Is it possible to devide the games into pages and if not why not mage it so
A forum is by definition a linear ordering of posts, because it’s supposed to be an indefinitely-long conversation on a specific topic. Think bulletin boards, which used to be a lot more common, but still exist.
Though I admit, the fact Itch.io went for a strange hybrid between a list and tree (Reddit), and that posts become locked after an arbitrary time period, makes this point moot.
I mean, I get it, but wouldn't it make sense to show posts in reverse order on itch where the most recent posts are the most important and relevant? There should be at least a toggle to swap ordering by oldest to newest like many other forums. I don't even have a page option and just had to scroll though 75 posts to see the most recent one and I have to do that EVERY TIME someone posts something new.
Forums should be used as a source of troubleshooting. I have seen users post technical questions or report bugs for games and a moderator tells them they should address the devs of the game directly. Devs should be encouraged to monitor these forums and answer questions here. The result would be a searchable database of knowledge specific to the itch platform. I have a problem with Minit and another guy seems to have the same problem https://itch.io/t/528364/itch-minit-and-linux and the thread has been archived. I cant even ask if he found a solution for his problem. For example, steams's discussion boards are very helpful for that. Lots of bug reported and fixes are discussed and can be found there.
When you reach the bottom of the page, besides the first page/next page links, we should have a link that lead us back to the corresponding sub forum OR a button to jump back to top. It's annoying having to scroll back to the top of the page if we want to return to see another thread on the sub forum.
in Feed tab, add made using ? game engine ? , x64, and optional timezone now gmt/utc+1 img, and add a gif only imagesofgame on hover shows the info, show state of game release update add invite collaborate team wishes: grphics, gameplay, sound, lang, style that could be customized loadung bundle or level scene, weekscores
Looks like Taro’s Search in forum feature was implemented since (remember to add IMPLEMENTED in front of it in the list).
I’d like to add an improvement: make “All words” the default search mode, instead of “Exact Phrase”. “Exact Phrase” made me miss many threads as I expected it to search individual words by default, as in most search engines. User could switch to Exact Phrase, or use the classic approach of surrounding words with double quotes to force exact match.
Just gonna add on that “Private messaging feature. (Also suggested by HAL 9001)” is something I would really like. Specifically for hosting a game jam, it would let users share their personal contact info (usually a discord @ ) without fear of it being public. I’m finding that participants in my jam are expecting a discord server to supplement the forum capabilities on itch, and with just a few tweaks I think it would make a decent replacement, at least for finding a team and getting initial collaboration information figured out.
I noticed the same thing on the jams I took part to. If devs are worried about too much DM spamming, we could make a conservative system where user A must whitelist user B to allow incoming DMs from user B (at which time B will automatically whitelist A to reply). It would have the drawback or making message exchanges slightly slower, as B would not be able to immediately DM A, but if A is really looking for people to recruit / teams to be recruited, they’ll probably check notifications, see B’s reply “hey, I’m interested, here is my portfolio, and I’ll send you my Discord ID in DM when you whitelist me” and whitelist B.
But a good anti-spam / trust system can also do the trick. Personally I was contacted my people on Reddit exactly when they had something to tell me about one of my posts, and was never annoyed by spammers (I think? If it happened I must have reported and blocked them in a breeze, so I don’t even remember).