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Download button not working

A topic by dengreedik created Sep 28, 2023 Views: 1,745 Replies: 5
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At https://adeepindigomods.itch.io/itskatato-preteen-mod

Download just don't start. On "download" button there is no link, only "javascript:void(0)". 

Tried on Chrome, Firefox, Edge all latest versions. Clean users, no VPN or adsBlockers. Win11 x64.

ItchApp also give errors, but you cannot copy errors from ItchApp

Disable your popup blockers or whatever you have installed. This external download link is not a download link, but an external link. It opens a new page. While this is normally used to link to a file hoster's page, this is not true in this case. Read the opened page to find the actual download links.

The javascript void thing is normal. All the red itch download links have that.

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I don't have any popup blockers, I am specify write "Clean users, no VPN or adsBlockers" What I mean by that is my browser just been installed, and I don't have  any vpns on my system. If you think its normal behavior than try clicking yourself: you would see a pop-up appear with "Thanks for downloading" and "The download should start momentarily. If it doesn't, check your popup blocker.", so obviously download should start

I only assumed that you suppress the opening of new tabs.

Because if you do not, why did you not see the page opening, that contains the actual download links? Because that is what is happening here!

If you click on the download button. It opens an external page where there is description of like 6 mods the developer made, along with their respective links and alternative links to download them.

Maybe you have some security software on your system that suppresses opening of tabs in a certain way, regardless of your browser.

Oh, and no, a download starting is not what must happen, when you click on an external download link. It might. But most of the time it opens the page of a file hoster that needs further interaction.

New tabs opens fine. Now I see there are a working alternative links on patreon page, not sure if they were before. I remember clicking download now, going to patreon page, in list of mods clicking on "Preteens" that opening itch.io where I clicking "download" that opening patreon page and a couple cycles more I understand that something wrong. If there were  a links before on patreon page, and its was me who overlooked, still popup "download should start momentarily" really not helping and created this confusion. On ItchApp clicking install giving just errors:




I guess that the dev did use that download button "creativly".  I recently did saw an external link that did open the download dialog of the browser directly. But most of the time it is just the respective file hoster's page that opens.

There is no payment active, but if it were, itch would expect the download button to lead to an actual singular download. But even without payment, it is a statistic thing. The dev might have a counter of downloads from itch. I do not know, if the dev could distinguish from where the traffic comes, if the files are on a file hoster.

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