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Pretty much everyone despises the new site browsing UI and have made their distaste known. Give us the option to revert back to the site UI. This new UI genuinely sucks and is a flat downgrade compared to the old one.

Stop deleting negative feedback to your ugly UI change

This new UI is distracting and not intuitive. It makes it hard to find things and navigate. Please bring back the old UI or put in an option to revert to it on a per-user basis.

I said it once for the author page update, and I'll say it again for this. There's way too much wasted space. Images are just a bit too large, while the gaps between them feel unnaturally spaced. Sure it's sleek but it's not as refined as the previous state. Edit: If we're improving accessibility and the user experience, why not offer some customization options? I for one would really prefer not having collections on a game's frontpage, as even if I were to engage with Vortex (I don't use Vortex in the first place), I wouldn't be using collections.

the new UI is absolutely terrific and difficult to use, the previous UI was much simpler and wayyy easier to use. Please revert it

Dear @mfPixel @JustThatKing and the Nexus Mods product team, First, I would like to introduce my real-life self. I am a Senior Product Designer/Manager with 20+ years of experience, back from the late 90s, and I'm versatile in numerous areas of design. While you buffed the UI design in terms of visual appeal, you messed up essential features and significantly nerfed the UX. Please consider this as free and well-intentioned constructive advice from a seasoned UX, UI, and Product designer with hundreds of successful projects. I'll cover the essentials but won't go into comprehensive feature analysis and deep-diving. Do not discard the list view; instead, offer users the choice between a grid and a list view. Both have pros and cons and exist for a reason. Avoid introducing unnecessary steps and UI elements. For example, the search worked perfectly: You typed in the box and quickly received relevant results as an autocomplete list. Now, you are opening an additional element (a full-screen "search" modal). This is always a poor decision unless there are justified requirements, which I do not see in this case. It confuses users and increases their uncertainty by giving them the impression that they have left the mods page, which is an undesirable psychological effect. Why does Google still use the simple and archaic plain text dropdown as an autocomplete results list? Because it has proven to be the most efficient. They could also introduce full-screen search modals and overwhelm users with additional "rich" content, options, and other unnecessary details. However, that would be a poor decision and result in a bad user experience and company reputation as "we're keeping it simple, but we always understand what you need". Users search for something specific, and instead of overwhelming, they are given quick and relevant guidance (a simple text list) without additional distractions that take time to scan. As mentioned, always keep it practical and contextual. As an exception for the Nexus site, mod covers/thumbnails that identify them quickly and some essential details, such as the last updated date, number of endorsements, and unique downloads, are valuable and valid information. Please do not open a new full-screen modal with huge tiles that require me to scan horizontally and vertically to find something. It's pretty tedious. Add a grid/list view toggle in the search modal as a quick fix. Even better, please remove it altogether. The standard search results page with filters has performed flawlessly and served its purpose well for years, and there is no need to complicate things without reasonable cause. Mod Status Labels Regarding the UI, some changes affected and downgraded the UX pretty directly. For example, mod status labels. Before, although rough around the edges, they communicated mod status clearly and efficiently, which is their only purpose. The current UI mod status labels are unnoticeable and bland. They're too light, greyscale, subtle, and unsuitable for this type of content, with many underlying, diverse and colour-wild mod cover images. And again, consistency. When a mod update is available, it's marked by an icon and text label. Upon updating, only the status icon is displayed in a small, almost invisible square, and all statuses have the same indistinguishable visual style. Suggestion: Why not use colours that are easy on the eyes but still very visible for different statuses, regardless of the underlying image? If you select a suitable palette, it could blend nicely with the new UI design. Maybe add a slightly visible border with a subtle drop shadow, outer glow, or similar effect to separate it from the mod cover image. Also, always use the same UI elements for the labels. It's your choice: background with icon only, icon + text label, or text label only. Consistency and Context Nevertheless, could someone kindly inform me where the Kudos button from the user's profile page went? Vacation, maybe? I can't see it when viewing the user's profile from here. Oh, I just remembered, silly me. It's accessible when you go to any mod's page, click the mod's author's name/link, and go to his (mod) profile. Easy-peasy... But that's precisely what I'm talking about: The user's profile should always be the only destination (user's hub), whether accessed from the mod, forum or any other page on the Nexus site, not vice versa. From that initial point, with all essential info and actions, you can further access all other user sections (mods, forum posts, activity, etc.). This is consistency at its best. Please - keep it simple, straightforward and efficient, avoiding excessive information and clutter. Most importantly, always remain contextual and consistent. Cheers!

I'm aware the team has made several responses saying that they are simply refusing to add the mere option to have people prefer the old/legacy UI and I genuinely think this is a mistake. I understand that this feedback section is for 'genuine' feedback and that's what I'm looking to state. The new style/UI feels clunky, spaced apart, and genuinely difficult to look at and focus. As someone with imperfection vision, these 'features' in the new style make it difficult to easily browse for mods and can give me a headache at times. I had read and can understand that the changes were made initially to better the code and experience for new users, however as someone in their 20s that needs glasses, this only affects me negatively. I'm not suggesting a complete reversal to the legacy style/UI, however, a plan to give users the option or even an new style/UI that is more in line with how compact things were would be greatly appreciated to the members of the community who use the website who do not have 20/20 vision or who do not have compatible vision with the intent of the new style/UI. I, also, understand that some people feel a need for change and some don't like the new UI while others like it. However, I believe simply alienating people who are not comfortable/do not like the new changes is not a productive method going forward. So, please, consider a future optional layout that individual users can enable that resemble the legacy style/UI so that people with imperfect vision can, at the very least, use the website without struggle. --- This is a post I had made to the Feedback Discussions sub-page of Nexus several days ago, it had amassed around 100 upvotes and had several dozen comments stating how people agreed with my sentiment. It has since been deleted with no notification, resulting action, nor was it flagged for any violation. Why is it that hundreds, if not thousand, of people are rightfully upset with the changes made, as well as people like myself who are rightfully complaining that the visual changes is actually harmful to our eyes, that our opinions and complaints are being disregarded and cast aside? For every twenty posts, comments, and discussions complaining that the new visuals and interface look bad, are poorly designed, and are harmful to the user, there is maybe one or two statement in support of the change. My original post was not advocating for the complete reversal of the interface back to the old/legacy version, simply an option that it may be applied visually or a less-updated-version available. Many websites, application, and brands provide this as to satisfy/accommodate as many users as possible. I, for one, get consistent headaches while trying to use the new interface and I know I am not the only one. That's not to say the the new UI Interface is.. Almost disgraceful of what truly popularized Nexus Mods; Skyrim. The removal of the background images of from the home page and subsequent mod pages is a direct disrespectful action to the game that solely made Nexus Mods the main place to go for game modding. Speaking aesthetically, Nexus Mods is now bland, lifeless, and can cause actual pain to use. I am, again, not saying to simply revert all changes. I can understand that the website might function better than before as well as there are some, if small amounts, of people who enjoy the changes. However, it is abundantly clear that is not the case for the majority of users. I ask that a option be added to apply a sort of.. Overlay in the aesthetic of the Legacy/Old interface, or a less-updated version that more aligns with what the users of this website have been using for literal decades. And please, do not remove this post like my last one. It is incredibly disrespectful and.. Childish to simply delete structured criticism when faced with it.

What is the point of having a feedback page, if you decline everything before people get the chance to upvote it ?

Since making this post I've gone looking at what responses the staff have given so far. To use the word "disappointed" would just be lying. The response has been condescending and downright hostile, amounting to little more than "stop whining", "you just hate change", and "f*#@ you". Maybe we... hate these changes. For multiple reasons we've been very clear about. Maybe people hate change because the changes were bad and we've been thorough in explaining why. Maybe telling us "give us feedback" and then immediately following it with "shut up" makes the whole team seem like they're throwing a childish tantrum because someone didn't like their show-and-(don't-)tell presentation. No, the word I'm looking for isn't "disappointed". I am disgusted by the Nexus team's response to their users' criticisms.

“The polls have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.” “Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.” “But the polls were on display . . .” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the polls, didn’t you?” “Yes, yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”

The new GUI looks and feels like a mobile / touch-sceen layout vor a vertical display. i dont have neither. half of my monitor isnt used and i have fewer info an the sceen at one glance then before. And black Font on black Buttons on black Background is realy bad for contrast, to discern sth. , an its depressing to look at.

I myself am a graphic and web designer, and I'm so tired of this recent (last decade at most) trend of adding so much unnecessary padding between everything. So many designers want to be trendy and modern without thinking about efficiency. Adding a bunch of blank space only makes the user have to look over a larger area to get the same amount of information. Take the front page for example; every mod, image, post, etc in a row has a gap of 24px. The old layout had a gap of 10px. With only 1px larger text, the new layout does nothing for readability at the cost of 20% fewer items per row. They're also taller with much more vertical padding, so it takes a lot more scrolling for the same amount of information as the old layout. Only being able to see 4 mods on screen at once instead of 10 is a massive downgrade with zero benefit. This all leads back to the root of the problem: something many designers fail to recognize is a layperson's inability to explain what they dislike in design terms. They see people complain about colors or fonts and brush off their complaints, when really they're indicators of larger issues. Changes like these should be done in small tweaks over time, never in large, all-encompassing updates like this.

I keep reading that there has been an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the new layout. Positive? *reads 97 pages*

We're going to get told “What's What” pretty soon, and that we MUST like the new design or leave, because the “Overwhelming (albeit Invisible) Masses™ LOVED the new site. And that we should just “Grow up” and stop protesting because we're just “Whining” because we don't like change®. It's their Standard Operating Procedure, which is exactly why I didn't bother participating in the Beta, because I knew that no matter what the people actually WANTED, we were going to get ignored, because it's what they always do. It happens every time.

the new layout is seriously pissing me off, so much wasted space, the new search window sucks, and the condescending way the staff is treating the complaints pisses me off even more!!!!!!!!

They've gone on record saying they won't make changes based on opinions and user experience. "We disagree and aren't at this time looking for further input from UX professionals. " "we're also not planning on adapting our approach based on feedback that amounts to "I do not like change"." ~lluviel 2025 Basically, if you say you don't like it, they call you a whiner and won't listen, and if you're trying elaborate, give them examples of what it is you don't like and why, they mock your efforts, call you pretentious, and ignore you as well.

I hope this stays optional forever, because the new design is cluttered and I don't like it at all

You've lost like half the sites utility in pursuit of [supposed] style and what i guess is parity with the mobile version [which is pointless seeing that this is a site for modding PC games] of the site. Everything is now 1 or 2 more clicks to get anywhere meaningful, whereas before it was more streamlined. I'm not a web developer, but I have been on the net since the early 90s and I can say without a doubt that is a move in the wrong direction. This is not a situation where everyone is hating on the new thing just because. This is a bad move.

Nexus sure was quick to remove this little trick. What a shocker!! Holy Moly what a terrible statement from someone in an official position representing the site, assuming this isn't paraphrased or strawman'ed

There's so much wasted space. I want to see more than three items at once when scrolling, the search bar expanding to cover most of the screen simultaneously distracts me by suddenly blowing up to be way bigger than it should be and also doesn't show enough results at once (similar to the main page, but worse because it's a search function that doesn't show me search results), and the filter bar needs to be expandable to fit the landscape orientation of most users' screens. The filters are just more readable and easier to navigate in a landscape orientation, and having to scroll up and down repeatedly to use the filters is just kinda irritating. The popular collections on the landing page? Sure, fine. Put them lower down, though. I come to Nexus mods to either find something specific or browse through what's new since I last checked the site, and the "view all" button to go to browsing is way too small and too out-of-the-way. The collections should be lower down than the "more mods" section, which should really be the "latest mods" section, since those seem like the most used elements for the vast majority of people I've ever spoken to about the site. Y'know, like it used to be. Furthermore... I just really hate how it looks. Lifeless. Soulless. Corporate. Forgive the crass imagery, but I really can't think of a better way to describe my distaste for the new visual style beyond "sticky". The tech-bro wet dream idea of "'sleek' = good". It's ugly as sin. The old design may not have been the prettiest, but it was a million times more functional, and a lot more cozy. Now it smacks of overpriced nylon suits and labour law violations.

Loads of wasted space, you only need to put classic vs new next to each other in separate windows to see where it's not being utilised :/

I am just going to get straight to my complaints to save everyone time. 1. I do not use collections, I do not care about collections, I build my own mod list, give me an option to hide it from the game homepage, I do not want to see it and I do not want to have to scroll past it to see the new mods, the thing I am actually here for and care about. 2. There is way too much empty space on the home pages, I am not sure why we have all this wasted space now but I don't care for it. 3. I don't like the place background, its bland and uninteresting, I preferred when we had images from the game in the background. 4. I hate that every game shares the New Vegas UI colors now, it's confusing and unintuitive, go back to giving each game its own UI colors. I have been on Nexus for over a decade now, but to New Vegas days, I have seen the site be overhauled a few times now. some better than others, but I have to say this is by far the worst overhaul of them all. I am not sure who researched this and greenlit it, but Nexus really dropped the ball on this one. I have spoken to many modders about the "New Nexus" and not one has told me they like it, it has been a mix of indifference or, primarily, outright hatred. This feels like someone messed with something that really did not need to be fixed, and after talking to many people and reading many posts, I think you would be better rolling back and re-examining what went wrong than to continue to try to hammer in this new UI.

Yes I totally hate it now. I want it back to how it used to be.

Copy-pasting my feedback from the Discord to this forum because then maybe it'll be cared about by the site. By the way, I don't think anyone appreciates being snidely called a "UX professional" when they're just trying to give feedback on how the new site changes actively and negatively affect their user experience. And I don't think that's a good look for staff members.

Lol, that's mine. Really not a fan of the condescending "We disagree and aren't at this time looking for further input from UX professionals" portion. It really feels good to have my feedback dismissed with a snide insult towards my 'credibility' to even be allowed to dislike something. Perhaps I should suggest a "Report abuse" button towards responses next, because that was genuinely and frankly uncalled for.

I'm absolutely not one to hate something because it's new. Actually I tend to be unpopular because I often like redesigns of logos and apps and websites... But this is the ugliest website design I've seen... probably ever (seriously, the early internet eye-killer rainbow alien websites look SO MUCH BETTER than this). If I saw THIS the first time I opened Nexus I probably wouldn't have taken it seriously. No, we're not complaining because it's new. We're complaining because it's hideous.

You want people to keep supporting you? Literally just offer an opt in/out for old/new layout Unless you plan to completely rework this terrible UI and get rid of the bloated interface and buttons, this will be a horrible change and continue to stay that way. The irony being you are against people modding your site, forcing the redirection onto the new terrible UI is kinda funny. I hate corpos man, Cyberpunk is a real life simulation.

Came here after they nuked the suggestion board. I guess they can claim people like the changes if they delete any complaints.

There has been plently of constructive feedback which you and others refuse to respond to. Only replying to those who say the features are missing rather than the people telling you how to make the website run better and look better and why the original design worked perfectly and why the new one doesn't. I and several others have given paragraphs of constructive criticism. Actively ignorant. I may even say hostile by removing the function to take /games/ out of the URL to return to the old design, as it's just a big middle finger to the userbase. Damage control will be the next step, I'm betting on it.

This is a subtle part of the issue right now. The only communication we are seeing as users is negative. Depending on context the replies we get are some form of: No reply at all No, you are wrong No, that is not intended No, that feedback is useless No, you need to accept the change No, this feedback is not welcome here There's more nuance to it, but ultimately the overwhelming majority of staff interaction with users on this change is currently negative, or at best a non-interaction.

Here is my feedback about the new UI design. First off, I recognize the improvement to the mobile site. In my opinion, the previous mobile site was effectively unusable. The occasional time I tried to browse mods on mobile were a horrible experience and I had avoided looking things up on nexus on mobile specifically because it was so bad. However, in my opinion, the new site represents a dramatic reduction in usability for desktop users, and I am primarily a desktop user. Luckily, I think it's mostly fixable. Here is an overview of how I use the site, my thoughts on how the changes impact my usage of the site, and suggested fixes to improve my experience and the experience of those similar to me. Workflow My workflow for when I go to a nexusmods game homepage is pretty simple (I'll use Skyrim SSE as an example). I type "nexus" into my browser, it auto-fills the SSE homepage URL because I go there so frequently, and I open the page. On the page I look at the 7 Hot Mods to see what's currently trending and if they catch my eye. If I'm doing more than a super quick check, I also scroll down and scan through the "New Today" section. I usually am on the lookout for player home mods, town mods, castle mods, and any patches or addons for existing mods that I use. For the workflow described above, which I am fairly confident closely represents the behavior of many fellow desktop users, the new UI is really bad. I'll use some images and metrics to compare the two sites. Hot Mods Before: I go to the homepage, and immediately have 7 Hot Mods available for viewing with no other input: After: I go to the homepage, and have only 2 Trending Mods available for viewing: Result: 71.43% decrease in Hot (now Trending) Mods available on the "Splash Screen." Scrolling Before: I scroll down past a thin and unobtrusive "Collections" banner. It takes me 8 "clicks" of my mouse wheel to bring the "New Mods" section fully in view. After: I scroll down past a much larger (though not that useful for advertising, in my opinion, see suggestion #4 below) "Collections" section. It takes me 13-14 clicks of my mouse wheel to bring the "New Mods" section fully in view. (13.5 clicks for metric calculation) Result: 68.75% increase in the amount of scrolling I need to do. (In actuality, the amount of scrolling ends up being even higher, due to less visibility in each line as per the following issue). New Mods (Note: I had pictures for this section, but I hit the max file size with the above pictures so can't post more pics, sorry.) Before: Now that I am browsing New Mods, I can comfortably scan through 2 lines of "New Mods," 5 mods per line, for a total of 10 mods comfortably visible at a time. The description of the second row of mods is cut off at any one time, but thumbnails are the most important part of the scanning experience. After: I have to uncomfortably scan through 1 line of "New Mods" with only 4 mods in the line, for a total of 4 mods comfortably visible at a time. I can partially view the thumbnails for the second row of mods, but it's not a comfortable experience, and my ability to scan new mods feels drastically reduced. This makes me feel as though the new UI is greatly inhibiting me. I actually almost feel "blinded" or "crowded" by the large blocks of thumbnails. I recognize this is a subjective feeling, but it still really hinders me. Result: 60% decrease in the amount of New Mods comfortably viewable on screen at any one time. Conclusion I am not properly equipped to measure other metrics like the time it takes me to go through the workflow before/after on an average visit. The metrics I can track suggest the site is less than half as usable for me as it was before. My subjective opinion is that it being about half as useful sounds about right. I respect the need to accommodate mobile users as well as users who struggle to parse dense information and small font sizes. However, I also feel that I represent a fairly common user of the site and I feel like in the attempt to accommodate other types of users, the site has stopped accommodating my needs. I feel overwhelmed by the new site and I find it hostile to the workflow of checking the home page for New Mods. This makes me not want to use the site at all to browse New Mods or to check the site less frequently. I feel more inclined to use search functions or to browse through mod categories than to check the homepage, which makes me feel as though the homepage is failing to do its job. Suggestions Luckily, I have identified four areas of improvement I think would make a big difference. And I think if the changes were implemented, most of my issues (and hopefully the issues that others have not-so-eloquently espoused on this thread) would evaporate. 1) The "Skyrim Special Edition" banner listing # of mods, collections, and media, as well as the empty whitespace to the right at the top of the page should be removed (from the desktop site). This area of the page is clearly designed for mobile users. Checking the site on my phone, I actually like the inclusion of this game banner section. On desktop, however, it is superfluous information. The game-thumbnail we already have at the top left of the Menu bar already informs us of what game we're looking at, and the banner gets in the way of information we care about. If we remove the banner from the top of the Desktop UI, that gives us a lot more space to fill the "Splash" / "Home" page with trending mods. (And by splash page, I mean what you can see without scrolling, which any UX designer should know is pretty critical for site impressions). 2) Slightly reduce the size of the Trending Mods thumbnails. Trending Mods don't quite all fit on the screen at one time right now, even after scrolling down. I think something like a 10% reduction in size would probably be all thats needed, but I can't tinker with it myself so I don't know exactly the right amount of change. I don't know how this varies between screen sizes and resolutions, etc. I might be a bit unlucky with my setup as to how small I need it to fit on my screen. Still, on the old site, all the hot mods comfortably fit on the screen at the same time. The new UI makes improvements to the descriptions and other info for Trending Mods, but the thumbnails are just a little bit too big and it ends up being harder to parse everything because of it. I also acknowledge that making things too small is bad for other users, however, I think the thumbnails are pretty obvious pictures and the size reduction I'm asking for would not have significant negative impacts on others. 3) Slightly reduce the size of the New Mods thumbnails. Very similar to the above, so I won't repeat it all. The point is that I would like to be able to comfortably view two lines of thumbnail images at once. I am willing to accept only seeing 8 mods at a time instead of 10, preserving the current 4-per-line, but 4 mods total is too few. 4) Collections section needs work. For a user like me, who is checking the Skyrim SSE homepage for new mods to download, Collections are completely worthless, and their space on the home page is unhelpful. But I think the current layout is ALSO bad for Collections users. Collections are shunted down below the Trending Mods, AND you only get to see two Collections at a time, which is not very many. Also it appears like those Collections are the "long, well-established, most popular" Collections? So it feels like something that should be out of the way since it's fairly static information, it's advertising something that won't ever change most likely, unlike Trending Mods which change constantly. I'm not 100% sure the best way to deal with this, and where to put collections. I think that the top of the home page should be reserved for NEW and TRENDING items, including TRENDING Collections. A list of "Best/most endorsed" Collections does not belong here. So to summarize, I would remove the current Collections section or place it below the NEW MODS section. That's not an ideal solution, obviously, so I think probably there needs to be some dedicated place for Collections to be hosted. Maybe the solution is to allow users to Re-Order their home page so it displays certain categories higher or lower? Maybe users should have the option to "Hide" sections they don't use? That might be enough to solve the Collections issue on its own, and if implemented then the Collections section could become bigger and look/function more like Trending Mods.

If y'all are so convinced that only a 'vocal minority' is bothered by the UI, why not make a poll about it displayed right there in the front page, huh? I've never felt the necessity to comment on any Nexus staff decision before, but the way you all are just deflecting criticism over and over again on this thread is wild.

it's not great. the old layout is much easier on the eyes. not to mention the new one is very laggy the search functions on the left are nice, but aesthetically and performance it's a complete no for me it reminds me of videogamemods which i dread using for the same reasons

Oh WOW! You're actually going to do something about the contrast NOW? After we've been telling you about this since the redesign of the Profiles page? And forums page? So, how many negative replies does it take to actually get you to realise that yeah, we hate it?

Exactly this. With the previous UI, I WANTED to browse for hours at a time. I cannot stand TILE WEBSITES Period, they're foolish, overly large, comical, and unnecessarily difficult to read, and navigate, because the information is strewn all over the page.. This UI design trend of “All the cool websites are doing it”, is WHY I don't use all those other websites that use tiles either. It's goofy.

hi guys really enjoying the new UI! it works great with my mobile (which I obviously do most of my modding on) like seriously who on earth is still using the desktop site regularly anyway? I tried logging onto my computer today just to see how the new site looks and it's great! I love the new low information density style as it used to be really exhausting doing all that reading but I still found myself missing the real slick mobile feel I get on my phone then after roughly 40 minutes of browsing I noticed the new site has two giant empty bars on either side! so that's why I have a suggestion: on the left bar let us log into tiktok and on the right bar Instagram reels, that way we can watch slime videos and subway surfers all while doing our modding! I really hope they look into this just one more way nexus can step into the future.

Definitely have to agree with most of the posts in disliking the changes I see today. It looks like an attempt to be exactly like Mod.io, which IMHO is a crappy site design. I hate the mod.io layout. The old (from yesterday) design here was great. If its not broken, don't fix it. No one asked for these changes. PS: To add, the one thing I HATE the most is the changes to the Tracked markers for Downloaded/Update Available. They are hard to spot, especially the 'Downloaded' just being a check mark. Also the White background does not pop nearly enough. The old Orange banner markers were far better. The cards are also poorly spaced and take up far more space then they need. PSS: After looking at this some more, as UI/UX designer all I can say is ROLL IT BACK. Listen to your users and don't force changes no one wants.

I usually remain a lurker on all of the sites I visit but I think this time I'm annoyed enough to scream into the void. I'm extremely against this new design. It achieves less while taking up more space and the contrast/design actually hurts my eyes. It screams mobile UI and takes away a lot of the website's uniqueness, it's just like I'm looking at Crunchyroll or Curseforge which are UIs I'm also not very fond of. Some particular things I'm taking issue with, in no particular order and off the top of my head: The game at the top of the page is unnecessary; I'm not stupid, I know what game I clicked on, and I can see it anyway in the top bar. The hot mods section shows 6 instead of 7 mods. Hot mods and collections are far too large and I am forced to scroll down to actually browse mods. Collections are useless for anyone who isn't using Vortex. Mods on the front page are displayed as rows of 4 and only 16 are shown, less than the old UI. There's big portions on the side which are completely empty. Several parts of the site are still using the old UI and it's extremely jarring to go back and forth between designs. Game-specific colors are gone. I don't understand what was so wrong with the old design that we needed this new one. It worked, and worked well. This feels like change for the sake of change rather than actually contributing anything of worth, and there are issues on this website which need fixing, such as comment search, that are far more important. Again, this screams mobile UI and I don't know why you're going for that when this is a website for modding PC games. I wouldn't have been so upset if this was a mobile-exclusive UI/look, but this works nowhere near as well on desktop. I'm using CSS edits made by others and it's made things better, but not by much. It's hilarious that now I have to mod the modding website. At the bare minimum, this UI needed a lot more time in the oven. It would be great if we could have an option to revert to the old UI much like how Reddit still has old Reddit, even if you don't support the old UI anymore/as much as the new UI. The short time that the /games/ trick was available shows you can have both UIs up at once. I know that for now I'm definitely not going to be buying Nexus Premium.

I 100% bet that the next news thing will either not get published, be published but the comments will be locked, or be published and have staff and a ton of mods sitting on the page deleting comments that say anything about how bad the sites new update is. The way the staff has reacted to our genuine criticism and problems we are having has soured how I've felt about nexus after using it for years. The place that was consistent and just worked has now become the opposite.

Hey everyone, I usually don’t comment on internal changes, but this time, I feel like I have to speak up. Besides being a modder, I’m also a professional web developer, and honestly, I’m quite disappointed with this design overhaul. The choice of an ultra-minimalist design (following the "trend"), primarily focused on mobile at the expense of desktop usability, seems like a huge mistake. Modding is, above all, a world of "tinkerers," and a tinkerer will always prefer a functional, clear, and distinct interface over one that is overly spacious, where everything looks the same and finding what you need becomes a hassle. I see that many people already share the same opinion, so I won’t go over the full list of issues again. But for now, it would really make sense to revert to the previous design, which was highly functional and met the community’s needs perfectly. Why try to "improve" something that was already working well? The site now feels cold and impersonal, which is a real shame for a platform that thrives thanks to us, the community. Even if the staff has indicated they won’t consider our feedback, it’s still worth trying. It’s never too late to rethink a decision. Thanks for reading.

So since @Demorphic has been asking for specifics: [Edit: PS.. I do UX/UI work for my job, so I can give more feedback if required.] Here is my first pass quick summary on the Search functionality. I will state right off that I much preferred the old quick search functionality. That said ... You kept the graphic of the Quick Search bar, but totally changed its functionality. It isn't a search bar anymore. Period. Thus there is no need for a Full Bar graphic. The Bar now functions as a Button. Thus this graphic should be changed to reflect its current function and be a Button, the same style as the Upload Button. Otherwise its misleading and just going to continue generating complaints. Search opens a Popup. In and of itself, this isn't a horrible choice. However, with that said, you can't actually do anything IN said popup. As soon as you select a returned item, click on View All, or click on a Recent Search, etc. it takes you OUT of the popup and loads a new page in place of where you started from. Many find this very annoying. SOLUTION: If you're going to force a Popup Window then either a) Keep all interactions within the popup IN the popup; b) Instead of a Popup, Open a new Search Tab; c) If you keep the Popup as is, make any New Page it generates open in a new Tab by default rather than overwriting your current starting page, or forcing you to specifically tell it to open in a new tab. {EDIT to above point} - Another HUGE annoyance with the current functionality is that you lose your Search every time you interact with something in the Popup. If you want to check a mod then come back to the search to check another, you can't because you have to start all over. Within the popup - Mods should be the default starting tab. I am sure you can check your own site's metrics and I would be willing to bet that at Least 80% of all searches done on the site are for mods. The Popup Window should be Dynamically sized to take up more than 60% of the available screen space. The returns in the popup suffer the same issues as on the main pages. Limited to 4 tiles. Too much excess space between tiles. There is little to no contrast between the background color of the PopUp window versus the colors of the tiles. Grey text on Grey Background is just a horrible design choice. Within the popup for Mods - I feel way too much space is given to the graphics. The graphics take up roughly 85-90% of the tile. These returns would be far more useful with smaller thumbnails (similar to what was used in the old quick search) and more focus on the text. I also feel the mouse-over amplification of the images unnecessary. Within the Popup for Mods - The details line should be more useful. You should at the very least add the number of downloads to the data line rather than just author and endorsements. People are lazy and don't endorse mods nearly as often as they just download them and move on, so seeing downloads can tell you more than endorsements. Adding Date Last Updated would also be a HUGE benefit. In the same tile, the Mod Name should be more prominent, increased font size at least double that of the data line. The data line also needs better contrasting color. Examples: As is ... Should be more like:

I've been modding for a long time. I still remember life before Nexus, and I can see an absence of Nexus in my life in the future. All it takes is for a less annoying option to pop up. All I really use Nexus for these days is Skyrim. Sure, I sometimes download something for some other game I run modded, but most of my non-Skyrim-based mods I already get elsewhere. And I am so ready for something else to take the place of Skyrim in my life. 14 years of playing one game is long enough. And seeing how Bethesda is trying to take control of the mod scene for their games, Nexus really should be thinking real hard about how to retain their relevancy in the future. Sure, the official mod service for Starfield sucks, but... Well, TES6 is still a fair way away, and who knows? Maybe they'll manage to get their act together by then and offer a decent mod publishing platform for both paid and unpaid mods. And if they do, then Nexus will become obsolete. Everyone will just use the official mod page for most of their mod needs. The thing to keep in mind is that at this point, we do not use Nexus because we want to; we use it because we have to. Many of us are actively looking for alternate options already. All it takes is for some entrepreneurial person to go about setting an alternate option. It's not like Nexus has a copyright on the mod page concept. All it takes is for a decent alternative that is less PITA to use to appear, and Nexus will lose its hold on the modding scene. While the demise of Nexus is quite unlikely to be around the next corner, the thing with collapses is that they are always sudden and seem to come unexpected. Except they are not. If you pay attention, you can see the telltale signs of an imminent collapse. Hubris of the people in charge is a common sign. Unrest and unhappiness of the people is another. If those in charge keep ignoring the wishes and needs of the people, then things get pushed to the brink, and people will migrate elsewhere the moment a chance presents itself. That's why things like this UI debacle matter. It is pushing people to look for alternatives. It is setting up Nexus for a collapse. It won't cause it on its own, but it will certainly hasten things. So please, do yourselves a favor and listen to us on this matter. It's okay to admit that some experiments were a failure, revert back and try something else instead. This UI is not working; revert to back to the old one. It wasn't perfect, but better than this. Re-think the whole thing and try again in the fall or something. Look at Steam as a good inspiration on this topic. There is a lot to criticize about Steam, but... They do a pretty good job of keeping their customers happy. Happy to the point that something like Epic Game failed to make any kind of dent into Steam's market share. despite the enormous amount of money they spent on their bid. Despite all the free games they offered to people in hopes of luring them away from Steam. Steam, with all its flaws, was just too comfortable and easy to use for people to change ships. Steam has always understood that their business model is in service, and they do their darnest to make sure that using Steam is as painless as possible. And if something is making people be unhappy and restless... Then, they take steps to mitigate it ASAP. Keeping people happy is their first priority, always, and it keeps making them oodles of money in return. I wish I could say the same about Nexus... But I can't. So, to any site staff who might read this, keep this in mind - the more miserable you make your users' experience, the lower the hurdle needs to be for people to switch services once an alternative appears.

First time ever on this forum. I have always, without exception, gone to nexusmods via a bookmark. I go to check on new mods and then hop right out after. I personally was not aware a redesign was there in opt in status and was caught blindsided as a result. Partially on me I suppose for not being engaged in the community, but even so, poorly communicated to the broader, less engaged with site changes users. My screen on the mods page, until I scroll down, is almost entirely blank space. I have the top five hot mods and half of the new collections suggestion, and the rest is blank (possibly ads being blocked?) Compared to yesterday, when I could see the entire top two rows of the newest mods (what I go to check). Needing to scroll just to see the newest 16 mods, arranged in a 4x4 grid and refusing to use half of my monitor width, is abysmal design. Needing to click on "show more" and then scroll past those same 16 mods to see something new (rendering page 1 mostly useless) and also still refusing to use a quarter of my monitor width...also abysmal design. From one staff comment, 40% of people use mobile to browse, which explains this mobile layout. The push to mobile friendly stuff is a constant frustration - but on a site that is only to look at and not to DO anything with unless you're on a PC, to not focus first and foremost on the desktop experience is...insane to me.

NOBODY thinks they have a “Right to run the Nexus”, we do, however, have a right to provide feedback when asked to do so. Even though it's ignored 100% of the time. And we do have a right to be disappointed once again, that our feedback has been completely ignored yet again, because apparently, we're all too dumb to provide any feedback when asked, unless we're all UIX Professionals.

As everyone else has stated, this new UI is a downgrade. It not only bloats the images and tiles, so you can't see as much at once as you used to, but it also makes browsing the site more straining on the eyes since they decided to get rid of the light grey in favor of dark grey/black. To whoever designed the UI I just have to ask why? You not only removed the color and uniqueness of the site. You also got rid of the soul in favor of cookie-cutter "sleek minimalism" modern web design. Is this for the 40% of mobile users even though you aren't modding PC games on mobile?

No, as one of the Designers said, earlier in the thread, only 40% of people look at the site using Mobile. So I guess 40% outweighs 60%

And I see now removing the \games\ from the URL no longer shows the old page. 85 pages now of mostly negative comments about the new look but Nexus just presses on with it regardless.

God I hate UI designers. "It looks fine on my 4k vertical monitor!" "All the users who willing used it liked it!" "Everyone who doesn't like it is a troll!" "Muh telemetry and data!" "We needed it more modern!" (read: bland) Nexus basically has a monopoly on modding. The only thing that comes close is Steam Workshop. Of COURSE people are going to continue to use the site, grumbling to themselves, bearing yet another indignity. "People still use the site!!!" isn't a defense. 95%+ of users don't give feedback. Do most users even know there is a forum? Nexus ain't listening, so change the thread title to "Vent thread". It'd be more honest. If Nexus wanted real data, they'd stick a one-click poll on the front page: Like the new look YES or NO. Have it be public too. (SPOILER: they'd rig it or claim brigading if they lost. Or just disappear it.) Better yet, have the old layout be optional, from a temporary banner and not buried deep in settings, and see how many switch back, I guarantee it will be sizable. Nexus won't of course. They will never, never, ever admit they made something worse. And having an option to switch back might imply that their new design wasn't the best most wonderful gift ever graced to God's green earth. You ever meet UI designers? Not happening.

I find it genuinely so upsetting that every time i see real feedback of why this new UI isn't sitting right with a lot of people and real, thought out examples of potential fixes- it's always being replied to as if its just whining. This is not purely an issue of people saying 'i dont like change' and either they know it and do not care, or are choosing not to see it. Sad and frustrating tbh.

This s#*! is f*#@ing terrible and whatever webdev has been in charge of this atrocious mess should go back to school and sit in detention facing a wall for a week before taking basic programming classes again because it literally lags like f*#@ on Firefox. It spikes my CPU usage by at least 10% while still being a stuttering mess. This is the very definition of enshittification. Why are there fewer mods per row now? Why are collections that I don't give a f*#@ about front and center? Why does the MOD SEARCH bring me VIDEOS and IMAGES? I can only sincerely hope that web traffic and download count has a drop because that's the only metric that might elicit a change, despite the fact that nearly all feedback I've seen on this change has been negative.