I really feel with those theme authors/ shops! It must be hard to deal with month of hard word, just "wasted". One cannot understand this lack of communication and transparency from Automattic to the theme authors/ submitters. It really seems strange. Even if they don't want public announcements - which would feel totally ok for me - but just inform the authors individually just to tell them what's really going on.

After all, the company IS Automattic, which have "communication skills" as one of their essential values for their workers!!!

In the last weeks I, together with a lot of other people in the WordPress community, am re-thinking my "beliefs" about marketplaces like ThemeForest. And Dovy seems totally right: WordPress.com/ WordPress.org and Automattic leave money on the table because of all that.

If they don't want to step up in that theme business anymore or just "right now" -- all would understand. Just a little communication sometimes or a little transparency???

More and more theme authors who are "doing it right" (great code, ya know :) ) are going back to ThemeForest for serious reasons.