Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[ReedyMcSpice]

I have been informed that since only a few people out of millions of users have complained, everyone not talking must approve the design.

Well congratulations, you have gotten me, an eternal lurker, to post.

The new UI is simply that bad.

Anyways, here are my thoughts:
Please give users the option to have a more compact view and set their own background. Despite being an update aimed at upgrading accessibility, it has made the site far worse to navigate for the majority of users since I know have to scroll an absurd amount to see what used to instantly pop up on a new tab. I have also seen comments by the staff about improving the site for mobile and other uses. That's cool, but don't design your MODDING website around mobile and screenshots to the detriment of actual modding.

If you want to ease content discovery it would be much better to improve the respective collections, media, and the mobile site, without touching the main page on the PC. Right now, the main page works well for nobody, because it is cluttered with all sorts of different content, but only shows 2-3 pieces of any given type. If you want, you could even make a separate site that is more focused on non-modding content. If this sounds unrealistic because you don't think there would be enough demand for an entire separate site just for screenshots and community content, then why are altering the main site to appeal to such content?

 

Anyways, that's my rant, have a good night now.

[showler]

Selection bias is a thing.  That people are more likely to complain than compliment is a thing.  You can't just ignore that in order to push your narrative.

Basically, people are accusing the staff of lying about their data based solely on the fact that a lot of angry people have posted on the forums, discord or reddit.  I have observed here long enough to realize that a lot of angry people will post on the forums, on discord and on reddit for a lot of reasons.

It's weird because I cannot, for the life of me, imagine a scenario where the staff of a company like this would lie about the feedback and hurt their own company by doing so.  The only scenario that makes sense to me is that they are actually following the data they collected and will make changes that work within that data.

Just like they did eight years ago.

[Roumo]

I knew once I saw the atrocious collections UI pass without comment like a rancid fart in an elevator filled with bodybuilders, that this abomination was coming to the main site sooner or later...
As someone with eye problems, I need to use windows scaling and more to even be able to read for more than a few hours a day, and now I can only see 2 freaking mods at once on the page unless I hide the filters, in which case it jumps to a whopping three. Clearly the evils of shrinkflation has gotten out of hand, if it is coming for our very UIs.

"that have not been updated for over a decade." Was it broken? Unusable? Is McDonalds going to put pickled pigs feet on their burgers next, because they haven't changed their recipe in over a decade?
"Improved Accessibility" LMAO, I have blind spots and severe ghosting, I can't even use the site anymore at the zoom I need. Great job breaking it, my hero. A wheelchair ramp into a lava pit is not "Improved Accessibility".
"these details make the site feel less polished." I guarantee you that no one can tell unless they have wasted their lives on an art degree.

It is the same old story in UX design: about once a decade some new hire or bored oldhead thinks they have to earn their keep or some nonsense and decides to destroy everything that people have gotten comfortable with, that JUST WORKS. This garbage belongs on a mobile site or buried in a shallow grave alongside windows 8's UI, not contaminating my desktop PC.

Post a poll on the main page, for everyone to vote, and let's see what the actual users have to say, or at least have to gumption to admit you don't care; all the criticism in the world evidently doesn't prove anything to anyone given the fingers in the ears going on in this thread alone.
Heck, the way things are going on the site these days, you could even use the list of people who voted they didn't like the new UI, to purge the site of dissenters against your regime, a clear win-win for everyone.

If I seem angry, it is only because I am furious. The only reason I am risking a ban by merely posting on these accursed forums is because the site is dead to me, as in literally unusable.

[Yanoi]

Bitchute (video sharing platform with Torrent protocol support) have https://old.bitchute.com/ as a fallback over the new UI, which the new UI is not efficient. As an example, NM SHOULD also include old UI via https://old.nexusmods.com (don't click URL does not exist just a concept) after all the community feedback or abolish the changes. 

I won't add more of what's already been mentioned here. Scrolling, track tab etc.

[Anonson123]

This is my first forum post. All I have to say is that the new UI is beyond abhorrent. WHY ARE YOU WASTING SO MUCH SCREEN SPACE?????????? WHO THE F GETS PAID TO DO THESE TRASH ASS UPDATES? 

[lokiamis2]

complete dogshit, fire your designer

[dmartinkovics]

I never commented, but it need to be heard: the previous UI was perfect and the pinnacle of this site.

This new one is horrible, hard to use, hard to even see what is going on!

 

Fire your designer and roll back, because the site is currently unuseable.

[Hydelix]

As a long time lurker who never really used the forums, this UI update was so bad I had to find somewhere to post about it so here I am.

I doubt you guys'll change it back, but please consider adding a "compact mode". Having only a few mods on-screen at a time is atrocious and its one of my pet peeves against Youtube with their huge-ass thumbnails and Windows 11's File Explorer text spacing.

[juolaha]

This new UI is a disgrace to nexusmods

[firedrake38]

Could we have the option at some point to use the old layout like how we could test out the new one?