With the “new” required approval on Release posts what I have noticed is that instead of having a natural flow of posts, we have chunks of it, like 5-10 at a time since that’s when they go through it an approve them.
I am not sure if I am alone on this, but this hurts the small creators who “depend” on the forum to advertise their work, wheter it be paid or not, and the posts end up having less traffic then before.
It would be nice if there was some way to bypass this approval requirement, either with a pre-screening user based or some other form.
It actually benefits small creators because it gives people time to see your post. That is the whole incentive of it. If you post and everyone can just keep spamming over it, your post will never be seen. Though I do agree that the approval process could use some love.
I see your point and can agree to it to a certain extent, however, the things I think hurt creators the most is:
The posts being approved in batches, which makes it basically as if they were all released at the same time and if you are not one of the last in the batch you go to the bottom of the list
Specially problematic when they approve more than 12 posts in the same period or small interval
You are not able to plan your releases to a time frame, because you never know when your post will be approved vs. when you posted
If you get “lucky” and your post is approved right before weekend, it usually stays there for the entire of it (which is expected), but if not it will often go unnoticed in the list
And there’s obviously sometimes way too long way periods (not even refering to weekends).
If the same resources would be approved automatically, you would still end up on the bottom of the list. Make sure you have a good description instead, so people can find your resource in the search instead.
It won’t go unnoticed for the people that want to buy your scripts.
Paid resources in general get less traction as the free ones, because you can’t just download it and test it, or look at the code. My most recent pause menu, which is free, has more impressions and link visits than all my paid scripts combined. My scaleform stuff still gets traction from the people that searches for scaleform issues or resources.
The type of resource also counts. If you post yet another apartment shell MLO, you will have to compete with the countless others on the forums. At least gameplay and HUD-related scripts tend to have something unique to them, even if the theme is overused.
I somehow always managed to post my resources friday night, and I never had issues just waiting for approval.
Anyway, fivem devs please ressurect the Unity Marketplace-style page that I know you guys (well, maybe not the current team) worked on at least a bit before the R* merge. It will be a lot better than the current forums.
I tried to post a release about 3 days ago and it hasn’t been published yet. It’s not even pending anymore. I don’t know if it was rejected or not, but I haven’t received any messages or emails, and I don’t know if I can try to publish another release because I don’t want to keep sending repeated requests. No one in moderation is giving any feedback on the matter.
If you go to your Activity in profile you can see if it’s still “Pending” or not in the pending section. If it’s not there it was denied.
But yeah, I posted on the 22nd at around 9 am GMT+1, and only got it approved yesterday at 10 am, there was a bunch of batch of approvals in that period, not sure if there was just a lot pending or what.
Definitively something that needs to be looked at in my opinion
hey guys, i cant post anything, i tried 3 times, all off them was rejected , i dont know why, i dont receive any email again , nothing , the fivem forum is like “shutdown” for me
same … it kinda putting me off posting things on here anymore due to the time it takes to get approved… even on free releases we have to wait … i have 2 pending and been pending for 2 days already… worse thing about this is you can wait days and your post get declined for stupid things too … like mine gets declined for not have screen shots even tho i have a video linked showing what it is and what it does … so you have to wait again to get it approved again just by simply add a screenshot -_-
they should have auto approve on and let the community handle the reports … (like they use to) . or simply hire more staff that looks into the release’s…
again nowadays any free releases i post on discord -_-
there are just some release rules i have succesfully released paid and free resources via this platform but somehow today im also stuck with pending for hours wich i know it never takes that long its like real quick so im realy curiouse what i did different this time compared to the last times lol