We published 3 asset pack for now, but none of them showing up in search. I read the documents about publishing and indexing and do everything exactly same but after 10 days, our assets still invisible. How can I see if our assets is refused to indexed, reason of refuse, or just waiting in a queue for approval?
We currently do not disclose any specific display limitations on a page for the security of our platform, aside from a description of our process outlined here: https://itch.io/docs/creators/getting-indexed. As we are a self-publishing platform with no pre-requisites for publishing, it’s unfortunately easy for malicious users to exploit the system.
Your page is entirely operational without being indexed in our search and browse pages. We strongly advise you to continue managing and promoting your page as usual. Getting more organic activity on your pages can also expedite any review process.
We recommend that all developers promote their pages across as many channels as they can access. If your entire marketing strategy relies solely on generating traffic through the browse and search pages, you are essentially relying on chance, as you’re competing for limited space among thousands of other creations. Any algorithms we employ prioritize pages that show genuine activity from all sources.
Hope that helps
limited space among thousands of other creations
I think leafo misspelled almost a million.
But jokes aside, seeing positive indexing status is trivial to verify for any malicious publishers, that would put in the effort.
I sure hope that the vast majority of those get stuck, because the ones I report sure were indexed, otherwise I would not have seen them. Many within hours of publication. Of course I realize I can only see the ones that got through the net. But since they are very obvious malicous/non-legit, those bad actors did penetrate security.
R-71532 has 3 stolen games on the account. All indexed and not quarantined. The account experimented with having different archives. Rar, 7z and zip. It is 3 months old now. My report only 4 weeks.
R-72592 I am 99% sure, that this was not uploaded by the original developer. The 1% is because it has payment active. But since other obvious fake accounts that I reported and had payment active are gone since, payment active is no longer a good indication of non malicious actors.
I have more open tickets, but I usually write in the source, why I know it is not a good actor, so it might just take time. Sadly too much time in some cases, or rather, no one bothers to report this crap. R-73374 is a new report from me, but the game was published in June. For some I cannot fathom what the gain is. But some even have comments about trojan alerts in comments - no one seems to have reported the games though. The ones with payment could be straightforward. And some of the rest might have been probes how to circumvent security. The very reason the index status is not disclosed.
