Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[showler]

No, I mean that when they introduced those colors (which was done by the staff at the time and manually maintained) there were only a few games hosted on the site.  Since then the number of games has become huge and I'm pretty sure they long ago decided that a cohesive design and not having to tell users that their favorite game "just isn't important enough to have a color" was the way to go in the future.

This site overhaul has been in planning for (maybe) five years and has been an ongoing process for about two years now.

[jmharris]

4 hours ago, ZachFettx said:

Please let us revert the UI, I hate it. Also the new search feels broken, it sometimes brings up zero results when I know there are mods with the keyword in the title. 

The same mods data is being searched, so there shouldn't be a discrepancy with the new interface. However there have been issues in the past with mods not being updated for the search after changes- please do report any instances you spot of this and we will endeavour to fix them.

[NexBeth]

There is legitimacy to the color-coded mod pages for browsing purposes (at least for the highest trafficked games).  Users may have multiple mod pages up browsing and a game-assigned color helps to streamline the process of multi-tasked browsing.

It's possible, however, that the new webpage doesn't allow for this.  Or that it's impractical to main all the various color schemes.

[HXST]

+1 to all the complaints about the search bar/UI. Why on earth would you make the search a pop up that fills most of the screen? There isn't a single website I can think of where the search bar overtakes the screen like that and there is plenty of reason as to why thats the case. Purchased premium for the first time recently but now it seems like it was a bad choice.

[showler]

It was pointed out that opening the new search causes the page behind to scroll back to the top.  I believe that was recently mentioned as a bug that either had been fixed in the beta or was going to be.  Am I correct in that?

[LummoxJR]

8 hours ago, zloybelka said:

May I also inquire the names of the previous fonts for description, downloads and comments sections, so I can use them or something similar in a personal style?

The previous mod title font was Bebas Neue, a highly condensed all-caps font. The new title font is Inter, a relative of Helvetica or Arial that was already used for most other sans-serif fonts on the site. The only problem with Inter for this purpose is it's way too wide. It works everywhere else, but in titles it looks very wrong.

My stylesheet uses Cabin Condensed, which still refreshes the look with something new, but because it's condensed it works much better in titles. My initial experiments used Saira Condensed, which also looks very nice; it's slightly more condensed and it has a very subtle sci-fi look that feels a little closer to the old Bebas Neue. My stylesheet imports Saira Condensed as well if you want to change the font family.

[Killerburgr]

Please either revert back an update or give us an option to do it ourselves. The new ui just isn't for me and a good chunk of others. Also the dropdown search was fantastic and really didn't need to go.

[LukeSkyvvalker]

Instead of "fixing" what isn't broken why don't you fix the search engine for mod comments that you recently took down?

This UI change sucks. Please don't make this change mandatory.

[Alundra]

This is the PERFECT time to go upvote some feedback ideas in the hopes they implement them.

I'd like to bring one of my suggestions to the attention of all here so it can get some love (or if I'm wrong some discussion!)....

I REALLY BADLY want required mods to be in collapsible categories so when I'm on a popular mod like CBBE I can find things that aren't clothes or presets nicer.

https://feedback.nexusmods.com/posts/3521/sort-mods-requiring-this-file-into-collapsible-categories

Edited March 14 by Alundra

[FinalRemix]

3 hours ago, Killerburgr said:

Please either revert back an update or give us an option to do it ourselves. The new ui just isn't for me and a good chunk of others. Also the dropdown search was fantastic and really didn't need to go.

Agreed 100% on this. I thought something was set wrong with my browser because the new UI has that weirdly "cheap" mobile browser feel to it.