Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[ProCheeser123]

Browsing Trending Mods feels really awkward, now you have filters on the left side while scrolling down mods on the right side. 

I have no idea whats the new appeal of a games main page anymore. Everything looks the same in terms of size, i have no idea whats what in each section anymore. It feels simultainously really cramped and and very empty at the same time.

As some user said it in this thread already, all decisions made in the new layout remind me of windows 8. Very blocky and stilistic but not user friendly at all.

 I saw some users say this was made with phone/tablets in mind (it does look some mobile app ngl), at least provide a different option  for pc users. I mean having multiuple layout options for the same website is nothing new...right?

[hmmnorah]

Count me as one more person that hates the new UI. Why does a 1080p window only show four mod listings now. Why does a 1440p window only show eight? This redesign is a usability decline, I feel like I'm drowning now.

Edited Saturday at 02:02 AM by hmmnorah
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[Emil8000]

1 hour ago, jmharris said:

There certainly are some negative (and rude!) reactions to it, but feedback over all channels has not been negative overall. I know we can all place our own weight on which channels of communication are more important, and I know some people will flat out not believe me- but it actually is the case.

Of course that doesn't mean we aren't going to be improving things where needed. 

All I'm getting from this is "we're going to ignore all further feedback because we hallucinated positive feedback in larger quantities than the negative". Not like I didn't expect it though. This is peak enshittification. Please back up your claim of "not negative overall" with tangible statistics that will also get torn to shreds.

[NexBeth]

1 hour ago, HollownessDevoured said:

As said here, mfPixel said that accessibility was chosen for colour theme, and when I confronted why... one accessibility group to see better was priority... over another group that it causes discomfort/pain for—it wasn't addressed. They had a year to mull that over, and as you mentioned that in this post only the accessibility group to see better was priority is still only considered... and not the group that the high contrast causes discomfort/pain for. So IMHO this still means it is still not in consideration... even a year later.

I remember this being a rather big issue/discussion.  However, didn't Nexus ultimately change the Black Hole Black text area with bright White text to what we have now?  Granted, I don't like black or dark mode and it's still Black Hole Black on more grey now, but it did provide some relief.  There was one member who was legally blind in the beta discussion.  Her best view of the forum was Black Hole black on white text.

Ideally, it would be great for users to be able switch from dark to light.

The issue of the website design centering around accommodating phones has also changed some; believe me it started out quite a bit more phone-ish centric then it even is now.

[MarMariez]

Please go somewhat back to the old version because the new layout is horrible. You also got rid of a lot of good stuff like trending for no reason

[ModEnjoyer52]

44 minutes ago, hmmnorah said:

Count me as one more person that hates the new UI. Why does a 1080p window only show four mod listings now. Why does a 1440p window only show eight? This redesign is a usability decline, I feel like I'm drowning now.

That looks so annoying.

It is called a "dark pattern".

Show some of the upcoming content, but cut it off half-way mildly agitating the user to keep scrolling.

[showler]

47 minutes ago, Emil8000 said:

 Please back up your claim of "not negative overall" with tangible statistics that will also get torn to shreds.

Here's a tangible statistic.  A few hundred people are complaining in this thread.  Out of more than 100,000 daily visitors.  Most people haven't given either positive or negative feedback.

[Emil8000]

4 minutes ago, showler said:

Here's a tangible statistic.  A few hundred people are complaining in this thread.  Out of more than 100,000 daily visitors.  Most people haven't given either positive or negative feedback.

And there's the first problem, you can't assume that people that haven't given feedback like the change. You know damn well if I had anything better to do right now I wouldn't be screaming into the void here.

[HadToRegister]

1 hour ago, jmharris said:

Please do give examples of what text you searched for, and the mods you know to exist that were not found as you expected. That helps us improve the search.

This is so frustrating. With the old quick search, for No Man's Sky, I could type in “Faster” and get a list of all the NMS mods that had “Faster” in the title.
Typing “Faster Fleet”, in Quick Search, used to net me EIGHT RESULTS.
Now I only get THREE results.

Yet another reason Quick Search, didn't NEED any “Fixing” it was working perfectly before, and spitting out the results people were actually searching for.
When people would complain that they “Can't find anything using search” on the Nexus, I would always tell them to stop using that full page search with all the checkboxes and parameters on it and just “Use the small search box up at the top by your Avatar”, and they would come back and say “Wow, that worked” I found exactly what I was searching for.”

That old quick search was the only USEFUL way to search on the Nexus, because it returned results you were actually looking for.
That huge monstrosity of a full page search would return iffy results, and it would also let you know that it DIDN'T tell you about the FIVE-DIGIT FIGURE of search results it has hidden from you because of TAGS. 
Which is why I only used it twice, and from then on relied on the old Quick Search, which NOW tells you that it has left out xx,xxx results from your search “Because tags”

It was fully functional and PERFECT as it was. 
 

[WndMll]

Just now, showler said:

Here's a tangible statistic.  A few hundred people are complaining in this thread.  Out of more than 100,000 daily visitors.  Most people haven't given either positive or negative feedback.

Not everybody uses it on the regular. Not everybody likes to be vocal on things, such as people with social anxiety may not say anything but of course still have opinions on something. The vocal majority is negative. I guarantee if a poll was done site-wide it would share the same beliefs as nearly all of us do that overall it was not a good move. 

Dragging lurkers out of the woodwork is really damn hard, there's clearly people interested in the conversation that you can see in the browsing list that don't make themselves known via words and a good portion of those lurkers have still been liking comments occasionally that bring up the bad portions of what's gone wrong with the website.