I would like to bring to attention three new "Suggested Tags"
"Monster-Girl"
which should merge:
"monster-girl" - 115 results
"monster-girls" - 76 results
"monstergirl" - 58 results
"monstergirls" - 25 results
I've heard a bunch of developers starting to grumble about how traffic gets divided into four streams which kind of prevents the entire genre from establishing itself on Itch.IO. It should be emphasized that this is considered very distinct from the "furry" category as "monster-girls" are considered much, much more human-like in nature/appearance. And many developers specifically want and need to emphasize that their content isn't so extreme as to be considered "furry."
"Femdom"
which should merge:
"femdom" - 233 results
"female-domination" - 31 results
"femaledomination" - 2 results
It is rather important for the former to have the latter as an official tag as it has big implications to viewers whether the former genre contains the latter content (very common but not always). In the second tag, there is a split between the long-word and its more commonly used abbreviation in pop-culture and as is commonly used as shorthand label on other store-page websites.
"Vore"
which should merge:
"vore" - 270 results
"vorarephilia" - 0 results (but it is the full technical term)
Also a tag with a lot of cross-over interest that people will want to be informed if a title contains said content because it's a very specific imaginary interest to find or avoid.
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All three of these categories are devoted interests with approximately 250+ titles in each. Unifying and elevating them to official capacity would greatly improve the experience for customers browsing and relevant developers alike. All three as prominent options would be helpful for devs to be aware that they can tag titles in multiple of these categories. If made official, I'm certain that some of these categories would actually grow quite significantly in count, adding a few hundred more results, as there are many titles that technically fall into these categories but are not advertised as such.
-Best Regards
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In the "Monster Girls" tag description, is it possible to clarify that they represent a distinct visual appeal of some sorts. Some folks are worried that a lot of Furry tagged games will feel compelled to tag themselves as Monster Girls games. Usually "Furry" represents a visual style more fully covered in complete scales or fur where it serves as the main attraction. Whereas "Monster Girls" represents a visual style where the more "humanlike" features are still the primary attraction.
https://itch.io/games/tag-monster-girls
In that link,
In Heat
Love at First Tail
While the definitions are a little blurry, the overwhelming majority would firmly consider these to be Furry games and not Monster Girls in style.
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It is sort of a situation where for example a bunch of "family friendly" games (just as an illustrative example) are finding several top "gory" titles mis-tagged as "family friendly" could be making the browsing experience a bit uncomfortable to a certain space trying to advertise themselves as "not gory."
Just adding a bit of text description clarifications for the tags would help the situation a lot (possibly doing a single round of manual adjustment because some titles were in obscure tags now merged into the new mega-tag). A lot of monster-girl genre games will probably be coming over, but they don't want certain spaces to be glossed over because it contains so much more "extreme content" at the top to their intended audience if that makes sense.
Just trying to drop in a friendly word of advice to make the browsing experience better for everyone so people can find the right games they intended to find with greater ease.