Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[LummoxJR]

On 3/15/2025 at 1:36 PM, NexBeth said:

Lots of people with expansive critiques were involved in the BETA and Nexus was responsive to many complaints.

I saw no evidence of responsiveness to those expansive critiques at all. There was barely any acknowledgment. I had a long and very specific list of issues, not one of which has been addressed. Obviously I'm just one person with one opinion and don't expect my ideas to hold more weight than anyone else's, but many of them were widely shared. Changes that resulted: zero. And this goes for other users' suggestions as well, where I've seen no action whatsoever. The only things they've changed to my knowledge were bugs that were found. Good on them for fixing bugs, I guess, but why ask for feedback if they were gonna ignore literally all of it?

However, to be entirely fair to Nexus, I am not against change. I also know that you can't please everyone, and it takes time to agree on and implement changes. It's just insulting that they've made absolutely none at all. That still needs to change.

What's still broken? A quick list:

• Multiple users have spoken out about the quick search having usability problems that are a distinct downgrade from the old quick search. I haven't used it enough to really have trouble with it, but somebody needs to hear them out.
• Vertical space wasted to a ridiculous degree in almost every aspect of the new design, which is a very bad thing for PC users on widescreen monitors—i.e. 99% of all users on the Nexus. Many pages have changed so that information that was once above the fold is no longer so, and lists of mods can't even display 2 grid rows per screen. This shouldn't be treated as one list item, but like a dozen all under the same umbrella. I can't overstate how bad this is.
• The loss of per-game colors in favor of making everything orange is almost universally hated.
• Mod pages' title fonts are no longer compressed, which means many of them wrap to two lines. Inter is simply not an appropriate font for this purpose, and it looks like crap there.
• You can't restrict mod searches by date range anymore. This is a highly useful feature and some people use it a lot. I wasn't one of them, but there doesn't seem to be a reason to have gotten rid of it. This is functionality we need restored.

Some of these changes I've been able to fix with my own personal stylesheet, but I can't alter functionality. I might be able to fix some more with a script for Tampermonkey if the backend functionality is still there.

[Cobocabana]

New UI is atrocious, we need to be able to opt out of this terrible redesign. I do NOT care if it unsupported. Peak example of the enshitification of everything

[MentallyFalse]

First post on nexus forums. It will be me complaining about this new UI. Whether a moderator approves this message or not proves something.

[zachflamthrower1]

i view this as a significant downgrade compared to the old layout

[dezerte]

54 minutes ago, showler said:

If only they had invited people to join a design feedback group more than two years ago.  Or had betas of the new design before introducing it here or on the Collections pages.  Or literally had a domain called "next.nexusmods.com" for years to test new things on.

I don't know if this was the case, though I'm led to believe it is. But it seems only users who joined the beta and used it could give feedback? Users who used it briefly and left the beta were never polled, at least I wasn't. If this was the case, using poll results from people who stayed in the beta would probably skew the results and produce an inaccurate picture of what the average user thought of the new design.

This redesign was probably going to happen either way, but polling all users might have produced other results which could have helped Nexus deal with the current landscape. Now there's a lot of feedback coming in, some bad some good, that could have been useful to Nexus during the beta. It's tricky but I do think it would have been better if all users were polled, or at the very least a specific poll for users who left the beta.

[methos2523]

2 hours ago, Simale said:

The new mod library list makes me want to poke my eyes out. It is awful, and reminds me of something from the 1990-ies. The previous version felt fresher, more logical, easier to navigate, just simply way more excellent than this new junk. I'm having problems motivating myself to even go to download anything now. If that was the goal, then well done.

i don't know if it's just me... but all those big tiles and all that wasted space, it really reminds me of the full screen start menu Micro$oft tried to implement back in Windows 8 XD 

I mean, that was so catastrophically bad that even micro$oft got rid of it

[ZOleg73]

I didn't choose the beta version of the design - I was just transferred to it. Where is the choice?

Democracy is such a democracy.
A purely Russian saying.

Если кто по русски понимает, то вот:

Демократия - такая демократия.

Edited 10 hours ago by ZOleg73

[kleetus92]

19 hours ago, urah1985 said:

The 40% outweigh the 60% only because the 60% are PC gamers. The administration has long since made it clear where its views lie by banning anything that is anti-DEI, and according to popular belief, PC gamers are mostly white men. So according to them, the greatest evil in this world, which should be immediately eradicated, and the land after them plowed and covered with salt. That is why they do not care what we say or do - we will be in a losing position anyway.

Once again, if they think they can survive on 40% of their user base with teh infrastructure they have have set up now, awesome, let's give them their wish and see how it goes. 

LEAVE and take your money with you. 

[ZOleg73]

3 minutes ago, kleetus92 said:

LEAVE and take your money with you. 

What does money have to do with it?

[ZOleg73]

11 minutes ago, kleetus92 said:

Once again, if they think they can survive on 40% of their user base with teh infrastructure they have have set up now, awesome, let's give them their wish and see how it goes. 

Actually, no one forces anyone to do it. Isn't that right?

I made the mods myself and posted them here. Did I ask for money for them? Well, look for it!

Edited 10 hours ago by ZOleg73