- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- United States
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
mordauk said
How is it you’re paying Envato four figures?
70% goes to me and 30% goes to Envato. If you sell $3333 per month, then you’re paying Envato $1000 month. That’s four figures. You’re an Elite too, you’re paying them as much as I am.
Granted: Envato has other responsibilities and that funding is spread across their businesses/activities, which drives traffic to the marketplaces. It would be foolish to ignore that, but it makes you re-consider the economics and ROI — doesn’t it?
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Contributed a Blog Post
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Europe
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
- Exclusive Author
I have to agree with GravityDept.
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- United States
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
Down again today. Anybody else convinced uptime is important?
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- United States
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
- Referred between 100 and 199 users
I noticed it more and more, would be nice if they could simply tweet it. Is is that hard? I mean rather than starting a whole thing, why not just tweet it a day or two in advance..
- Australia
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Envato Developer
- Envato Staff
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
Hi folks,
We’ve had an unusually bad week for unexpected downtime. I posted an update here yesterday.
We’re working on it!
Regards,
Pete Yandell
Marketplace Lead Architect
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- United States
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
Down again…2x today. I think all developers are aware of the “leap second” havok going on this week. I’m not criticizing Envato for experiencing issues. It happens.
What I’m arguing for is disclosure of the “Quality of Service” Envato is delivering. A report of historical uptime is a baseline measure of QoS for all web services.
Yes, it’s embarrassing if your uptime is poor, but it’s worse to hide the fact. Be honest, fully disclose, and take steps to improve. There isn’t another way forward that will salvage respect for Envato — which is (unfortunately) waning as marketplace problems pile up.
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GravityDept said
A buyer emailed me directly yesterday, and when I told him all support needs to go through ThemeForest for purchase verification, he said it was down. When I checked it was up […]
This is too obvious.
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- United States
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
mazoor said
This is too obvious.
The user was a legitimate buyer, and the marketplaces were legitimately down. Downtime creates tension on both sides of the selling relationship in a way neither can avoid or control.
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- United States
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
Down again today. I should rename this thread “Unofficial Envato Uptime Report”.
