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Hey Belle Thank you for taking the time to write this up. It was one of the most useful pieces of feedback I’ve had so far, and it led to real fixes.

You were right that the numbers didn’t add up. The upload form recommended 616×353 (16:9), but the “Preview Game Page” showed your cover in a portrait shape, and on the live site the shape changed again depending on the screen. When I traced it, I found two separate problems. The upload guidance was wrong for the shape the site actually uses, and the game cards were sizing covers by a fixed height and a flexible width. That’s why the same cover looked almost square on a laptop and stretched into a wide landscape on a phone.

Here’s what I changed:

One shape everywhere covers are now a fixed portrait 3:4 in the game cards, on the game page, and in the upload form preview, on every screen size. What you see in the preview is what you get on the live site.

Better upload guidance: the Cover Image field now says it’s your portrait box art, with a recommended size of 900×1200px (3:4), at least 800px wide.

A better mobile layout: on phones the cards took up almost a whole screen each. Games now show two side by side, and I trimmed the cards so the cover and title come first.

Responsiveness is trickier than it looks, because the same image has to work on a phone, a tablet and a big monitor. I’ll be honest. I already knew the mobile experience wasn’t where it should be, and I’d been struggling with how to make it properly responsive. Your report gave me a concrete case to trace, and that was the opportunity I needed to fix mobile and polish the game cards.

Since you adjusted your cover to what you saw in the preview, it should look right now, but if anything seems off, let me know and I’ll help.

Also, thank you for offering to post about the platform. It means a lot. I’ll be happy to return the favor and help promote your game as well however I can.

I will definitely make a LinkedIn page for the platform and I will aim for tomorrow and we will definitely connect there as well.

P.S. For any bugs or small issues you notice from now on, feel free to also post them in the #issues channel on my Discord, since that keeps them organized and I can follow up quickly. But if it’s easier to just message me here, that’s totally fine too. I’ll take feedback wherever it comes from.