Suggestions mod page when a mod is removed, hidden, deleted.

[Catuskoti]

Hello,

 

First of all, in order to avoid any misunderstanding, I know it is very delicate at the moment (and at least until next month), I am not contacting you to let you know my dissatisfaction, I don't want to argue with you either.

There is nothing I can do about the current conflict between you and mod authors, and I do not wish to debate this issue. Sadly, I can only be a helpless spectator trying to adjust to the situation day in and day out (colateral damage).

 

3 mod authors will - or maybe have already done so - ask you to remove their mods. Still. The three of them total about thirty mods. Thirty mods added to the very long list of those that have already taken off.

 

While waiting for their request to be validated, I save a copy of their mods on my hard drive. In case I need to do a reinstallation you see. My modlist consists of 400 mods in order to have the most complete and survivalist game possible and because of the current conflict I'm so worried about not finding them that I save them all (210-215 gb ~ yeah! i'ts fine, it's cool, I've 2 To for the storage haha, hem)

 

And then I realized that only fixed part of the problem.

 

When a mod is removed or hidden, everything disappears, including the description page. This sometimes contains important information for the installation and / or the management of the loading order, incompatibilities, the modifications to be made in an ini file, the required mods, links to patches etc. Pinned messages are sometimes used as tutorials like for example Weapon Extended 2 (A must have this tutorial.)

 

I then asked myself the following question. When I go to mod, I see around 8 tabs (Description, Files, Image, Videos, Posts, Forums, Bugs, Logs, Stats). When a mod is deleted or hidden by or at the request of the author, is it not possible to delete only the “File” tab rather than all the tabs? After all, the only thing you're supposed to lose access to is the file, not the instructions, right? I don't know at all how it works, but I hope that when someone asks you to remove their mod, they don't also ask you to remove the manual because there, honestly, we would really touch the bottom.

Edited July 27, 2021 by Catuskoti

[Striker879]

I keep a copy/paste text file of mod descriptions, pertinent info from mod comments etc for almost all mods that I have downloaded and intend to use.

[HadToRegister]

After losing all of the helpful comment sections for the "Reloaded" graphic mods for each Bethesda Game, I now copy and paste the essential text for install/troubleshooting instructions and make a txt file in the folder along with the mod, and title it like "Instructions on how to install X Mod.txt

[0z2y]

Another sugestion is to use google search to find the mod you want and take advantage of their cache service by clicking that little down-arrow next to link. Mind you that you probably will have to look for the right link (files, description, etc..) and that google not always saves this cached pages for a long time...

So... Yeah, saving a text file with the important instructions is the best way.

[showler]

Mod Authors probably wouldn't want the pages preserved anyway. Nexus is still the largest modding site and having the page up here might draw searches to this site instead of whatever site they move their mods to. Best bet is to just follow them wherever they end up going.

 

Unless they stop offering the mods entirely, in which case you'll definitely want to copy it to your own computer.

[Catuskoti]

Hi everyone ) Thanks for your feed.

 

Yep, that's what I thought I would do too. Unfortunately, I missed some of them and when I - FINALLY - managed to find the place where the authors were going to make their mods available, I noticed that all the mods were in Russian (CWSS Redux for example). From content to the description. It's already a mess for me in English, then in Russian : /

 

In short, it's a shame to be there. Having a mod, but not its user manual sucks. :'(

[Crosstieger]

Sometimes the waybackmachine can show you the mod description including pictures. But only if the page was archived at some point, the mod wasn't age restricted and it only shows the main page.