Raven1417 Posted Wednesday at 08:58 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:58 AM (edited) 10 minutes ago, Pickysaurus said: There was a big blue banner across the top of the main site for a few weeks inviting you to try the beta. So I'm not sure what else you think we could've done there. That's even more prominent than a news post or a forum banner. If you dismissed/ignored the banner, there's not anything we can do there. We made it dismissable to respect that some users simply weren't interested in it. Was it perchance a banner that would likely be hidden by ad and scriptblocker extensions? Also to clarify, did the banner only appear on the homepage or unless dismissed did it load on ALL pages? (And considering the functionality/accessibility issues maybe that beta should still be running instead of live.) Edited Wednesday at 09:04 AM by Raven1417 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager JustThatKing Posted Wednesday at 10:52 AM Author Community Manager Share Posted Wednesday at 10:52 AM 1 hour ago, Raven1417 said: Was it perchance a banner that would likely be hidden by ad and scriptblocker extensions? Also to clarify, did the banner only appear on the homepage or unless dismissed did it load on ALL pages? (And considering the functionality/accessibility issues maybe that beta should still be running instead of live.) It was tested against multiple different ad-blockers and was not blocked by them. It appeared on every changed page unless you chose to dismiss it. If you have set your own custom rules in regards to blocking elements of webpages, I'm afraid that we really can't do anything about that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JobiWanUK Posted Wednesday at 11:12 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 11:12 AM Thing is, there's been several big changes since the update came out of beta anyway, so I'm not sure what any difference user input would have made. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showler Posted Wednesday at 12:31 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 12:31 PM 1 hour ago, JobiWanUK said: Thing is, there's been several big changes since the update came out of beta anyway, so I'm not sure what any difference user input would have made. Changes to reflect the feedback from the user input perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted Wednesday at 01:52 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 01:52 PM 4 hours ago, Pickysaurus said: There was a big blue banner across the top of the main site for a few weeks inviting you to try the beta. So I'm not sure what else you think we could've done there. That's even more prominent than a news post or a forum banner. If you dismissed/ignored the banner, there's not anything we can do there. We made it dismissable to respect that some users simply weren't interested in it. That BIG BLUE BANNER said NOTHING about any POLLS Where were those hidden? Seriously us old timers have seen this story several times before 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper864 Posted Wednesday at 03:13 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 03:13 PM I think the nexus mod staff would have evaded at least 90% of the problems if the blue banner was instead something like an endorsement reminder that you get that pops up in the middle of the screen that shows what changes they were making. It would also show a comparison of the old ui to the new ui/ layout. Or if they wanted to go further they could have attached a short youtube showcase of the new layout. It could be a quick 3 minute video. But anyway, I remember seeing the blue banner but I didn't really care about it as it didn't seem important at the time. However that one day that brought everyone here to this forum is why most of us are upset. The blue banner was there but I think if it was showed like an endorsement reminder and showed a quick simplified view of at least the major changes. While also showing a message like visit our forum( with a link attached) I think the nexus staff would have more feedback before changes were made. Like for example this whole situation is like you see someone across the street. You notice their presence. Everything is fine and nothing is happening. Than all of a sudden they teleport behind you and pull your pants down and you have a shocked pikachu face. If the nexus mod staff did more forced messages/ announcements like endorsement reminder on just big updates(everything else can be on a short announcement or something like that) to the site in the future. Than I think it would at least give some transparency to the user of upcoming changes and whether they like them or not. If they don't like them they can go back to the drawing board. Also if the UI team needed some work to do, a customization option would be a great way for them to do something. 7 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollownessDevoured Posted Wednesday at 06:24 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 06:24 PM (edited) The banner for beta testing was probably simply ignored or opted out of because of the misconception of they could keep the original site as is indefinitely or simply indifference. Was the poll on only "opted in" mode, during beta? I believe what some people are getting at is after the update was forced (no opting out), why wasn't there a banner on every page then for polling. As how could one vote on something when they were in their old site ("opted out") happy place doing business as usual, not aware they were going to lose it to the other toggled mode. Edited Wednesday at 06:30 PM by HollownessDevoured 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bacsie Posted Wednesday at 07:35 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:35 PM Oh great, the comment search is back! I loved the "old comment search" that apparently broke your database. The current comment search as of April 2, 2025 (i.e., today) is completely UNacceptable. Why? Because original posts with queries are displayed/listed separately from the corresponding replies to the original post. This means that queries and corresponding replies appear on different "search page results." But now, there are always 10 search results on one search page. Fatal for an original post that has received a reply, as no connection can be established. Example website: Nether's Follower Framework - NFF Search term "horse" - 262 comments on 27 pages. Original post @AnnikaMikomo from January 8, 2025, 12:07 PM on search page 7 - corresponding reply @bacsie from January 8, 2025, 5:44 PM on search page 9 (no connection can be seen). This is not an isolated case. Of course, there will be questions (posts) that never received a response. But this creates the impression that my "reply posts" are an "original post"—which is also distorted, as it looks like a monologue. Please correct this as soon as possible, presenting it correctly and understandably. Thank you. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCotton Posted Wednesday at 08:03 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:03 PM (edited) 11 hours ago, Pickysaurus said: There was a big blue banner across the top of the main site for a few weeks inviting you to try the beta. So I'm not sure what else you think we could've done there. That's even more prominent than a news post or a forum banner. If you dismissed/ignored the banner, there's not anything we can do there. We made it dismissable to respect that some users simply weren't interested in it. Do you mean to imply that the survey was only for users who opted in to trying the beta? If so, then I think there is an obvious flaw in the data. Users who did not like the new UI most likely opted out of the beta so they would not have to use it, which means only users who like the UI will respond to the survey. It does make sense though to only want users who have used the UI for some time to give feedback on it since they would be the most familiar with it and likely to understand what is good and what needs improving. So now that the new UI has been available to the entire userbase for some time and the knee jerk reactions to it have mostly stopped, wouldn't it make sense to do a survey that is available and advertised to the entire site rather than just the people who participated in the beta? Especially seeing as the UI is now no longer in beta and has been changed since the survey was initially taken Edited Wednesday at 08:17 PM by TheCotton 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qrsr Posted Wednesday at 09:09 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:09 PM 5 hours ago, Reaper864 said: While also showing a message like visit our forum( with a link attached) I think the nexus staff would have more feedback before changes were made. I dont think so. How many people are posting in this thread of ALL the people with an active account? The feedback is so small and most of the feedback sounds like a bot is constantly posting depressive "the site is not good" text. So there is next to no real "constructive" feedback. Which technically is feedback you should take a closer look on. People need to compress there ideas into text, and it takes time. Time is rare. Its easier to play, rather than to mod. Think about wiki sites, only a handful of people posting their content to a wiki or maintain it, yet the majority of users uses the content, is constantly reading. But without the people giving something to read ... there would not be any wiki. Now if all people would post and even if its just a typo correction. What an impact would this be? Same here, nexumods could progress much fast if people would really care. Motivation and momentum is even less these days. Why? I have no answer. Take the blue pill take the red pill but do you really need to take the pill at all? What about the green pill... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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