Hello! I'm reaching out after launching the new season of my game to ask a quick question about indexing.
I understand indexing takes time and the support team is busy, so I appreciate your help! My project complies with all itch.io rules, and I'm already a verified creator—our demo alone reached over 17k downloads.
Since publishing yesterday, the new season has seen strong engagement with over 300 views and 200 downloads.
The main reason I'm reaching out is that I've noticed many newly uploaded AI-generated titles in the Visual Novel tag getting indexed almost instantly, while human-made projects with established traffic seem to get caught in a manual review queue. I completely understand if automated filters get confused by the high volume of submissions, but I wanted to make sure everything looks right on my end.
I don't mind waiting for standard search indexing, but could you clarify if this review delay also prevents the game from appearing on the main browse/category pages ? or would it only be shown if it got the traffic while it's in the recently uploaded page?
also we want to add some translated versions later. is the game going to have to be reindexed after updating?
Thanks so much for your time and for all your hard work!