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Push a game / asset on release under "newest" category

A topic by Sam created 14 days ago Views: 110 Replies: 4

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I just experienced this myself. If you release (not publish) a game / asset page, it will be under:
https://itch.io/game-assets/newest

But if you use it for a development log e.g. and then release it, it will not be in the "newest" stream. That's in my opinion a wrong behavior and also hurts the promotion for the release date. I would suggest that it will be re-sorted under "newest" on the release date. maybe it should not be initial under this category when releasing the page, just "if published is true"?

I hope you understand what I mean :)

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No Time To PlayModerator14 days ago (1 edit)

Yes, but how do you define a release in that case? There's no "release" button for game pages. Just the moment when you make it public.

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Sam14 days ago

You are right. but in the Assetpack metadata is a release Date setting. You could just use this. And once it is "one time" activated, it's not possible to do again (to prevent spaming the "newest" thread).

This way it would just work for games and assets on release.

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No Time To PlayModerator14 days ago

But you can change that field any time you want. And it's metadata. Purely informational. That's kind of the point.

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Sam14 days ago

Yeah so there should be implemented a way that it is not. Or give an option at the project page. Which isn't a big deal regarding html and a bit PHP that pushes to the database.

My suggestion is not to change the metadata but to give people an option to handle their project correctly. Since the behavior right now is irritating and at least in my opinion not right.

So you actually get the "newest" thread when releasing not when publishing a page - it doesn't make sense to see a published but not released project under "newest" - and if it gets published there is no position in newest.

Maybe set an option at the project page as "publish now to newest - or - publish to newest on release". That's what I would propose.

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