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My Post doesn't appear in "Most Recent".

A topic by JDRoods created 13 days ago Views: 122 Replies: 10
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I recently made a blog post announcing my project, Teryndor Caelorn's Quest, but it's not showing up in the 'Recent Announcements' section. Did I publish it incorrectly?

Here is the link to my post: https://itch.io/blog/1129212/teryndor-caelorns-quest-a-pixel-art-action-adventur...



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...You seem confused. There's no "Recent Announcements" section, do you mean Release Announcements? Either way that's a forum category. It has nothing to do with blog posts. And the Most Recent tab under Browse lists projects. Speaking of which, you don't even have a project yet. Did you make an unattached blog post? Those don't show up anywhere.

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I think he mean "Most recent" in Devlogs 

Exactly

I'm referring to the most recent posts in Devlogs. Do I need to create a project to make my post appear there? I just wanted to say that my game is currently in the works, but I didn't want to upload a playable version yet.


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It is. Because itch.io usually considers such posts to be suspicious and does not index them, as they are not linked to an indexed game

Thanks bro

Moderator

I think so, but either way it will have to be seen by itch.io staff before it shows up there.

Those don't show up anywhere.

They do. https://itch.io/feed?filter=posts Look for "published a post".

Sadly, they are swamped with malware postings. 40 of 52 such posts are malware blog posts for the most recent 4 hours.

It's a follow up to request 326785, in case an admin want's to have a look. Spam comments are one thing, but those blog postings are findable via Google and have borrowed legitimacy by being hosted on Itch.

Moderator

I've reminded our admins about this ticket.

Thanks. The scammers know why they like to post on weekends. The initial reports and the first follow up are all still operational. 

As an additional info for those blog posts, they also can appear in google. Within hours even. 

Searching Teryndor Caelorn's Quest yields the blog post as first result. Even before the Youtube page and the Steam page. Itch ranks very high in relevance for Indie games.

(Which is why those blog posts are so popular for scammers, I guess)