For example, if I go to the "Card Games" section and sort by "Most Recent," and I scroll back to the exact day my game was published, my game does not appear at all. This isn't about competition or relevance; it's about the fact that the project never entered the chronological feed for its category.
Strange, I found it without any problem.
At the time of writing, it's on page 23, along with the other games that were published 62 days ago.
You are right!
Thanks for checking, I see it now. However, I’ve been checking the newest lists almost daily since launch and it was never there.
Do you think it's possible that the game was kept invisible while waiting in the review queue and then only got indexed retroactively? That would explain why it skipped the first pages of the "most recent" section and appeared directly on page 23. I'm glad it's finally up, but it's a bit frustrating to have missed the initial visibility because of this delay.
The admin said in a post that when a game is reviewed and manually re-indexed, they "refresh" the page so that it appears in the most recent entries. However, I don't know the exact details of how it works in these cases.
https://itch.io/t/6187844/appearing-in-most-recent-should-be-based-on-when-your-...
The issue is that the game isn't 62 days old, it was actually released on April 5th. You can even see the update I made 16 days ago, shortly after the launch.
I created the draft page 2 months ago just to prepare the layout, and it seems Itch used that creation date for the "Most Recent" indexing instead of the actual publication date. That’s why I never saw it in the recent lists during the last 3 weeks, it was buried 2 months deep from the very first second it went live.
So I don't think the game was "refreshed" when indexed...
It’s frustrating because I basically missed the entire launch visibility due to this date mismatch. At least now I know why it was "invisible" to me.
