I’m happy to report that since we’ve launched the initiative, we’ve seen some positive changes within the two categories.
We believe the initiative works on two levels:
It encourages a quality-over-quantity approach to content contribution from authors within our marketplace.
It serves to reduce the overall time-to-market for items for authors over the long term.
Today we are announcing that we’re expanding out the upload limitations initiative to the remaining categories in both ThemeForest and AudioJungle. The change will go live a little later today.
Here is a reminder and update of the rules:
Themeforest Categories: eCommerce, Site Templates, Static Site Generators, Blogging, Marketing, CMS Themes, Muse, PSD Templates and Wordpress (already applied)
Power Elite Authors will be able to have 5 items in the queue at any one time
Elite Authors will be able to have 5 items in the queue at any one time
All other Authors will be able to have 1 item in the queue at any one time
AudioJungle Categories: Music Packs, Music Kits, Logos and Idents and Music (already applied)
Power Elite Authors will be able to have 10 items in the queue at any one time
Elite Authors will be able to have 10 items in the queue at any one time
All other Authors will be able to have 5 items in the queue at any one time
AudioJungle Category: Sound effects
Power Elite Authors will be able to have 40 items in the queue at any one time
Elite Authors will be able to have 40 items in the queue at any one time
All other Authors will be able to have 20 items in the queue at any one time
Please Note:
This will be applied to items in the current queue therefore if an author has exceeded the limit the author will not be able to upload a new item or resubmission until they are below the quota.
No items which are currently in the review queue will be removed.
Resubmission of soft rejected items are counted towards the quota.
This does not include item updates.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them below and we’ll do our best to answer them.
It sounds fine but there’s no change on the review time. For a commerce WordPress theme, supposed to wait for 22 days but it’s been already 40 days + for my item and I’m still waiting
Envato, at least reduce first the review time, seems that the authors are nothing important to you, more than one month or two months of wordpress themes, and with limitations?
how I will become a elite author with these limitations? I have a team of 3 developers. I can upload 3 themes at the time, but with this limitation how do I will grow up?
you care only the elite authors, not the normal authors, so, be honest and tell, normal authors go to the hell, just that
You got the point.
I have already coded my second WordPress theme (finished), started the third one and I’m still waiting for my first WordPress item for review. I even forgot that I have submitted that
I can definitely say the Audiojungle review time has gone down, that is a really good thing!
The thing I really don’t agree with though is giving power elite authors and elite authors a whole 5 more items than normal authors. Thats way too many, 2-3 is more than enough to give them and still keep it fair between normal and elite. There are some really great composers/musicians/sound FX artists that still haven’t made their way to the top yet and should be given a fair advantage imho.
We have a good team who can produce 2-3 site templates per month easily
i submitted one item and it was reviewed after 22 days so a really bad move for us, now after finishing a template, i have to keep with me for a month.
I would tell that also Elite author get this as negative impact.
We gather as a quite big team, 20+ members (working on a Co-working space), we do hope with our hard work we can be PowerElite soon and can establish a company with our dreamy brand.
Let’s say we can submit 4-5 themes/month, we don’t do Mega Mass Multipurpose theme, just niche, trendy and handy ones that we see useful for our buyers. And I dare say we do care about quality, not quantity.
With this, we may need to create a brand new account (even multiple if we have to), build new brand names (the old elite brand-name, we also took lots effort to build) in order to upload.
It will also make our plan to be PowerElite, company establishment longer and longer… @matthewcoxy Do we have to switch our plan to create a Bloated Multi Mega Concept Messy Theme?
Looks like envato forcing everybody to make Multipurpose theme. No space for little creative handcrafted or niche based theme. Won’t mention the production level each and everybody knows even if they are just starting 3-5 friends team. Do envato really think that the scarcity of the template will help buyers to pick it up. Meaning, having a good library of templates doesn’t help you to sell anyone of it.
My advice to envato for review process is, you better change the whole process of it and redesign like beast. Filtering is key, first step an uploaded file should be verified and ensure the quality standards by envato members not the official on basically the community. Next the basic terms like code quality and others by another community or experienced staffs after passing through 2 steps it will appear to envato officials. Same for all, power author will get additional support. Limiting the good quality product is never a good decision or beneficial for anyone of us. Thanks
