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With all respect, I think you should either stop offering large bundles, or improve your backend server so it can handle large libraries.

When I order a game from any other gaming site, the game appears in my library. If I  have a large library, this makes it easier to install games on-the-fly. In contrast, when I buy a bundle from Itch, I essentially have to visit a library within a library, just to see it in my library. I hope you can see how user unfriendly this is. I wouldn't be complaining if this was a temporary measure, or part of a larger roadmap- even if it was years in the future, or an indefinite "to-do". But outright saying you will not be adding this is pretty frustrating.

I've just started getting into Itch, and I thought buying this bundle- as well as supporting Ukraine- would bolster my library and encourage me to buy from and support more indie devs. But this is something that will be a real sticking point against me buying any bundles in the future. I like to know exactly what I own and have it searchable from a single place, not stuck between multiple purchase pages.

I appreciate having been able to support events in Ukraine in this way, but it has left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.

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Hear hear.

I love itch as a platform, I really, really do. But with the lack of filtering/sorting options (I'm aware that it's being worked on, but I think it should have been done a long time ago), the barebones app client, the game library and collections' lack of features, it's all really unfriendly. 

On top of that, you can only view your purchases on the website, not games specifically, so you would have to sift through each one in order to find a game instead of a game asset or tool.  So I'd have to use the app, which like the website, is stuck in a listed order instead of a grid, which is just plain inconvenient.

 A personal gripe as well is the inability to claim games that are free, like you can on other platforms. I have a lot of games in my collection that will likely stay in a collection instead of my library until I get space to install them. It's just a preference thing though, I don't expect anyone else to share it.

I don't want to stop using itch, but as we speak I am putting every single one of my games in my library into collections based on their genre because 1) there is no genre/tag filter, and 2) you can't add multiple games in a collection at a time. It's just really exhausting right now.

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A personal gripe as well is the inability to claim games that are free, like you can on other platforms. I have a lot of games in my collection that will likely stay in a collection instead of my library until I get space to install them. It’s just a preference thing though, I don’t expect anyone else to share it.

Free games that are claimable is something developers must host as a promotion for if they wish to offer that. By default, a game being free does not mean you permanently own it to allow developers the ability to update what they’re offering.