Posts by jremick

proxdeveloper said

We do check the responsiveness design… If you find any broken responsive themes, feel free to let me know or report to support team. We are more than happy to take them down

The problem is not responsive themes, the problem is overall design quality, these have dropped significantly, I can pick 10 themes from the front page which shouldn’t be there because design quality is not good enough, not to say ugly.

The marketplace is getting flooded of with low quality items, thats the issue, not responsive themes.

P.S: In my opinion Envato could do many things to fix all the issues the marketplace has, they are just giving excuses on why they haven’t fixed it already, I am a web developer, had some experience with ruby and this language allows you to develop at amazing speed ( workflow) for example, i don’t know how much time the reply thing in comments and forums took to be fixed, but this could’ve been done in less than an hour.

Just my opinion.

Without understanding certain goals of the marketplaces it’s not really reasonable to judge from an external viewpoint which themes should or shouldn’t make it into the marketplace. I believe we’ll be able to add more clarity here in the near future.

Likewise, without having spent time directly with the development team and the system itself, it’s not really possible to make accurate assumptions on time requirements. You might actually be surprised at the speed in which they deploy fixes.

designcrumbs said
Do any staff members have an update on this? It’s been a while since we heard anything, and three weeks since something was supposed to be posted on notes.

I believe the goal was to have this done last week but, unfortunately, it just wasn’t possible. There’s some other projects that snuck up on us so we’ve had to delay the pricing project more than anticipated. I believe Vahid is planning on completing the pricing project this week.

Sorry for the delay everyone, and thanks for your patience!

Hi everyone,

Review Manager here to take a few moments and clarify a few things.

1) I’m forwarding along this thread to Collis and Vahid to see if they’re able to take a few moments to add a response.

2) We’ve all been incredibly busy, especially lately following the Envato team conference. That’s part of the reason there hasn’t been a staff response to this thread until now. We came back from the conference with A) a lot of work to catch up on and B ) a lot of new information and things we’d like to focus on. There’s a lot to do and we’ve been working hard at getting it done, doubly so following the conference.

3) purethemes mentioned the question of whether this place still loves “us” (the community of authors, buyers, etc) and the answer to that is a resounding Yes! There was a tremendous amount of discussion about our authors, buyers and other elements of our community during our conference.

We, at Envato, absolutely love the Envato community of authors, buyers, writers, editors, staff and every other aspect of the community.

4) You might be asking, if the above statement is true then why isn’t anything happening? The truth is that many things are happening, mostly behind the scenes. However, we’ve been working hard at adding more team capacity so we’re able to not only fix issues but build the features, tools and other great things you’ve all been asking for.

Building team capacity, however, is no easy feat and takes time to do it right. This isn’t something we started yesterday either but, again, it can be a time consuming process when done correctly. It’s especially difficult when some of us are already working enough that we don’t really have time to work on building capacity, but we must, which means other work needs to be put on hold in order for us to move forward.

5) Communication is key. We discussed issues regarding communication while at our conference and we’re looking at various ways to not only improve our internal communication but our communication with our community.

I can’t speak for the other departments but I can certainly say I am working towards adding significantly more transparencyto the review process and improved communication between the review team and authors, which requires many things and will take some time to reach but I deeply believe it’s a vital component to author satisfaction — among other things.

If you have any other questions, I’ll do my best to answer them. I may not, however, be able to give specific answers to some questions that require other staff but I’ll certainly forward them to the appropriate people for clarification.

Thanks everyone!

Hi everyone, I’m looking into this with the review team. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m looking into this issue. Thanks!

Currently the review time will vary based on several factors. It looks like things are currently sitting in a 6-9 day review turnaround, which will be progressively reducing as we balance a few aspects of the review queue.

Normally our review turnaround time is less than 72 hours.

Thanks for your patience everyone!

There will be a Notes post with more information on this topic once we have everything ready. Thanks!

Geon said
my portfolio has been rejected by saying “the quality of your photography in the portfolio you shared with us is presently is not quite up to the standard we are looking for on PhotoDune.. Please could anybody let me know what aesthetic and measurable standards reviewers of PhotoDune looking for?

Hi Geon, you might consider having a look through PhotoDune’s current library for examples of what reviewers are looking for.

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the confusion from the recent “blip” in price changes some of you experienced. We’re looking at various aspects to determine how best to approach any potential pricing changes. Part of that involved a reassessment by the Review Team according to certain given guidelines, from which the gathered information will be taken into consideration for any potential pricing changes.

In getting the reassessment rolling we had a minor miscommunication which led to a small set of items’ prices being changed and then immediately reverted back to their original prices.

Thanks for understanding everyone!

Sorry about the wait on that item. It needed additional team input but normally wouldn’t take that long to review. Thanks for your patience!