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Hey there,

Posting a “Major Update or Launch” will cause your game to receive a similar bump to a newly uploaded game. This is used for when a project receives a lot of new content, and deserves a new bump.

For that to happen, it goes through a review, to make sure users are not posting such devlogs too often, so it might take a bit longer for the results to show.

Hope that helps :)

Thank you!

 Will they notify me when it is accepted or denied? 

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As far as I’m aware, there won’t be any notification.

The general idea is, make the devlog, and keep developing the game, and Itch.io will take care of the rest.

So it may take several days?

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It could, as mentioned above, I usually just keep working on a game and not pay attention to that review process. There’s not much more you can do on your side anyway.

I've posted a Major Update 7 days ago and it doesn't show up. I can see the "newest" Major Update Devlog is already 31 days old, which means Itch is one month behind. One Month! That's actually awful...

You guys really need some automation in your backend, not only for that though...

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Forget about the Major Update dev blog category its not accurate, go the game section check most recent category and pick a few of the tags that your game have and then scrow down a bit to see if its updated (pushed to the top) or not

That's good to know, but my update doesn't show up there either. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled, until I randomly clicked on one of the games, and it showed a last update 28 days ago, so if my update would be there, it would've shown up much higher up.

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Check this out. So yea considering there is a game that's on top and have a major dev blog a week ago you should be put in the top soon.