I'd love to have my game show up on the first page of most recent too please. It has been a full month since it was published and it has never gotten this opportunity that so many others seem to get so freely and repeatedly. I released it in its finished and polished final state, and did only one update one day post launch to address player requests and add quality of life features, so I'm not even eligible for the refreshes that others get, because I completed the game before publishing it.
"by no means perfect" sure, but it feels very unfair like this. I imagine it can only mean the actual queue for manual review must be much much larger than those 215,000 that were mentioned to be released because I'm still in it with that month ago project, and another one as well from a couple weeks ago.
Can it be made so that projects that are neglected for so long, upon being indexed, get the refresh?
With the current rate of projects published on itch increasing rapidly due to AI, at this amount of time to be indexed, I will never be anywhere close to the first few pages of most recent even with a couple tags added to the criteria. I'd like to not be punished for launching with a completed game please thanks!