Changes to forum structure

[Dark0ne]

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754, #26473564 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

 

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

bethjunkie wrote:

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

The search doesn't work now. I tried on three different files before making that post and it never brings up any results. Go here to this mod and search the topic for the word "punga". Punga is clearly written in four posts on the first page alone but the search comes up with nothing

In the Shadow of the Swamp


http://i.imgur.com/OMVcZQn.jpg

Try now. I wasn't aware of this issue as it was working on my admin account. Didn't even think to check it on a normal account.

Might mean the comments forum will have to be open after all, not that that's particularly useful as every single file comment topic is in the same forum...

[Bess]

For what it's worth, following Robin's instructions:

"Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works"

(which is how I've always done it anyway), I get "Your search for the term punga returned 78 results" with the word "punga" highlighted over four pages of posts.

 

So it's still working at least for me the way it always did. Unless I'm misunderstanding the problem, of course.

[bethjunkie]

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754, #26473564, #26474444 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

 

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

bethjunkie wrote:

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

The search doesn't work now. I tried on three different files before making that post and it never brings up any results. Go here to this mod and search the topic for the word "punga". Punga is clearly written in four posts on the first page alone but the search comes up with nothing

In the Shadow of the Swamp


http://i.imgur.com/OMVcZQn.jpg

Dark0ne wrote: Try now. I wasn't aware of this issue as it was working on my admin account. Didn't even think to check it on a normal account.

Might mean the comments forum will have to be open after all, not that that's particularly useful as every single file comment topic is in the same forum...

Yes, it is working now when I am signed in but still not working if you're not signed in and since the forum sign isn't hooked to the game sites login, it will remain broken for many users.

Thank you for fixing this :)

[drithius]

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754, #26473564, #26474444, #26474639 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

 

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

bethjunkie wrote:

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

The search doesn't work now. I tried on three different files before making that post and it never brings up any results. Go here to this mod and search the topic for the word "punga". Punga is clearly written in four posts on the first page alone but the search comes up with nothing

In the Shadow of the Swamp


http://i.imgur.com/OMVcZQn.jpg

Dark0ne wrote: Try now. I wasn't aware of this issue as it was working on my admin account. Didn't even think to check it on a normal account.

Might mean the comments forum will have to be open after all, not that that's particularly useful as every single file comment topic is in the same forum...

bethjunkie wrote: Yes, it is working now when I am signed in but still not working if you're not signed in and since the forum sign isn't hooked to the game sites login, it will remain broken for many users.

Thank you for fixing this :)

Yep, this derailed me as well; I thought the new structure had completely broken searching within a mod's pages. At minimum, need to display a popup stating a login requirement.

[AaronOfMpls]

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754, #26473564, #26474444, #26474639, #26475714 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

 

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

bethjunkie wrote:

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

The search doesn't work now. I tried on three different files before making that post and it never brings up any results. Go here to this mod and search the topic for the word "punga". Punga is clearly written in four posts on the first page alone but the search comes up with nothing

In the Shadow of the Swamp


http://i.imgur.com/OMVcZQn.jpg

Dark0ne wrote: Try now. I wasn't aware of this issue as it was working on my admin account. Didn't even think to check it on a normal account.

Might mean the comments forum will have to be open after all, not that that's particularly useful as every single file comment topic is in the same forum...

bethjunkie wrote: Yes, it is working now when I am signed in but still not working if you're not signed in and since the forum sign isn't hooked to the game sites login, it will remain broken for many users.

Thank you for fixing this :)

drithius wrote: Yep, this derailed me as well; I thought the new structure had completely broken searching within a mod's pages. At minimum, need to display a popup stating a login requirement.

Yup, searching within comment threads is also working for me again, as long as I'm logged in. Comment threads are also showing up in forum search results, "Content You Follow", and "<username>'s Content" again, too -- and the forums still aren't lagging like last week! :D

Thanks, Robin! Edited June 28, 2015 by AaronOfMpls

[MotoSxorpio]

 

 

 

In response to post #26464079. #26468539 is also a reply to the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

 

 

 

 

Had to be Moto's Mod, huh!? :laugh: :armscrossed:

 

BTW, noticed the comments section in Nexus Site Forums. Nice. @Robin

[lmstearn]

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754, #26473564, #26474444, #26474639, #26475714, #26478409, #26494614 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

 

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

bethjunkie wrote: In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:
Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.
-So what functionality is missing??

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.
-So what functionality is missing??

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

The search doesn't work now. I tried on three different files before making that post and it never brings up any results. Go here to this mod and search the topic for the word "punga". Punga is clearly written in four posts on the first page alone but the search comes up with nothing

In the Shadow of the Swamp


Edit: Removed giant image since fixed.

Dark0ne wrote: Try now. I wasn't aware of this issue as it was working on my admin account. Didn't even think to check it on a normal account.

Might mean the comments forum will have to be open after all, not that that's particularly useful as every single file comment topic is in the same forum...

bethjunkie wrote: Yes, it is working now when I am signed in but still not working if you're not signed in and since the forum sign isn't hooked to the game sites login, it will remain broken for many users.

Thank you for fixing this :)

drithius wrote: Yep, this derailed me as well; I thought the new structure had completely broken searching within a mod's pages. At minimum, need to display a popup stating a login requirement.

AaronOfMpls wrote: Yup, searching within comment threads is also working for me again, as long as I'm logged in. Comment threads are also showing up in forum search results, "Content You Follow", and "<username>'s Content" again, too -- and the forums still aren't lagging like last week! :D

Thanks, Robin!

billko wrote: Yes! They are working again, and thanks for finding a way to revive this functionality without reviving the horrid forum response times.

I gather it took a surgeon's scalpel to do this. Furthermore, I know it wasn't an easy task or it would have been done this way in the first place.

I imagine the first effort was (after what, days, weeks?), "I have narrowed it down to this part of the forum code, but it's way too complicated to narrow it down any further." But with the complaints, you decided to actually dive into the mess and figure out if you could actually separate this functionality from the actual issue - and you have.

So many thanks to you for taking the time to sort through the mess and remove the tumor without sacrificing too much of the tissue around it! :)

Back in business then. Thanks! :)
Hmmm: thinking about a possible cause might relate to the recent addition of the new (and handy) spoiler revealing previous replies to a given thread in the forum version of download comments. (Is it possible the direct forum link to some popular mods been removed to address the bug?)
As the number of replies grew the content in the spoiler tag might have breached a watermark, continuing the S/W in the direction of some singularity. Edited June 29, 2015 by lmstearn

[billko]

In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754, #26473564, #26474444, #26474639, #26475714, #26478409, #26490274 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:

Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

 

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.

-So what functionality is missing??

 

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

bethjunkie wrote: In response to post #26464079. #26468539, #26472754 are all replies on the same post.

MotoSxorpio wrote:
Since the time I found notification widget, I've tracked any file I download until a review has been made. I then either endorse and keep tracking, or remove tracking. Most mods continue to be tracked, just in case a new version appeals to me.

This tracking will show latest comments on the Front Page under "Tracked Files" tab. This tab lists comments in "most recent updated" fashion.
-So what functionality is missing??

In the forums, 5 clicks gets me into a "troubleshooting" or "tech support" thread for a game. Each of those has "follow this topic" button at the top.
-So what functionality is missing??

The only thing missing at the time of this thread starting is convenience, unless I am missing something.

bethjunkie wrote: Well for one thing, it appears to be no longer possible to search a file thread. Say I download "Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod" which happens to be full of notes and hidden triggers. Moto failed to give a detailed walkthrough anywhere in the download and now I'm stuck on a ledge in a dark cave with a locked gate shut behind me and no way to get down. Surely there must be a switch hidden in a rock or something but I can't find it to save my life.

Normally I would go to the forum page for Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod and search keywords such as cave and go through the results that pop up to see if someone has posted the solution to my dilemma. If they have, I find the result, go back into the game, hit the switch and go on to collect fat loot.

If I'm the first dummy to get stuck on that ledge, I go onto the mod comment page and post my troubles there hoping someone has the answer to reply to me. There are players who like helping people. Maybe they'll peek in and give me a hand.
Problem now is that Moto's Big Fat Quest Mod was a hugely popular mod six years ago and while it has 7,280 posts on the page, Moto hasn't been around in three years and the last 593 posts in the thread are all people with various issues related to incompatibilities with other mods, ctds due to missing required files and that one guy who thinks Moto's voice acting sucks and he should go do naughty things to himself. We hate that guy but I digress.

I spend the next hour and a half trudging through post after post, page after page, trying to find someone who's had the same issue. My eyes cross, words bleed together, I end up randomly clicking through pages hoping for the best. Never find what I'm looking for.

I post a help thread in Mod troubleshooting or Mod Talk but the game is eight years old and all the players are interested in the new shiny. My topic gets maybe eight views in a week. Nobody is coming, nobody cares.

Finally I decide Moto's mod sucks and I will uninstall it and never use any of his crap again! But Moto's mod doesn't suck, I had the answer to the puzzle in my inventory the whole time and a player actually posted this bit of info buried inside a thousand word essay on page 475 of the mod comments but I will never know this. Meanwhile Moto goes on to make the world's greatest mod for the next game which I never give a chance because I forever associate Moto with that stupid dark ledge of doom.

Dark0ne wrote: Click "view forum thread" in a file comment topic, type in what you want to search for in the top-right hand corner and press enter. Thread search runs and works.

That's actually how it always worked and the file upload forums were always hidden to the general forum search functionality unless you were in that specific thread (for example, before these changes, if you searched for a term on the forums it would never find terms in threads in the file upload forums as they were specifically hidden from the search functionality).

So in that regard, nothing has changed at all.

The search doesn't work now. I tried on three different files before making that post and it never brings up any results. Go here to this mod and search the topic for the word "punga". Punga is clearly written in four posts on the first page alone but the search comes up with nothing

In the Shadow of the Swamp


Edit: Removed giant image since fixed.

Dark0ne wrote: Try now. I wasn't aware of this issue as it was working on my admin account. Didn't even think to check it on a normal account.

Might mean the comments forum will have to be open after all, not that that's particularly useful as every single file comment topic is in the same forum...

bethjunkie wrote: Yes, it is working now when I am signed in but still not working if you're not signed in and since the forum sign isn't hooked to the game sites login, it will remain broken for many users.

Thank you for fixing this :)

drithius wrote: Yep, this derailed me as well; I thought the new structure had completely broken searching within a mod's pages. At minimum, need to display a popup stating a login requirement.

AaronOfMpls wrote: Yup, searching within comment threads is also working for me again, as long as I'm logged in. Comment threads are also showing up in forum search results, "Content You Follow", and "<username>'s Content" again, too -- and the forums still aren't lagging like last week! :D

Thanks, Robin!

lmstearn wrote: Back in business then. Thanks! :)

Yes! They are working again, and thanks for finding a way to revive this functionality without reviving the horrid forum response times.

I gather it took a surgeon's scalpel to do this. Furthermore, I know it wasn't an easy task or it would have been done this way in the first place.

I imagine the first effort was (after what, days, weeks?), "I have narrowed it down to this part of the forum code, but it's way too complicated to narrow it down any further." But with the complaints, you decided to actually dive into the mess and figure out if you could actually separate this functionality from the actual issue - and you have.

So many thanks to you for taking the time to sort through the mess and remove the tumor without sacrificing too much of the tissue around it! :)

[MistakenMystic]

With the change in forum structure, I'm assuming this also had the flow on effect of making the older style links of: <gamename>.nexusmods.com to now not work. Is it possible to have a site(s) wide search/replace to fix those links or will it be up to mod authors/maintainers to make those changes?

[MotoSxorpio]

With the change in forum structure, I'm assuming this also had the flow on effect of making the older style links of: <gamename>.nexusmods.com to now not work. Is it possible to have a site(s) wide search/replace to fix those links or will it be up to mod authors/maintainers to make those changes?

Robin stated earlier that DNS issues will be worked out later. I haven't had an issue with any bookmark or hyperlink that includes an older version of URL except the old TESnexus Urls...