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i will like to heard the community experience with this issue. 

I once got a reply after reporting a bug. For other things, there were no responses. 

Most of the time there is no need for a response. Especially for the things you see in community threads. People do not want answers, they want their case to be worked on.

And there might be something fundamentally wrong in how tickets/support requests are queued. It seems as if requests can get lost. Ignored. Misunderstood. There was a virus I told them about. They did absolutely nothing for several months. And I believe to remove an indexed malware to be more important than all those threads about people wanting their game to get indexed faster. The virus was since removed, but probably because I wrote them again, and not because of my initial ticket. This is very worrying. With over a million projects, such requests should not get lost. Because then you get things like I already encountered: malware with an age of up to two years. Out in the open. Uncontested. If I remember correctly, there were even comments on the page about it being a virus. 

I fear that people are not motivated to report malware, because they do not see results. Not even after waiting several weeks. I certainly lose motivation over that. Why bother reporting viruses, if Itch does absolutly nothing from my perspective.

yeah man, the fact that the responses are so eratic + that if you comment here in the 'wrong way' you will be not heard, can be demoralizing.  I wish that itch focus only in the forums, because the email feel abandoned.

The staff doesn't usually read, much less respond to, the forum, mainly because of the problem of discussing topics involving private data in a public medium.

This past month, one of the admins has been reviewing the forum to resolve some payment issues, but I wouldn't consider using the forum a "formal" way to contact the staff.

I agree that not responding, and especially not having a way to know if a ticket is open or closed, is difficult for users. But at the same time, it's difficult to ask the staff to respond to all the requests if you consider that there are very few of them compared to all the people requesting support.

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I understand that the private data part on a public forum is a bad idea, but what I'm saying is that it would be incredible if there was a private system like the itch.io forums.

That said, while I understand that it's difficult for stats to deal with so many people, I find it surprising that a moderator here has already answered my question (more or less), and yet the two support emails I sent (both older that this post) remain unanswered.

Again, my sincere appreciation to the itch.io team, but this is weird to say the least.

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Our moderator does not have nearly as much work to handle as we do and has no access to our support desk. Naturally as their workload is lower they can respond to forum posts much quicker than staff that is processing support tickets, going through all of our review queues (games, jams, blog posts, users, reports), processing payments, and other far more pressing matters. Your patience is appreciated.