I was today years old, when I learned that there is such a thing as a fresh section.

The header on itch pages.

It looks different when you are logged in. Open a window without being logged in. The itch logo has a little text. When logged in, there is no text.

The different sections in the header are written in a certain style. It is Browse Developer Logs Jams and so on. It is different sections of itch to visit. But the landing page or home page is hidden behind the site logo. It does not look like a section to visit. That there are things on that landing page that are not accessible on the other sections never occured to me. I never land there and I am not reminded that it exists. Maybe I saw it once or twice and disregarded it, since the first thing is just the push for the itch app.

If it would read "Start" "Browse" "Developer Logs" ... in the same style, it would be more prominent.

It goes on. Hover over the sections. There is a red underline under the sections. The homepage is not underlined as such.

This is what I mean by hidden in plain sight. It is always there, but easy to overlook.

It is not about not finding the page when looking for it. It is about forgetting about this thing if you are already in the itch bubble. There just is no incentive to go there. If you look at the header there is Browse advertised when you want to go looking for games. Why would I go to the front page? It is a thing for first time visitors where the itch app is promoted at top.

It would not be such an issue, if the things on the front page would be duplicated and advertised elsewhere. But "fresh" is not even in the Directory. https://itch.io/directory And if you click it, it gets displayed as an unchoseable option in misc. "featured" is only buried as the last option in "misc". The last thing of the last thing. Or in other words, nothing that one would suspect is being promoted on the front page.

Why is fresh and featured not on top of the browse section above platform? Or the randomizer? This is also not in the Directory. Is a link to it anywhere but the very bottom of the front page?