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The reviewing is broken.

A topic by Stingby12 created Oct 22, 2022 Views: 1,523 Replies: 15
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Here is the list of the broken stuff about reviewing on itch.io.

  • You can't paste text on the feedback portion of the review.
  • You can't even add a link or an embed video on the review. I literally had to write the link of a site to do so.
  • If you hold the left click and get outside the review box while holding, you'll exit the review.
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The only time I see a review is if it's in my feed. I have no idea how to find the other reviews. I leave my thoughts in the comments.

Moderator(+2)

Belatedly, you can see reviews to your own games by going to Interact -> Reviews & Ratings from the game's dashboard.

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It's occurred to me that this is a tactful way to submit a critical review for a free to play game. It will only be seen by the developers and the people subscribed to my account.

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As a developer, based on my own experience, I must say that there are some persons that exploit reviews, either for their own promotion or to harass other developers and hurt their sales.

When Itch.io provided this system, they thought about these matters and on how to mitigate them.

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Reviews? Players don't ever bother to write one (at least for my games).

Actually, they don't even give stars to it, although my current project having hundreds of browser plays...

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Well I do review games. I rated some games when I made my first Game Jam game, and found out I could still rate games.

In this case, you may want to take a look at this browser game...
https://cleanwaterdev.itch.io/learnrpgmakermv

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The lack of copy and paste is extremely frustrating, and seems to have been an issue for a year or more judging by other posts on the topic. Pasting into a rich text editor should not be a difficult problem to solve (particularly as they seem to be using the Redactor editor, a library which supports paste out of the box...)

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It's not bad in itself, but the text review includes adding a link and a YouTube video. And when I tried it's even worse than I thought.

Remember when I said that you can't add a link or a video to a review ? Well that wasn't a joke you LITERALLY can't do that. I went to the link insertion and the embed video insertion menus, and the text boxes aren't text boxes. They look like it at first, but you can't type anything there.

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Greetings, folks. Usually I lurk, but I'm having this issue also. Unable to right-click-paste or ctrl+v paste text (either from Google docs or a plain text doc) from the clipboard into a review box. I disabled all my Google Chrome extensions. At first I thought it was a spam prevention feature or something, but I write long and in-depth reviews.  My current review is 2,200+ words long. Will I have to rewrite all of that to leave my review?

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same problems

Can not paste texts to the review when I rating to a game. and the link function is also not work.

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This has been reported several times:

As of november 2023, I found a workaround for the pasting problem: type this in your browser console:  

window.$.Redactor.prototype.paste = () => ({})

I do not fully understand the underlying problem, but I found out that itch.io uses the Redactor (https://imperavi.com/redactor/) rich text editor, and this line of code disables all the convoluted clipboard-pasting management that this Javascript library does.

You can configure your browser to run this JS code line on every visit on a itch.io game page by using a GreaseMonkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey) or ViolentMonkey (https://violentmonkey.github.io/) script like this:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        itch.io-clipboard-paste-fix
// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match       https://*.itch.io/*
// @grant       none
// @version     1.0
// @author      Lucas Cimon
// @description Enable clipboard pasting in itch.io review forms
// ==/UserScript==
window.$.Redactor.prototype.paste = () => ({})

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So this is probably going to be not fixed at all...

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I was excited to submit a video review for a game I loved and then found I couldn't. Sad to see this is a 2+ year old problem that hasn't been fixed at all. :(

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Bump.

I never noticed, but yeah, that is a bug, as straight as they come.