Itch.io priorities are just beyond understanding.
- Protecting users from scam, fraud and malware - n-o-o-o-o, it's "too difficult" to do. Platform is "safe enough", developers should moderate comments themselves.
- Ban porn to lick corpo's booties - YE-A-A-A-A-H! That sounds like a good plan!
No, seriously, we have somehow survived "pornpocalipsise", but fishing links existed before and continue to exist on platform, lots of developers were concerned about it.
as much as I do not like the Itchio porn problems, I understand their situation. Having both visa and mastercard hold a monopoly in US money transfer systems and being able to just take away services from you is basically holding a gun to 80% of Itchio's wallet. Unfortunately this is a systemic issue and Itchio just doesn't want to lose all of it's income which WOULD just shut down the site itself and put a lot of people out of work.
I say this because of what they did and how they did it, they held a temporary mass blinding, which meant the game might not be browsable but still searchable, and then they had to sort things out bit by bit themselves and allowed a lot of content back by not blinding them. Direct links still worked for most people. It was the strangest and trickiest middle ground that they had to navigate on a very short time period. Caught between a rock and a horny place, they somehow squeezed through with scrapes and bruises.
