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Why does it take so long to get items approved on Windows Live Gallery

I got quite a few views of my blog yesterday but I wasn't exactly overwhelmed by questions or comments. One of the comments I got was from "Scott Lovegrove" about the ridiculously large delay in getting items approved on Windows Live Gallery. So I thought I'd try and tackle that issue today.

Currently it takes roughly one to two business days for an item to get accepted. If you're talking days and that too business days then you're hopelessly out of touch with the internet age. People want instant results.

One of the reasons for such a long delay is that all items go through a manual review. That obviously slows things down significantly.

Acknowledgment is the first step towards recovery. We at least realize that this is a problem and we're trying to address it as soon as our feeble minds will let us. For now the only advice I can offer is to show some patience and keep submitting quality stuff on gallery. We will reduce the approval time really really soon. And we'll be working tirelessly to reduce it further for the longer term.

If you feel your item took longer than 2 days to get approved, leave me a comment with your item name and I'll personally look into it.

Posted: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 11:46 PM by syedmuh

Comments

shahpiyush said:

I don't mind the lag, it's important to review all gadgets submitted to Live Gallery, specially because Sidebar Gadget can run under elevated privilege and both Live.com and Vista are Microsoft products. My changes are typically reviewed and approved within a day.

Can you give an insight on what is the review process like?

Does someone actually go and check the code? Is the Gadget tested for security and performance?

What is the criteria for rejecting a Gadget?

# June 14, 2007 12:12 AM

ScottIsAFool said:

I don't mind the delay either as I know the process that goes on, it was just that for me, an acceptable delay is the 1-2 days. My plugin did finally get accepted yesterday, which was over four business days after I submitted it, that was the only reason for my comment.

Shahpiyush, I'm guessing they do check the code (well, certainly for Writer plugins), cos one of my first pugins I had an error message pop up for while I was debugging that had a random swear word, which I had forgotten to take out, so it failed approval.

Scøtt

http://liveside.net

# June 14, 2007 4:30 AM

Lorne L. Reap said:

I can not even update text on my Gadgets, they are good gadgets, they work well as does anything that I do. The Antonin-Rukl Gadget and the Solar Monitor Gadget will not update even after several days and the people that have asked me to make these science gadgets available for the public can install them, and so can other Vista users that have tried the gadgets...seems like if you really sell out to commerce like on-line gambling and such you gadgets are concidered Top-Notch, where as Science and Saftey are secondary.

# August 29, 2007 1:55 AM

Tim aka n-jOy said:

I have submitted an update of my gadget twice. The first time took nearly two weeks and I believe I am soon looking into 3 weeks on this second update. Still no approval.

My Gadget is "FM Jukebox" and it's the swedish submittion that currently takes forever to get approved.

Tim

# September 16, 2007 2:45 PM

syedmuh said:

Tim. I'll look into the problems you've run into and reply back in my blog.

# September 16, 2007 4:25 PM
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