I quit counting days after a month today I got first review with a soft and uploaded just now. Hope I get the same result as you did mate.
The thing I wanted to highlight is after 45+ days most of the reasons of soft reject was about updates. Bundled plugins requires update + wordpress update etc; so here another workload on que. Another reason why backlog is growing. eh?
It is so demotivated when you count on Envato, you worked so hard for two months and you get nothing finally.
I start hoping getting a reject so then I know that I donāt have to wait for so long anymore.
Should I start working on my next item and upload it ?
I did a small test by uploading items at a fixed interval and tallying the ids each of them got. It turns out every day around 14500 items are submitted on Envato sites (all sites combined). Thatās 10 items submitted every minute And as per http://quality.market.envato.com/ āItems reviewedā figure, Envato reviews around 23000 items in 1 day
I have submitted my item 3 days ago and I know my item has a huge mountain to climb and that I am mentally prepared to wait, I must also say that Envato is doing a commendable job of reviewing 23000 items every day. Clearly the review process seems to be a hybrid of automated and manual testing. And itās also clear that there is an overwhelming amount of sub-standard products being submitted on Envato. Much more than what I previously believed.
So to all those who are in the queue, hang in tight and make sure your product stand out because this is the new reality on Envato.