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Searchable collections

A topic by UPPAJUPP created Nov 30, 2023 Views: 316 Replies: 2
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When I see a game under development that is interesting, I add it to a private collection like "Interesting games". Over the years my collections have gotten 100s of entries.

1. Now what I would like to do, is to search my own collection. Like, perhaps "Status" changed from In development to "Released"? If so, I might now want to make a decision if I want to buy the game.. but I cannot search my collections? Opening up many 100s of games just to recheck their status is mind-boggling tedious. So I often miss when they are completed and I guess I just buy a lot fewer games.

2. Also after I do buy a game, I likely want to remove it from that collection. Why can I (from the game's page) only add it to a collection, but not remove it? This is also true if I want to move it to another collection. Like perhaps the game is released, but I find it a bit too expensive, so I want to move it to a "Wait for sale" collection. Again, I can add it to a "Wait for sale" collection, but it would be good if I at the same time could remove it from my "Interesting games" collection. It should be a simple fix, there are even 3rd party scripts to do this (https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/433692-itch-io-simple-remove-from-collection), but we should not have to rely on 3rd party scripts for such simple things.

3. If/when search is implemented. It would be good if I could search for things like: Has an ongoing sale? Are currently buyable in a bundle? Have more than 1000 downloads? Have a score over 3 and at least 100 voters. Last activity, was it was more than 2 year ago, or less than 3 months ago? Things like that. It will increase your sales!

4. It would of course also be good if I could also search "Things you own" (my bought games), and not just my collections. Because sometimes I do buy things in development and want to wait with them while playing finished products, or I might want to play the most popular games first or so. But worst case I guess I could just spend some time to add them to collections too.

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Seconding all this but especially 4. -- I often buy charity bundles and own over a thousand items. Going through the multi-step process of adding all of these to collections manually and individually is not imaginable.
The filters we do get on the general "Browse" page are great, and even just the ones we get in the app for a given collection -- I have made a collection for stuff I want to check out later, and in there I can for instance filter video games from TTRPGs. I just want to glance through what video games I **already own but don't even know of** because of the sheer size of the amazing bundles that amazing creators offer on itch.io! Or even searching keywords, like when I'm in the mood for something about a specific letter of the LGBTQ acronym within a general queer-themed bundle, or am looking for a specific item I don't remember the exact title of but know is in one of my gigantic collections!

Can we please just get the same filters in our "My purchases/Games you own" page and in bundles?
And/or a setting filter for "Items I own" in the "Browse" page?

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yes please, many people (like myself) got some of the charity bundles, and scrolling through the collections to find something without being able to filter by tags like genre, type or date, or even searching for specific words in the title is extremely annoying