On itch.io you possibly can create your personal message board for video games and sport jams. Our message boards come filled with plenty of options for preserving dialogue going and moderating your group.

Today we’re launching a handful of options to assist with group:

Community subcategories

If you’ve ever seen itch.io’s personal group, you might have observed the hierarchy of message boards the place folks can submit inside. Starting as we speak, any group host can create their very own message board hierarchy. You can discover the choice in your group’s edit web page. From there you possibly can design your hierarchy:

Subcategories have a couple of new choices: you possibly can archive subcategories that ought to be learn solely, and conceal subcategories that don’t must be considered anymore.

Moderators may have elevated permissions for any classes at or under the place they’ve been enlisted. This means you possibly can have somebody be a moderator for under a particular part of your group.

Each subcategory can have its personal algorithm, voting choices, posting permission, and membership as effectively.

Topic tags

Topic tags let group hosts to offer a set of tags that may seem subsequent to a subject’s title on the submit listing. An effective way to maintain issues organized when accumulating bugs or planning new options. The matter creator, or any moderator, can select a tag when creating or updating a subject.

You can decide the listing of tags from the group’s edit web page. Topic tags solely apply to the present class, so you possibly can have totally different units of tags relying on the class when utilizing nested classes as described above.

Visual refresh & cell internet

The design of class and matter lists have been redone to be extra space environment friendly and simpler to learn. Additionally, we’ve up to date class lists, matter lists, and the subjects themselves to be cell internet pleasant. If you’re in your telephone you don’t want to fret about pinching and zooming to learn anymore.

If you might have any feedback you possibly can go away them on the announcement submit.

Enjoy!