Various Nexus related things from the Skyrim SE launch aftermath

[paulboontjes]

In response to post #43702785. #43703270, #43704190, #43704300, #43704350, #43704675, #43704695, #43706040, #43706800, #43707350 are all replies on the same post.

MickyFoley wrote: To all, complaining sarcastic & ironic about the downtime:
At 99,9%, all of you don't have this nice, shiny, green text for saying: "Hey, at least I supported the Nexus and so I can text my sadness about the downtime." This would at least be reasonable & understandable. But the service is for free. No, you don't need to support anyone. But just understand, that there are limits.

Limits, maybe not that fast broken if more people would support them. More servers, better speeds. Well, I stop here. I think, you got the message.

phell666 wrote: Amen! I couldn't say it better :D

zcul wrote: Right :thumbsup:

badkrma wrote: +1 :) this site isn't for the irrational but the enthusiast

kidshxt wrote: lol exactly.

BlueGunk wrote: +1 from me!

kapy1049 wrote: I didnt disable my ads so I can support them. $_$

luvboox wrote: I've used the site so much over the years I realized I couldn't NOT go premium. It was really overdue to be honest. A big thanks to everyone involved, both Nexus site folks and wonderful modders. Aside from a little immaturity/drama from a small percentage of users, I think Nexus has one of the best communities on the web.

mbmirkwood wrote: Well said. I don't have the super shiny green tag you guys have, but I do what I can! My blood was starting to boil here at the people being rude and demanding. I needed your post just now to restore my faith. Thanks!

piotrmil wrote: >At 99,9%,

citation needed

Agreed, those guys doing an awsome job to give us the much needed and wanted mods.
So i went Premium myself, they earn it...even if NMM is down...its because of us and not on there end =]

Keep doin this great job peeps.

[ninjaman001]

so you say I can use it in offline mode but when I add files manually it is prompting me to login before it will add the mod...

[PeterMartyr]

What wrong with me, I want this to happen, cus to me it just means it's alive & well, just having a tsunami ATM tho. :D

 

Nice to see you have Extreme Weather Plan in place in case of Flooding.

[utilityzero]

I am just curious, has this happened before? Like, did it happen when Fallout 4 released? Is this something we can expect to happen again?

 

Also, is it possible to get a sticky of the announcement of the closure, and any updates to the site's status so we don't have to sift through 13 pages to find it, especially since this thread is likely to grow.

Edited October 29, 2016 by utilityzero

[blakegilmore]

In response to post #43699300. #43699650, #43699820 are all replies on the same post.

Dark0ne wrote: Hi folks,

As most of you know, Skyrim Special Edition was released on Friday and naturally, a lot of people are clamouring to get mods for the game. Skyrim has always been our most popular game on Nexus Mods and the release of the Special Edition has seen an unprecedented amount of users access our site over the past 36 hours. There are currently 16,500 people online this Saturday afternoon (in the UK) when, on a normal Saturday, it would be around 8,500 people. As you can imagine, our web servers are taking a hammering. Thankfully our download CDN is extremely responsive to these sorts of short-term bursts and it's happily pumping out 15 Gbit of traffic to people downloading mods from the site and counting.

Our previous highest simultaneous user count was back during the Fallout 4 launch at around about the 13,000 mark. With 16,500 users currently online right now at a time that isn't even peak time (peak time being 7-9pm GMT when both the EU and US are online at the same time), I think we're heading to loftier heights yet. Saturday also isn't our busiest day, Sunday is. It's going to be an interesting weekend...

The reason why I'm telling you all this is to manage your expectations of this site over the weekend. Demand for Skyrim mods is obviously ridiculously high right now as many people are coming back to the game and starting on a fresh install. We're doing better than we have done in the past, for sure, and we're carefully shuffling our limited resources around to try and optimise things as much as possible. If the site is slow for you, bear with us. Similarly, if you get a bit of "maintenance" downtime or the like, please, bear with us. We've got staff monitoring the situation 24/7 right now in shifts to make sure we keep on top of it, but we can only manage and shuffle so much before things get overloaded.

Lastly, if things get too bad, we'll have to shut off the NMM services (and potentially other services). While NMM is important to us, it requires a crazy amount of resources to keep up and running and if we find it's affecting the performance of the site too much (to the point the sites aren't able to load) then we'll shut NMM login and download services off until things cool down. You'll still be able to use NMM offline, and install mods manually (download the mod to your hard-drive, then drag and drop the mod from your hard-drive to NMM), you just won't be able to login and download files from within NMM until such time as we turn the services back on.

You don't need to tell us when you can't login or download via NMM because we know, we're the ones who did it! If you see people asking why NMM isn't working for them on our Discord or on the forums, please direct them to this news post for clarification.

Lastly, we're aware of a few minor issues on the Skyrim SE site right now. First, we know the favicon is the wrong colour. You don't need to continue letting us know! Second, we're aware of an issue with the categories on Skyrim SE getting a bit...muddled. This was due to a mistake we made before launching the site. We believe we've corrected it, but some of your mods might currently be in the wrong category. Sorry about that, please move it back to the right category for your mod at your convenience. Because of all these category changes, NMM users might find that the categories they see in NMM don't match with the categories on the site. When you see a category mismatch in NMM, click the Category menu button and select "Categories: Update and reset to Nexus site defaults". This will fix the issue for you.

Thank you for your patience during this time, and the support being offered from many of you.

TKHBMVP wrote: Thanks for the heads up, Dark0ne, I can imagine your environment gets under a new stress test this days ;-)
But it is amazing how fast new mods converted and provisioned already and once the new CK will be available next week, I can imagine the load on Nexus will continue for the next weeks.
Modders may also need a heads up that their new files may not be immediately available for NMM to download as far as the title of the mod is still in white letters. I saw a few getting nervous when users complaining not be able to download their new files.
Just my 2 cents.

Gunzle wrote: You folks are doing a great job, thank you so much for all of the hard work you put in to provide us with the Nexus, the best thing to happen in home entertainment gaming since Pong!

Thanks for the clarification, I was freaking out because it won't let me log into nmm and i thought it was my computers fault lol.
First time modder so i'm a little slow. I got a few downloaded but with so many people on no wonder i keep getting that its offline! Keep up the good work, you guys and modders are awesome

[Gymper]

In response to post #43700200.

Kharpool wrote: Ah ha! Now I get why I was having issues. Thanks for the update. :)

When I try to manually download, I keep getting the message:

"You need to be a member and logged in to download files larger than 2Mb in size."

I am a member and logged in. No joy. Any help?

[blakegilmore]

Thanks for the clarification, I was freaking out because it won't let me log into nmm and i thought it was my computers fault lol.

First time modder so i'm a little slow. I got a few downloaded but with so many people on no wonder i keep getting that its offline! Keep up the good work, you guys and modders are awesome

[JoelTheGypsy129]

In response to post #43708255.

ninjaman001 wrote:

so you say I can use it in offline mode but when I add files manually it is prompting me to login before it will add the mod...

maybe sign in and say stay offline?

[Nickname863]

In response to post #43708385.

utilityzero wrote:

I am just curious, has this happened before? Like, did it happen when Fallout 4 released? Is this something we can expect to happen again?

 

Also, is it possible to get a sticky of the announcement of the closure, and any updates to the site's status so we don't have to sift through 13 pages to find it, especially since this thread is likely to grow.

Sure it happened before and it will happen again (because estimating the amount of users that will visit the website on special occasions like a skyrim se release is not really possible.). If you scroll down the news you probably will be able to see when nexus couldn't handle the load.
BUT with the addition of the CDN the site runs much better and the downloads actually work. And i am sure that the People running the nexus prepared for the release of Skyrim SE.

[MickyFoley]

In response to post #43702785. #43703270, #43704190, #43704300, #43704350, #43704675, #43704695, #43706040, #43706800, #43707350, #43708185 are all replies on the same post.

MickyFoley wrote: To all, complaining sarcastic & ironic about the downtime:
At 99,9%, all of you don't have this nice, shiny, green text for saying: "Hey, at least I supported the Nexus and so I can text my sadness about the downtime." This would at least be reasonable & understandable. But the service is for free. No, you don't need to support anyone. But just understand, that there are limits.

Limits, maybe not that fast broken if more people would support them. More servers, better speeds. Well, I stop here. I think, you got the message.

phell666 wrote: Amen! I couldn't say it better :D

zcul wrote: Right :thumbsup:

badkrma wrote: +1 :) this site isn't for the irrational but the enthusiast

kidshxt wrote: lol exactly.

BlueGunk wrote: +1 from me!

kapy1049 wrote: I didnt disable my ads so I can support them. $_$

luvboox wrote: I've used the site so much over the years I realized I couldn't NOT go premium. It was really overdue to be honest. A big thanks to everyone involved, both Nexus site folks and wonderful modders. Aside from a little immaturity/drama from a small percentage of users, I think Nexus has one of the best communities on the web.

mbmirkwood wrote: Well said. I don't have the super shiny green tag you guys have, but I do what I can! My blood was starting to boil here at the people being rude and demanding. I needed your post just now to restore my faith. Thanks!

piotrmil wrote: >At 99,9%,

citation needed

paulboontjes wrote: Agreed, those guys doing an awsome job to give us the much needed and wanted mods.
So i went Premium myself, they earn it...even if NMM is down...its because of us and not on there end =]

Keep doin this great job peeps.

@mbmirkwood: You're a supporter, so you did something important :). Nobody is forced to pay 50€ or 60€ (sorry, I won't convert it exactly nor other currencies) but: Even a tiny amount - if you can afford it - helps.

The best thing at situations like this & someone may not be able to support with money (there are many damn good reasons for it - more importance at feeding your family, for example): Patience and keeping calm. Thanking the developers and team of Nexus. You can buy many things, but - for example - no honest "Thank You".

I really appreciate you thanking for my post :). I see many people agreeing, I'm not that wrong with it. So I'll thank all of the supporters of my post :).