Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines

Page needs to be reviewed

A topic by biokompott created Feb 05, 2026 Views: 739 Replies: 11
Viewing posts 1 to 5

I did a post about an upcoming new game. For some reason it is flagged for review - for over four days now. I don't think I did something wrong. I tried to post it again and it just flagged again. It is just a small message that a new (free) game is going to show up. 

/blog/1340931/wortschatz-coming-soon

Please look into it. 

see the 20 other topics about this for answers

Why so unfriendly? I dont see any "20 other topics about this". 

(1 edit)

sorry yeah that was kinda mean

what i mean is that this is the same issue as 

all of these people in the 3rd-5th pages of the forum (i accidentally took pictures of those pages, there are many on the first and second pages too)

Are you talking about a devlog/blogpost? There is a lot of spam there too.

They should reconsider the unattached blog posts. It is infested with spam, actually. And to prove my point, I wanted to look how long it would take to find a spam post. The very first two already were spam. The irony.

/blog/1356641/download-presenter-video-express-crack-free-crack-f...

/blog/1356640/shave-stuff-2024-crackeado-download-sem-instalao

Dear Itch, your spam filter for blog posts is garbage. Those unattached blog posts are indexed by google and do harm, even if they disappear in the mass of other posts. Do not let your platform be abused as a hoster for malware links in that way. Overhaul the blog post feature or remove it. You are a game download hoster and not a blogger hoster. And there is still no report button on the blog posts. 

Thank you for the information, but my post is not spam. It is just an anouncement. If it is not legit to post anouncements, i can delete it, but i just wanted to inform people.

I wonder who would read such an announcement. Those blog posts do not appear anywhere for long. They rush by in the feed and are gone.

If you have a project, you can make an attached blog post. Commonly known as a devlog. Those are attached to your project and there is links to that on your project page.

Anyway, there is a lot of spammed links to malware. I did not mean advertisements or promotion. I guess they increased sensitivity for that blog filter too.

I dont know who would read it. It was a suggestion made by itch itself. Anyway thanks for your answer. 

Well. If you were to have a social media channel, or someone promoting your not yet published project, the post could be linked. But I guess from within the Itch system, there will be zero to none people seeing or clicking the post. I consider it a tool for people that have a following, not a tool to gain one. Follwers will get notified about such postings.

One would have to go fishing in /feed?filter=posts at the right time or scroll there a lot. There is not even a filter to only see blog posts. Most of the entries there are updates.

I learned about these postings, because I stumbled on one of the scam postings by googling a game. So if your project happens to be of interest to people, they might find it by regular internet search.

Thanks for the insights. I am just doing it for fun and I almost just arrived at itch.

(+1)

Yeah same issue here. I've had my ticket request for indexing review since Jan 15, game released a month ago though. I'm assuming support is just backed up at the moment.
(If the overlords see this message, its ticket# 337147)

Moderator(+1)

I'll let our admins know,  but I can easily miss posts if you don't make your own topic.

This topic has been auto-archived and can no longer be posted in because there haven't been any posts in a while.