DankRafft

When I was browsing mods today and used the search I noticed there's a new sorting option. For a split-second I had hopes that this would be our "Trending" coming back. And then I saw it being called "Surprise". Yeah, that was a surprise...

That would severely reduce the usefulness for me. I track users specifically to only get notified when they release new stuff. I can already track the mod updates of an author by tracking their mod pages. That is slightly more work if you want to get notified for all of them but easy enough. If the system would be changed to what you suggest the notifications menu of many users would suffer from a lot of spam. I'm not interested in that and I doubt that the majority of the people using it would be pleased. They'd have to implement a new entirely separate system to not mess with the old functionality.

Yeah, my VPN caused that as well.

Since you're currently grouping feedback related to the new UI into separate threads and renaming existing ones, this one might fall into that same category as well, right?

Thank you for making this change. I guess this can be closed now.

Currently this section is sorted by "Most Replies" which vastly differs from every other forums section, is counterintuitive and buries new feedback (topics) under all the oldest and most "popular" ones.

And please also make this forum section sort by "Recently updated", "Last replies" or "Start date" by default. Right now it seems to be sorted by "Most replies" which is kinda pointless IMO and worse than any alternative.

I mentioned that previously, and others and I were told that "sort by Trending" and the new "sort by Endorsements" are the same thing. But that's not true. I have already proven during the beta phase that they differ significantly and thus the new design has lost a significant advantage over the old one, to the point where the search no longer serves any purpose for me. Here's where I show and explain the difference between the old and new system: And here's another post by another user explaining it as well, probably better than I ever could: I neither want to see the most endorsed mods of all time (which are some of the oldest ones in most cases) nor do I want to filter out all mods that were released before a specified time-frame, which is what the current "sort by Endorsements" does. I want to see all mods ever released or over a longer period of time but have them sorted by the most endorsements over the last 14 days. Basically the same functionality of this page but with the possibility to have search parameters applied to it. That's what the old "sort by Trending" did.

Agreed, the Trending Mods on the start page (and View All) works like that. But the old design's Trending sorting option in the search seems to function more like the "Top Files/Lists" in the site's header band, based on the results shown in the search. The first image of my example clearly shows that the search result isn't limited to "mods uploaded within the last X days, sorted by endorsements". They are sorted by most Endorsements in the last X days where the day of upload doesn't matter at all.

No, that's not what happens. First of all, in both cases I searched the file/mod title for "craft", not their description. Secondly, both search queries report all mods with a variant of "craft" in their name. The files reported are the same. The only difference being their order relative to each other due to the different sorting option chosen: Trending vs. Endorsements. Trending option shows all files ever released based on the number of endorsements in the past 14 days, just like the site's default "Top Files/Lists" (header menu band -> "Mods" drop-down section -> "Top Files"); whereas the new design's replacement sorts them by total number of endorsements (since day 1).

Here's a little demonstration of what I'm talking about. Entirely different search results. Old: New:

Please see my reply above.

That's not what I'm talking about. As I said, this is about the search function. The old design had a separate "Trending" sorting option that didn't limit a search (i.e. search results) to a time-frame, unlike the "Trending Mods" section you're referring to, but could be used to sort all search results of all time by trending. The "new" trending you're referring to is just "sort by Endorsement count accumulated across x days" and only shows results (mods) released within that time-frame. Different thing.

I'm missing the most important file search sorting function "by Trending". This is the one I use 90% of the time and the primary reason I use the search function to begin with. There is no good alternative. I don't really care how many endorsements or downloads a mod accumulated over the years/decades, I'm more interested to see what shiny new things a community came up with instead of promoting the same old same old.

I see, thanks. Yeah, I kinda agree that making the design compatible with as many devices as possible probably played a role in some of the decisions being made.