New UI - Aesthetic feedback

[NexBeth]

There is legitimacy to the color-coded mod pages for browsing purposes (at least for the highest trafficked games).  Users may have multiple mod pages up browsing and a game-assigned color helps to streamline the process of multi-tasked browsing.

It's possible, however, that the new webpage doesn't allow for this.  Or that it's impractical to main all the various color schemes.

[Plagueofdeath]

More wasted Space. And the home page still has the old look we all want to come back. Thats odd, yet we get told it isnt possible 

Edited March 26 by sagohi

[pilonexyz]

1 hour ago, sagohi said:

More wasted Space. And the home page still has the old look we all want to come back. Thats odd, yet we get told it isnt possible 

The fixed 20 result per page no matter how many items per row you can shrink is crazy.

Please devs at least fix this.

[Happybara]

We are currently moving different bits of feedback into separate threads. This is so that we can better group your suggestions by theme, which will be more useful to us than one ever-expanding mega-thread. As always, we appreciate your continued feedback. Please keep your comments as civil and constructive as possible.

This section is to collate feedback on the New UI's aesthetics.

[hamis222]

We want old UI back,with color coding and all.Also "search from this topic" back to forum.

[wollknaul]

It looks awful. Everything just meshes together since it's a mildly different shade of dark grey. Getting any information on the mods at a glance is now impossible because every of these small little symbols look the same from a distance. It's too dark and flat overall.

[ProbablySolus]

The new UI is bland, uninteresting, and can cause strain on the eyes. I have been actively avoiding using Nexus Mods at all because the act of looking for mods is quick to cause a headache in the front of my head.

To define my word choice;

bland, uninteresting - It looks like every corporation page that wants to appeal to their shareholders by having no personality or appeal.

The legacy UI was brighter, had more character in choice of the background pictures and colours, and was not damaging to look at.

I am well aware that, somehow, the current design polled well with individuals in the Beta, but I think the general outcry from the wider Nexus Mods users have shown that the Feedback brought in from the Beta does not adequately represent the userbase.

This next part is my personal sentiment.
I have been actively looking for elsewhere to use as a primary source of mods and because of the responses from the team, I am deeply ashamed to have given this website money given their response to people for changing something about the website that everyone enjoyed until the change.

[ReverseFlashX]

Simple suggestion, when you guys update style/theme of mod pages and site maybe implement the option “Styles” or “Themes” that will keep the old and new styles of the site and allow us to choose which one we prefer.

Edited March 27 by ReverseFlashX

[Glitchfinder]

A few miscellaneous notes about the UI:

1. Center-clicking a notification will mark it as read if done on a mod page, but not on a games hub such as /games/fallout4
2. On the mod cards, the pop-ups explaining endorsement count, file size, and download count include the unicode icons. However, the pop-ups explaining uploaded and updated dates do not include their unicode icons and will only pop-up if you mouse over the actual date/time.
3. The entire collection card is treated as a hyperlink, which means the endorsement icon+count has no way to provide context information explaining what it is. These cards behave differently from all other card-types on the page, with the exception of the first two trending mods. Those share the same problem of using shorthand information with no accessible explanation.
4. The "view all" links at the top of sections and the "view more" links at the bottom of sections are functionally identical on the default "New" sort. If this is intended, they should both use the "view all" verbiage. If it isn't, "view more" links should be adjusted to start on the next page of content so that you don't click "view more" just to wind up being shown the exact same content you just viewed.
5. When reporting a mod, there is a checkbox at the end to certify that the information is accurate and correct. Moving your mouse over the text next to the checkbox highlights the checkbox, but clicking while the checkbox is highlighted does not toggle it. The only way to toggle the checkbox is to click it directly.
6. This isn't specifically the new UI, but when you click the Manage->Upload New Version button to update a mod file, any newlines in that file's description will be doubled when the description is imported into the "Add a new file" UI.

To explain that last one, let's take the optional file I have here on Bug Swarm Crash Fix. This is what the file description should be:

[b]Only required for the Full version of Mutant Menagerie! The Base version does not need a fix.[/b]

Fixes a crash involving the bee swarms added by Mutant Menagerie - Life Finds A Way.

And this is what I get when I try to upload a new version:

[b]Only required for the Full version of Mutant Menagerie! The Base version does not need a fix.[/b]



Fixes a crash involving the bee swarms added by Mutant Menagerie - Life Finds A Way.

 

[GruffDaddy]

I echo this. I hate the new UI.