UX99

What about having it as a user-option of fuzzy dates vs specific dates? Though I'd suggest the latter as being default. Also, please, a user-option to disable the keyboard shortcuts, though those would make sense to default to "on" like they are currently. Additionally, currently the Popup likes to come back even if closed. Person opens Search Popup. Clicks to close it. Alt-Tabbing out of the browser window re-opens the Search Popup.

You do realize that relying on tooltips for that kind of information when it comes to viewing a lot of information at once is bad... right? It's easier for people to read from multiple areas at once when it's displayed properly instead of having to move their cursor to each individual thing. This is just another example of how poorly thought out this change was. It's all "style" (and a pretty bad one at that) over substance. Vague "x months ago" or "x years ago" instead of the actual date only leads to a worse experience.

So while I have fixed the styling of the various pages and search myself using my own stylesheet, it all still feels like such a downgrade compared to before. I still want to know the mindset of the new layout because it really is that bad. Everyone I've asked from both novices to advanced users, and only in a way of briefly saying the site has changed, have all come away saying the new site is worse. The page is slower to load, mods often won't actually appear until a second or longer. And while that doesn't sound like much, it's much longer than the old version of the website, and it adds up. There seem to be a lot more scripts, more things to download from third-parties. The lack of "Trending" as a sortable option makes even looking through mods worse off. I've been trying to "get used to it", but all I feel like doing is just to not bother with any mods from this site. The overall experience is a net-negative. A banner should be made leading to a poll for everyone to take part in to get actual feedback from the userbase. Restrict each vote to unique IP or account even.

Ah, ok. That's better at least. I'll just make some css then for myself to target how it is on the game's popout so then it'll work on the rest of the site when that part is done. Would still like an option to disable those keyboard shortcuts though, like pressing / to open the search. I get why people like having them, but just not for me.

Currently the game homepage is the only place where one can actually re-style the search popout. The mod pages are where it is using Shadow-Root and thus locked down. Edited: On second glance, I assume actually you were referring to the main site homepage then and not the game homepages. So in the future, they'll all actually function as to how it is on the Game Homepages?

Then there needs to be options for the pop out as people cannot re-style it. There NEEDS to be an option to have it behave as it was, and not as a full-page-blocking window. Even the keyboard shortcuts should have a toggle in the user-settings. They can be defaulted to on, but there needs to be an option to have them off. If people aren't going to be allowed to fix things themselves, then they need to be given options.

Then have them get rid of using Shadow-Root when it comes to any page with the search. Just go to any mod's page, the search on those pages are running within that which prevents people from fixing things locally. Using Shadow-Root is just bad design overall as there's no actual benefits to using it. A person cannot re-style anything that is running within Shadow-Root, its entire purpose is to restrict that.

Then there are much better ways to do this than a major downgrade citing "positive results from the people who actually opted in" as the only reason. The majority of people that have since posted about this after it has gone live have pretty much all been about how bad it is. Any feedback has been ignored or even dismissed with hostility. Just the amount of condescension from this: Runs against the idea of "this is an iterative process of improvement". Even the stats provided elsewhere on the polling breakdown doesn't actually paint it as "universally liked".

There really isn't any real reason for someone to use Shadow Root, but they made sure that the search popup is fully within it when on the majority of the website. If any site makes use of it, it's often because they'd rather force their users into using what they made. There's a bit of irony when considering this being Nexus Mods.

It'd be nice if the search popup was a toggle. I can't stand the full-screen popup and keybinds I can't disable. Usually I would just change that myself using the extension Stylus, but the Nexus' web team made sure that wasn't doable on the majority of the site. Someone on their team found a toy and made damn sure they were going to use it despite it being a sign of bad design.

Way ahead of you. https://archive.is/0gAMm

You can find it copy and pasted numerous times all on this page: https://feedback.nexusmods.com/?view=declined

There's something funny about the claim of how well-liked it is while also not allowing anything in the actual feedback page to really go anywhere. Most one got to was 118 upvotes of different people saying of how they disliked it before it was summarily closed. What's the point of a feedback section if it's just going to be ignored? Seems it would be a good place to gather unique votes on how people feel about it instead of using a forum topic.

Everything about this is just "bad". Overly clunky interface. Using Shadow-Root which prevents people from trying to fix the search (visually) themselves. Having the search take up a giant window for really no reason. No way to disable the keyboard shortcuts. Closing any feedback on the actual feedback website. The "our testers liked it so it must be good" is a really bad approach. So the people who willingly opted in claimed it was good. You're ignoring anyone who opted in, didn't like it, then opted back out. You're ignoring the countless people who really hate this change. It also isn't hating change for the sake of it being different. It's hating it as it is just really badly designed. It's slow to load. It's much slower to really do just about anything. It takes up too much of the screen and has less to offer the end-user.