Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[choochoo1]

I am just going to get straight to my complaints to save everyone time.

1. I do not use collections, I do not care about collections, I build my own mod list, give me an option to hide it from the game homepage, I do not want to see it and I do not want to have to scroll past it to see the new mods, the thing I am actually here for and care about.

2. There is way too much empty space on the home pages, I am not sure why we have all this wasted space now but I don't care for it.

3. I don't like the place background, its bland and uninteresting, I preferred when we had images from the game in the background.

4. I hate that every game shares the New Vegas UI colors now, it's confusing and unintuitive, go back to giving each game its own UI colors.

I have been on Nexus for over a decade now, but to New Vegas days, I have seen the site be overhauled a few times now. some better than others, but I have to say this is by far the worst overhaul of them all. I am not sure who researched this and greenlit it, but Nexus really dropped the ball on this one. I have spoken to many modders about the "New Nexus" and not one has told me they like it, it has been a mix of indifference or, primarily, outright hatred. This feels like someone messed with something that really did not need to be fixed, and after talking to many people and reading many posts, I think you would be better rolling back and re-examining what went wrong than to continue to try to hammer in this new UI.

[Rawr40k]

Can you give us an option to go back to the old, usable design? That would stop the flooding of "feedback" that you'll just ignore.

[A1British1Lass]

Quite frankly as a LONG TIME user of nexus mods this is abysmal

i have never once thought nexus needs a major ui overhaul and this "mobile app" garbage is just a miss, seriously besides a few console games this a pc game modding website so why does it look like the most bog-standard fast food android app i've ever laid my eyes on

Whoever greenlit this change should be ashamed as it shows utter incompetence and disregard to the community you rely on, keep this up and there won't be a nexus mods to go too in a few years time

[theopu123]

Honestly hate being able to only fully see like 4 mods at a time, wish you'd just add more options so I could customize it. 

[LenaWolfBravil]

1 hour ago, JustThatKing said:

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.

Oh WOW! You're actually going to do something about the contrast NOW? After we've been telling you about this since the redesign of the Profiles page? And forums page? So, how many negative replies does it take to actually get you to realise that yeah, we hate it?

[hymhym]

Would hate to be the person who has to shift through all these posts...

But yeah, add me to the ever-growing number of people not happy with the change. It really feels like change for the sake of change. It doesn't improve anything and only makes things harder to use.

Prioritizing collections on the game page over mods is bonkers. Like many others, I do not care about collections. I do my own mod lists. I come to the Nexus for mods, not collections, not images, not videos. Mods. That's what this site is supposed to be for and that is what should be prioritized in its layout.

The search function is garbage now. I want advanced search options back. Especially the ability to search for text within mod description. Not everyone names their mods in a straightforward manner and often you only realise their relevancy to your needs through their descriptions.

This whole thing seems to be based first and foremost what its creator thought would look slick instead of trying to come up with a system that preserved the functionality of the previous setup while expanding it with new options.

Just ditch this nonsense and revert back to the previous version. That at least was usable.

[tpunk23]

Actually you know what I do have an actual suggestion to offer. Give people the option to opt out completely. If they like how the site looks and how it works. Give them the option to opt out of updates like this one.

[WndMll]

1 hour ago, JustThatKing said:

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? 

#8e8e8e on top of #232326 would look even better, but that's like, just my opinion, man.

[jdkzombie]

This update is a really horrible execution.  There were better ways to update the UI without sending it through the mobile app-ifier.

 

I am a premium subscriber, I pay for services here.  Since this update I have not spent much time here at all, I'll use Vortex to go directly to a mods webpage to look for an update so I dont have to spend any more time that usual looking at whatever the hell you guys did.

 

I will no longer be paying for services if this is going to be the way things are, where you silence opinions elsewhere because the developers and/or CM's love to act like the end all be all lord of flies.

 

Hell, I have so many damn mods for Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Starfield that the mod folders are 2 to 3 times larger than the actual game themselves.  This will no longer be the case with the current UI.

 

You don't rely on a poorly implemented "beta" to force a whole new UI change without directly engaging everyone.  This wasn't a small update, this was an entire site change and it is abysmal.

 

 

I've also been a member since October 28th 2012.

[Kregano]

The bug where clearing notifications requires two clicks on "Mark all as read" is back.