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Mar 17 2014 Anchor

Hello,

I try for the last 9 months to understand at what time the mods of the site approve news, because I have a lot of problems with this.
I have 4 times less visits because my news is approved 8-9 hours after I post it and the admins approve 15 games at a time instead of one by one.
This makes my news go to position 13-14 in the page.
Most people don't explore the main page at that rank and I don't think it's fair to lose so much exposure. This can easily be checked by looking at any given day at the news.

I'm not looking to be dis-respectful since the site gives us a hand in promoting our games, so can someone share what are the hours of activity in which games are accepted? I'm in Europe, GMT+2, and I will even wake up in the middle of the night, if this would give me a chance at a fair exposure.

Thank you.

Mar 18 2014 Anchor

To note and underline first, there is no specific time span or hours when articles are featured most (it's all flexible).

There is one 8-11 hours gap between times when articles are reviewed, edited and authorised. Normally, during the rest of the day, there should be only 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 hours delay (usually 2-4 hours).

Your game was frontpaged on both Indie DB and Mod DB quite a few hours ago, but it seems like it received only 70 visits - the average visit count is a few hundred for a single article. Seems reasonable to bump your article to the top to compensate for that.

Mar 18 2014 Anchor

Thank you very much feillyne.
Can you please share with me between which hours is the 'dead time' period? Here is 11:07 AM (GMT+2).
Much appreciated!

Mar 18 2014 Anchor

It is flexible, not specific, as mentioned earlier. Often it is around 1:00-9:00 AM (GMT+0), sometimes it is 5:00-13:00, and rarely it can be even 10:00-17:00.

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