Agree with you. They should halt accepting new items before they clear their previous backlogs. Else, this is going to be a never-ending queue.
I disagree!
My item is in queque for more then 1 month. I don’t see how stopping the submition process will speed up the review process.
Think about what is going to happen once the submition is back.
Keeping the submittion running will help Envato understand how many items are and how many reviewers should hire!
Right now Envato is hiring, maybe we should just give a bit of time to Envato and Envato should keep us posted!
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I ca’;t see how that would make much, if any difference. If there’s 1000 themes in the queue and it will take them 40 days to get through them all, then if theme number 1001 is submitted today, it will get approved on day 40 or slightly after. If they block new submissions until the queue is cleared, in 40 days time, then theme 1001 will still be reviewed on day 40, or slightly after.
because by that time, there will be more trained reviewers to review the items. They should invest their workforce on training new reviewers rather keep the queue piling up.
And because by that date (if authors continue submitting uncompleted themes-this is the main point) the review time will probably reach the 50-60 days.
Your’re right, there will be more trained reviewers to review items by then if a block is put on submissions. However, there will also be more trained reviewers to review items by then if a block isn’t put on submissions. If the queue is 40 days then if they stop submissions today, the review team are still going to have to work for the next 40 days to get the queue cleared, irrespective of if they’re training people or not.
I see what you’re saying, but its pretty much 6.5 of one and half a baker’s dozen of the other. I can’t see putting a hold on submissions making much difference to anything.
Just an assumption. Ιf the review team reverses the queue (last in-first reviewed), I think that there will be many hard rejections. The marketplace is suffering by unfair competition at this moment, and temporary measures are necessary.
I don’t think is fair to jump to all kind of conclusions.
We have to accept that the market is bigger now. Yes there are lots of people that are new to Envato and they are submiting items that more likely will be rejected, but there are alots of people (new or not) that are submitting high quality items. Low quality items are going to be submitted anyway. Maybe Envato should verify the author background as such:
Do you have any qualification ? are you old enough ? . That will trim alot of authors.
Do you have any item approved across all market ?
Maybe work as facebook, take into consideration only good stuff. So if you have items approved, then you get 1pct, for every year 1 pt, for every item approved 1pt… and then do the following thing in the queque
take first 10 from queque, then take 10 best ranked from queque. So in this way, you can estimate the time for low rank users but users with better iRank will have the items approved, because is more likely they will have high quality for the market.
I hope Envato will take into consideration that in 1-2 month new version of wordpress or other cms may show up affecting the quality of the theme submited!
Envato need an automated check for items imho (esp WordPress) .org has put one inot place, which checks the theme against criteria e.g.
- does it pass the theme check
- does it have prefix
- are echo’s escaped
- are shortcodes / cpt’s in a plugin
Once it passes the automatic test then it can be given to a reviewer to check everything, check the design and then the last few bits.
This will enable reviewers to only work on items which have more chance of being accepted, freeing their time up.
I would say a large portion of the uploaded themes that are rejected, will be rejected for the same reasons, so removing these from the queue will hopefully make it a little quicker.
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what if a theme has shortcodes in a theme and it needs a soft reject ?
Do you think Envato should remove soft reject and stick only with hard reject ?
Also don’t forgot about a problem authors are complaining: Lots of soft rejects instead of just 1 (for different reasons)
it wouldn’t get to be reviewed, it would fail the test and the person would be told to fix the issue before submitting.
This would hopefully stop that as all the most common tests would be checked before Envato look at the item.
Oh, you are talking about validation.
This is a very good ideea. Validation can also check automatically javascript files.
But as I said if Envato can make a guide (with things such as: don’t put shortcodes in theme) and add a link on submit page, it will help alot!
Then mention there somewhere if basic things are not respected then the theme will be rejected by default.
Most of the info available on:
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nice… so there are some things I can improve my theme that I submited. Now what to do ?
If I’m going to remove my theme and add the improvments I’m going to have to wait again 1month+
I think I will wait for soft reject and then fix it there. Is been more then 35 days since I’m waiting…
What I find offensive is that a lot of copycat items are passing the , probably, new reviewers. It’s something to get inspired but there are a lot of new items that are almost identical with good selling items ( one of the new psd approved- the colors, the name, structure, pictures, it’s 90% identical to a top selling one) If, us authors know this, so should the reviewers.
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These are the kinds of things that we’re talking about when we talk about Infrastructure.
You are kidding me? 40 days waiting time…and still no review.
Problem is with those links that it contains many things that are not inline with actual reviews. Once it contains some things that are wrong then how do you know which bits to follow? The other problem is that they are missing lot’s of major things and skim over things that need much more detail. Any author that has been through the submission process could make a far better guide. It’s a pity they don’t make more use of wiling authors.
I would like to know when the Audiojungle review queue is going to be given some attention. I’m aware that you are hiring reviewers, but 28 days is a joke really. It particularly smarts when you see our fellow authors on Envato, are not having to put up with such a lengthy queue, what, are we the poor man of Envato?
How about some love for Audiojungle 
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No worries. AJ will be getting some love as well as all the queues that are running too long 
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