one week later: good news and bad news on chatgpt plugin submissions.
👍 good news: we've nearly doubled how many reviews we completed this week by tweaking our reviewer setup, so many more of you have heard back from us.
👎 bad news: our backlog is still growing because submissions have kept growing exponentially.
i said we'd catch up to the backlog in a week. we haven't, and i'm sorry to all of you who are still waiting.
we've now started fundamentally rethinking how we review plugins so we can deal with this new plethora of plugins, but it'll take some time to get it done.
thanks for bearing with us 💖 i will keep updating you all as the situation evolves.
let's talk about submissions. since the beginning of the year, chatgpt plugin submissions have increased by almost 10x.
then, since the explosion of interest in plugins after devday, they 3x'ed again! 🤯
it's been really difficult for our review team to keep up, and it shows in the review times. right now, the eta for you to hear back from us is about 2 weeks – that's too long!
so, we've declared a temporary code red. we're relaxing some of our nice-to-have requirements so that we can increase throughput.
it's going to take us about one week to catch up with our backlog, so if you have submitted so far you'll hear back in the next days.
we're also:
1. going to show the eta in the submission portal so at least you know when you'll hear back from us
2. working on automating more review checks so you get immediate feedback without having to wait for our review team
3. taking another look at the requirements to make sure we check for only the most critical things to keep our users safe
keep building plugins and keep submitting them; we're hard at work making that a great experiencer. thanks for bearing with the team.
more context in the video: