Originally Posted by hjnet

I've recently made a testsubmission where I didn't use any of my Partner accounts and I've received ~32k uniques to that gallery, which doesn't sound much but actually suprised me cause I thought times would be harder for submitters without partner accounts.

But I think (hope) that I'm building rather good galleries, with a simple clean layout and some SEO etc., so the reviewers might prefer my galleries cause they see that I'm not someone who'll fuck them over right after they've accepted my submission.

But Partner Accounts are getting more and more important each day since every "bigger" Site requires them now. But on the other hand it's not as hard to get some as it was maybe 2-3 years ago, and the MGP DB should contain a list of ~500-600 Sites where you can apply for PAs when the update is ready in a few days.