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Where is the search bar on this site?!

A topic by ToxicMelody1 created Jan 06, 2024 Views: 4,063 Replies: 17
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I'm having a hard time finding so if someone could be of assistance.

Are you using a mobile phone? On a laptop, it is located

I think on mobile it appears sometimes in your dashboard

I appreciate the help but I'm not really tech savvy.If you have the time are you able to show me how to bring it up on mobile or where the dashboard it. This is what my screen looks like

Your screen is missing the hamburger menu icon (three stacked lines).

screenshot of open menu on the mobile site

I’m guessing it’s a browser issue.

I’m only now seeing the dates in this topic….

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Adjust the zoom level of the browser. Search gets eaten by the css if your screen is too small or your zoom is too high.

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It's also not there in the itch.io launcher. But I am on desktop with 1080px width. Where to use search?!

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Good question. I do not use the app, but when I just looked, the website did not have the search box and the left side bar's search box is not working. Oh, it does "search", but only the recommendations. If I enter a word, it just opens a game and not search results.

For browser the 1080 says little. Browsers use virutal screen size and adjust for operating system settings and most important the zoom level you set. It might be 100% or bigger or lower. 

are you stoopid are you blind I see it perfectly and we have same screen

On the Itch App? Does your search box give you search results? Is it on the left side or in the top row?

on the website it on da top have you tried getting out of full screen or something like that

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I asked for the App. As was the user Aa.

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The regular website has an adaptive css that moves elements around depending on size. But it has a lot of room for improvement. The search box can eat community and feed and vice versa. There is also a feedback button on the left side when writing a reply. It disappears, when the site is not wide enough in virtual pixels.

My screen is 1080p, but my virtual screen is less, because windows settings and browser zoom. Even at 100%, my width in pixels, that the browser "sees" is only 1279.

console.log(window.innerWidth)

After increasing zoom level of the browser, at 853 width, the search bar dissapears.

I can't help you then

Screw you jackass!

you aren't even in this so anything that gives you a reason to call me a jackass tell because other than to call me one for something from about a month ago

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I had the same problem on an Android tablet using Firefox.

I went to Firefox\Settings\Accesibility. There I modified my Font size smaller. Now I can see the Search bar, but the font is tiny.

The itch.io website is poorly optimized for users unable to see small font sizes.

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Do you have access to the web address bar?

A workaround if you can type in the URL is to add “search?q=” and your search terms after Itch.io’s address.

:: Example ::

https://itch.io/search?q=void

Multiple words in the search are held together with plus signs.

https://itch.io/search?q=void+books

You could search with filters this way, too.

:: Examples ::

https://itch.io/games/genre-adventure

https://itch.io/game-assets/tag-pixel-art

https://itch.io/tools/platform-linux

The way to hold different search terms together like this is with an ampersand (&) or another forward (/).

https://itch.io/books/tag-no-ai/tag-romance

I’ve noticed the rules have been changing, so if you can try, it might still take some guess and checking to get sesrch results.

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Thank you! On my laptop I ended up reducing the text magnification. Eventually, this revealed the search box.