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I started working on Mitch again, will implement this ~~tomorrow~~ soon, shouldn’t be too difficult. The current plan is:

Have two filters:
- A “primary filter” using this hack that pkcheap found
  - This can be specified through the Settings menu
  - Will apply only to the main page, and only if the main page is set to Android games or web games
- “Secondary filters” on the client-side
  - Can be applied anytime on https://itch.io/games but can not be saved
  - Only works with genres instead of tags
When/if itch.io adds proper filtering functionality on the server-side, the two filters will be merged.
I will not support filters for anything besides games

Not gonna be the most elegant solution but hopefully powerful enough, and not too confusing for users.

pkcheap1 year ago

That sounds great--I appreciate your efforts.
Just want to ask though.. why apply the primary filter only for android and web? I get that the point of the app is to platform games meant to run on android, but that explicit restriction just sounds like more work for you. That parameter I think can be applied to any request with a uri containing the /games fragment. I don't think anything would be lost if you allowed any uri meeting that condition to have access to that functionality.

gardenapple1 year ago

Ah, sorry, I forgot that the start page can also be set to ‘Popular games’ without an OS restriction. Yes, the filter works with that, too, there is no explicit restriction there.

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