Post by Outsider Artisan in How do major updates or launch posts get reveiwed?

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I’m bumping this. All I want is confirmation the system works, because this update was probably more substantial than the one I made last month that got approved. But whatever, people are arbitrary, I get it. I probably can’t count on my updates to get a bump.

What’s irritating is that if you go to devlogs, filter for major updates, and sort by most recent, it seems like something is wrong. If the major update system is indeed working, then someone should probably at least go fix that page because it’s definitely broken.

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DarkStone Digital4 years ago(+1)

I’m actually kind of surprised at this point at the lack of response. There’s no doubt they are busy over at Itch but I’ve tried every single method I know of to try and get in touch with someone about this just to know how it works.

I’d hope it’s not a huge task to provide some transparency to the system. This lack of update approval makes it very un-enticing to have any kind of long standing page with itch. Without approvals of major updates or launches; your best bet is to just make a new page for your game to let the automated system add it to the new section. That kills any long term loyalty to your page, brand, and ultimately itch.

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Outsider Artisan4 years ago

Yeah I’m honestly a little frustrated. I feel like if the system were completely broken more people would be talking about it, so I assume that our games both just happened to get arbitrarily rejected, which, whatever, it’s fine. People are making that decisions and people aren’t perfect.

I guess the fact that major updates on the devlog page are totally messed up is just an unrelated bug. I really can’t imagine there’s a massive issue in this system and we’re the only ones to care.

It is troubling that this topic and all other attempts to reach out have been totally ignored. It’s irritating too that this system is so lacking in transparency that it isn’t even clear it works. I can’t imagine a worse way to do this.

The fact that two updates of very similar size, with basically the exact same release notes, can get completely different results is also disturbing, as it means whatever rules the human reviewers are using are loose enough to be unreliable.

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