Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[HeyYou]

10 minutes ago, tpunk23 said:

TBH I was kinda surprised I got singled out for a reply. Guess I am the token  everyman cause I made comments about. If you didn't throw them money you don't exist. Do I think anything I said matters to them at all. Other than the one little tidbit they could take as a concession. While continuing to mindlessly march forward pushing this shiz? Nope, not a single word mattered at all. Most of us are probably wasting our energy. But better to waste it than be complacent and steamrolled without trying. We will be ignored XD.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I expect... The lack of response is because they don't wanna give us a flat out "NO!"...... Instead, they just ignore the issue, and will do whatever they want anyway. This wouldn't be the first time for this behavior either.

[Lumpystinkpickle]

It may be because I'm beginning my grouchy old man arc but it feels like I have less control over my navigation. I would like to have the dropdown filter back this looks like the Call of Duty UI or "insert video streaming platform here" I'm not saying it looks bad but I AM saying that it looks like it was designed for consoles. That being said the updated color pallet looks amazing very sleek and new age. Also I searched for hair mods on KCD2s mod page and only one mod appeared that had anything to do with hair or barbers definitely a downgrade on search algorithms. to be fair the mod I was looking for was a barber mod but still, I feel like if I would have searched "hair" in the old version I would have found what I was looking for. luckily in this instance I knew what I was looking for but if I didn't I never would have found it or it would have taken me way longer.

Edit: I took a second look and the sidebar is way better than the drop down, so my only gripe as of now is that the search function is objectively worse in my experience. Another note maybe you could make a video showing off the new features because when I saw the changes I thought I was on the wrong website and felt like I was looking at the buttons and nobs on a 50s style Si-Fi control panel or something its overwhelming for those of us with chicken breasts for brains.

Edited Wednesday at 10:06 PM by Lumpystinkpickle

[Glitchfinder]

27 minutes ago, JobiWanUK said:

Has this UI update somehow changed how long trending (previously hot files) are displayed for?

I see a mod that was uploaded on 19th March at 10:11am still occupying a trending spot (last 7 days). Previously, that would have fallen off at exactly 10:11am on March 26th but it's still there. Same for a few other trending mods too.

Are they now displayed until the end of day on the 7th day? Or something else?

I'm noticing this too. Fallout 4 currently has a trending mod that should have fallen off about 22 hours ago, and another one that should have disappeared about 9 hours ago.

[JustThatKing]

58 minutes ago, JobiWanUK said:

Has this UI update somehow changed how long trending (previously hot files) are displayed for?

I see a mod that was uploaded on 19th March at 10:11am still occupying a trending spot (last 7 days). Previously, that would have fallen off at exactly 10:11am on March 26th but it's still there. Same for a few other trending mods too.

Are they now displayed until the end of day on the 7th day? Or something else?

That is correct. Trending mods reset at 0:00 UTC, based on the time period set for that game (e.g. SSE, FO4 are 7 days).
This isn't based on the UI, but the underlying extensive "backend" framework changes we've made to help us update the site and change things more rapidly. 

 I was mistaken. Thanks for raising this we will take a look at it. 

[HollownessDevoured]

Liking the purple (but it is one of my favourite colours), and I see the removal of the horribly bright and barely legible white on gold award for being top poster from forum profiles is finally gone (I am pretty sure I brought that up a year ago). Also the outline on staff posts is helpful. But I still see a lot of similar posts and concerns being glossed over, hopefully, it is only because a specific staff member is planning on addressing or getting back to us on with a proposed fix or some options to show us.

I agree and hate the cut off of words, like my name in the forums. It feels like an amateur site to cut off words like that (I am not HollownessDevou red). I complained a year ago, why isn't there scaling on longer names. If the name is within the allowed characters to create an account it shouldn't cut off. Should be the same idea for mod names if it is within the characters for naming—it should be legible in a tile and not cut off with "...".

I cannot even go to the nexus site, the new UI is so bad, even to check out improvements, if there are any... I am overwhelmed by the wasted space and the less efficient (compared to the previous) UI. And collections for my game are carp (DAO is just not a collections friendly game), and should be optional to remove/hide that wasted line/space in the user settings. The fifth tile (or add more if you have a larger screen size) is just something I don't think we can get over, four is just not cutting the mustard.

[jmharris]

20 minutes ago, Glitchfinder said:

I'm noticing this too. Fallout 4 currently has a trending mod that should have fallen off about 22 hours ago, and another one that should have disappeared about 9 hours ago.

These day based cutoffs are currently filtering on date > n days ago at the beginning of the day (0000 hours). We'll review this, thanks for raising.

[SexualYodaGaming]

7 hours ago, 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:
 

I think having another, lighter colored box behind all of the tiles and going a bit out the sides and up to more mods would make this a lot better. I also agree with the comments about the wasted space, tighten these boxes up.

[Raven1417]

If a major redesign of the site is met by mostly criticism and rejection AND the major redesign is requiring constant community consultation to fix and tweak and update it because everything from basic functionality to accessibility is borked to varying degrees then maybe the major redesign has been poorly thought out and implemented? Maybe it should have been tested for longer, maybe greater effort to advertise the upcoming changes to get more feedback during testing should have happened so that the new site didn't become an ugly, basic square space template looking, screen real estate wasting mess? I get wanting to update things to make managing the site easier on the backend but that shouldn't result in a new look website that wouldn't pass a Web Design 101 class. But the responses from Nexus staff on here and Reddit practically sounding like Karoline Leavitt soundbites show that they don't really care for any critical or objective feedback that doesn't explicitly match what they want to hear. 

[Fatcat6573]

Is this site run by like some business robot in a human costume or something? The new ui is horribly ugly, the browsing mods page looks like a cheap knock-off of the Bethesda net mod browsing page. Why can you only see like 4 mods maximum at one time while browsing? Why is this whole site apparently being overhauled to please a tiny minority of people (mobile users) when that change ruins the experience for the pc users that make up the vast majority of the people on this site? Please just revert this change and pretend this never happened. People only use this site for downloading mods, please stop trying to make this place something it isn't.

[Evan555alpha]

9 hours ago, CaptainSandyPants said:

It's something we're looking at, along with potentially other layout types to give more choice.

And whose bright idea was it to push a UI update like this to production without meeting feature parity with the old one!?