New Site Index - Day 3

[Riprock]

The mods are the whole backbone of this site. Respectfully, I'm not asking "Why the changes?" I'm asking "why the changes that take the focus away from the mods?"

[clintster74]

@ The staff of Nexus what I’m about to say maybe rude, crude and socially unacceptable, and I hope I don’t get the boot for it; it is in the long run in your favor.

I was and still am not happy with the new lay out on the home page, it is better than it first was. I had made “specific recommendations” and they had been seconded on the first thread of the new lay out.

 

Here is a revised specific recommendation.

1. Keep the hot file big revolving pic were it is.

2. Keep the new hot file list were it is, that part of the revised new home page I like.

3. Move the latest files back under the hot files. Same size as the new hot file list.

4. Move the latest images under the latest files. Same size as the new hot files list

5. Shorten the length of the Your feeds to accommodate.

6. Put the mods of the month up were the latest files are now.

7. For premium and supporter members put site news under file of the month for all others use it for advertising.

 

Now on to Buddah’s last comment:

Thank you, you have made things a lot clearer on the why of the new lay out. I fully understand resource management; I deal with it every day in my job and it can be a b-i-t-c-h to cram 10lb of marital in a 5lb bucket.

 

@ The community in general:

I see a lot of complaining, griping, moaning and growing and very little of it with any specific recommendations.

 

And most of it from members that do not support the nexus, and yes I do mean with a paid subscription. Out of the last 40comments, three were by a moderator, eight my premium members and one by a supporter. That leaves twenty eight comment/complaints from none supporting members.

 

This site is free, free, free and I believe due to legal reasons it has to stay that way.

I used the nexus for two or three months before getting an account and then couple more months before going “LIFE TIME PREMIUM” I did this because this is the best (bar none) site on the net for user to get mods for the games we play, as authors to post our mods, and for new mod authors to get help. I have made friends around the world through this site some that I am in e-mail contact with on a near daily bases and it started with one of us asking a question on how to do something in the CS/GECK/CK. I am continually working with several modders new and old last month I wrought four tutorials and received two all for free and because of the Nexus.

 

I see a lot of new modders asking for donations for their work, and yet they have not supported the very site that is hosting their work and offering a link for them to receive a donation, to me this is rude and inconsiderate and yet they complain about the site.

 

So to all of you who complain about the lay out, down load speeds, the way things are run in general and do not support this site PUT UP OR SHUT UP. You want to ask for a donation for your work how about supporting the site that is supporting you, you want to see changes to things that you don’t like then support this site. Dark0ne and the staff of this site get no pay for their time and they put a lot of it in to this site and are doing the best they can with the limited resource they have.

 

Clintster74

Mod user

Mod author

Premium supporter of the Nexus

 

 

Edited July 8, 2012 by clintster74

[reelo2228]

I did a quick editing of the layout with MSpaint that i think would be better.

 

1. take away the side column of "Latest Images" and "Latest Files" as they are already included in the tab, and the tab view is better :thumbsup:

2. Expand the tab views to the left, since the "Latest Images" and "Latest Files" spaces are left unused.

3. move the Advert the bottom, right next to the "Mods of the Month".

 

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu189/reelo2228/layout.jpg

[redwes]

I suggest adding an additional Hot File. ;) If you slightly decrease the width of the picture, there's plenty room of for it and it'll get rid of the blank space.

[reelo2228]

@redwes, or just add another square ratio-ed advert at the bottom for finance sake :D

[dwil00]

I do like the new layout. I do have one bug I'd like to report. For some reason when I click on Files/New Files Today I have 2 New Files sections with the same mods. Then I have the Edited Files like normal.

Just FYI.

[kuddlesworth9419]

the new layout has gltched out for me the latest files area and the images and most popular have all gone to the side and i'm missing some stuff

[killergrimm]

I have the same bug as dwil00.The New Files section is shown twice but the Edited files are like normal.

[leapinglizard]

while we are talking site main page improvements :)

 

1 . It would be nice to have a pause button on the hot files rotating image. The images rotate quite fast making it very difficult to read the mod description especially if its more than 1 or two lines. Also think you can fit one more hot file pic on the right hand side.

 

2. I think there is still room to go up a font size in the right side boxes.

 

3. Do article posters avatars need to be like bullets ? Moving the article text left so its immediately below the avatar would give more room for more article text. For me a draw back to to current system is that site news now only gives you 2 lines of the article before you have to click on "read more". 2 lines is not enough to make a decision on whether the article is worth it to read. (not that they are not good articles, its just that I dont have time to read them all so need to be selective) Moving text below the avatar would at-least give the summary page 5 or so more words per article.

 

Noted that mod author articles now allow more text lines before "read more" thanks for that !

Edited July 8, 2012 by leapinglizard

[d181sp1]

Please, please, please add a "RANDOM FILE" button. It's an outstanding way to discover older files buried deep within the site. Before the initial site overhaul there was a Greasemonkey script that filled that role. It doesn't work anymore and I found so many hidden treasures that way.

 

Please consider the request and thanks for all your hard work and founding this community for us.

 

Later