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JustZ
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To my surprise, there's only 5% of all games on Itchio that is tagged horror, but somehow the pages are flooded with those, there's undoubtedly something wrong about how the games are displayed, so this is making me start to think, maybe the devs are trying to fix this issue instead of adding a new feature?
To be fair though, I've been browsing the site with a certain tag, and I do feel like there are fewer horror games as of late. Maybe not many horror games also have the tags I'm searching for, but that's a good sign for my browsing experience at least.
On a side note, what is the "The last day" tag anyway? Didn't even know it existed lmao
as you said, it's as if the truth was an inconvenience...
I mean as the other guy said, itchio needs this because it is a problem here on itchio, not because it's just a simple "Quality of Life improvement", I see lots of other (dare I say, unnecessary) updates but this problem has never been solved, I doubt the Devs are even taking this problem seriously. I don't know what happened back then, but I'm pretty sure it's a much-needed improvement here...
Well... to put it simply (from what I've learnt), they owe the users a usable interface and functions because users can switch to better platforms when given the chance, which we haven't.. yet. So.. yeah If there's suddenly a platform with the same features as itchio but with multiple tag exclusion feature, a LOT of people would switch pretty quickly, if said platform is developed in the right ways (feel free to ask about the details).
the simplest way to explain it would be that the usability of something is directly connected with how happy the users would be when using that something, and how happy the users are determines whether the product is good enough in the long run
Take DeviantArt as an example, it was considered THE best G-rated art website a few years ago, and now a lot of users have stopped using the website and would rather stick to social media instead (DA users, I said "a lot", not "all". Don't reply with "Oh I'm still using DA"). Why did that happen? There was a change in UI that was sudden and changed almost everything that everyone had to relearn how to use the website, which is a BIG no in terms of website maintenance, and they didn't revert it at all, I think it's because they thought the users would be patient in learning everything again, which didn't happen, and now DA lost a lot of its users, but it still works as there are still some old users that stayed and new users that didn't have to go through that
Now how is that relevant to itchio? It's having a similar situation where a lot of people are complaining about the same topic, in this case, the tag exclusion feature, and in DeviantArt's case the sudden UI change. I know it's been a long time since we asked for it but we're still here, but I'm sure the active users of Itchio are reducing, I mean look at the recent games, all of them are either low effort, horror, visual novel or all of them, the only ones that can be rated as "good enough" is the occasional big projects and a few of the ones that won game jams, from what I see these two are the only things keeping Itchio alive.
yes. I do realize that you can filter out one (and only one) specific tag by adding something after the url. no. one exclusion isn't enough, it's only gonna turn the horror games flooded page into a visual novel flooded page.
and yes. I do realize that I can just skip a few pages to actually get something that's neither of them. no. it's not consistant nor efficient as I'll have to do it everytime I look for games, and there's still a lot of horror and/or visual novel after the third page.
Lets be real most of us are sick of all these horror games flooding the place, I mean look at it, click on browse, click on games, and boom, a whole page of horror games... and when it's not horror it's visual novel...
Edit: all we asked for was to exclude multiple tags, and they decided removing downvotes to comments and replies is a good idea