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Strange downloads/views

A topic by Mat created 28 days ago Views: 119 Replies: 2
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So this has been happening for a while, my game https://matthyy.itch.io/second-impact weekly receives a total of 4 downloads, 2 per file, all in one day, instantly. Sometimes, it is two times a week. I realized there was something wrong the day I saw no new views and 4 downloads.

This has gotten a bit constant too, two days in a row, even more too. I disabled downloads(have a web browser build too), and instead, received 8 views two times this week. Then reopened downloads, and got 4 downloads the day after.

I really have no idea what's going on, and I saw some people with alike problems that said that it eventually stopped (then again, their cases were much more intense, so to speak), but in my case it continues?

I suspect the Itch app trying to update/download the game. There are several changes and even ddos attacks in the last few days that might have interrupted downloads. Unfortunately interrrupted downloads still count as downloads afaik.

Oh, and the app caching your web game also counts as a download. As statistics go, those numbers on Itch are kinda strange.

This has gone on for months I believe, so it isn't recent. But other threads have as well pointed this out, so might as well be an itch thing. Strange tho, as it doesn't happen in any other of my games.