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IMHO, the library really needs a makeover. I mean, some people literally created an alternative website, specifically to enable customers to browse the games in a specific bundle. I often see some games I want to buy, but then I end up thinking about how awkward it is to locate the game I already bought, and then I won't bother.
No, I don't look for games to buy in my library! I meant on the main page, of course. Sorry I was unclear.
As I see it, it wasn't that this bundle specifically broke the UI. The UI is simply not suitable for anyone owning more than a handful of games. The site has hundreds of thousands of games available, so it's no surprise if people's libraries grow pretty big over time. Recently, I wanted to use a music asset I once bought. To find it, I had to go to the itch.io main page, find the right category and scroll down through the results until I found the asset so I could memorize its title. Then I had to click the upper-right dropdown to go to my library, click "View all", scroll down repeatedly so that everything was loaded, and finally do a Ctrl-F to search for the asset name.
So the library kind of has this upper limit. Once it grows larger than you can manage by scrolling through it, it becomes kind of broken and unmanageable. Admittedly, collecting more games than you can play may seem silly, but it's quite normal for a lot of players. That's why we have bundle sales pretty much everywhere. I think the site should do its best to cater to those who actually play games. After all, we upload our games here in the hope that others are going to play them.
So, what do you think?
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.
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?
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.