Nexus Mod Manager plans, answers and if you're a coder, we want yo

[abdullahm]

Personally I believe that NMM has grown beyond the "Beta" quality and should advance beyond that labelling as beta does get too many negative connotation attached to it these days simply by many sub-standard practices by those who don't actually know what they are really doing thinking they do.

 

However while this is not the case with the NMM developers, and I will take them on their word that it is not yet ready for a letter-less / final / stable release (I haven't looked at the code or the intended features not yet implemented so can't truly judge it accurately).

 

I will state however that there are other alternatives to calling it beta / open beta / etc. which could be considered instead...

OK so I know that a lot of very stable and high quality Linux software used in production server environments are still technically beta versions we are however talking about a majority of the NMM users (based off what I have seen from them needing support for the mods), NMM is dealing with non-programmers and a heap of non-tech-savvy windows users....

 

...Which means that by marking it as being beyond beta but not yet calling it a final "Final" / "Stable" could increase usage and stop such complaints as mentioned above.

 

So I guess what I am suggesting could be done is calling it a "Release Candidate" (0.xx.xx.xx... rc) or give it a "c" appellation instead of a "b". and then when you finally get the first "final" release (I will happily assume that even after the final release it will continue to be developed and evolve further) so that you can eventually drop the letter on the initial final release only to start them back on the pre-release letters before the next "Final Release".

 

At the end of the day it's your software, and you can choose what you do with it / label it and it really shouldn't matter what other people think or say, and in all honest there is no hard and fast rule on how to do the numbering / lettering process in development, the general guidelines on these do will vary from one developer to another, as well as from one country / region to another and again from each agency / group / company to any other, and what one person calls alpha could be considered a 1.0 release by another.

[splode22]

abdullahm, I disagree. While the mod manager IS an amazing example of modding software, it has plenty of room for improvement. As for the site, there is a lot to be admired, but far from perfect.

[Laugh10704]

Dark0ne, I'd like to help out with the website if possible, perhaps so that you can focus more on the NMM? I have many years of web development experience, including some .Net and C#. The website works well but has some serious optimization issues that I would love to help address at no charge.

[ACAkutare]

I have experience with .NET programming. This interests me, and I would be pleased to offer my skills and knowledge to this if you are looking for coders.

 

My skillset:

 

Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++.NET, C# (Limited, but expanding).

 

I have access to SharpDevelop, as well as Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2010 and 2012.

 

[ChiefAlex]

You know what i would love?

Be able to f...ing USE it.

3/4 of the starts: "Cannot reach Nexus login Server".

And by magic, after re-typing the password, it works almost every time. What is that?

 

"Uh oh, seems like our database is struggling a little at the moment. Please retry in a few minutes!Uh oh, seems like our database is struggling a little at the moment. Please retry in a few minutes!Uh oh, seems like our database is struggling a little at the moment. Please retry in a few minutes!"

Just right now.

 

Sorry if this sounds ungrateful. I love Skyrimnexus, but this is really annoying.

Edited January 13, 2014 by ChiefAlex

[Madari]

I´m glad to see how much people supports this site, yes Nexus Sites offer a great service to both modders & users.

I´ve been using NMM for Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim and it is a great tool. Now I think people should give more support instead of complaining about the software.

 

I´m offering my skills to the developer team, had already contacted Dark0ne, but I´m writting here to meet other people who want to join the development.

 

I have VisualBasic.net, asp.net and visualBasic knowledge, don´t know much about C#, but I think i would handle that with some documentation.

 

Also I have some Visual Studio student licenses, which I´ll be glad to share If this could help the team. I think I have Visual Studio 2005, 2010, 2013 both 32/64 bit version and several editions: standard, professional and ultimate. :laugh: YEAH! That is a huge amount of licenses, and I´m not going to use all of them anyway.

[DAOWAce]

"Modern UI interface."

 

Oh, joy, another one of these statements. As if enough programs and websites haven't been ruined by 'modern' UI overhauls.

 

Regardless, the UI was changed in v44 and ended up making the UI update incredibly slow (exponentially increases as more mods are added) and still hasn't been fixed. If this 'modern' overhaul fixes that issue and makes the program run like, well, as it used to (ie; any other Windows program), then so be it. But it sure as hell won't be welcome to a few people.

[CraftySentinel]

In response to post #11186497.

You know this has made me curious of just how "Modern" the application will be, will it try to be of the 'latest' style (Metro seems to be the trend like Windows 8, VS2012, Office 2013 and many others) or stick with the older Windows Forms like it is now, or come up with an entirely custom design (perhaps using WPF as opposed to winforms?) based on the Nexus websites? will be nice to see what they come up with. Edited January 17, 2014 by CraftySentinel

[Nudedragon]

In response to post #11180928.

Try re-downloading the latest version. I've not been having that issue, since getting the latest NMM a second time.

[Lucashammer]

In response to post #11180928. #11253329 is also a reply to the same post.

Hey Dippy!
In the time it took you to post your whine on the nexus, I downloaded the latest version...installed... and BOOM b&@*$! It was fixed. Next time try to solve the problem yourself first... that's whats wrong with you kids today... fail!