In this and the matter that is unknown. Tests are certainly good, but when all the new tracks will go “to warehousing and there dusts in the dark”, then this is not very good
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Authors will remove the Exclusivity.
Also will look for other resources for sale, in this situation.
I hope Envato think carefully about how they interpret the results of any experiments they are carrying out with the default ordering of searches. A default ordering that gives a high weighting to sales could well get you a short term increase in sales volume. But over the longer-term it would be unhealthy for the market if it became very difficult - or near to impossible - for new author/tracks to get any traction.
For example, would AurusAudio’s meteoric rise over the past three years or so have been possible if new items hadn’t been given some kind of temporary prominence in searches over this period? And if it hadn’t have been been possible Envato would have lost out I think.
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As for me this March is the worst month if talking about sales. Half as much comparing with any other month. The way things are going, need to find side job and it would be awful. Pls AJ don’t let me give up 
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Currently, when you hit the All New Items button on the Homepage (bottom left of the first image), Trending Items come up (second image).
Clearly, this makes no sense.
EDIT:
What comes up are tracks indicated as Trending Items according to the drop-down menu; they are not, in fact, Trending.
But they’re NOT All New Items either.
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Thats really awful! It means no difference beetween uploading and not…
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@scottwills @KingDog Please respond to this post, explain to us what is the reason for changing the search conditions. So now it will always be or is it a bug?
This is really bad. Why isn’t the experiment limited to a smaller portion of the market? This is like dropping a nuclear warhead on a city to see if it explodes.
If this goes on for long I’m not sure of anything anymore. This all looks like Dinosaurs 3.0 to me. Potential huge mistake. I guess we’ll have to hope there is an upside to it somehow, or at least a fallback plan in place.
Does anyone even understand how the “trending” algorithm works? How are we supposed to adapt to something that’s completely veiled in mystery?
I sincerely doubt anything good will come out of defaulting to an algorithm that (assumably) primarily takes views, comments and sales into account.
Give it a month and we’ll have the Click-Farm Marketing Mayhem of the Century here to stay.
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Let’s just hope this is a temporary bug, and not someone’s terribly misguided idea of a feature.
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If you go to “All New Items” button on main page it will direct you again to best sellers. Wow…
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Wow, and I thought it was bad before… at least we had an hour or so before a new track was wasted. Now it’s immediately gone forever. Great stuff.
But it sure is nice to see “trending” items with a total of 4 sales since 2009… Setting new trends with 0.5 sales per year.
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I hope customers looking for newer items know how to use filters
Truly terrifying 
“After the rain, comes the sun” it is said.
I’m guessing this is the rainy part.
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@Stockwaves The main thing is that this was not a worldwide cataclysm)))
I guess this is really unsettling time for authors on AJ. Limitations in uploads, still a pretty long review time and now this. The whole new thing with a search just redirects all the traffic to already popular tracks and leaves no chance for new Items, unless somobody intentionally tries to check this section. I don’t really understand a thought behind this experiment, it just makes Envato market really unbalanced. So the only way for the new item to be visible for customers is to instantly sell 10 times and gather 15 comments? We all know what it will lead to.
But at the end of the day I am sure that Envato Staff cares about authors, because we all are basically in the same team here and I hope this “bug” will be fixed as soon as possible. 
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In the other stream envato staff say is testing purposes
Hi everyone - I am absolutely and positively sure Envato really does care about the authors who contribute material to the marketplace and that tweaks, testing and changes to the search engine will benefit us all. With so much new material being submitted each and every day, the search system has to cater to the buyer and us as authors. Indeed it may be frustrating to us all regarding new items but I am 100% sure it will serve us all. Hang tight people. 
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There are no coincidences! If something happens, it means that it is planned. 