Mod Browsing Overhaul Discussion

[Zzyxzz]

One positive thing first:

I like the new search, where you can click on the search and get a pop up. Thats great.

Everything else, is just bad. Im not sure how to give constructive feedback for that. Its really not possible. This needs to be reverted, but keep the new search. And bring back text colors for the games.

Edit: My first reaction to the new design was, to reload my browser over and over again. Because I thought something broke.

[toostruus]

8 minutes ago, Zzyxzz said:

One positive thing first:

I like the new search, where you can click on the search and get a pop up. Thats great.

Everything else, is just bad. Im not sure how to give constructive feedback for that. Its really not possible. This needs to be reverted, but keep the new search. And bring back text colors for the games.

I agree on search bar. And i agree on the rest

[Shade088]

I'm so glad I purchased a lifetime membership just to see this website get worse over time.

[UX99]

19 minutes ago, Zzyxzz said:

One positive thing first:

I like the new search, where you can click on the search and get a pop up. Thats great.

Everything else, is just bad. Im not sure how to give constructive feedback for that. Its really not possible. This needs to be reverted, but keep the new search. And bring back text colors for the games.

 

It'd be nice if the search popup was a toggle.
I can't stand the full-screen popup and keybinds I can't disable.

 

Usually I would just change that myself using the extension Stylus, but the Nexus' web team made sure that wasn't doable on the majority of the site. Someone on their team found a toy and made damn sure they were going to use it despite it being a sign of bad design.

[CaptainKashup]

Going to echo what everyone else is saying : This new design is absolutely terrible, confusing and slow. At least give us the option to go back to the old one. 
I'm not going to bother with modding my game anymore if I have to fight with this hellhole of a design

[SnakeSlippers]

I'm sorry I love this site but this new layout is the worst thing I ever seen. Give us a option for the old style.

And punch in the face whoever decided to mess with the search bar.

If I search for a "mod" on a "modding" website to "mod" my game why the f*#@ are "mods" not the first thing it searchs by? It searchs by content like I give a dam about pictures or other silly s#*!. Should search MODS first.

[CrimsonQuill157]

9 minutes ago, UX99 said:

Usually I would just change that myself using the extension Stylus, but the Nexus' web team made sure that wasn't doable on the majority of the site. Someone on their team found a toy and made damn sure they were going to use it despite it being a sign of bad design.

I don't understand why the web dev team are doing everything in their power to close any loopholes that allow people to make the site more functional for them. Is there any legitimate reason for it?

 

I've honestly canceled my monthly subscription based on the response from the team. I could understand if they said they will work on improvements, but people made complaints during the beta period which were all ignored.

[UX99]

2 minutes ago, CrimsonQuill157 said:

I don't understand why the web dev team are doing everything in their power to close any loopholes that allow people to make the site more functional for them. Is there any legitimate reason for it?

There really isn't any real reason for someone to use Shadow Root, but they made sure that the search popup is fully within it when on the majority of the website. If any site makes use of it, it's often because they'd rather force their users into using what they made. There's a bit of irony when considering this being Nexus Mods.

[RomanR]

2 hours ago, MayzyDayz said:

This is part of why the Sims community doesn't like hosting on Nexus.

The staff is currently handling the situation in worsest way possible it seems, so I for now I'm not uploading anything new here until this mess is sorted out somehow (I'm testing some small mod of mine again, improved one mentioned in the thread "Is it possible to create a weapon that shoot "spells" ?" and it's going well).

For standard subscribing users I would advise to vote with their wallet.

Nexus can be the biggest, but the attitude towards both mod authors and its users is beginning to be unacceptable.

[Treeaboo]

2 hours ago, WndMll said:

Oh my god you're right, I didn't notice until you mentioned it but the mod browsing page is nearly 1 to 1. Though even then videogamemods looks BETTER and I hate to say it. They actually stole their style and did it WORSE!

The search page is almost a carbon-copy of the mod.io page, a site I had the displeasure of looking at just yesterday when looking at BG3 modding and thought "Wow that UI is horrible, I'll happily stick with Nexus instead" only to awake to this horror today that has had useful search functionality stripped out (it's actually less functional than mod.io, as it now lacks a Trending filter).