and this is when it is at its best.
Years ago, I remember a massive shitstorm brewing when a game that was submitted had a "full" version purchased for, like, three dollars. It quickly became one of the worst rated games on the site, and it sparked a large discussion about paid games within the community.
Somewhere along the line, I learned that a well-respected game had plans to have a Steam release. Nobody seemed to mind, and I could kind of see why, but the distinction still felt remarkably arbitrary. I have thought about it a lot in the years since, and although the distinction is not always clear, I think for a lot of people the line is drawn at the vibes-based point of "are you passionate about incremental games, or are you just doing this for the money?"
Recently, Nodebuster (which is a fun game!) seems to have activated some sort of sleeper agent that compelled a lot of indie developers who I haven't seen in the scene before to make very similar games, down to the part where you charge $3-$5 on Steam for it. These people will sometimes post a version of their game with less content on galaxy, with a button to buy the full version or wishlist it on Steam or whatever. I know a lot of people enjoy these demos in spite or because of the inherent upsell, and I also think they are fit for the site as there is free content that can be played in your web browser (the demo). However, there have been so many of these as of late to the point of exhaustion in my opinion, and that of many others. When you first open the site, I'd like the games that you see to reflect the best side of galaxy. Galaxy is a website for free, browser-based incremental games, and this is when it is at its best. Demos are not fully free, and not fully browser-based.
By default now, games with the demo tag are excluded from the "recently updated" list on the homepage. The demo tag on galaxy exclusively refers to games that currently have or are planning to have the majority of content locked behind a paywall, and not "demos" in the context of "more of this game will be released later, but for free". Demos now have their own recently updated list a little ways down titled "recent demos" (the name of this is subject to change). If your site-wide filters already hide demos, you won't see this list at all.
If you don't like the way this is set up, you can also now fully customize the homepage yourself in a new settings tab (or scroll down to very bottom of the homepage). Go wild, and make a galaxy experience that best suits how you want to use it :D