Great, thanks for the info! I'll wait and assume they'll get to it sometime. Glad to know nothing is going wrong, although the email saying it was published was a bit misleading :).
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The email specifically says "Splody is now published" and then "every new project appears in recently added when first published", with a link to where it's not appearing right now, so that's pretty confusing. Also, as someone who's coming from other stores, I'm getting on itch.io to get a little more exposure to a different audience, so I'd consider the hosting part that is currently live only a small part of "publishing," the other part, much more important to me, is actually being in the store.
Thanks for the detailed response!