Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[lupus00]

17 hours ago, Vylmort said:

Wat a disaster is this.  I am forced now to make favorites for all teh https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods instead of https://www.nexusmods.com/games/starfield/mods as the new layout is just not working for me,  I have no idea who designed that new format, though I would not accept that design at all if I had ownership of the site.

Unfortunately this doesnt work anymore (it reidrect to ../games/..) - you are forced to use new ui.

[tastelikeburning]

Bring back or give us the option to revert back to the old UI, this new one is terrible.

[Megalodon1001]

New ui is bad.

[PyreValour]

There's so much wasted space.
I want to see more than three items at once when scrolling, the search bar expanding to cover most of the screen simultaneously distracts me by suddenly blowing up to be way bigger than it should be and also doesn't show enough results at once (similar to the main page, but worse because it's a search function that doesn't show me search results), and the filter bar needs to be expandable to fit the landscape orientation of most users' screens.
The filters are just more readable and easier to navigate in a landscape orientation, and having to scroll up and down repeatedly to use the filters is just kinda irritating.
The popular collections on the landing page? Sure, fine. Put them lower down, though. I come to Nexus mods to either find something specific or browse through what's new since I last checked the site, and the "view all" button to go to browsing is way too small and too out-of-the-way. The collections should be lower down than the "more mods" section, which should really be the "latest mods" section, since those seem like the most used elements for the vast majority of people I've ever spoken to about the site. Y'know, like it used to be.

Furthermore... I just really hate how it looks.
Lifeless. Soulless. Corporate.
Forgive the crass imagery, but I really can't think of a better way to describe my distaste for the new visual style beyond "sticky". The tech-bro wet dream idea of "'sleek' = good". It's ugly as sin.
The old design may not have been the prettiest, but it was a million times more functional, and a lot more cozy. Now it smacks of overpriced nylon suits and labour law violations.
 

[grimstride2]

The new design looks terrible. All dark colors that blend into a black/gray sludge featuring tons of empty space. A generic design you see everywhere especially aimed for mobile devices. The dark colors put more strain on the eye when reading text. It takes longer to scroll down since the margins on the sides definitely need to be so large and of course there's two huge "pay for premium" banners (the collections are the second one). Very disappointing that there isn't an option to use the old design or at the very least offer multiple color schemes.

You removed all the personality and charm the site had. Great job!

Edited yesterday at 04:12 PM by grimstride2

[WndMll]

You know that when there's plenty of people with 1 POST showing up it's gotta be REAL bad. Only further proving the point their testing subject size was not large enough to have any actual impact on what the majority wanted.

[Deadput]

Absolutely hate the change, this actually strains my eyes to look at. 

It's both too narrow (lots of empty space on the sides) and what is being displayed in the middle feels overly bloated.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

2 minutes ago, WndMll said:

You know that when there's plenty of people with 1 POST showing up it's gotta be REAL bad. Only further proving the point their testing subject size was not large enough to have any actual impact on what the majority wanted.

Yeah, the change I noticed got me to look up stuff on the forums about it...

[XarisZ]

Can we go back to the old design? This UI looks awful, everything is huge and you need to scroll 1 meter to move down. Keep the old one forever its GOAT.

All the changes made the past 2 years have been bad except the thread search. You gotta reshuffle your staff.

[dales69]

Please give us an option to return to the old design.