Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[RacingRabbit]

My very late input — I’m not a fan of the new look, but I understand that’s subjective and there were reasons for the overhaul.

My main concern is how much this new design punishes newer mods and newer mod authors. Nexus’s only big flaw that I could see previously was the way so many great mods I loved fell into oblivion after 30 days. I thought the site was desperately in need of a tab showcasing mods that had been popular over the last 90 or 180 days. There was too much bias towards much older (often broken, no longer compatible) old mods from many years ago.

Well I’m afraid this new update has badly exacerbated that issue rather than helping it — now if you search you are shown only a tiny number of older mods, where it used to be something like 18-20 per page and then a very obvious continuation on to other pages. Reducing the number of featured mods and having the collections demarcate featured mods and new mods also seems regressive.

I’m not against change, but I’m really disappointed that a clear weakness has been worsened. I struggle to understand the business sense of it. If you don’t encourage newer/current modders the site traffic will surely suffer in the medium term?

[Happybara]

We are currently in the process of moving different bits of feedback into separate threads. This is so that we can better group your suggestions by theme, which will be more useful to us than one ever-expanding mega-thread. As always, we appreciate your continued feedback.

You can find the new individual threads here: https://forums.nexusmods.com/forum/9063-suggestion-board/

[TomNathan]

Uh I can't access the opera version for stylus with that link you provided, is there no way we can get an easy option to just turn back? I just want the look I was used to because It was just better.

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:00 PM, zloybelka said:

Search through your browser extensions tab, not through some google search! Here is Firefox version for example https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/styl-us/ and here is official Stylus page where you can download it for Chrome and Opera (top right corner) https://add0n.com/stylus.html

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[tpunk23]

Ah so looked at those and yeah what everyone said would happen is happening. These "new threads" are heavily moderated propaganda prop pieces. Basically the "stop telling us you hate it and tell us what we want to hear. Or we will delete your comment" threads. I stand by my last post ages ago. This is a waste of time and the ego is astounding. What these threads don't cover. Is when people hate ALL OF IT.

Edited March 27 by tpunk23

[Ilithyn]

  On 3/27/2025 at 1:52 PM, xRay4004 said:

The upload date is the symbol on the (right the arrow that goes up). I don't really know why they used these easily confusing symbols instead the way it was before it was clear as night and day as seen below.

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And here I thought that using your words were all the rage these days. But not on here I guess /j

[HadToRegister]

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:17 PM, Happybara said:

We are currently in the process of moving different bits of feedback into separate threads. This is so that we can better group your suggestions by theme, which will be more useful to us than one ever-expanding mega-thread. As always, we appreciate your continued feedback.

You can find the new individual threads here: https://forums.nexusmods.com/forum/9063-suggestion-board/

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Hopefully all my suggestions for bringing back the Old Quick Search are included in that (Currently) empty thread.

People need to understand, When I use CAPS, I'm NOT yelling, it's for EMPHASIS, instead of going through the PAIN of Making those words ITALICIZED.

[Happybara]

  On 3/27/2025 at 2:30 PM, tpunk23 said:

Ah so looked at those and yeah what everyone said would happen is happening. These "new threads" are heavily moderated propaganda prop pieces. Basically the "stop telling us you hate it and tell us what we want to hear. Or we will delete your comment" threads. I stand by my last post ages ago. This is a waste of time and the ego is astounding. What these threads don't cover. Is when people hate ALL OF IT.

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Not really. We just wanted to better organize feedback so we could collate the more constructive comments instead of them getting lost in this thread among the less polite/unproductive ones. We may add more threads should we feel there is reason to do so. Prioritising the bits of feedback that are more useful to help us improve things and still manage to be civil doesn't seem like a waste of time to me. Do not worry, your comment will still be here if it is not moved.

[Happybara]

  On 3/27/2025 at 3:40 PM, HadToRegister said:

Hopefully all my suggestions for bringing back the Old Quick Search are included in that (Currently) empty thread.

People need to understand, When I use CAPS, I'm NOT yelling, it's for EMPHASIS, instead of going through the PAIN of Making those words ITALICIZED.

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Unfortunately, moving things across is a manual process, one that will likely carry into next week, and as you can see, there are a few pages to get through here. Older posts are getting moved first, so it will take a while to get to the latest ones. There is currently a populated user-created thread supporting a revert, so that's where similar feedback will go from here. No comments are going to be deleted unless they are needlessly rude to staff or other users.

[Qrsr]

  On 3/27/2025 at 4:00 PM, Happybara said:

Unfortunately, moving things across is a manual process, one that will likely carry into next week,

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Give me rights and can do that in a couple of hours alone. Honestly like everywhere on all sides, there is so much incompetence involved, in the simplest things. There are people who complain and have more than just 1 or 10 posts. Then there is something going on. Take care of those people.

Then there are those 1 to 10 post people popping out of nowhere late, when s#*! is smelling, and yelling all over the place that all nexusmods does is not good.

Its like a total mess right now right here.

Order the s#*! , think about the s#*! , restructure the s#*! and make it better. How hard can it be`?

By the time people telling me about ideas about a mod im doing it. Thats the difference.

Its just a simple drag and drop of some message into a new thread, its super simple.

Most of the messages are purest spam, of the sites is not good bla bla. Some very valueable feedback needs furhter order.

[Demorphic]

  On 3/26/2025 at 12:54 PM, HadToRegister said:

Discord just updated, and now you can change color themes with a click.
After the update, it picked a darker theme, and I was wondering WHY discord looked harsher then it did before the update.

The problem was, is that it automatically defaulted to a DARKER Theme, with white text, and quickly became a problem.
I went into the Appearance Setting, and THANKFULLY I just REVERTED the Theme color to the lighter gray, that it was set at BEFORE the update.

It was nice being able to pick which version of the UI works for me, and gives my eyes relief. 

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You've made 61 replies in this thread @HadToRegister and offered some fantastic feedback. Thanks for taking the time to do this, all of your posts have been read.

To be clear, this update is not a 'stake in the ground - things will never change from here' update. It's worth bearing in mind that a large part of these recent changes are under the bonnet (or hood, depending on your location), our fundamental underlying tech has been improved vastly. This will enable us to develop more easily, use reusable components, react better to user input and expand on usability options. Previously, this was never possible, we were shackled somewhat by technical debt that had accumulated and made any change difficult and time-consuming, and often plagued by small bugs.

Some time over the next few days, probably Monday realistically, we will put a news article out detailing what we are doing with all of this feedback. Your feedback has all been read and has all been discussed, and a bunch of actions have come out of it. Towards the end of the month, we also put out our monthly roundup. In this, we will be breaking down specific actions coming out of this update and much of it is driven by your feedback.

As a power user, we know that changes have been made to fundamental parts of the website that have become a key part of your productivity flow for multiple years. It has never been our intention to make life more difficult for you, and there's a fine balance between improvement and continuity. Almost daily, we are treading new ground in terms of the scale of the site, and this means constantly evolving challenges, making continuity difficult.

My request to you is to bear with us while these changes roll out. Please continue to offer your valuable feedback, particularly once you see the monthly update and the planned work contained there. It might not seem like it sometimes, but we are absolutely on your side and want to build a usability experience that works for you, other experienced users and new users alike.