Posts by XanderRock

SoundFix said

silent47 said
The bundle has ended.Let’s wait the results.How long it will take to see them?

7.46358 days

How many items are there in the bundle? Let’s say 7 for TF items. (Really I don’t know the exact number). And an average company can finish a client’s project in 2 weeks. So it will probably take around 14 weeks for TF to get back to “all normal”.

Alexlasek said
@XanderRock:

hope you are wrong man

cheers

I don’t think that will happen to the TF. Because wordpress is still very popular and getting more popular each day. With CSS3 and HTML5 Wordpress is staying in it’s place.

But I’m not sure how will that effect to TF. Making a bundle is not a special discount. It’s “unfortunately” a way to say “our item’s real value is this low, but we normally sell it that high and earn more”.

If buyers start to think and complain about the price being “high” (Which I got one in the bundle week) that means the real trouble is coming. Because that means, now buyers are thinking a theme should be priced as $3 a plugin should be priced as $1.5 and so on. And actually I do think prices are too low. Latest tech plugins/apps/themes are here with their source codes.

I couldn’t read the all pages but that is true. Bundles effects the sales badly. You can see that easily when you look at the latest items in the Top Sellers. Before bundle you had to sell more than 65 to get into the top sellers. In the bundle week it was as low as 50. You do the math and say bundle does not effect the sales.

I remember back in AD there was a template bundle and AD started to die after that. It’s always too risky to put your high value items into a bundle. You can easily say “I don’t need to purchase items, I can just purchase the bundle and it can get my work running till the next bundle”.

bitfade said

XanderRock said
Like if your item has been released in the week, you’ll get reviewed as soon as your upload finished. No author would mind waiting for some 10 min. review for making update on his/her latest item

If those were the timings, nobody would bother the mandatory approval. Unfortunately that’s not the case now and i can only see things getting worse because the amount of work put on reviewers keep increasing. Sure envato could hire more but shouldn’t that manpower being used for something better than approving bugfixes ?

That can be the case. Reviewers are all around the world. There can be reviews for 24 hours. And for temporary solution there can be a rule like “if an item released this week, it’s update will be reviewed first”. And that would take lower than 10 min. to review and release.

I see you have released a new item and you are totally right on asking a faster review. But making a permanent solution on the Envato will take API changes. Which means it will take time. There can be a temporary solution till that.

But beyond all of these, our main problem is your (not you, I mean all authors) new file is your biggest chance for getting higher sales. Even if you have the best file of the marketplace but you had something weird on your first week, that file will not be increasing your sale and will be gone. I think there should be a place just like “Top Sellers” like “lately updated”. Just like the problem you are having now, you can have a problem with a plugin, with a theme file, or with your server (my server crash cost me my top seller file to get lost). So there should be something to save authors from this first week timing as well. But starting from extra help in first week will be a step.

bitfade said

XanderRock said
Imagine that someone with bad attitude uploaded a file like that. And imagine it got online right after uploading and till Envato checsk it or someone reports it, some 10 – 20 people downloaded it. We all know a quicker way for important upadets are required, but you can’t let everyone to do that for security reasons.

I didn’t say anyone for this reason, no experienced author would ever do something like that. We can discuss about what qualifies one as “experienced” but cannot deny a huge part of envato authors do not need baby-sitting when dealing with their own item updates.

I do support that idea. I’m just pointing out that well known security reason. There are reviewers all around the world. There can be quicker review for newly released items as a temporary solution. Like if your item has been released in the week, you’ll get reviewed as soon as your upload finished. No author would mind waiting for some 10 min. review for making update on his/her latest item

bitfade said

sevenspark said
What if we could submit “beta” releases that would not need to pass the review process, which would become immediately available. The customer would then have the option to download the latest stable or latest beta version.

that would be a nice feature to have but will also require more work on the backend (also consider API).

Immediate approval does not since the feature is already implemented. I understand envato wants to check what is getting uploaded/distributed to/from their servers but updates management it’s too important for authors and should be left in their hands.

We trust them to hold our money and after x/y/z time/items/sales we deserve to be trusted as well at the minimum.

I know I have reported some items with infection to the Envato team. Uploading a file without a review for everyone would probably cause security problems. But there should be something for trusted authors. I don’t know how but maybe according to their sales, according to their registration date or according how elit they are or some other way.

Imagine that someone with bad attitude uploaded a file like that. And imagine it got online right after uploading and till Envato checsk it or someone reports it, some 10 – 20 people downloaded it. We all know a quicker way for important upadets are required, but you can’t let everyone to do that for security reasons.

+1. That would also save time for the reviewers. But I think to have a system like that, there should be another badge like “Envato Trusted User”. You can’t trust everyone

Creattive said
imo these are very bad suggestions as there are not many buyers with more than 10 purchases and we are already now having not enough ratings at our items. Let only people rate who have bought 10 items would let the number of given ratings decrease immensely.

I saw you have a really nice After Effects portfolio. And that is correct when you are working with videos, music and graphics. But it doesn’t work the same for the code based items.

Most of you know how stackoverflow works. They do it because coders are using their system. And because of that system, you can see the correct answer of the questions there. Because they don’t allow newly registered members to downgrade an answer. And I think that is really necessary for code based items here.

XanderRock

I would like to see something like “qualified to rate” for buyers as well. Something like stackoverflow maybe.

For example, a buyer can not downgrade the rate if he/she didn’t rate 10 items and can not give any rate if he/she didn’t purchase 10 items. That would force buyers to rate and learn basic things such as how to add a featured image.

And maybe something like if an item has 4 star you can only rate it with 5, 4 or 3. Because if 80 people rates an item with 5 stars and a buyer with lack of knowledge gives 1 star just something made him/her angry, it effects the item.

XanderRock

Thanks ParkerAndKent,

That’s where I got confused. I’m going to take the path of including the widgets in the package so the user can install it easily. Thanks again for the prompt answer