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Thanks for doing that! I can't help but wonder though if it would be a good idea to allow devs to add search aliases themselves to improve searchability in a scenario like this. Granted, I know having a bunch of fan games competing with the real game is a relatively uncommon situation, but I think it would make sense to offer devs that option. If there are worries about it being abused, maybe it could be exclusive to verified accounts or something? I'm just spitballing here, but I feel like it would be a better option than having to reach out to support to have them added.

I've noticed an issue when trying to use Itch.io's search to find my game Baldi's Basics Plus. If you search for "Baldi's Basics Plus" then it shows up as the first result, so that's good, but when you drop the apostrophe and search "Baldis Basics Plus" suddenly it drops to about the 40th result, with a bunch of fan games and mods showing up first. Similarly searching for just "Baldi's Basics" will bring up Baldi's Basics Classic immediately, but Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered and Plus are buried under countless fan games and mods again, despite being official and my account being verified as such.

I'm not sure why the search behaves this way, but I definitely feel like there should be some fine tuning to prioritize official results somehow. Unless there's something I can do on my end to improve searchability, but I haven't been able to find anything I'm not already doing.

I have a handful of players who are interested in being able to download and play older versions of some of my games (In fact, I just got a refund request from a player who, seeing older versions of a game attached to a devlog, purchased it solely because they thought they would still be able to download those versions through the devlog). However, to keep my page clean and accessible I always hide older versions when releasing updates. If I were to unhide all older versions the list would be huge.

It would be great if a new option could be added that would hide files from the main page, but still allow them to be downloaded from a separate archive page tucked away somewhere. It would also be nice if this page had space for a short message so I could leave a disclaimer about how old versions are no longer supported and potentially unstable, etc.

Thanks for letting me know! Definitely not a hardware issue if it's happening on your MacBook Air. I thought maybe my old Macbook just didn't like the newer version of Unity but there definitely shouldn't be any compatibility issues with something as new as yours.

Nope, all updates are free after purchasing the game! You need to make sure you're signed into the Itch.io account you used to purchase the game to download the update. If you're certain you're using the correct account, please contact Itch.io support as the issue would be on their end.

You need to make sure you're signed into the Itch.io account you used to purchase the game. If you're certain you're using the correct account, please contact Itch.io support as the issue would be on their end.

Yep that's where it's happening for me as well. I've been trying to figure exactly what causes it but I haven't been able to track it down yet.

Thanks for letting me know, I was hoping maybe it was just my Macbook I was having trouble with but I guess not. Have you noticed any patterns when it freezes by chance? Still trying to narrow this issue down!

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