Site redesign - 2016 Update #1

[DavidJCobb]

Some feedback, as someone who wasted two days rifling through the site's current code:

 

Please use CSS3 flex, even if you have to totally abandon browsers that don't support it. I spent a couple of days building a mobile reskin for myself (which is unfinished and therefore private), and converting the terribad float-based styles and pixel sizes to flex and em sizes made a world of difference. Keep in mind that HTML was originally intended to help people publish essays and academic papers on the web, and floats are the latest in a long line of hideous and broken hacks that have been used to coerce that model into powering the website layouts we're familiar with today. With CSS3 flex, us developers finally have a tool that was designed and intended for making layouts.

 

Also, the wireframes in this post aren't much to go on. Sites that try to show off ten different kinds of content on the home page are always going to have cluttered, barely-usable, and generally unpleasant homepages. It's an inevitability of trying to cram so much onto a single page. A home page wireframe is probably the least useful thing in showing off how a site will feel. Wireframes and drafts of other pages (e.g. search, recent uploads, a mod page) would be much more representative of how the new layout will feel.

Edited April 11, 2016 by DavidJCobb

[PonceMonster]

Seriously I do hope you let us organize our tracking centre into our own categories. Cause if you don't, all the worthless effort I wasted to take my time with this shitty internet trying to load a single f*#@ing page of a mod just to f*#@ing track it for Christ's sake.

[PonceMonster]

In response to post #36147665.

moho25 wrote:

@BlindJudge -- Not sure if you're still keeping an eye on this thread or not, but just in case...

 

Any word on when the general community can get an update on functionality improvements in progress? Aesthetics are great (and obviously show a certain amount of these changes) but the site has long been in need of improvements to searching, tagging, and filtering capabilities.

 

Example: I'm a native English speaker. I'd like to block any mod not available in English, as I'd never use it. However, if I add all languages but English to my block list, this will block any mod tagged with those languages regardless of whether it is also tagged with English. As SkyUI, has tags for many languages, it will get blocked in this scenario.

 

Essentially, the site's tagging/blocking system isn't smart enough or customizable enough. With Skyrim at... what... something like 60K mods, it's pretty imperative users can blacklist everything and anything they know they aren't going to be interested in (or whitelist everything they know they are). Doing so makes navigating through all the remaining mods that much easier. Right now, I don't even use the blocking system, as I've had too many bad experiences with it blocking content I end up wanting to see. No system will be perfect, but the existing system needs improvement.

 

When might we expect a news post covering these types of functionality changes?

Bear with it friend, guys at nexus knew what they were doing, they just needed the money before they could push for all this. Lot's of the moving around of things would have had to have gone about and it was best that they'd have hired a professional to keep things in line. There were definitely flaws at first and it wasn't always enough to complain but you need not worry about the things that go on about on this website, try not to stress about it, they'll get this website running anew, and you can certainly count on that!

[PonceMonster]

Oh and one more suggestion. Sometimes the mod authors aren't exactly active all that much, and so, when there are questions and we simply add a comment, I don't exactly get a notification on that. I feel like you should add another notification section, that features all replies on comments, and multiple conditionals, like mod author replies or something of the sort. Please do take my suggestions into consideration, I know that I am not one of the many people who make suggestions and help you guys with the site redesign, but I am sure that you would understand my paranoia, knowing that these people might not actually have the same rational problems and predicaments that I often find myself in.

 

 

 

All else...

 

I've said this before, that I've said that I have many mods tracked and I can't actually view those in categories that I would naturally rearrange myself. Of course that's a feature that a dedicated player would do with his many lists of mods, and that would be a nice addition. As well as the option, to make various different image compilations, and mod compilations, just so I know what I will be going to do when I get my new graphics card, and get my pc connected to the internet.

 

And obviously, if it could eventually be integrated so that you can download all mods at once, into a quick simple easy list. And then, if I could make my own categorizing on the load order, and also full backwards compatibility with steam load order, making any change otherwise, to be absolute, in all matters applied.

 

And also, as steam is what allows you to make screen shots, I would like to know that I could have my images from both my nexus profile and my steam account. Of course, I would like to have it so that I get to decide which account is absolute over another. Since, my steam account isn't particularly mine, and mine only, I would have my nexus account contain all my photos, instead of steam. And also, a private linkage between accounts, which is optional.

 

Anyways, not too many requests there, but I understand if you don't want to really take it in consideration, for whatever reason, at all. I just needed to get everything here, just so you can read it.