Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[Imperial2000]

I genuinely have nothing nice to say about the new layout.

Aesthetically it's soulless and lacks character as most "modern" designs do. It's just bad. Not much else to say on that because it's a matter of opinion.

Functionally it's just as bad.

It wastes so much screen space on absolutely nothing where it could be showing me more mods as it did before. The game title and file statistics above the Trending Mods section is redundant. Seriously, who is that for? It is just wasting space that could be used by the rest of the trending mods.

I know Nexus' hard-on for Collections so I won't even waste time on that.

The new files section is also burdened by the serious waste of space around the tiles as well as their overall size. Where I could comfortably view ten mods and their descriptions before, now I can reasonably see only four in their entirety. Zooming the page out does not help at all. I'm still seeing fewer mods than I did before at an even smaller size. It's very strange to call this change in favor of visibility and browsability. I hilariously feel gaslit to have read that testers "discover[ed] more new mods than they previously would have." In what reality does showing someone less let them see more?

All that said, I'm more frustrated that Nexus continues this trend of making sweeping changes, opening feedback to those changes, then telling those who give reasonable negative feedback to get used to it or kick rocks. I've seen it happen time and time again and fully expect it to keep happening.

[BlindIo]

Not a fan of the extra blank spaces and/or enlarged banner/title areas. Now I have to scroll to view things while going through pages where I used to not have to. I know it's a minor thing to do but honestly it's pretty annoying to do when the older UI didn't need as much motion to view things. And yet again, same as with the profile revamp before, the new UI is laggy and causes my browser to use WAY more resources. How did you guys manage that?

[vaval02]

I'll add my two cents of constructive criticism, but the all black look really makes the site look "soulless"

The whole collection tab should be moved somewhere else as it's far better not having to scroll too much to look for what new mods came out

Edited 5 hours ago by vaval02

[sagohi]

new ui filter being off to the side is trash compared to how it was on the top. looks like poorly designed mobile webpage now. Then certain games have the old UI still, so its not even consistent.
Only way theyll make a change to this is if people cancel premium. Which ill be doing until its fixed

[Superdeathblade]

Every single UI update you guys have done from the mod author's page, to what you have done to the entire website has been beyond terrible. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined

[MrMister34]

It sucks, give me back the old UI layout.

[Rosewell8]

I'm not going to lie, the new design looks really bad, it's so simple compared to the old version that it looks like it was made in but someone just learning web design. It's just a bunch of boxes separated by a line with a blank black background. The old website wasn't amazing, but at least it was unique. It looks so boring now.

[chanoc1]

I've never posted on the forums until today. The redesign has made the site slower, uglier, and worst of all, harder to use.

All the new fancy effects burn processing time for no reason (it's a file distribution website, does it really need all these bells and whistles?). Scrolling the front page of a game slows down my browser, seriously.
The theming feels a lot more generic and bland now, having everything monochrome with only the occasional splash of color is boring (and arguably, makes the site harder to use).
Search now being a modal that blurs the rest of the site and takes up your whole screen makes it less of a "quick search".
And so on.

I don't see what was wrong with the old design to constitute such radical changes.

[Deathsu]

Please bring back the old trending sort function. This was functionally different than endorsement/downloads/unique downloads sorts as it looked at rate of interest by the community within a time-division rather than total interest all time.

The current trending and popular mods sections and tabs are either functionally broken or mislabeled. Currently, trending can only show total endorsements all time filtered by mod release time frame, and popular is the same thing substituting in total downloads all time. The way these should work is sort based on total endorsements/downloads filtered by time frame, filtered by mod release time frame. This does a better job a showing where the current interest in the community is at a given time.

[zzundeadzz]

Hey moderators! We all hate the new UI, can we have the old UI back? We all knew you guys spent money on it, but holy... it is bad