Post by redonihunter in Assistance with Indexing of Our Second Released Game!

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Seems you are doing well for not being indexed.

The publishing process on Itch is a bit strange, yes. But essentially it is self publishing of unverified publishers. And this gets abused. A lot. What triggers manual inspection is secret. Might as well include rng. It is known to also happen on updates. So even if you pre-publish and get indexed, you might get temporarily get delisted for inspection for your release update.

There is a suggestion box in the feedback button. A feature request. Any suggestions might reach Itch better this way. This is community, so you are usually talking to other users here.

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Worst Event Games64 days ago

Ah, I understand. But what about moderators? Wouldn't they be able to receive and address this feedback? Also, There's another question: since the game still isn’t indexed, does releasing new updates affect its position in the queue or potentially reset it then?

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redonihunter63 days ago(+1)

My advice is, to ignore the indexing and update, if you have updates. You would not even know about the indexing, if you hadn't looked.

The mod is community mod. There is a dedicated feedback button if people want to make suggestions to Itch.

People here can of course talk and discuss feature requests. And staff might read here. And other people reading here and agreeing might hit the feedback button and make the same suggestion.

It sure is a topic that is concerning for developers. Itch has to balance protecting users and supporting developers. There are sadly hacked user accounts on a daily basis. I have seen those in the hundreds. Also shovelware and scams. Plus of course the things that are not up to the standards in the faq about indexing. https://itch.io/docs/creators/quality-guidelines

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