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Well. Itch's "social" features are rudimentary and crude.

It's about 40 recent posts you will see on a profile.

And about the questions & support thing, I complained about it, but not enough people noticed it and the complaint was auto-archived https://itch.io/t/6068170/please-rename-this-message-board-category

 it is common to keep tickets and threads opened until solved

... for an actual support message board. But this is not such a tech support message board. It is a community message board. Archiving threads so quickly is still strange. But it's consistent with the crude nature of the social features. No private messages. No following messages. No mention mechanics. And so on. The public message board is not really frequented by many people. Granted, Itch is not a really big site, but the message board is really small. Just look how many views a typical thread will get. It's less than 100. And threads with answers will divide that number by the people reading there several times.

People are not on Itch to read and post in the message boards. They are here for games and might comment on some of those games, but not on the general Itch message board.

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Indeed, that seems better on Ideas & Feedback or even, as I usually double-post for important issues, the GitHub issues. In fact, I’m not sure why I posted that first post in Questions & Support, since it’s a bug report (Feedback) x feature request (Ideas). As you said, the name “Support” is probably misleading and makes me want to put bugs there sometimes. Even Ideas & Feedback is not ideal to me, as some people will not consider bugs like “standard feedback”. Ideally I’d have sub-forums like Issues > General website issues (for everyone), Issues for creators (so visitors don’t have to care about creator-specific issues), both with itch staff looking at the posts, and a separate Community forum for less important things.

Also, I realized I put that second post on the wrong thread: my first post was about showing comment history (so things the profile posted), whereas the second post is about notifications specifically (so replies from other people to my profile).

While the first part with comment history is more “social”, the second part about notifications is more technical as it features all kinds of notifications (including important comments about my game not working, etc.), so I’ll reopen threads in the appropriate places for each issue.

EDIT: I opened the threads:

For community posts: https://itch.io/t/6393158/view-full-community-posts-history-very-old-comments-of-a-given-profile-at-least-mine https://github.com/itchio/itch.io/issues/1900

For notifications: https://itch.io/t/6393294/add-pagination-system-to-notifications-all-replies-to-see-read-entries-older-than-2-months https://github.com/itchio/itch.io/issues/1901