Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[Yolstrun]

Okay let's Compare just the main page of SSE. 
New Vs Old. 
These are my Opinions viewed at 1920x1080 Resolution downscaled from a native 2560x1440 monitor on the Microsoft Edge browser with no Extensions/Addons logged out of my account on Nexus.
Pros; 

• Can see the # of Mods, Collections, and Media right at the top.
• Larger Images for Trending Mods 3+ , Named "Trending Mods" instead of "Hot Mods"
• Collections Now show the most popular ones instead of a Banner
• More mods tabs have a small icon next to them.
• Mod previews and descriptions are Larger.
• Extra tabs made redundant with being able to choose time frame without going into /mods Page.
• More Mods and Media look like they're part of the main page instead of a separate box module.
• Footer has Manage Cookie Settings.

Cons;

• Top bar is now Elongated with Nexus - Support being on the left side, and Search - Register (User Profile) being on the right side Vs being centered closer to the Middle.
• 1/3 of the Site is still empty space on the sides.
• Lack of Background on the sides. (Can have the normal background gradiate into the blur as you scroll down)
• Complete loss of the signature Nexus Orange on everything besides the Logo icon, Register button (Upload outline), Go Premium button, and Full NexusMods Logo
• Cannot see Trending mod 3+ without scrolling down with Ads.
• Only 2 Collections shown, always the most popular. Quite a bit of empty space between Trending and Mods.
• Random being renamed to Surprise. (This isn't a lootbox you need to sell)
• Loss of Tracked Content Updates
• Mods listed are 4x4 compared to 5x4 (Can currently fit 6 per row with the negative side space)
• Media images are not Resized
• Site News lost the small Category tag on the top of the Article.
• Vortex advertisement is gone.
• Longer to load page. 0.291s vs 0.114s (Variable)

There are some good ideas and some bad. I mean The Main Homepage Hasn't gone under the same UI change yet.
In my Opinion this needs some more time cooking in the Kitchen.

[OTK7]

2 minutes ago, LiloLila said:

But clicking the game still links me to the games new main page

try to just refresh the page, it won't redirect

[LoIi]

New interface design is nice and sleek, but is dreadful to say the least. It doesn't have that nexusmods feel to it, it's bland and unappealing to the eye. The mod spacing went downhill. Very laggy and skippy when scrolling. The pop-up search bar is heavily unnecessary and browsing for mods now feels like a chore instead of a breeze. Having an option to use legacy would make a lot of people happy.

Edited 11 hours ago by LoIi

[SynthetiXxX]

1. The New, Updated, Trending, and Popular mod category tabs on the main page no longer counts how many mods are in that category, so I have to click to inspect what mods are now present. If I check Witcher 3's page once daily for new or updated mods I no longer can just rely on the number statistic going up or down in the New/Updated category, I have to click that category anyway. I think people would appreciate a number statistic over an icon, or rather why not have both instead of one or the other?

2. Collections hot-bar wastes and obstructs too much space. Old Collections bar was better.

 

Using the search bar actually brings up the mod I'm searching for now, so there's that. No longer will I get 10,000 translation mods or simply "No Results Found" and then have to go to Google to get the mod I want anyway - Kudos for actual search bar

 

[gorp0912]

This has become borderline unusable. Discoverability is gone and only a fraction of the previous information is displayed on the screen.

Old doesn't mean obsolete, no sense redesigning the wheel. And as said before, pandering to mobile doesn't make sense, because people aren't modding on mobile.

[LiloLila]

16 minutes ago, OTK7 said:

try to just refresh the page, it won't redirect

I mean, when I'm not on the main page. But I guess, I'll just have to add a bookmark. and simply not use the game button.

[ShiggyBoi]

The new website design looks genuinely awful, the old one was so much better. It's like they took all the bad parts of the old design, kept those and ditched everything else.

I don't use vortex, but I'm still forced to scroll past the collections tab every time I wanna check mods on a game.

Previously you could see the exact date a mod was last updated from the preview on the mods page, now it just gives a general time, (For example, previously a mod might have said "Last update 25 July 2024", but now it instead has a vague logo with just the text "8 months ago" instead.)

The iconic orange Nexus mods color has been ditched in favor of a basic white, thus giving the website less of an identity.

The website now has even more empty space that isn't being used, (The old one at least had the background image, now it's just empty and black.)

Speaking of empty space, the spacing on the website is ALSO worse now, so less content is on display compared to the old one! (6 trending mods instead of 7, and only 16 mods on the most popular tab instead of 20.)

The new search feature is just silly, why keep a search box at the top if it only exists to open a search POP UP?? Just make it a search ICON instead and use the space up there more efficiently!

And last but certainly not least: Whose idea was it to make the top of every game's mod page a GIANT GREY SQUARE????????? I get that it's the designated ad space, BUT YOU ALREADY HAVE TONS OF EMPTY SPACE ON THE SIDES WHERE YOU COULD PUT THE ADS!

 

Rant over, pls revert this awful redesign.

[SynthetiXxX]

3 minutes ago, ShiggyBoi said:

Rant over, pls revert this awful redesign.

It's not going away, whether you/he/she/I/we like/s it or not. Nexus is going to Nexus. You can only recommend improvements and feedback based on what they bring forward on the site.

[Synthlight]

3 minutes ago, SynthetiXxX said:

You can only recommend improvements and feedback based on what they bring forward on the site.

Correction: You can yell into the void but it'll change nothing.
May people, me included, complained about how much space the new design wastes, and yet, it looks no different from the beta.

[SynthetiXxX]

1 minute ago, Synthlight said:

Correction: You can yell into the void but it'll change nothing.
May people, me included, complained about how much space the new design wastes, and yet, it looks no different from the beta.

Not surprising in the slightest.