Why the abandoned tag? A V2 release as launched yesterday on Patreon.
The
abandoned
tag is automatically added by a scheduled script the website does on a regular basis (nightly?).
I can't remember if it's cutoff period is 2 months or 3 months, but if the website doesn't see an update
HERE often enough and it hasn't been marked as
complete
, it flags it as abandoned.
TL;DR - An update on Patreon doesn't automatically mean a update here. Someone has to share a copy.
The longer version...
It's less an "abandoned by the author" tag and more "abandoned by the community" thing, since nobody (yet) has provided a copy or a working link. F95 doesn't rely on getting updates from
You must be registered to see the links
/
You must be registered to see the links
/etc... it relies on getting updates from it's members.
As far as I understand it, what's supposed to happen is that if someone spots an update to a game - they post something
here (Game Requests) to point out that update to the larger community.
Someone in the F95 community downloads the game and then uploads it somewhere else or shares the links the author is providing.
They post links to the "working" downloads in the same thread. Then either a moderator notices and then updates the main game thread, or someone uses the "Report" button button to ask a moderator to update the main thread.
When the maintenance script next runs, it notices the update of the top post and removes the
abandoned
tag.
The quicker version is when it's one of the admin/moderators/uploaders/jr uploaders is the person who's interested enough in the game to notice the Patreon/Subscribstar. They then bypass a couple of those steps (because why send requests to yourself?) and the top post gets updated directly. I think that used to be the case with
SSS and to a lessor extent with
Cuntswell. But when that person lost interest (and presumably cancelled their Patreon/Subscribestar sub), nobody else picked up the baton.