Feature request: Show modders what Collections are using their mods

[MichaelPLogue]

This would be really helpful for the modders out there.  Somewhere in their profile where they can go an see which collections are using their mods - and potentially provide stats on how many of each mod are being downloaded via a collection vs direct download..

[Pickysaurus]

This already exists. You can go to the collections page and under the filters you can search by mod. 

There isn't an aggregate for all mods but you can put your most popular ones in first and work backwards. 

[Qrsr]

I would like to have and see it finally "an aggregate for all mods", like there is an option of showing all my tracked mods, i would like to see an option of all MY mods linked to collections.

[Pickysaurus]

7 hours ago, Qrsr said:

I would like to have and see it finally "an aggregate for all mods", like there is an option of showing all my tracked mods, i would like to see an option of all MY mods linked to collections.

So a quick look at your page shows you have 135 mods. It would be incredibly heavy on the search database to present a list of collections with all mods considered. 

[Qrsr]

Well 1/3 of those mods are deleted anyway. im pretty sure there is a way to not burst the search engine. It would be very handy to list all interconnections. Maybe a table generatable once per month or something.

[Pickysaurus]

I'm sure there's a way, but I'm just saying running such a complex search is not trivial. You're effectively asking it to check every Collection by ~90 factors (89 mods + 1 game filter + show only listed + any other criteria you enter). 

[Qrsr]

That sounds like the search engine is very inefficient programmed. It could be done in a more clever fixed way...

Like users who added mod x from mod author y will directly add to the mod authors collection overview. Done. This way there is no search at all.

[dferstat]

Qrsr, I'm sorry to ask this, but what is your DB programming experience?

 

"That sounds like the search engine is very inefficient programmed. It could be done in a more clever fixed way..."

says everyone who doesn't actually program databases.

"This way there is no search at all."

You can't get info out of a database without doing a search. You just can't.

 

Just looking at the FO4 page, I see that there are 1,886 Collections. What you're asking for involves, for each of these 1,886 Collections:

1) looking at every mod in the Collection,

2) checking the name of the mod author,

3) if there's a match, adding the Collection name to a list,

4) listing the relevant mods against the Collection name,

5) tallying the number of downloads where the D/L is initiated from a Collection (if this is actually tracked),

6) listing the number of downloads where the D/L is initiated from the mod page (again, if this number does not include Collection-initiated D/Ls), and

7) outputting this as a report.

 

Now, that's assuming that you just want to know which of your mods have been downloaded via Collections, along with their stats. If you wanted D/L stats, including Collection D/Ls, for all your mods, that would be a significantly bigger task. 

 

"Oh, this doesn't seem like much", I hear you say. Except that it's not just your search. It's your search, and the searches of every other mod author who wants to run the same search. And it's all the other searches, and other activity, that the DB has to run every second of every day. Yes, the DB team could write the query. But the projected usefulness of this, like every proposed feature, has to be compared to the cost of development, and the impact on the DB's performance.

 

Lastly, I'm puzzled as to why this is on the Vortex support page. Surely this is a Nexus Site issue.

 

[Qrsr]

Hmm im just asking if its not simply possible to twist it.

Like ...

• User X creates collection
• All mods part of the collection will be added linked to the mooder

Now i can track mods, i would like to see the opposite which probably wont cause the site to collaspe, tracking is the best example it is working ... what is so problematic to have collection work the same tracking works for any user?

[showler]

Basically you want a permanent list that is only updated when the Collection is created (or changed)  in order to avoid all the search problems entirely, right?