Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[Qrsr]

After the last days i must say the main mod page of any mod category is just horrible to view. Its super tight. Like many other me included but yet again, PLEASE get rid of one of the most senseless implementations "collections".

The way it is added is an epic fail. Its nice to see people sharing their collections but the downside and its hard to measure but from a modder point of view the downside is that it will make all the mods less unique and a mess of copy paste super merge. While those maintaining huge discord channels will ultimately raise their kudos to the max and thus will distort and cast a modified field of view to the few with no experience passively guiding people to "good" and "bad" collections. Good = max kudos, bad = less kudos. Same goes for max and min download mods.

The entire mod rating is somehow off. Kudos and downloads, who cares? The idea is what really is what a mod is all about. Since ideas are eternal and thus the mod is. Generating pseudo mods which use certain ideas and later collections will be like a mess of books on top of the only one book collecting all the real data.

With DL and Ks you distort passively how people rate mods. In fact many people will probably be triggered to generate more DLs or Ks in order to feel confortable. Like you train an animal Most humans dont recognize it. The end of this is the logical consequence ... a do-do da-da site with HUGE icons and images and boxes for even less orientation and motivation to search something.

If people have less motivation due to an overloaded page, there is less variety of ideas present per time, and thus less people will even reach to where they belong, to the top. The entire site will min max another time. More to the bad, since time nowadays is even more rare with all the distracting tools ... tools like smartphones ...

Modding is about ideas. No ideas no mods. And in the end only visuals will remain where once where ideas... might sound dramatic and end of the world blabla but seriously get rid of all the super boxes and compress your site back to what it was. Make it easy to search and it starts with an intruisive UI which in turn does not interfer with the users motivation due to horrible design and scrolling nightmares.

Look at the shitty games nowadays. Thats why people mod. Dont make your site a supporter of the video gaming industry. Make it a "lead by example" alternative!

[WileCoyote68]

I'm beginning to be surprised by the statement that the feedback during the beta tests was predominantly positive. If you take this thread as a yardstick, that can't be entirely true. The feedback here is mostly negative.

[ecos16]

Normally I'm a fan of innovations but I like the old design a thousand times better.
It was very good, clear and easy to use. Who wanted this change?
I would be happy if there is an option to keep the old version, at least until your revision makes sense.

[Qrsr]

  On 3/18/2025 at 9:01 PM, WileCoyote68 said:

If you take this thread as a yardstick, that can't be entirely true. The feedback here is mostly negative.

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You cannot compare it.

If you say, the audience was equal before and after the beta then you must measure if in both phases the audience knew there is a topic open for discussion. Then you must measure if in both phases the audience has equal perception and motivation to jump on the train and start to give feedback. Impossible...

Now that everyone can see the beta everyone must use it. Obviously only people complaining will be part of the discussion before most (probably) didnt know about it (beta a forum discussion), didnt use the beta gave a ****.

If you want to compare still gather all the pros and cons or the good and bad comments from individuals per this thread and you can vaguely know if what you say is true.

The majority of people will in the majority of cases never complain. Since the momentum to generate energy is very subjective and most people conserve their energy for much more important tasks ... gaining money. After the day most people are exhausted and give a ****.

[CanadianBaconeer]

The "Default sorting option" setting in site preferences no longer works as a result of this update (I have it set to "last updated", but all search results show as "most endorsed"). Additionally it should be set to "most recent files" by default since "most endorsed" often contains obsolete mods (see New Vegas' page for a prime example of this).

[Shade088]

Wow, this update is terrible. They need to go back to the previous UI design. Also,  maybe work on fixing and reimplementing the comment section's search feature.

[IrrelevantGamer]

Was this optimized for phones? It looks optimized for phones. I only mod Bethesda games, and despite Todd's best efforts, I'm not playing Skyrim on my phone, let alone modding it there. It also feels like the new UI made the tiles bigger, but somehow has more blank space around them, which is not great on a PC monitor.

[AmadeusOnagro]

The new layout is terrible and hard to navigate and I prefer the previous layout, that's all I have to say.

[WileCoyote68]

  On 3/18/2025 at 9:19 PM, Qrsr said:

You cannot compare it.

If you say, the audience was equal before and after the beta then you must measure if in both phases the audience knew there is a topic open for discussion. Then you must measure if in both phases the audience has equal perception and motivation to jump on the train and start to give feedback. Impossible...

Now that everyone can see the beta everyone must use it. Obviously only people complaining will be part of the discussion before most (probably) didnt know about it (beta a forum discussion), didnt use the beta gave a ****.

If you want to compare still gather all the pros and cons or the good and bad comments from individuals per this thread and you can vaguely know if what you say is true.

The majority of people will in the majority of cases never complain. Since the momentum to generate energy is very subjective and most people conserve their energy for much more important tasks ... gaining money. After the day most people are exhausted and give a ****.

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I can't agree. You are one of those ppl who talk themselves up about everything. In functional terms, the new design is an absolute step backwards compared to the previous one. I don't see any innovation

[jn64]

Reminder: you control the presentation of web pages on your machine. If your browser doesn't let you do that, find a better browser.

uBlock Origin filters

Hide Collections section on game page:

www.nexusmods.com##section[aria-labelledby="popular-collections-header"]

Hide News section on game page:

www.nexusmods.com##section[aria-labelledby="news-header"]

Hide Collections banner on homepage:

www.nexusmods.com##.collections-banner-outer-wrapper-trigger

Custom styling using userContent.css in Firefox

/* Temp fix Nexus Mods redesign */
@-moz-document domain(www.nexusmods.com) {
	.next-container {
		width: auto !important;
	}
	.next-container section[aria-labelledby="trending-mods-header"] {
		max-width: 1200px;
	}
	.next-container .mods-grid, .next-container .media-grid {
		column-gap: 1rem !important;
	}
}

Screenshot of what it looks like:

 

Edited 23 hours ago by jn64
added links to uBlock Origin and instructions for userContent.css