You surely all know the Wordpress Themeviewer over at themes.wordpress.net. It is a great resource (personally I think the best) for free Wordpress Themes on the Internet to date.

To many peoples dismiss the Wordpress Themeviewer is in a frozen state. For months designers could not update their themes or upload new ones - but as every coin has two sides, this has also been a great chance for designers to re-think their work and stash themes, updates and more for day X when the Wordpress Themeviewer will once again be open to the public.

But why is the Wordpress Themeviewer actually locked?
- Spam in form of Sponsored Themes had taken over the Wordpress Themeviewer, so people decided it was time to clean out the Themeviewer’s database and add some nifty cool features to it. Matt, the Wordpress Matt, posted some interesting figures about Sponsored Themes and spam-infected themes that had already been removed: in the past weeks over 100’s of themes have been reported and removed. (2000 themes roughly)

That was two and a half months ago. What’s up now? A quick  update on the situation would be really cool, since not even people on the Wordpress Support forums have a clue.

Not completely related, but interestingly observed: The amount of theme submissions to Weblogtoolscollection per day has gone down from 14 to 17 per day to three to four. Now guess how many themes were sponsored and spammy.. (just calculate the difference)