xRay4004 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 On 3/26/2025 at 2:54 PM, mfPixel said: If I understand you correctly, do you mean your search preferences in settings don't match the search results? If so, we're pushing an update soon to fix that — your sorting preferences will carry through to the quick search and full search results. Expand Ah right you're calling the quick search function that new search window that pops up when using the searchbar, I personally honestly don't get beyond that feature its just a smaller search Ui. It would be great having a way being able to toggle the window to not show up. But yes that's what I meant. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qrsr Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 On 3/26/2025 at 2:53 PM, DeltaAriadne said: There is that at least. Would go a long way to alleviate the other extremely questionable design choices. You do realize that the Nexus, as it currently is, is basically a dark-mode copy of Bethesda's mod site right? I shared a pic comparing them both, some pages back. Nearly identical. Expand BGS is plained by many yet offers people the option to mod their games for free, a powerful trade tbh. I would not be surprised if BGS would go all in to become a competitor to a mod site like nexus. Maybe this explaines some of the design choices of nexusmods (?), and or the people doing the website are gamers too, modders too, and work for both as freelancers? That would be a win win ... Again the dark design is not so bad, but people with serious problems seeing certain icons should be taken care of much more. They need the most attention. I will say it again, and did it when the new UI for the forums was soon to come, make it a dark AND bright/white theme. Like wikis have it. This would solve much in an instant already. There is also some wikimedia thread about design choices for dark and white themes and what people with visual impairment need to flawless browse. EDIT: Here a very good article to browse ... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accessibility 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LenaWolfBravil Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 On 3/26/2025 at 12:52 AM, CaptainSandyPants said: I understand, if I remember correctly there was a user with visual impairments involved in the discussion who found the higher contrast helpful, which makes balancing different accessibility needs tricky. Expand Visual impairments vary. Requirements for different impairments can be direct opposite to one another. I have a visual impairment - I sacrificed my eyesight on the altar of cathode ray monitors in the '80s and '90s. High contrast makes my eyes itch, water and bleed in extreme cases. Literally. Too much strain. It makes text appear blurry to the point that I can no longer read it, it makes letters jump around the screen. I have to resort to page recolouring plugins to be able to read your site for longer than a few minutes at a time. However, people with a different impairment will tell you the opposite - hence the existence of high contrast themes, they actually need that contrast to be able to read text. You will not be able to create the colour scheme that caters to both types of impairments at once. And please don't tell me that I am "healthier" than the other person. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff CaptainSandyPants Posted March 26 Staff Share Posted March 26 Here's the latest with reducing the contrast on the areas that have been brought to our attention. If you're currently experiencing discomfort, let me know if the below is more comfortable for you. To clarify, this only covers improvements for those that find the contrast too high. It doesn't cover feedback on the layout which we are looking at separately: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyeaxford1 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 On 3/26/2025 at 3:46 PM, CaptainSandyPants said: Here's the latest with reducing the contrast on the areas that have been brought to our attention. If you're currently experiencing discomfort, let me know if the below is more comfortable for you. To clarify, this only covers improvements for those that find the contrast too high. It doesn't cover feedback on the layout which we are looking at separately: Expand Just the sheer amount of wasted space in this picture gives me a headache, the old design was fine and I have been looking through this thread and every dev replies only to certain stuff. Any mention of reverting or people expressing their dislike of the new design is ignored. I want to ask right here what would the devs consider enough evidence of the desire to revert or at least have the option to switch back the previous design. There have been many concerns throughout this thread about the amount of wasted space, the contrast and colour difference among many others including the general dislike of the new design. I honestly believe than any sort of poll that is widely advertised and posted at the top of every nexus mods site for all game would get a clear response indicating a desire for a return to the old design or a option to switch between the new and old but I do not believe that such a think will happen but yet her I am hoping it does. If it doesn't then even if this is seen as toxic then I say the devs are cowards and any posts saying they care about what the community and userbase thinks are utter lies. When devs ignore their userbase it never ends well for them. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plagueofdeath Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 (edited) On 3/26/2025 at 3:46 PM, CaptainSandyPants said: Here's the latest with reducing the contrast on the areas that have been brought to our attention. If you're currently experiencing discomfort, let me know if the below is more comfortable for you. To clarify, this only covers improvements for those that find the contrast too high. It doesn't cover feedback on the layout which we are looking at separately: Expand Bring the orange colors back to separate the bland text. Single text color makes it look like one paragraph column Edited March 26 by sagohi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ortext Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 On 3/13/2025 at 8:03 AM, mfPixel said: Hey everyone, head of design at Nexus Mods here - thanks for all the feedback so far. I wanted to provide some context for the recent search changes. The old search system made switching between content types (e.g., games and mods) difficult, and only the "Mods" category had a results preview. The new quick search improves this by making it easier to browse all content types while allowing you to preview more results. We designed the new modal to be highly visual. During testing, we experimented with a more compact list view, but most users preferred larger thumbnails, as images are often the key factor when scanning for mods, collections, and especially images. If you're solely focused on mods, it’s easy to forget that users browse other types of content too. Quality-of-Life Improvements You can now activate search instantly with the `/` hotkey and dismiss it with `Esc` for quick access. Keyboard navigation is coming soon, so you’ll be able to search and browse without a mouse (if that's your thing). Search is now much better at handling inexact queries (e.g., “baldurs gate” without an apostrophe) and includes keyword matching (e.g., “fo3” will return Fallout 3). The general feedback was very positive in testing and during the closed and open beta periods. It’s been interesting to hear from people saying it’s helped them discover more new mods than they previously would have. I understand that this is a big change visually from what you’re used to - there is some extra functionality to coming where the initial screen will show your recent searches and saved games. This will make the modal feel less empty when first opened. Why the Colour Changes? The updated colours are part of a broader design transition. We’re rolling out brand-new pages soon, and these changes help make the experience more seamless when switching between old and new designs. For those who have been using the site for years, we know big updates can be jarring—I’ve had the same reaction to changes on sites I love! But these updates are necessary to modernise the site’s core architecture, allowing us to build and release new features more efficiently. We really appreciate all your feedback and are excited to keep improving Nexus Mods. Expand And to quote from this post " We really appreciate all your feedback and are excited to keep improving Nexus Mods. " Do you? Now there are so many more issues then last time. - Efficiency down. ( As many people have posted. ) - If to Modernise is to cause discontent, and add more problems. ( Thats a bleak future ) - The word " Jarring " is probably a understatement. - Color changes? ( its mostly just changed to 0F0F10, 29292C, F4F4F5, 1D1D21 and more dull colors. Even if i maybe wrong on the colors. ) - Very positive in the testing periods would be an overstatement. ( As certain users have mention how inaccurate that was, due to back door stuff happening. ) - Devs actually ignoring the real issues, and feedback given. ( I would like to see some backbone from even any staff to actually replying with something convincing to quell the sheer discontent nearly 120+ pages of discontent ) - Literally almost so little people use mod collections? Do you see many famous moding youtubers use any? What if suddenly someone wants to tweak a few things? What if a dependency was suddenly removed? and literally i can go on. - The fact that people from the community had to jump in to save others, tells alot about this UI change. Note even if not all the points are true. I still can say for sure several of them are still undeniable. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff CaptainSandyPants Posted March 26 Staff Share Posted March 26 On 3/26/2025 at 3:57 PM, sagohi said: Bring the orange colors back to separate the bland text. Single text color makes it look like one paragraph column Expand Are you referring to the orange coloured links for categories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LenaWolfBravil Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 On 3/26/2025 at 3:46 PM, CaptainSandyPants said: Here's the latest with reducing the contrast on the areas that have been brought to our attention. If you're currently experiencing discomfort, let me know if the below is more comfortable for you. To clarify, this only covers improvements for those that find the contrast too high. It doesn't cover feedback on the layout which we are looking at separately: Expand Is this screenshot supposed to be different from the current mod page? If it is, then the change is too small to notice - there is no difference to my eyes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitchfinder Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 (edited) On 3/26/2025 at 3:46 PM, CaptainSandyPants said: Here's the latest with reducing the contrast on the areas that have been brought to our attention. If you're currently experiencing discomfort, let me know if the below is more comfortable for you. To clarify, this only covers improvements for those that find the contrast too high. It doesn't cover feedback on the layout which we are looking at separately: Expand I know it's been brought up already, but is it possible that instead of making the "New" bubble solid white, you could give it a white outline and then color it with the same background and text colors as the stats row at the bottom of the mod cards? You use the same or similar coloring (sans outline) for the time range dropdown on the opposite end of the same row. Edit: it's not quite right, but something more like this: Edited March 26 by Glitchfinder Add example 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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