Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[HadToRegister]

25 minutes ago, NexBeth said:

 Not the right to run the Nexus website. 

NOBODY thinks they have a “Right to run the Nexus”, we do, however, have a right to provide feedback when asked to do so. Even though it's ignored 100% of the time.
And we do have a right to be disappointed once again, that our feedback has been completely ignored yet again, because apparently, we're all too dumb to provide any feedback when asked, unless we're all UIX Professionals.


 

[Imperial2000]

10 minutes ago, NexBeth said:

Not the right to run the Nexus website. 

No one is asking to run the website. People are expressing fair criticism of a major change in a thread that has asked them for it and have been either outright ignored or replied with snide and sarcastic comments like your own. So try to forgive the frustration.

What horse do you have in this race to come here and white knight for staff and this abysmal change so many times?

[WndMll]

Just now, Imperial2000 said:

No one is asking to run the website. People are expressing fair criticism of a major change in a thread that has asked them for it and have been either outright ignored or replied with snide and sarcastic comments like your own. So try to forgive the frustration.

What horse do you have in this race to come here and white knight for staff and this abysmal change so many times?

No no, I think I'd like a try at running it myself, I think I'd do a better job.

[MURDoctrine]

Yeah this new layout is absolutely horrible to me. The old one was to the point and consice.  I wasn't even aware of a beta for testing the new layout to provide feedback even though it seems feedback would have been ignored anyway with how we are being addressed.

[LordRegal]

First time ever on this forum. I have always, without exception, gone to nexusmods via a bookmark. I go to check on new mods and then hop right out after. I personally was not aware a redesign was there in opt in status and was caught blindsided as a result. Partially on me I suppose for not being engaged in the community, but even so, poorly communicated to the broader, less engaged with site changes users.

My screen on the mods page, until I scroll down, is almost entirely blank space. I have the top five hot mods and half of the new collections suggestion, and the rest is blank (possibly ads being blocked?) Compared to yesterday, when I could see the entire top two rows of the newest mods (what I go to check).

Needing to scroll just to see the newest 16 mods, arranged in a 4x4 grid and refusing to use half of my monitor width, is abysmal design. Needing to click on "show more" and then scroll past those same 16 mods to see something new (rendering page 1 mostly useless) and also still refusing to use a quarter of my monitor width...also abysmal design.

From one staff comment, 40% of people use mobile to browse, which explains this mobile layout.  The push to mobile friendly stuff is a constant frustration - but on a site that is only to look at and not to DO anything with unless you're on a PC, to not focus first and foremost on the desktop experience is...insane to me.

[Revan9669]

Joining in to say I also really do not like this new UI.

 

An option to use the old one would be much appreciated.

[firewolf63]

Just remember, there are things we can do.

Cancel your Subscription to Nexus premium
Don't donate any money to them for support.
Get any mods you can through websites that aren't nexus, reduce their traffic flow.
If any alternate websites popup, support them instead.
and if you have no option but to use Nexus, there are ways you can take your ad revenue away from them...

[theroarer]

Please LOCK the search tags when set. Having to hit "mod" each time I want to search for mods is such a pain.

I try not to be "old man yells at cloud" meme, and I am trying to be open minded about the redesign, but having to manually change my search settings each time I search is really annoying.

[RitualBlack]

Today I noticed the new design was released, I am sure I will adjust to majority of the changes so I am trying to not be critical with that in mind. I haven't experienced any negative performance browsing compared to the old design and the 'view all' browsing seems to function quite nicely. The backslash shortcut is a cool feature as well. That being said if there is an area for constructive feedback I could suggest the following changes:

• The header div with the `border-stroke-weak` CSS class takes up around 20% of the browser space on a 4K display (If a user is at 1080p I could see this being even more intrusive)
  • I don't really see a need for it to reiterate that I am on 'Fallout New Vegas' right under the Home -> Fallout New Vegas breadcrumbs (the game icon / total # of mods, etc. probably can exist elsewhere so the trending mods doesn't start 35% of the way down the page)
  • Additionally the breadcrumbs seem to jump sort of back to the old design near the top upon visiting a mod
• The background gradient can be a bit jarring and on individual mod pages it cuts off to black very abruptly with a distinct horizontal line
• As a premium user without ads I feel the horizontal space could be utilized a lot better. Instead of reducing the displayed trending mods from the old design displaying '2 top and 5 bottom' into the new design of '2 top and 4 bottom' it could be 3 top and 6 or 7 trending files bottom. It would be nice to showcase additional trending mods
• The lack of a defined container surrounding the trending mods can be rather difficult on the eyes as well

Change can be hard for users to accept and there is no way to please everyone but it is important to take end user feedback into account!

[NexBeth]

1 hour ago, Imperial2000 said:

What horse do you have in this race to come here and white knight for staff and this abysmal change so many times?

Good Lord, give these kind of hypocritical remarks a hiatus.  I have the same right to say what I think, just as you and many seem to think you have, only I can say my peace without the vitriol, rudeness, and empty threats.