First of all I know how tags work that isn't my issue. My issue is that when I search for projects whether it be games or whatever tags are all I can use I would like it to be more robust. I am a layman so I don't know what to implement. The only idea that comes to mind is page numbers that and the pages to stop refreshing an example  is one moment a game is on a previous page the next it is on a current page and all I can do is press next page hell in mobile the actual search bar gets removed. So I'm at a lost there are thousands of projects on here but they can get lost to time because either they aren't popular enough to be in the first few pages or I am too bored and/or lazy to search multiple pages one by one. I'm talking about when I only need or want to use a small amount of tags it just seems easier on other sites to look for what I want when I don't know exactly what I want.

I do not understand what exactly you are talking about.

You complain that the sorting of games is not stable? How are other sites displaying items differently, so that it seems easier to you?

You can try changing this option in your settings, maybe the other system suits you better "( ) Disable auto-loading next page when browsing". But all the sortings change their order a little bit, as new games get released or rise in popularity.

That setting is already disabled and not really what I'm talking about, as for other sites' pages tend to stay the same unless something new is added that day not every minute on just updates. You didn't fully read the comment if those two are the only subjects you bring up. As the rest Idk as I stated I'm just a layman maybe there needs to be an alphabetical filter or something to keep items from moving from old page to new page. And I generally like to start at the end of searches not the start and the way itch.io has it I can't do that as there are no page numbers only a next page not even a back page.

I read your comment three times, but you write without point nor comma in one go and make no pause and it is hard to read and to understand what you are even talking about and I understood that you complain most about the changing of the ordering of games.

Projects dissappear from time to time, so the ordering will always change sometimes at the page border, no matter what you do. Or they might have their tags changed.

And projects can get a bump on the recent sorting for having a devlog with a major update.

There are more filters in the directory. https://itch.io/directory 

The year filter in combination with tags might be of interest to you.

It sounds to me like you want to tackle a few thousand games in a tag selection and want to keep track what you have already seen and what not. On desktop browser I could offer you a tool for that. If you are willing to manipulate the url you could use page numbering, even in endless scroll. But that sounds like a hassle on mobile. You can enter a number manually in "?page=11". The max page should be around x/36 where x is the number your browser shows as the game counter. The lack of a back button is not helping there, and going backwards on the popular sort is not actual a good idea anyway.

But you can go backwards on the recent sort. Exchange newest with oldest in the url.

A list of things I'd like to see since reading a book is difficult for some. Yes I do want to tackle thousands  of projects I've already seen and ignore them without ignoring others.

An All and/or alphabetical category would fix the popular and newest categories issues where things constantly change.

A back page button so I don't have to use the browsers back button. 

Page numbers so I can skip to a page, I shouldn't  need a tool for this or to manipulate the url.

Wouldn't hurt to have tag exclusions as well something built into the tags themselves no manipulation of the "page info" or however we are supposed to do it.         There is a + but no -

These suggestions are buit into other sites I've  used (not just gaming sites).

With the way things are handled here you have to type inside the url (inconvenient) or manipulate the page info (very inconvenient and not everyone can do that). Or use a third party tool which shouldn't be needed. 

I don't like/want to use the year filter because I don't want to exclude any new and old works separately. 

I've been using this site for a few years now and I only just complain because my problems with the site has reached its peak of frustration. I can get bored easily but not angrily so much. Out of the million plus projects I've seen I got a million plus left to go and would like a smoother journey. 

Itch is not designed in such a way, so they did not provide the usual tools. There is a feedback button that has a suggest feature option to give this kind of suggestion directly to Itch.

Breaking it down by year has the benefit of making the big task smaller. If you do not want to break it down into smaller tasks, there are not that many things you can do to still tackle that task. Especially if you use a high fluctuation sorting like Popular or even New & Popular. Popular also has a new-ness factor that contributes to apparant popularity, but less so as compared to new&popular.

Going backwards through recent for your selected tags in paginated view and keeping a bookmark at your last visited page should catch all or most of the games. You need to use /oldest/ in the url instead of /newest/. I do not know if there is a button for that. https://itch.io/post/2493289

The only feedback I saw was this forum that is why I posted here as well as to rant I guess, I got to look better, as for oldest that didn't look to be an option otherwise I would have chosen it and I don't want to type it in every time I search. I don't really have much else to say otherwise.

Go to your settings page. There should be a red feedback button on the left side. If there is none, try changing the size of the screen. Itch's css is awful. It hides elements based on size of the screen.

and I don't want to type it in every time I search

Even on mobile there exists bookmarks. You click on that link only once. I linked the forum post where that link was posted by leafo. Then you adjust your tags and filters. Make sure you have pagination active, so you have a next page button.

You are now on the page 1 with oldest games first.

(1) If you will do less then the 36 games on that page, make a bookmark.

(2) Do your thing on that 36 games, like trying them out or putting them on collections for later viewing or whatever you do.

(3) Go to next page and continue with (1) - or stop for the day. Remember to set a bookmark, if you have not already done so.