeping an eye out for any potential issues.

I think this is a very good change, and am confident it will make ShopDB much more real-time and reliable.
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Original post here:
https://ecocitycraft.com/forum/thre...-update-shop-items.192909/page-9#post-1107111