Misc. New UI - Usability feedback

[maderiox]

Very difficult to use the new layout The person who designed the layout does not understand what buttons users often use.

[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 for feedback related to how useful/usable the new UI pages are.

[LordRegal]

I'll chime in again with my feedback that's relating to usability here so it's clear and actionable:

The button to "view more mods" at the end of the 16 newest mods on a game's landing page goes to a page with 20 mods.  However, the first 16 of those mods are the exact same mods that were on the landing page.  The old site, when you clicked on "more mods" (or whatever the button was called on that version) you started on either the next mod, or the last mod of the previous page depending on the situation.  The current functionality is far less useful because it means you have to scroll past the same 16 mods you just looked at to see four new ones before needing to click _again_ to move on to a page with 20 actually new mods, whereas before you'd have a page with all new/almost all new mods right off the bat.  This feels like a reduction in usability.

I also feel that the collections banner being where it is hurts usability for the average user.  I strongly believe the average user would be more interested in the trending mods and newest mods than a complete collection.  I don't think the collections bar should be removed, but rather should be moved below newest mods and put before the media section.  This way it's still in a mod-related area, but not impeding the old use cases of the old site where trending and newest were conveniently right next to each other.

[xRay4004]

 

14 minutes ago, Vitz said:

Please display categories on a mod's thumbnail again. Example:

What the hell am I supposed to gather from this? Turns out it's a quest mod, but I had to open the mod page to find out. Why even remove this functionality?

That's a great catch, I didn't even realize that they took away the Categories for the Hot mods. Very unfortunate they removed this QoL feature. Also makes me wonder why the removed the text on the mods for the lower 3 ones and not the big ones above instead of having it the same.

 

[MisterFrog1973]

Hi, 

I like the new layout, but the filter section needs "File name contains" field. Otherwise we have to start over and reapply all other filters.

Thanx.

[megaman2k]

You send a notification when someone comments on a mod but it's NOW a pain in the ass to find them. Used to, comments were sorted on most recent replies.

Edit: I may also be getting notifications for old mod comments. Even if I search for usernames on the current page, I see nothing new.

 

Also, this shows up on my mods despite being opted in:

"This mod is currently not opted in to our mod rewards program. Opt-in"