The creators must be notified whenever their indexing changes, so they can take actions. Right now it happens silently and keeps you second-guessing

Yep. That is a real thing now, and it’s very sad. Probably you are trying to do a good thing and keep itch a safe place, but the outcome is what it is - slop and scam is winning while passionate developers are being punished.

Notification about being deindexed will be good. You never know the reason and if it happening to your game. Happened to one of my game being deindexed and my support tickets was ghosted.

I agree! It's really hard to wait for indexing. I published the game over 10 days ago and still can't find it in search. It's sad to realize that many projects could also encounter this error.

https://0bsessi0n.itch.io/without-a-trace

Also, my post, which touched on the same topic, has been pending review for 4 days now.

My game (https://eggplantdevelopment.itch.io/irre) has been deindexed 6-7 times already. The current deindex phase has already lasted 19 days!
Each time I have to open multiple tickets and have to beg for a manual review. I've also created a seperate topic about this issue to no affect.

I do not see in any way, how a game with over 50 overwhelimingly positive reviews, still needs to be manually reviewed after each update.
This does not make the platform any saver, it just makes publishing here frustrating.
Updating your game and engaging with the platform should be rewarded, not punished!

Unfortunately it's spammers and scammers ruining the internet per usual. I'm not happy all my games get quarantined but they're the only ones to be angry against.