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Ratings & Reviews visibility.

A topic by sicave created Mar 15, 2024 Views: 235 Replies: 7
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Tucked away, buried and marked with an X; we find the Ratings & Reviews page.
Dashboard > Game Page > Game edit page > Interact page > Ratings & Reviews page, which sounds simple until you count all the other options that these are among.
Feels like it's important, and shouldn't be this hard to find.
It's not on the top bar.

It gets no notifications.
Tucked and buried.
Shouldn't creators be told or reminded that "Hey, this is where you find this!"?

Due to this lack of visibility, Reviews have to be left in the Comments or Topics so that they're actually seen, redundant, ain't it?

Hope this is corrected, by adding Reviews to one of the top bars, adding notifications, and/or by adding instructions to where to find the page.
Thanks in advance, and thanks to Itch team for doing the work they already do.

I am not sure what you talk about. The only function of that button is to turn ratings off for a project. It is turned on by default.

Reviews/Ratings are not attached to your project in a way that players can find those. Not even when clicking on the ratings stars. You cannot see other players's reviews. Not on demand. You have to previously follow another player or randomly encounter them in a feed. Some creators do rate projects, those reviews will get more visibility, if those creators have many followers - since the review now appears in the feed of their followers.

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I was saying that it's hard for a creator to find the Ratings & Reviews page to their own page

Ah, that makes more sense, yes.

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Go to your dashboard, under each of the projects there is a "More" button. If you click on this there is a direct link to Reviews in the menu

This still feels hidden, and I couldn't find this until you told me about it.

Yeah I don't disagree, also I had thought that there were email notifications for when you get a rating but I guess not?

I haven't tested that, but it still makes sense for more visibility and on-site notifications at the least.