Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[Khaalis]

Request for reversion or even an option to switch style is a moot point. They aren't listening. We're getting the changes whether we like them or not. That decision was set in stone as soon as they put development $$$ into the "upgrade". The best we can do is beg for Improvements to the new site to make it at least a bit more palatable. That or do what some are doing and using something to Stylus to "mod" it ourselves.

[Maniac3020]

It requires more mouse clicks to search for mods now. Rather than just entering into the mods section, entering as many searches as I want, like in the old version, I have to select "mods" from the list EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEARCH. I do not search for anything else on this site.

More time spent to achieve the same result as the old system.

[avebrave]

Been using this side for years, joined two months after founding and I don't speak up often but this time I do.

The UI change is a pain, and I don't use this word lightly. I just wanted to add another mod and half way through, I just couldn't go on anymore because it just hurt my eyes. It was like going back in time and using some old-school monitor.

And since I am on it now, it is crystal clear that the new UI was developed with mobile devices in mind, because nowadays every side has to be optimized for phones, I get that. But when does someone use nexus? I guess when they're searching for mods... for a PC game .... on their PC. The new UI is very good at wasting space: big tiles with big pictures lots of useless information (uploader, category, date of upload, how long it has been uploaded, etc.) aka wasted space... Not something you do to improve the experience of the user, instead of seeing around 6 mods before (with the same amount of information) you'll now see 2-3. And to round things up, because we wouldn't want to bother users with important information like the mod description, you'll just add big blocky download buttons on the top of the modpage! To make it extra easy for users to ignore the description and fill the comment section with questions which were already answered in the description... So why should I waste my time writing a description of the mod anyways? Just put in a fancy picture and you are good to go, I guess?

And the new UI is something that happens when you want to be all fancy and modern but forgot about the roots and usage of your platform, it is for creators to upload their work, and for users to find and download them. Again, most likely on a PC. So it is nice that you want to add some fancy keyboard functionality to make it faster to search and find mods, doesn't help much when I have to spend double the amount of time scrolling through mods because everything has to be extra big and blocky...

 

Cheers. Ave.

 

[Shardoom]

57 minutes ago, Khaalis said:

Request for reversion or even an option to switch style is a moot point. They aren't listening. We're getting the changes whether we like them or not. That decision was set in stone as soon as they put development $$$ into the "upgrade". The best we can do is beg for Improvements to the new site to make it at least a bit more palatable. That or do what some are doing and using something to Stylus to "mod" it ourselves.

 

Sure, or we can pull funding and move to alternatives. That's an option too.

[Shade999]

(Nevermind, this was a f*#@ up at my part.)

Question, when i search for mods in the skyrim special edition section, why do mods from other games suddenly appear in the search results?

Edited 16 hours ago by Shade999

[EdDante34]

9 hours ago, adventurer66 said:

The current site design genuinely hurts my eyes and makes it very hard to read. I will not be able to use Nexus much if it stays the way it is, and I'm sure there are lots of people in the same boat. Idk what exactly it is, but the colors (which you mention in the first post) are a huge part of it, and the fonts if you've changed them. I never used to have problems, I could browse for hours at a time; now I can barely make it through a single mod description.

Same for me as well. The new UI makes it feel like a chore to browse the mods, I have no idea what they were thinking when they implemented this. Either way, I don't think anything short of them seeing a major drop in site traffic will make them consider reverting any of these changes, let alone them reverting back to the old UI. 

[pilonexyz]

11 hours ago, LummoxJR said:

The problem with restricting the mod titles within a grid tile to one line is that the majority of mods have longer titles than that, so a lot of information is lost. Ellipses aren't a good solution because some might have names like: Super Special Fighter Armor - SPID where the last part gets cut off.

Unlike on a mod page, where I changed to a condensed font, I found a condensed font is all but unreadable at smaller sizes in the list view. Inter is a terrible choice for titles on mod pages, but for titles within the list view it's much better.

Thanks for explanation. I already made some tweaks from your excellent CSS code and found solutions to suit my personal taste.

Personally i think 2 rows title is too much for overall cleanliness. Mod authors should stop to make it so long.

Adding 5 rows of description should help you understand enough what is the mod about.

Hope you don't mind i modified some of your work and credited your original source.

Edit: I'm experimenting adding a code line to show full 2 or 3 rows title only when hovering on it. It works and might be a solution.

Edited 14 hours ago by pilonexyz

[Diana1465]

I too, don't like the new design, way too big, too much wasted space, not pleasing to the eyes, & it actually feels harder to find what I'm actually looking for somehow..
is there a way to revert back to the old UI design? Are the devs gonna do something about it?

[JustThatKing]

10 hours ago, HollownessDevoured said:

who are getting genuine eye strain/pain

11 hours ago, adventurer66 said:

The current site design genuinely hurts my eyes and makes it very hard to read. I will not be able to use Nexus much if it stays the way it is, and I'm sure there are lots of people in the same boat. 

6 hours ago, zetversus said:

The mod browsing overhaul is causing noticeable eye strain for me, the old version did not, what more needs to be said?

3 hours ago, avebrave said:

The UI change is a pain, and I don't use this word lightly. I just wanted to add another mod and half way through, I just couldn't go on anymore because it just hurt my eyes. It was like going back in time and using some old-school monitor.

On 3/22/2025 at 12:16 AM, kat1004 said:

The fact that the site is now high-contrast is a serious issue. There's a reason high-contrast has always been a client-side option built into operating systems - it's not accessible in the slightest for the majority of people due to eye strain. If people need high-contrast, they don't just need it for one site. They need it for the majority of their computer-using experience. Which is why it's specifically built into the operating system as an accessibility option.

Building high-contrast directly into a website causes more issues than it cures. Improving accessibility would be reverting the color scheme to the previous layout's color scheme, which was relatively decent. Neither too dark nor too light, and even if it was still ugly, it didn't cause migraines. It didn't cause eye strain. It wasn't inaccessible to people with health issues.

On 3/10/2025 at 8:18 PM, bombum said:

There's too much contrast and weird font changes, it feels like I took off my glasses. Blur and harsh colors, it hurts my eyes.

On 3/11/2025 at 3:47 AM, ImFreja said:

Please tell me there is a way to go back to the old layout.

I'm sorry but I really don't like this change. Too much empty space and the color contrast is way too harsh

On 3/12/2025 at 8:33 AM, Lollia said:

It feels like some sort of drastic switch was flipped. I have chronic migraines, so websites offering a Dark Mode are always a plus, but whatever the new update introduced is more like an ULTRA Dark Mode. Before it was this nice balance of gray; not too bright and not unbearably dark.

I was hoping that returning with some extra sleep and an aspirin on board might improve the experience (not that taking an aspirin just to utilize a website should be necessary), but the contrast issues are still too strong. Tried running the site on two other devices, and the experience is the same. I have been attempting to find a word to describe what the font appears to be doing... Swimming, perhaps? To my eyes, the dark contrast of the site is giving the font a ghastly bloom effect--the very sort of thing I use mods to get rid of when it shows up in games.

We've been speaking to the design team about the levels of contrast introduced to make some adjustments and setting contrast rules in our design system that hopefully help with the contrast issues you are having with the site. 

How does this screenshot look to you? This is an example of the highest contrast we are trying at the moment (14:1), so this screenshot is testing that (which would be the maximum contrast in the UI. Although it may be lower contrast in the final design, as long as it's above 7:1. Do you think this will help with your problems? 

[SunnyTheCat]

As a user, I must say that I find the new design extremely inconvenient. And not because it's new. It takes up more space, I don't need the Collections bar, neither do I want images in my search results.