Awesome news! Been a long time coming but very pleased. Cheers!
Most timely decisions
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Amazing decision.
Good news and thanks for update!
Are you guys kidding? Is this the way to decrease amount of work for reviewers? Why don’t you hire more reviewers to review and release products more often instead of limit authors? By reducing quantity of items which are reviewed you break down author’s business timeline.
You wrote about ridiculous reason of such new rule since I had found “enormous” quantity of bugs which are visible to usual customers not any specialists in the items which were already released so I quite not sure how do your reviewers acts but the reviewer process now is a type of work which can any monkey do!!
This is very weird innovation which is not lead to good results for the authors, I’m very disappointed with it.
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Hope this will solve the review time problem.
I fully agree to the new policy! But the review staff is not fully qualified to conduct the theme review and authors are disabled to communicate with them.
For example, my last WP theme review was awful because reviewer asked me to make TGMPA plugin’s text domain match theme’s text domain which is extremely stupid since TGMPA is already localized to 17+ languages.
I’m sure that the people doing so much review work are soon to become sick of it and the frustration is sometimes reflected on authors. I have a feeling that sometimes they want to play a God because they are in the position of untouchable.
Why can’t we know reviewer’s name? Why can’t we rate reviewer and provide feedback on how he/she does the job?
I suppose that Themeforest might benefit from something like that and create a reward system. Maybe this is a good way to motivate review team.
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I actually see much more benefit to all authors and Envato coming from this than just the review queues. For example, authors will use their submission limit wisely, which is great for quality. But the major benefit is, we will have less items flooding the marketplace and give us better exposure, at the same time, give buyers less headache to chose a quality theme. Needless to say, within couple of weeks from today, the reviewers will feel less pressurized to go through hordes of submission, and in turn review items more freely and pass the best judgement to authors. Well done Envato, for the first time, an announcement has made me smile and look forward to future.
Also, personally, I think that it should stay as 1 for WordPress, the reason is, once this goes into effect, we will definitely have the WP review time brought down to about 20 days or so. This update by Envato is totally “Flawless”.
Whoever though of this solution deserves an “Ultimate Superstar” badge.
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good news 
Good news I think! Thanks for constant updates for better work!
Great News
So now new authors can add only 1 item per 2-3 months? Interesting solution for increase profit to elite authors and destroy the new ones. Now new authors will must work 5-10 years to be elite.
And it’s not less quantity - more quality. Big part of worst design comes from elite authors who doesn’t care about quality because they will be approved anyway.
ps. and “standard authors” are also authors on 6th level of earning?
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Awesome initiative! Rock 'n roll!
What will be the review time? If review time less than 10 days for WordPress, then All author will upload their item with quality. Otherwise this is not acceptable.
Awesome news!
I think is one or two for all.
Good Initiative. But at this process, What will be Review time for an Item ?
Absolutely welcome news! Any mechanism to control in influx of items was long due. However, 1 item limit for standard authors is a bit steep considering the fact that the review times are well over 1 month. Here’s hoping that this decision expedites the review process. If it doesn’t reduce the review times considerably (say 2weeks max) within a month or so, the limit should be removed. We would like to have a update after a month regarding whether or not this decision actually helped speed up the process. It looks like the review times have stuck to the 30 days figure. We have been told that the steps you have taken regarding review queues will have gradual effects but the progress seem to have plateaued. Anyway, best wishes to the Envato team. We all wish that quality prevail over quantity.
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