ah, it appears again in the search engine
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Yes! I was recently informed that Itch.io rolled back some of these restrictions, and that if I disabled donations, the game would be reindexed. It's not a perfect compromise, and I'm still hoping they'll do more to remove the restrictions they've placed, but its enough for me to keep the game on Itch.io :)