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*This article is about the Home tab in Kocho. You may be looking for the Main Page.*

The **Home** tab, colloquially referred to as the **homepage** or **home screen,** is one of four tabs that make up Kocho's user interface. Users can upload their visual novels to the Home tab by submitting a form to a staff member.

## History

The Home tab was first introduced in the 1.8.0 update. At launch, only two visual novels were included: Arcana Romance and Ten Wishes. The update note in the Discord server, however, made clear that users could submit their visual novels to staff member Gingercat for review until a better way was made.

Up until January 29, 2023, users were best off sending their visual novels to staff member Mineplay on the Kocho Discord server. Starting the date mentioned before, however, head developer Dorimumeka began allowing users to send their novels to publish@kocho.io in order to be published to the Home tab.

## Description

The Home tab is the tab on the bottom far left of the screen represented by a house icon. Users here will encounter the following points of interest from top to bottom:

* A magnifying glass that allows for users to search for visual novels by name
* A two-frame slideshow (The first frame encourages the user to submit their visual novel onto the Home tab, whereas the second frame is a banner for the Home tab, reading "STORE".)
* A "Trending" tab showcasing trending visual novels (NOTE: The Trending tab only accounts for favorites, not downloads.)
* A "Recently added" tab showcasing the most recently added visual novels
* A "Popular" tab showcasing the most popular visual novels in stock (Until recently, there was no difference between the Trending tab and the Popular tab.)

By pressing on a visual novel's icon, the user will see:

* The visual novel's icon, name, genres, language, and release date
* A slideshow composed of 1-3 frames promoting the visual novel's contents
* A download button (changes to a play button upon downloading)
* A heart button promoting how many people have favorited the visual novel
* A download icon showing how many people have downloaded the visual novel
* A comments section allowing users to post one comment about the game
* The author of the visual novel and (if included) their social media account
* A short description of what the visual novel is about

To the right of each tab, there is an arrow sign the user can interact with. This will bring up every visual novel on the Home tab from earliest to latest and from most favorites to least favorites for the Recently added and Trending & Popular tabs respectively.

## Requirements

In order for a visual novel to be posted onto the Home tab, the user must fill out a Google document with the necessary information required. (We have provided a link below for anyone to make a copy of said document.)

The user, on the document, must fill out the following information regarding their visual novel:

* A downloadable file link
* The file size of the visual novel (limit 100 MB per 1 hour of gameplay)
* Total hours of gameplay
* The title of the visual novel
* The date the visual novel was released
* The author's name (NOTE: This does not have to be the user's real name)
* The genre or genres the visual novel falls under
* The language the visual novel is written in
* The completion status of the visual novel (must be at least 60% complete unless clearly marked as a demo)
* A synopsis summarizing the visual novel
* The email of the user's Kocho account
* An optional social media account (max 1)
* A maximum of three banner art pictures (preferably in the 16:9 aspect ratio)
* The visual novel's icon
* Proper crediting for in-game assets

### Restrictions

For a visual novel to pass security measures, it must NOT contain, condone, display, or encourage:

* Pornographic content
* Sexual violence
* Illegal sex acts
* Self-harm or suicide
* Extreme violence that "may harm the Kocho community" (sic)
* Material that promotes violence or hatred
* Hate groups or extreme content
* Spam and advertising
* Copyright violations

Once the user accepts the terms by signing their name at the bottom of the document, they are to submit their document to Gingercat by email at gingercat@kocho.io, to Mineplay on the KochoVN Discord server, or via email to publish@kocho.io.

## Trivia

* It took 267 days for latest visual novel uploaded to the Home tab to go from Flower Banquet, uploaded on May 12, 2022, to Silat Warrior, uploaded on February 2, 2023.

## Resources

Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l3TYPV4C\_ohlvTOvpYlDSZM63nLRXNAA/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=116115642735665281780&rtpof=true&sd=true (NOTE: You must make a copy of this to edit it.)