itchio
Exclusion filters are broken
Describe the bug
Appending ?exclude=tg.visual-novel to a link has no effect anymore.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Go to https://itch.io/games?exclude=tg.visual-novel
- Witness many visual novels in the results.
Expected behavior Games with the excluded tag should not show up.
Screenshots
Desktop:
- OS: Windows, Linux
- Browser: Firefox
- Version: 130.0.1
Additional context This feature was introduced in https://itch.io/t/160014/can-i-use-exclusion-filters; without it, a large proportion of any results page is irrelevant to me, making browsing extremely unpleasant.
Long before this regression, many users have been requesting basic improvements to the exclusion feature for many years (#475, #738, #739, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), and have been so vehemently ignored by the dev team that they have begun suspecting ulterior motives on behalf of itch (1, 2).
Acknowledging that you are a small team managing a big website, even if this issue is not fixed right away, I (and evidently many other members of the community) would really appreciate any scrap of communication on the apparent priority inversion of this feature.
Works again. Keeping this issue open because my last paragraph still stands.
I don't think the people who run itch.io realize how many potential sales slip through their fingers because it's impossible to find good games in the sea of visual novels and furry porn. It also sucks for the developers who put in a lot of work only for their games to be buried.
Doesn't work again: https://itch.io/games/platform-linux?exclude=tg.visual-novel
