My very late input — I’m not a fan of the new look, but I understand that’s subjective and there were reasons for the overhaul.
My main concern is how much this new design punishes newer mods and newer mod authors. Nexus’s only big flaw that I could see previously was the way so many great mods I loved fell into oblivion after 30 days. I thought the site was desperately in need of a tab showcasing mods that had been popular over the last 90 or 180 days. There was too much bias towards much older (often broken, no longer compatible) old mods from many years ago.
Well I’m afraid this new update has badly exacerbated that issue rather than helping it — now if you search you are shown only a tiny number of older mods, where it used to be something like 18-20 per page and then a very obvious continuation on to other pages. Reducing the number of featured mods and having the collections demarcate featured mods and new mods also seems regressive.
I’m not against change, but I’m really disappointed that a clear weakness has been worsened. I struggle to understand the business sense of it. If you don’t encourage newer/current modders the site traffic will surely suffer in the medium term?
