Can we tag the mods by language so that if you speak Portuguese or Romanian or whatever, you can find mods in your language and I, who do not speak either of those, can exclude them from my searches so that they don't show up unless no other results are found?
Example: Right now 7 of the 20 mods on the first page are in other languages.
Since the language is often mentioned in either the images or the description, AI to tag them should be extremely helpful.
We can vote on the correctness of the tags which should help to train the AI.
Better searches -
Ability to tag the 14-year-old fantasy "consort" mods, bikini armor, etc.
AI would be great at tagging these based on the images provided in the upload. That way I can exclude it from my searches. For those that want this kind of tripe, having it tagged properly should take you right to it. We both win.
Have an easter egg tag for things like the Skyrim mud crab merchant, idiot son, corgi follower, etc.
Batman in Skyrim is not lore friendly. Figure out how to tag mods that aren't lore friendly for the purists among us.
Skyrim Waltz is NOT an adult mod. It's literally waltzing just like you see on Dancing with the Stars. Ya'll need a better handle on what is and is not "adult". Seriously... Especially since the naked, overly endowed followers aren't adult... Just sayin'.
Can you offer a few themes? Maybe a high-contrast option as well as light, dark, and etc.? It should be a matter of just applying the correct color codes to the CSS style sheet. You are using CSS styles, right???
Maybe consider doing something like Slack, where give users a UI to set various styles to suit themselves.
I second the comment about the dates for things. I play Skyrim mostly and a mod that was great in its day is often no longer the best choice. Example - FNIS, Nemesis, and Pandora. Very little actually requires FNIS these days. Nemesis superseded it and now Pandora is superseding both of them, but still has some issues to work out. Since Pandora is in active development, I expect that Pandora will become a much better, more modern choice.
Collect modder resources and offer some on line training on how to mod your game properly. Reddit has been filling this gap for a while, but much of the Reddit community there is becoming somewhat toxic due to frustration from the constant flood of noob questions.
The misuse of tools like WryeBash, NifScope, etc. is an on-going problem and creates a lot of frustration for users and for the community who tries to support them only to find out that the noob is source of his own woe.
Crashlogger or Trainwreck should be part of every single Skyrim collection by default. I'm sure that other games have similar tools. If the collection author wants to remove it, make them take an extra step or two to remove it prior to publishing the collection for others to consume.
Filter out potentially broken mods or give me a search to do that myself. Many mods are beautiful but have issues.
LOOT is often quite useful at finding mods with "wild edits" If LOOT can do it, why not Nexus?
I just had to remove a shield mod from my load order because the nav meshes in the mod were causing the game to crash to the desktop when I'd approach certain locations. Why in the heck does a new in-game object need nav meshes?
I've also had this happen with a custom follower and for the same reason - nav meshes. Not sure why my custom follower needed to have nav meshes, but there it is. If you're not adding places to the game, what good is mucking about with the nav meshes?
Create a community for modders themselves and police it a bit to keep it from becoming so nasty and toxic.
I can't tell you how many modders I've seen leave recently due to the pouty, demanding, or just plain nasty comments.
I've also seen modders who basically responded with "F U" when a bug is reported, who hide or remove any hint of criticism no matter how carefully its couched or how accurate it is, or who just plain flatly deny that they might possibly have a bug in their mod. No one wants to admit that they might have an ugly baby. I get that, but that's not what's being said. Bugs happen because things don't always interact with the game, the game engine, or other mods in ways that can be anticipated. Accept that and move on from it.
Shaders, lighting, LODs, and ENBs also seem to be pretty problematic, at least for Skyrim and probably other games too.
Some suggested settings, mods, etc. might be useful.
Give me a place to back up & restore my load order from LOOT. It should be a simple, text based file that should compress nicely. Give me a few iterations of it with premium and perhaps 1 with the free account.
