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needforname Peter, you’re wrong…quality of themes is a huge problem on Themeforest. And I’m not just talking about older themes. I’ve literally perused hundreds of Themeforest themes, and at least 90% of them have had blatant bugs in their demos…on popular devices and major browsers. And these were issues I found in just a few minutes of exploring the demos. There’s no reason the developers (theme authors) shouldn’t be finding these before releasing. There’s a lack of quality control and it’s wasting everyone’s time. If you need examples, here you go: On my iPhone 5s, if I open the theme by NagaEmas titled “Helium”, and access the menu and try scrolling down, the menu disappears completely (in vertical and horizontal mode). I even tried a refresh. It’s not like I’m finding these problems on a 5 year old phone with a dated browser…it’s the world’s most popular mobile device with up-to-date software. Have a look at the “Ganymede” demo of the “Jupiter” theme by Artbees…a popular seller with high ratings. Two weeks ago I reported multiple problems with the theme. For example…flickering of social media icons as pages load, pages not loading on my tablet (unless I refresh each page)…with high speed connection and attempts over multiple hours (not a speed issue), poor text scaling when browser is condensed horizontally (see “about” page at around 10″ browser width), home page text displays off the page in the demo on my iphone 5s, Two weeks later and still no update with these issues. If this was my theme, the fixes would have been addressed immediately. So yeah, I’ll say it again…there is a huge problem with quality control on Themeforest. Those were just 2 examples of many. And these are some of the top sellers on the site. So yeah…if I could find a theme provider who had the best of all worlds, I would definitely be willing to pay a lot more for the peace of mind. If you can recommend any specific theme authors of consistent quality, I would love know who they are. I’m having a very difficult time finding any. Thanks.
needforname
Peter, you’re wrong…quality of themes is a huge problem on Themeforest. And I’m not just talking about older themes.
I’ve literally perused hundreds of Themeforest themes, and at least 90% of them have had blatant bugs in their demos…on popular devices and major browsers. And these were issues I found in just a few minutes of exploring the demos. There’s no reason the developers (theme authors) shouldn’t be finding these before releasing. There’s a lack of quality control and it’s wasting everyone’s time.
If you need examples, here you go: On my iPhone 5s, if I open the theme by NagaEmas titled “Helium”, and access the menu and try scrolling down, the menu disappears completely (in vertical and horizontal mode). I even tried a refresh. It’s not like I’m finding these problems on a 5 year old phone with a dated browser…it’s the world’s most popular mobile device with up-to-date software.
Have a look at the “Ganymede” demo of the “Jupiter” theme by Artbees…a popular seller with high ratings. Two weeks ago I reported multiple problems with the theme. For example…flickering of social media icons as pages load, pages not loading on my tablet (unless I refresh each page)…with high speed connection and attempts over multiple hours (not a speed issue), poor text scaling when browser is condensed horizontally (see “about” page at around 10″ browser width), home page text displays off the page in the demo on my iphone 5s,
Two weeks later and still no update with these issues. If this was my theme, the fixes would have been addressed immediately. So yeah, I’ll say it again…there is a huge problem with quality control on Themeforest. Those were just 2 examples of many. And these are some of the top sellers on the site.
So yeah…if I could find a theme provider who had the best of all worlds, I would definitely be willing to pay a lot more for the peace of mind. If you can recommend any specific theme authors of consistent quality, I would love know who they are. I’m having a very difficult time finding any. Thanks.
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