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  1. @Pickysaurus. Just a friendly bump - checking in on the feature. Currently modding Witcher 3 after the next gen update, and a "last updated" filter would be very useful. Would help a lot in finding mods compatible with the next gen update.
  2. Yeah, the workflow for tracked mods is great, and I do track every mod that I use. This is more an issue for when you're new to a game and trying to discover mods. e.g., I'm new to Bannerlord and want to find the most popular/essential mods that are still actively maintained. I do think Bannerlord is a bit of an edge case here, but it effectively highlights how there isn't an effective way to filter outdated mods in the search results. For background, Bannerlord's early access release was widely anticipated and saw a flurry of modding activity in that initial April to July post-release time frame. The hype outpaced development, and the modding scene seems to have slowed down significantly while people wait for both improvements to the core game and its official modding tools. As a result, Bannerlord's search results are still heavily dominated by that initial activity, and it's harder for newer mods to gain visibility because of the decreased amount of traffic. e.g., popular mods released in the last 3-4 months don't break 1k endorsements and are overshadowed by those initial yet outdated mods with 10k+ endorsements.
  3. Hello, In a similar vein to this thread, I've had difficulty finding mods that are up-to-date with the latest version of a game, especially those mods that are also the most popular or matured. As an example, I recently started playing Bannerlord, and filtering by endorsements does not really help. Out of the first 20 results, only 3 are actually current, with more than half being wildly outdated. Out of the first 100, only ~20 are current. It makes sense that filtering on a "supported game version" tag would be difficult and problematic (e.g., a game's own versioning might be nonsensical or inconsistent, mod maintainers might not correctly tag file's with the supported versions, etc...), and I think a good alternative would just be a filter on a mod's "last updated" date. Basically, the user can intuit an appropriate time frame to search on, and this should help cut outdated results. In my example above, if I could filter "last updated" to ~February, I could have cut through 4 of the first 5 pages of results. The "Time" filter would seem like the obvious answer here, however the problem is that this only looks at the "Uploaded" date when the mod was originally published. Great for finding new mods, but not for up-to-date mature mods. Sorting by "last updated" is also insufficient, as you then lose the ability to sort by endorsements or downloads. My current solution is to sort by "last updated", and then filter by bands of endorsements. e.g., I might filter by a top band of endorsements of 5k-max, then 2k-5k, then 1k-2k, and so on. This works to an extent, but I still need to manually check the "last updated" date to ensure I haven't paginated past the desired time frame. This method is also not 100% reliable, as the "last updated" date on the search results page might be incorrect (I've only noticed this once by chance; images below for this mod). Either way, you still lose sorting by endorsements - the endorsement banding does help, but it's all a bit tedious. The desired search would be to sort by endorsements/downloads, then have a "last updated" filter identical that's functionally identical to the "time" filter. Possibly, the "time" filter could just add a toggle between the created/updated dates. Thanks, Sherpa Outdated "last updated" date on search results: Current "last updated" date on mod description:
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