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Option to hide or let expire Jam submission links on game pages

A topic by Christiaan Moleman created Jul 20, 2022 Views: 825 Replies: 4
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When you enter your game into a jam it adds a link on your game page to the submission for this jam. This is good and useful.

However, once the jam ends it becomes less useful, only of historical interest. In some cases if you submit your game to multiple jams, or bundle jam pages like the two recent charity bundles, these links can end up creating a lot of clutter (especially if they have long titles). I've taken to simply removing my submission from jams after a certain amount of time just to clean up my page a bit. This is not ideal though, as for archiving purposes it would be better if that connection remained and you could still find the game among submissions for that jam.

It would be good if you could add an option to HIDE these jam submission link rather than disconnecting them completely. Or perhaps make it so the big link on the jam page only shows while the jam is still running, but expires shortly after, leaving the submission intact.

For an example, see below. I've since removed my submission for these jam pages now that both bundles have concluded. For another example I submit this procgen trees project to the PROCJAM every year as I tinker with it a little more (as this jam allows that).

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Yes, please.  These links really clutter the page, especially for browser games, where they overlap the player window if not maximized.  This is becoming a consideration for me over whether to submit existing projects to bundle/showcase type jams, and I have also considered doing as you say and removing certain old submissions.  It's noise.

I'm not opposed to the link being present, since it does (slightly) benefit mutual discoverability after the fact, but the placement of it is bad.  Maybe the theme editor can provide an option to toggle between the "badge" style and a list of links placed at the bottom of the page above the comment section, where they don't interfere with the actual page content.

Or, another idea could be to have one collapsed "Jam Submissions (3)" badge that the user can click to expand or collapse again.  As a user browsing games, I rarely care about what jams a game has been submitted to anyway.  I can easily expand the list if I really want to know.

There's also another issue with these links, which is that they remain even when the jam is no longer accessible, like this one:


The user who created this jam is long gone, and the link to the jam is dead.  Clicking it generates a 404 error.

Admin

Thanks for the report, if the jam is no longer available then the link should not appear, so that would be a bug.

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While a missing jam is an example of something being outright broken it would be good if you would also consider the related feature request of being able to hide (still existing) jam links without removing your submission. If possible, this would be useful.

Why not reply to the overall topic? What's the point of 'edit theme' if this can't be?