"Quarantined" means your game can't be found in searches, and someone from the staff has to look at it. The latter is how I usually explain it to people. I don't know how this term was picked.
The message is different when trying to download the game.
When the game is unindexed, it simply doesn't appear in the Itch search engine, but if you access the page, it works normally.
When a game is marked as "quarantined," in addition to being unindexed, if someone tries to download that game, Itch displays a warning, indicating that the game may be potentially dangerous.
So the game being “quarantined” is pretty much the same as it being de-listed? If that’s the case, why have two points in the FAQ focusing on the exact same thing? Or is de-listed / de-indexed the same thing as quarantined, except nobody will come and have a look at it?
To make it less confusing. Is this right?
Quarantined - Your game is not visible, staff will have a look if everything is OK and make it visible again
De-indexed - Your game is not visible. It broke some rule and it will not come back unless you fix what’s wrong.
Sorry, didn’t notice the post above. Everything makes sence now. Thanks.
Still, adding some kind of glossary of frequently used terms and their explanation to the FAQ page, or somewhere else would make things easier in the future. As I said, I would have never known what the difference between de-listed and quarantined is if I didn’t ask.