This is what you see if you go to the URL of one of my games and you’re not logged into your account (or don’t have one). Notice that it recommends the user click on a WIP (the Abyssal), a thread that does NOT require being logged in to view.
I’ve asked patiently and politely, but I am still waiting for the @moderators to explain why WIPs are public threads while Hobby projects are not.
Not to pick on @Holtzmann and his WIP (the Abyssal, seen in the screenshot above), but this is literally the description the author wrote when they launched their thread:
- Warning: The Abyssal contains detailed descriptions of violence, blood, death (duh), sexual content (on later updates), and offensive language;
So you’ve got one game (the Abyssal) with violence, blood, offensive language, and future sexual content, and it’s not restricted, while my completely innocuous board game with zero violence, cussing, or sex, cannot even be viewed by someone without an account.
Furthermore, you cannot even use this forum’s search function to find my games unless you’re logged in (it’ll say my games “can’t be found,” and Google, obviously, is not indexing them).
How does that make any sense?
And WIP authors get to use this forum to pitch their Patreon accounts?
Mind you, I’m not calling for WIPs to be restricted or modified in any way. I just cannot fathom why Hobby games are treated the way NSFW adult games are 
I worked really hard on making my Senet board game, and I was really proud when I sent a play link to a bunch of people who work in Antiquities and other related university fields (like Classical Studies), exactly the kind of people who know what Senet is and would love to play it, so it stung quite a bit when a couple of them told me that they clicked on the “Discuss this game” link and were told that the URL had been “taken down” (their description).
I read the original thread where the Hobby category was announced, but I still don’t understand what its purpose is when it’s kept under lock and key 