User Feedback/Suggestion to improve uninstaller

[Nawktis]

Hello there,

I recently started to get back into SSE+Modding it and wanted to share my experience with having used the Vortex Software.
In that context, I do hope this is the appropriate place to give you guys feedback on things to improve.

I really liked the Design and simple functionality approach, especially how the sorting groups are being visualized tickled my slightly autistic fancy. It's a great little tool to have some nerdy fun while setting up your Installation of Skyrim.
I would like to note that the setting to auto deploy mods on installation should probably be turned off by default Or maybe a tickbox in the installation process if you want to make it optional for some reason.
It can cause a great loss of time for inexperienced users, like me, who might not understand what exactly this setting does right away. It really seems like a thing that would mainly be used by people who have already established their mods into a completed collection and want to add new ones. If you're chain-installing mods, which you likely are in a fresh installation, it's seems like a waste of time to redeploy after every mod and halting progression on further installation of mods. In that same vein, I was unable to intuitively find a way to queue multiple mod installations even after watching some of Gophers videos explaining these processes. I'm scrolling on a table, just let me select multiple rows or colums and do things with all of them collectively.

After getting everything to run for the first time I stumbled on some problems with load order arrangement and, while I initially praised how the groups work I feel like there really are some problems with dependencies and rules that need ironing out. They just don't end up working as one would expect them to, and while some of this misunderstanding might be at the users own fault "always load after/before" just seems like a very dangerous kind of rule to give out to people you don't even trust to manually edit the load order created by your LOOT integration. And obviously that's just going to create more failed attempts when manually editing load order is so ridiculously complicated as to open a data sheet and edit a sorting index in a table that isn't even automatically sorting or reflecting the changes properly.
I created a post on reddit detailing some the problems I faced here: https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/a8s0yb/problems_with_load_order_sorting_in_vortex/

 

Ultimately, all of this lead me to uninstall Vortex after Migrating the deployed files into MO2's external mod folder without having to re-install things like custom animations, meshes or Skeletons so I was pretty pleased at how you made it relatively easier to stop using your program when compared to starting to use it, considering that's what I wanted to do at this point.

Now, one last gripe was that my 28 GB of mods in the Vortex directory were left on my harddrive even after uninstalling and without an option to "remove all optional files/all remaining Mods from the Vortex directory together with Vortex". This combined with the idea to make the default Vortex directory in Appdata/roaming/vortex, which is a hidden folder in at least Windows 10 by default, and therefore totally invisible to people with less tech-skills and especially hard to track when you wouldn't even expect to necessarily look for the directory of an already uninstalled program that could hold well over 20 GB.

Now, I hope this doesn't sound all bad - I genuinely think if this concept has some of it's kinks fleshed out the user experience can easily be more versatile with other games and more accessible to less devoted modders(especially compared to other tools like MO2 and NMM which still seem to be widely used and are quite difficult to understand at first?) but right now it just falls short on some core functionality issues when compared to the easily available alternative MO2.

Happy Holidays!