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16 minutes ago, Revenge096 said:

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Is it intended that new uploads section is so small and squished together?

I don't think that's intended, but it's better than the alternative.

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On 3/16/2025 at 9:40 AM, showler said:

Okay, seriously, are you all looking at a different website or something?

First of all, what do you mean by "the front page of the website"?  Because "www.nexusmods.com" has two rows of games,  five rows of "news updates" and four rows of mods showing on it.  Is that not what you are seeing?

Nowhere can I find a place that has a single row of mods and has Collections and media getting in the way of seeing the mods in any way.

Okay, seriously, right no my game page looks like 2 trending mods instead of 7, mind-wreckingly huge. Then two giant collections instead of a link to this game's collections page. And somewhere below, finally, 16 mods. NEW instead of LATEST as I had them set in MY PREFERENCES.

Lol, another game page does show 6 (instead of 7) trending mods 😂 Annnd to get to the mods themselves I have to scroll twice. Twice! First, through the huge trending stuff, them through the huge collectionsgopremium stuff. Lovely.

@LummoxJR Time to update that CSS of your, big time 🥹

 

@JustThatKing or whoever sees this first, this is absolute unusable madness, pls revert it to the old layout (and by reverting I mean make it look like old page on your shiny new framework). PRETTY PLEASE.

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1 hour ago, Battlestar1965 said:

You see, the changes are just under the hood, but they both look the same. One is new, one is old, simple.

 

Hilarious post since the new one has clearly been extensively redesigned while calling back to the original.

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6 minutes ago, zloybelka said:

Okay, seriously, right no my game page looks like 2 trending mods instead of 7, mind-wreckingly huge. Then two giant collections instead of a link to this game's collections page. And somewhere below, finally, 16 mods. NEW instead of LATEST as I had them set in MY PREFERENCES.

Turns out I was looking at a different site from others since I was still getting the beta update not the final update.  So now I can see some of the things people are referring to, although I'm not having the functional problems people are referring to regarding the search.

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7 hours ago, Darkleon54 said:

The new main mage is wider yet show LESS mods than before. How come it takes more space yet is less practical or pleasing to look at ?

Everything seems overly stretched and blurry.

Yes, precisely this. Ugh.

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yeah this new design is not it at all. The new home page is so much worse, the old one used the grey borders to seperate the actual content from the background making it much easier to read, now everything sort of blends together. The new banner at the top takes up way too much space, and awkwardly pushes down the hot mods section that used to be right at the top of your screen. The more mods section is especially bad with the options providing far less utility than what was previously available. Why would I want to go on the nebulous 'trending' tab when what I actually WANT to see is the most popular mods uploaded in the last 30 days/ week/ today. Even if it provides the same service I'm less inclined to use it because it doesn't clearly display when the mods are from like the old UI did. The new search page is also pretty bad, the search bar on the side forces everyone to scroll down the page to select all the required setting, creating completely unnecessary hassle that wasn't present with the old UI.

Overall this new UI is a disaster, at the very least please give us an option to revert it back to the old one.

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2 hours ago, H3LLGHa5T said:

It hurts my brain how anyone in their right mind can consider this an improvement over the old UI...

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Well, fits into a dumbphone screen nicely (a very large 27"+ screen, sideways) 🤣

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After the last days i must say the main mod page of any mod category is just horrible to view. Its super tight. Like many other me included but yet again, PLEASE get rid of one of the most senseless implementations "collections".

The way it is added is an epic fail. Its nice to see people sharing their collections but the downside and its hard to measure but from a modder point of view the downside is that it will make all the mods less unique and a mess of copy paste super merge. While those maintaining huge discord channels will ultimately raise their kudos to the max and thus will distort and cast a modified field of view to the few with no experience passively guiding people to "good" and "bad" collections. Good = max kudos, bad = less kudos. Same goes for max and min download mods.

The entire mod rating is somehow off. Kudos and downloads, who cares? The idea is what really is what a mod is all about. Since ideas are eternal and thus the mod is. Generating pseudo mods which use certain ideas and later collections will be like a mess of books on top of the only one book collecting all the real data.

With DL and Ks you distort passively how people rate mods. In fact many people will probably be triggered to generate more DLs or Ks in order to feel confortable. Like you train an animal 🙂 Most humans dont recognize it. The end of this is the logical consequence ... a do-do da-da site with HUGE icons and images and boxes for even less orientation and motivation to search something.

If people have less motivation due to an overloaded page, there is less variety of ideas present per time, and thus less people will even reach to where they belong, to the top. The entire site will min max another time. More to the bad, since time nowadays is even more rare with all the distracting tools ... tools like smartphones ...

Modding is about ideas. No ideas no mods. And in the end only visuals will remain where once where ideas... might sound dramatic and end of the world blabla but seriously get rid of all the super boxes and compress your site back to what it was. Make it easy to search and it starts with an intruisive UI which in turn does not interfer with the users motivation due to horrible design and scrolling nightmares.

Look at the shitty games nowadays. Thats why people mod. Dont make your site a supporter of the video gaming industry. Make it a "lead by example" alternative!

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