New UI - Aesthetic feedback

[LummoxJR]

23 hours ago, Yanoi said:

After going through multiple threads, it seems just a small minority (less than 2% of registered users) are being loud and repeating the same issue(s) so I will not pursue trying to encourage the Nexus staff back to the old UI.

2% of registered users is a much larger percentage of active users. Even if it were only 2%, when those 2% have highly detailed and specific criticisms, those criticisms should be taken seriously. Any feedback that's targeted and detailed, positive or negative, should be weighted hundreds of times above a simple "I like it" or "I hate it". I've had good things to say as well as bad, all specific, and I am not part of the "change it all back" chorus. Reverting the whole thing is not a tenable solution, but certain aspects of the new design aren't tenable either.

A lot of the same issues are being repeated because management is either ignoring them or completely dropping the ball on communication. I have yet to see any response at all to the vertical space issue, which is actually like several dozen issues under one umbrella. (Individually most of those items are small, but in totality they severely undercut usability and presentation.) I have finally seen one response to the loss of per-game colors, but it wasn't a good one.

We all know the staff is busy. We all know that any kind of change at all will spark negative reactions. I think most people are still understanding of that. It's just a lot harder to stay understanding when the communication is this bad and there's no apparent attempt to fix the most glaring problems, most of which were brought up during the beta. What was the point of the beta if feedback was going to be chucked directly into the bin and the identified problems rolled out as-is?

I want to acknowledge that I have seen work done on some things that people were begging for, like changing back the quick search (I didn't have a strong opinion on the new one), and bringing back comment searching which is huge. But there's an awful lot that could be done to address other widely shared specific feedback, most of which is just a matter of tiny QoL tweaks. Some things are harder to change—e.g., people wanting to get rid of the big collections section, move it, or make it optional based on user prefs, all of which require thinking through. I think Nexus will find the user base a lot more patient if there's better communication.

[Kant3n]

It's not good, it looks like the Civilization 7 UI.

Why is everything rectangles crammed into the center? I browse the mod pages from the PC I'm installing the mods on, not my cell phone.

[DAOWAce]

Why were the mod results increased in size and reduced per row?

And why is there no option to change this?

I have an ultrawide display, the site became even more miniscule with even more wasted space and even more scrolling.  Yet again a design is made for a portrait mobile focus when all the mods are used... on a PC.  It makes no sense.

Give us a way to control the fixed width of the website; flexible width has existed for decades, why do so many designers ignore it?  It's active on the forum, why not the mod pages?

This redesign went through rounds of testing too, but somehow so many things unfit for purpose and are being rapidly changed due to feedback after it was pushed to live.

 

Also the 'downloaded' and 'update available' markings are nearly invisible to the eyes (especially downloaded).  It used to be obvious and unmissable.

[zloybelka]

On 4/4/2025 at 11:46 PM, pilonexyz said:

UPDATED

Btw, this line .btn.inline-flex .icon {display: flex;} breaks the Manage mod rewards button here https://www.nexusmods.com/users/myaccount/?tab=my+files

[pilonexyz]

1 hour ago, zloybelka said:

Btw, this line .btn.inline-flex .icon {display: flex;} breaks the Manage mod rewards button here https://www.nexusmods.com/users/myaccount/?tab=my+files

Thanks for the feedback, i will look in to it

[pilonexyz]

On 4/11/2025 at 8:33 PM, zloybelka said:

Btw, this line .btn.inline-flex .icon {display: flex;} breaks the Manage mod rewards button here https://www.nexusmods.com/users/myaccount/?tab=my+files

Nexusmods Rewind - old UI for Stylus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/)

Fixed the Manage Mods Rewards button, other minor fixes.

Autoinstall the theme update with Firefox - paste the orange text in the address bar ( make sure you already have installed Stylus before paste )

moz-extension://ae3333c0-b6c2-4010-a0fe-adc9328fde62/install-usercss.html?updateUrl=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pilonexyz/nexusmods-rewind/refs/heads/main/nexusmods-rewind.css

Autoinstall the theme update with Chrome - paste the orange text in the address bar ( make sure you already have installed Stylus before paste )

chrome-extension://clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne/install-usercss.html?updateUrl=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pilonexyz/nexusmods-rewind/refs/heads/main/nexusmods-rewind.css

Manual install update here: https://pixeldrain.com/u/nmic5bNP

Edited April 18 by pilonexyz

[UX99]

Even after all this feedback, the site still is the same unintuitive mess it was before.

Still no trending options for search and the search box still takes up the entire screen for no reason.

[taosecurity]

Would it be possible to show the download count when you select to show mods by download count on the main page?

https://www.nexusmods.com/games?sort=downloads

By default it shows mod count. Thank you.

[Pickysaurus]

6 hours ago, taosecurity said:

Would it be possible to show the download count when you select to show mods by download count on the main page?

https://www.nexusmods.com/games?sort=downloads

By default it shows mod count. Thank you.

The downloads count is shown when your screen is wide enough. For compact displays or super zoomed in browsers it'll hide some of the stats 

[Norraya]

It's genuinely a 0/10 update, everything is worse in nearly every way. The modern trend of corporate minimalism is soulless, featureless, bland even when pulled off competently, which it wasn't in this case. It's not sleek, it's ugly and makes the site harder to use. I'm guessing the administrators spent significant money on this UI redesign - hence why they reject any suggestions for an optional revert out of hand - so I'm not sure what the point of these feedback threads even are.

The downfall of every major site comes when the people who run it have their own "Am I out of touch? No, it's the kids who are wrong" moment and decide they know better than the users what's good for them.