Tracking Notifications Issue, New Sites Colour Scheme and Make Mod Man

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[Edit] Title of the thread should give some notification as to length limit.
It allowed me to enter a longer title and truncated it without warning making it meaningles or worse altering the meaning entirely.
I can't edit the Title and make it mean what I intended.
The method used to indicate this limit isn't important but it should be made clear somehow.
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[Edit] This Issue Resolved as Nexus appears to have fixed it. Now showing updates for Skyrim on other sites though. I dont recall that happening before or know whether it's designed to do so now, so just stating what I see.
First the Tracking Center is working and listing all my tracked mods, however no notifications of updates to tracked files are being given and though I'm tracking 216 Skyrim Mods I get this when clicking on notifications Icon.

Notifications

You have no new notifications. Here's the latest activity.

Latest tracked file uploads

You aren't currently tracking any files

I should have a few updates and indeed know that some mods have been updated this is same situation for all games I have tracked files on. Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas so it's probably affecting all Nexus Games.

Tracking Center is listing all tracked files but no notifications are being given as notification section says I'm not tracking any files at all. Something is obviously broken in the connecting of the two and it means nothing is actually being tracked even though tracking center says it is.
This is a separate fault to the original reports of no listing in Tracking Center which appears to be already fixed, but it's possibly related to the same cause. Notifications worked just fine before upgrade to one site.
[End Edit] This Issue Resolved

Not a problem type of issue but a basic site ID at a glance issue. This is all new sites having same default Nexuis Orange colours when previously Colour coding of sites was used, while every game having a unique colour (Skyrim Blue etc.) may not be possible, all having the same colour is not a good option.
Two Criteria of Differentiation, at least, are required for ease of use.

• Games in same Series have different colours as is done with Elder Scrolls Series and Fallout Series.
• Games are listed in alphabetical order in the Games List and therefore next to each other should also be colour coded for easily identification between them.

Having all new games in same colour will not help in simply identifying selection errors as more games are added.

Finally I would add a word of caution over adding more and more games to Nexus Mod Manager. Simply put it is the more games added the less useful the manager. Making it work for multiple games means it will have very few useful functions that work for just one single game, the Jack of All Mods but Master of None effect. This puts NMM in direct competition with Desura and Steam Workshop that I know about and maybe others as well. Both could see Nexus as a direct threat to their businesses and act to eliminate the threat. These things happen when money and profit are involved.
The other and for modders more important problem is about the quality of a manager for one game not quantity of games. I understand that this is the long term strategy Nexus has chosen to counter the possiblity that Zenimax limits future Bethesda Modding to Steam Only or worse consoles only TES and Fallout, moddable or not.
For those who think Bethesda will never do such a thing, the Devs may not but they do not make these decisions. Zenimax do, they are solely a Publisher and will make decisions purely on a financial basis, Nexus know this is possible even if unlikely, with new 64-bit consoles a new game engine will emerge and what modders will or won't be able to do with it is unknown. After the overwhelming participation that Skyrim produced if Nexus was sure it would have a next Bethesda game they would be only preparing for that and it would likely tax all their resources as Skyrim did.
While a logical choice for Nexus, given the uncertain future of Bethesda Modding. It is not in the interests of Modders that NMM follows the sites logical path. Modders interests are served best by Mod Managers targeted to each game they wish to Mod. At most for each Game Engine.
Many use NMM because it's the sites manager, this gives it a huge advantage over other managers, in the opinion of most prolific modders much better managers. A situation reversed with Steam Workshop which is much worse than NMM, yet is Bethesda's Official Manager.
I am talking about the current NMM. The new Alpha I have little knowledge of, other than it allows profiles using Symbolic Links. Other Managers have had profiles for years and none use Symbolic Links. It may work well, it may be a bad method as Linking is not without problems, Symbolic Links are the best Linking choice though. Only time will show whether another method is better.

So site being multi-game apart from the teething troubles will only enhance modding and for all the shortcomings of the Nexus, which are mainly through huge usage, it wasn't always the goto mod site it is now, others just didn't last.
NMM being Multi-game is another matter, hopefully it never is as bad as Steam Workshop but One Manager to Mod Them All is not for me, I wan't the best Manager for each game. Mod Organizer is my choice for Skyrim and Oblivion, Morrowind I use Wrye Mash. Fallout Series will Likely be Mod Organizer though I'm new to Fallout and Wrye Flash and Fallout Mod Manager are still options being considered. The Choice is yours as to what you use. I advise only choose for each game as no Manager is best for all games.