New UI - Aesthetic feedback

[questionsleep666]

Every time a website or app I use frequently does a massive UI "overhaul" like this, I drop the service. They're never good often times they seem outright hostile. The parts of the website I *want* to use are further away and worse to navigate, nothing is intuitive and it's all too clean. There was nothing wrong with the old layout. Stop looking for problems when there are none. I'm not downloading mods from my phone, stop using ugly terrible mobile UI practices. Seriously, stuff like that kills my interest in using anything. I'm dropping Discord for Signal and looks like I'll be dropping Nexus for just playing unmodded games. God forbid anything is designed to do anything useful. Gotta broadcast the ads and the slop, that'll bring more users! We're already throttling their download speeds unless they pay us a subscription, might as well spit in their face, too! Like I wanna just politely say "it's bad" but it's not like any feedback is taken seriously anyways so why bother being polite about it? I'm yelling into a void where the only people who will actually see it, is no one who can/will do anything about it, so I might as well express how I actually feel about this. It was a bad decision and everyone who made it should no longer make decisions like this. Probably gonna just delete my account entirely soon. So sick everything being designed to look and feel worse.

[Filipi]

Wish the change never happened. I don't see any benefits of the new view.

By making everything flat you've also made everything less distinctive. In the old view, the trending was clearly separated from new, there were very clear tabs for New, New this week, and so on. Now it's all muddled together, it's ugly. You could argue the old Nexus had a relatively dated style, but it was readable and easier on the eyes. The new one attempts to follow trends set out by other soulless corporate website design overhauls like Youtube. And it still is very restricted horizontally, which looks aesthetically worse now that there is no separation from the foreground and background. It's too flat, boring, and confusing.

There is also far less information presented, and yet it takes up monumentally more space. There's one fewer trending mods displayed, why? The New/Updated/Whatever table has 4 columns while the old had 5, and yet it has not become any more readable and I have to scroll more to see less. The thumbnails and font size has increased at the cost of information density and the benefit of... nothing. If a user wants a larger font, they can press Ctrl and +. I can't press Ctrl and - to bring the old density back.

What does "Trending" mean, is that the replacement for "Popular(30 days)" of the old layout? "Trending" carries less meaning, since I have to ask what it means. Make the tabs "Popular - all time" and "Popular - this month", don't make it worse because the word "trending" is fashionable.

The search results are okay (other than the inferior aesthetics, all flat etc.) and they mostly fit the page width. Why not do the same for the front page? I can understand the actual mod page since that can make descriptions look worse as they don't often have a lot of text, but when dealing with large (or rather very large in the new layout) thumbnails on the front page, there is no reason not to make it fit the page width.

I also wish the results defaulted to mods when I hit enter rather than displaying me a little fraction from each category in the pop-up search menu, and then doing the exact same thing but larger when I hit enter instead of the small "View all" button for the mods. Mods are the primary use of the site, if someone wants to look for users or collections, have them click the extra button instead of most people.

I don't understand why the Nexus people responsible for this consider the aesthetics changes an improvement, especially since usability is inferior. Are they deliberately trying making the service worse? Do they not use the website? I can only assume with the amount of people being displeased at this change, especially if they're serious mod creators, the likelihood of them moving to or straight up creating competing sites will be higher. Is the change supposed to appeal to the younger audience that grew up with phones (and therefore phone-centric website designs) rather than PCs? They can get bent, they're using the internet wrong. You don't install Skyrim mods on Android.

Edited March 29 by Filipi

[endosphere]

This is my first ever forum post on nexus, but I just have to say something because I cant stand the new UI and I'll probably stop using nexus if it remains like it is. The new UI is very bland and has no wdepth hich makes it hard to navigate and read mod titles. When browsing with new UI I found myself leaning up to my screen to try to cause less strain on my eyes. I honestly hope the UI changes are reverted or an option is added to go back to the old UI.

[Taryth]

I'm also disappointed in the new layout, nothing tells me where everything is. Old UI clearly had grouping that felt coherent. This just looks like blotches off things all over the page.

[KhornDemon]

New design is absolutely disgusting and unfriendly. Make option to change back to previous version.

[Vandey]

Wish theres a option to return to the old UI , this new one is so big and convoluted 

[choco1212]

Have to say I'm not a huge fan of this new UI at all, would really appreciate a way to go back to the old UI. These changes make the nexus site look like a mobile page.

[AnakinTheWeird]

So, devs. Now that there have been thousands of comments consistently coming in begging for a reversion, more than a week and a half after the changes rolled out, listing all the same reasons why the new UI sucks, and with nobody having a single thing they can point to that is better than the old version, can we PLEASE GET AN EXPLANATION WHY WE CAN'T HAVE THE OLD UI BACK??? Because either you didn't keep a backup of the old version, in which case you're a bunch of college level noobs at this job, or you've been lying through your teeth about the impossibility of a restoration.

[blandpanda]

the forced sidebar and filters is not well designed and the search function for games is needlessly complicated as compared to the older version...overall i prefer the previous layout over this one. also trying to add games to favorites or bookmarks no longer works...overall the website has become way less fluid and more janky and slow.. if it aint broke dont fix it.

Edited March 31 by blandpanda

[nefariouslover]

Mobile First design is trash.

 

New UI/UX is horribad.


I will 100% never subscribe again if this doesn't get reverted. 


It's astounding how blind and deaf they're being to this issue.  Any reasonable management team would see the backlash and feedback and immediately revert it or at least give people a toggle option to go back to the old layout.

Stop trying to fix what isn't broken.  You're not going to generate more revenue by pandering to one demographic at the expense of your existing core demographic who was already happy with the previous layout.