okay so over the course of the last 8 hours there was a MASSIVE drop in the visible nsfw games, comics, and books (meaning more was shadowbanned that wasn't already, and a chance even some removed in that purge)
Over the past few days I've been looking at the https://itch.io/comics/newest/nsfw https://itch.io/books/newest/nsfw and https://itch.io/games/newest/nsfw tabs recording the "results" number ever few minutes or so over the course of the day and things where stabilizing, but then a MASSIVE drop happened last night with all 3 that I'm not sure what the cause was. I can only imagine some games may have been removed completely as well because this seemed like a second run through of what was still visible that maybe "shouldn't be" by the new/constant changes. I share this because there were probably cases of someone seeing their game was shadow banned and then an hour or day later it wasn't (as the numbers where increasing a bit) but I would recommend checking again today if your games were or were not shadowbanned as they may be now.
as of right now at 9:14 AM est Comics shows 560, Books shows 425, and games shows 5,752 visible nsfw content. (keep in mind these numbers may also be different on different folks clients, but these are what they show for myself)
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Something else number wise I noticed,
On my game on the analytics it shows today it has 233 views, HOWEVER it has 366 browser plays? um 366 is 133 over 233... I'm wondering if other shenanigans are going on and if other devs can confirm if their games shadow banned or not if their analytics look strange? Cases where a Games view count is much smaller than the download or browser play.
Unless maybe refreshing the page doesn't update the count, while clicking play does update the browser play count.
I'm just wondering if the site is bugging due to the drastic changes or intentionally hindering stats so that adult games don't show up in "most popular"/"recently popular" Any info from devs will help!