First ever post, I've been quite content with not writing anything because for the most part its been fine.
The new UI uses less than 60% of my actual screen space and all I see is "Trending mods". Sure I can see the words "popular collections" at the very bottom of the screen but I cant actually see any of the collections themselves. Not that I have ever made use of them nor plan to.
Like... Come on. Ya'll gotta be on something real potent to think this is a good landing page.... 6 mods?
Also I aint exactly a HUGE fan of the HUGE grey bar at the top of the screen that has a very tiny video about mods (I assume since i cant freaking tell).
Feels like it's... Completely pointless? I'm sure its for ad space that isnt quite there yet or something but... yaknow. Dont? You're already wasting space in other places for ads.
Lets get to that other wasted space then.
If I scroll down to check the "More Mods" tab I'm met with roughly 8 full mod thumbnails that are entirely visible and 4 halves of mods, if the mod title is only one line long I can read the whole thing but not if its longer. There's clearly enough space on my monitor to simply push these 4 halves to the 2 rows above though and I have to wonder... Why is it like this?
Its for ads ofc, I get that, ads are a necessary evil but even with the ad I'm seeing included you can still push these 4 to the rows above, stop wasting a ton of space between the mod thumbnails, there's literally no need for that amount of space inbetween. The websites main use is going to be for desktop. I get that mobile users BROWSE the website but desktop users USE it, their needs are ultimately far more important and it feels like this is being forgotten.
2 second mockup, this still reserves your precious ad space and makes the site a tiny bit less awful. Hell, you could push all the thumbnails all the way to the left side of the screen and fit an even bigger ad in there if you really wanted.
Now I've had a go on the site on my mobile and yeah it works okay I suppose but it exhibits the same issues. Trending mods take up twice the space meaning you only see 2 mods on your screen and there are 6 total so I have to scroll 3 full screens to get past them only to land on the collections which I previously mentioned PERSONALLY have no interest in/use for.
The larger issue however is that it is an entirely pointless update for the mobile app because the actual browsing the mod list was never an issue, you could check the mods out much better before. The issue was that once you were on the mod page itself and the way to navigate its "tabs" is what I feel always felt bad and that has not changed. I still have to use the same dropdown menu to get the posts/images for when I have questions or wanna know more. You've literally solved nothing for the mobile user.
Now the search options. I dont personally see any point in having it look outside of the particular game you are on but for those who want that? I'm happy for them.
What I think you should do is provide the option to JUST search by mod or whatever and enable some way to make it the default option (if there is a way I am not seeing it).
The search box itself can become very cluttered because you include all the other search options which I have absolutely no use for.
All in all, this is a mess. It may have some functionality that is an improvement but in every single regard the visual design is a downgrade.
