Category page experiment update & new Category page design for WordPress

Odin_Design · April 9, 2019, 1:45pm

since @jamesgiroux ignored our previous posts in the other topic, maybe we’ll get better luck with you, @trent-aus

In the first page of HTML there are really old items, even from 8 YEARS AGO and PSD templates there’s an item from 2009… TEN YEARS AGO . please, tell us what’s the logic behind this, just take a look https://themeforest.net/category/psd-templates the first page is filled with outdated designs, only 8 out of 30 items are from 2017 to today and out of that 8, only 3 are from last year, all the 22 others are way older!

Again as @jamesgiroux said:

The longer it takes a customer to find the right item for their project, the more frustrating their experience and the less likely they are to purchase.

Do you think that having items from 10 years ago in the first page is the way to go? Customers are gonna see that and rage quit because that’s what you are putting in “the front of your store”. Again, it’s like you guys didn’t even think about the change before making the experiment. Who thought that bringing outdated items to the first page way a good idea? We’d love to hear a good reason for this experiment.
As we told before, with a new item we partnered up for, we went from number 2 in the list, to second to last do you think that’s fair?

PS. Sorry if we seem a bit too blunt , but this is our team livelihood, and we’re already experiencing a decline in sales, Envato maybe doesn’t care about the decline in sales in the grand scheme, but we do.

Why every time that Envato “experiments” always end up hurting authors? It’s like they do it on purpose! This change is a terrible idea, it basically buries the new items in favor of items that already have good exposure. It seems that the only thing Envato wants is to boost that small group of people that are already doing good, so as long as they are doing ok and help increase the overall Envato earnings, new authors/items don’t matter.

Please, tell us, what would be our incentive to upload new items, knowing that they’re gonna be buried below piles of already established items? how can we possibly compete against that?