Post by Crossfire271 in Will itch.io ever redesign their website?

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I think somehow when typing parts of my uploaded game's nick to the top-bar, I'd expect to find games with that title (same for creator's usernames), or will it just list tags than titles there? At least it would be easier if there could be a sub-section like search-engines suggesting the existing pages that could be autofilled/meant when starting typing?

The rest of the website looks okay, I'd just prefer a "save"-option for recently used tags, etc. for uploaded games to pre-fill those for the next game, if it's similar than just retyping each one of them.

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No Time To Play3 years ago

The free-form search box is optimized for exact title searches. Failing that, it will look at keywords in the title and/or short description, but it's not really made for that, so results will be poor. Dunno what to say about recently used tags. It's an idea, but... do you really add new games so often, and with so many tags for each of them?

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Crossfire2713 years ago

At least the existing keywords mainly referring to the same ones & when using those than typing new/custom ones ...also being sure that no section being duplicated e.g. category vs. game's title, description, etc. and I like publishing short stories with optional elements, while its tags being limited to 10 anyway. It would be easier for selecting them or getting a "favorite"/bookmark-menu to summarize my used ones and finding them than retyping them for each game.

I don't publish games "that often", still when having to pre-type each keyword first, I tend to get its itch-theme fixed, saving it next to font and colours, descr., banner and later updating this draft with the actual file. I'm still amazed by the options of chooseable tags e.g. programs that being connected for designing it. Or credits of users, same as: download or webgame, etc.

So the "searching for games or creators"-placeholder probably sounds more fitting if there's just "browsing for keywords" being mentioned, I guess? Searching for my nickname gets it visible, so browsing for profiles works there.

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