Post by redonihunter in Filters to exclude tags

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That's been talked about often.

There's an undocumented feature to exclude 1 tag. https://itch.io/t/160014/can-i-use-exclusion-filters You can put it in a bookmark. And you need to be logged into your account for the feature to work.

In my experience, the tags are not accurate. Your favorite game might be tagged visual novel, even if you would disagree. I think it more helpful to "exclude" individual games. That way you can filter away not only games you have seen and deemed one of those vn you do not like, but also the games you already have played and still clutter your searches. https://itch.io/t/1018893/a-never-show-me-this-again-please-button

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Sövény Imre5 days ago(+1)

It's not exactly in this topic and it's not my topic, so I won't go into detail, but I'd rather ask here because there are functions that I either can't use, missing or I don't use properly.

Withot details...Is there a documentation about features somewhere?

Thank You.

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redonihunter5 days ago(+1)

The documented features are in the faq/docs, which are linked at the bottom https://itch.io/docs/general/faq Also helpful for some searches is the https://itch.io/directory at the bottom.

There recently was a sticky posting added with some answers. https://itch.io/t/5805284/useful-answers The sticky thread includes a link to Can I use exclusion filters? Some other links in the sticky posting also deal with features and functions of the site, because people keep asking about those.

If you seek a feature you think should exist, but do not find, a google search might help. Some features are just called differently on Itch. Or work differently. For example, there is no private messaging system. And a game review will not appear on the game page - many people are confused by that.

On a side note, I only discovered that Steam has an exclusion filter through reading discussions on Itch.

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ClosetOfDoom5 days ago (2 edits)

In my experience, visual novels tend to be very much the same in most cases. Lotta reading, one or two sprites (with emote variations) per character, and you unlock scenes based on the dialogue you choose. It's always the same, and I'm pretty over it. The most work that goes into those games ( I say "games" very loosely) is the writing, and it just feels like visual novels just need to be considered more like books or comics, unless they have significant gameplay in mini games. In the NSFW category, new visual novels show up pretty much by the hour. Not really efficient to try and exclude each game individually when they just keep coming consistently.

I've never enjoyed simulators, have grown tired of visual novels, not a fan of most top-down RPGs, and text-based I also don't like. Like I said, it would be awesome if I could exclude multiple tags so there's not as much to scroll through when looking for the genres I enjoy more.

I knew about Steam's exclusion filters years ago, and I find them quite useful.

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redonihunter5 days ago (1 edit)

There are some games that just tag vn, because they use renpy or because they have dialogue. I even have seen games that tagged point&click, because, you pointed and clicked, but those were not the type of games that are called point&click.

Not really efficient to try and exclude each game individually when they just keep coming consistently.

My point is, there are not that many adult games, once you select a tag or two. Selecting those individually is not that much effort. Also, if you browse by popular sorting.

Btw, if you want to, you can use my script to exclude multiple tags, but it takes a few minutes to set up. About a minute or so for 1000 games.

1. You configure the style {display:none} to be on button 1 (should be default).

2. Search for whatever tag combination you do not want to see.

3. Have endless scroll active and scroll down

4. Go to top of page.

5. Hover over the first game.

6. Press and hold 1

7. Do not get dizzy, while the games dissappear.

8. Repeat after a few months or add new games as needed.

It's easy to select more than you wished for and a hassle to remove it from the list (you need to switch style and press 1 again on the games you accidentally added). You can also export and import lists and there are two lists and two styles to switch between for each list.

If you try this, you could also use the genre filter tampermonkey script I made. It can filter 1 genre. The main genre. If a game did not set visual novel as the main genre, it will not work.

But my recommendation is, to select individual games. It is more effecitve than you might assume, unless you browse the recent page. And if you do browse recent, that method above will obviously not work.

For your case, using the genre filter and individually selecting games should be most effective. You could also add the regular exclusion of 1 tag to that.

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ClosetOfDoom4 days ago

Yeah, I browse recent, quite frequently.

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ClosetOfDoom4 days ago

There are more adult games than you might think, especially in the vn department, and there are new ones almost every time I visit (like twice a day or so), so using the individual game method would mean I'd have to exclude a new game every time I visit, and that's just tedious. Just go to https://itch.io/games/newest/nsfw to see for yourself.

The methods you've listed seem like more work than they're worth, just since I'd like for it not to be a thing I have to set up every time I visit. A couple clicks and boom, unwanted genres filtered out. This is why I feel the tag/genre exclusion tool should really be fully implemented, just to save from all the tedium and hassle. It just makes mroe sense that way, ya know?

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redonihunter4 days ago

If you visit any specific place daily, marking the things you have alreay seen works wonders. It's not just about visual novels that you do not want to see. Marking things you already know, was the motivation behind that script, and for that it works very efficient.

Imagine there would only be like half a page each visit visible, even if you scroll down 10 pages. You would even immediatly spot new games that were indexed later. The recurring games that appear there every month or two will be gone. The developers that release slop after slop will be gone (you can also mark developers). And if you run that script, you can also combine it with the other script that gives you a genre filter for the main genres.

But beware, on some days, half the games you see will be malware. That's how it was a year ago. I hope it got better.

Filter options from within the site's system sure would be nice. So would an ignore this button, as Steam has it.

But I have doubts that it will be implemented any time soon. The exclusion filter from years ago was never expanded, nor got a user interface. But it was not removed either. Maybe it will rank higher in the priority list, if enough people officially request the feature. There is a feedback button on the left and request feature is one of the options.

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