Suggestion - New mod status: Outdated, Not maintained

[TheSefer]

Hey there,

 

it would be great if it would somehow possible to mark mods "Outdated" or "Not maintained". Since there is a mod status section already, it might be used for that?

 

Currently old mods either get deleted or set hidden due to authors not able or wanting to maintain a mod any further. Unfortunately a lot of good / great mods get lost this way where a new user might want to pickup the work (if allowed by the creator).

 

regards

Sefer

[Reneer]

"Not maintained" is fine by me.

 

Upon further reflection / thinking about it, any such tags should only be set by the mod author / Caretaker and no one else.

[Arthmoor]

And what if a mod is neither outdated nor unmaintained and is merely "done"? I have problems with any of these suggestions to mark stuff that's not been touched in awhile because that's no indication of anything in a lot of cases. Old mods are just old, they're not broken.

[Zorkaz]

I always add (Unsupported) at the back of the mods title. The downside is that it confuses users.

An automatic description that states what this status means would also be useful.

[Pickysaurus]

I was actually thinking about mods having an "Archived" state the other day. Which would potentially be a more formalised Caretaker program or a state author can put mods into to say they're done with them and no longer want to update/maintain/get notifications about the file.

[HadToRegister]

I always add (Unsupported) at the back of the mods title. The downside is that it confuses users.

An automatic description that states what this status means would also be useful.

 

 

(Unsupported) as in FINISHED, or Unsupported as in just left 'as-is'?

 

If it's the first, it would be less confusing if you used (Finished), instead of Unsupported, because Unsupported sounds like you've quit working on it, and it's possibly buggy.

 

That's the implication I get when I see the word "Unsupported"

 

Whereas "Finished" would clearly imply that the mod is DONE, and there's nothing more to do to it, or work on.

[gnarly1]

I was actually thinking about mods having an "Archived" state the other day. Which would potentially be a more formalised Caretaker program or a state author can put mods into to say they're done with them and no longer want to update/maintain/get notifications about the file.

Some mod authors just close the comments and sticky a comment to say "development and support of this mod has ceased". Of course, the mod author would still get notifications regarding the mod, unless they can turn those off?

[TheSefer]

"Not maintained" is fine by me. But "outdated" should only be set by the mod author / Caretaker.

 

Both should be set by the author/creator. Everything is better than "hidden" or removed. So much lovely and hard work gone for "nothing". I appreciate every previous author and give credits appropriately (as far as I can), even in my unpublished work I give credits where its due.

 

 

I always add (Unsupported) at the back of the mods title. The downside is that it confuses users.

An automatic description that states what this status means would also be useful.

 

Thought about it, too. Easiest way to do it now. But nobody or not many people do it this way. We have lost a great mod in NMS because it got set to hidden. Fortunately a user got a recent copy but he hesitates to publish a working version because he cannot see a single kind of information given by the original author (like "license" etc.) and he doesn't respond. This is sad.

 

 

And what if a mod is neither outdated nor unmaintained and is merely "done"? I have problems with any of these suggestions to mark stuff that's not been touched in awhile because that's no indication of anything in a lot of cases. Old mods are just old, they're not broken.

 

This is actually fine. If the mod is considered to be done and still working, there is no need to anything tbh. The problem lies in authors changing mods to hidden because they don't want or cannot update it at the moment because there are no other options.

[KnightShadePrime]

There are other games on this site that have caretaker programs.

It would be nice if this was a formal Nexus process, with the proper descriptors, like you say.

[Pickysaurus]

 

I was actually thinking about mods having an "Archived" state the other day. Which would potentially be a more formalised Caretaker program or a state author can put mods into to say they're done with them and no longer want to update/maintain/get notifications about the file.

Some mod authors just close the comments and sticky a comment to say "development and support of this mod has ceased". Of course, the mod author would still get notifications regarding the mod, unless they can turn those off?

 

 

That's pretty much why the Caretaker is there, because some authors want to turn off notifications and distance themselves from the page they no longer want to look after. If you're the page owner you'll always get alerts about comments while the comments section is open (as it stands). The advantage to the comments staying open on an "Archived" mod is that the community can help each other with problems.