Community Manager JustThatKing Posted January 292025 Community Manager Posted January 292025 We are making changes to parts of the site that have not been updated for over a decade. This is part of our ongoing plan to improve your website experience when browsing or searching for content. To see the updated pagessimply click the "Join Beta" button on the banner at the top of the changed pages and your device will be opted in. The key pages we’re focusing on for feedback are the Games and Mods listing pagesas well as Game homepages. We have also released an early version of our new quick searchthis is limited to mods for nowbut we’ll follow up with further updates to include all content types. While there are some minor styling updates across the rest of the sitethese pages have the most significant updates and are our main focus. As part of the new updatewe are removing the left and right side adverts on the new pages. Whilst adverts are a key part of what keeps the lights onwe felt this was the right move to try to improve free users' experience. Why Update Now? One of our key goals this year has been transitioning to a modern site architecture. The current system is challenging to maintainslowing feature development and innovation. Moving to a new framework enables us to improve the user experienceexperiment with new featuresand keep pace with the evolving needs of the modding community. While this transition temporarily mixes old and new designsit’s a necessary step toward a better site. Key Improvements A More Consistent Experience Any site that’s been worked on for over 10 years will inevitably accumulate design and technical inconsistencies—think mismatched button stypographyand colour schemes. While subtlethese details make the site feel less polished. This refresh introduces a new design systemstandardising the fundamentals of our colour palettetypography hierarchyiconographyspacings and grids. These foundations underpin reusable components (e.g.buttonsformstags)making the site more consistent and easier to update. With this system in placewe can focus on solving problems and building new features instead of fixing small UI details. Easier Mod Discovery We’ve started with updates to browsing and searching for modsincluding improvements to game pages and mod listings. Filters on the mods listing page are now always visiblemaking them quicker to use. The UI should be clearer to read making it easier to scan through multiple mods. Nextwe’re enhancing search to let you find content across all typesincluding usersfor a more intuitive experience. Improved Accessibility We believe modding should be for everyone. This refresh prioritises accessibilityensuring the site is easy to perceivenavigateand interact with for all users. Updates include: Support for screen readersVisually accessible coloursReadable typographyFlexible input methods. By following standards like WCAG we’re creating a site that isn’t just inclusive but also easier and more enjoyable for everyone. Refining the User Experience Nexus Mods has grown immenselyadding features that make it what it is today. Howeverthere are areas to improve and simplify while keeping the features long-time users love. We’ve approached these updates thoughtfullyaiming to balance simplicity and functionality for a diverse community. This is a challenge! We won’t always get things right the first time — this is an iterative process of improvements — but your feedback helps us refine and improve. What’s Next? The next big update focuses on search improvementsmaking it easier to find the mods and content you’re looking for. We’re also working on an overhaul of the mod pagethis is a much larger chunk of work that we’ll aim to ship later in the year. We’ll continue to share our progress and welcome your feedback along the way. How to give feedback We are looking for feedback on the following pages: Game Home Page Game Listing Page Mods Listing Page If you have feedback for usplease use these forms: General Feedback Quick Search Please ensure that you have ad-blockers disabledas they will interfere with the feedback pop-ups that gather your feedback. Whilst we love talking through all of your feedback on the Forums or on Discordwe don't make any guarantees we will see it if it is posted there. We are primarily collecting feedback through site usage metrics and the popup surveys found on each of the pages. 14 4 2 13
Qrsr Posted February 42025 Posted February 42025 I wish you add the option to let mod authors merge their modsi have alot of mods i would rather combine to reduce clutter. 2 2
Glitchfinder Posted February 42025 Posted February 42025 1 minute agolilebonymace said: Your two survey links to https://surveys.hotjar.com/ don't load for meeven with a VPN. That site is on a lot of blacklists because it is used to track user data and metrics for advertising purposes. I would need to disable my ad blockers to load it. 1
Karna5 Posted February 42025 Posted February 42025 As someone extremely visually impaired (I'm legally blind)the new color scheme is slightly better. Thanks for that. It was helpful you let me toggle back and forth between Classic and Beta to compare them carefullyand while reading remains absurdly difficult for me (my vision problem not your issue)I can confirm that the beta scheme does help marginally. Againthanks. Post Script: Oh my goshthe new "Endorse" button on image share is so much better than Classic I could almost cry with delight. With the classic version I simply couldn't see if I endorsed a page and often un-endorsed by accident because I couldn't see the difference between "Endorse" and "Endorsed" Nowwith Betathe Button changes color from dark gray to yellow! Oh thank you! I no longer have to read but can use visual cues. 2
AndalayBay Posted February 42025 Posted February 42025 Immediately switched back to classic. Everything is too big and all I care about are the top mods lists and the updates to mods I'm following and my mods. 3
ElderScrollsManic Posted February 42025 Posted February 42025 9 minutes agoAndalayBay said: Immediately switched back to classic. Everything is too big and all I care about are the top mods lists and the updates to mods I'm following and my mods. I second this statement. I'll keep Beta enabled for the time being since I won't be actively adding or removing many things during this playthrough anyhow. ThoughI tend to almost exclusively use the 'Updated' and 'Top Mods' information and sort the pages according to it. Collections are useless for me to seeso an option to disable them entirely would work great. I understand the desire to promote the Premium feature of Nexus as wellso I won't complain much about that -- but must it be shoved between the Hot Mods and sorting list section? If you've removed the side panel ads (which I never see anywaysdue to using ad-blockers and VPN on occasionetc etc)why not have the Premium somewhere along the sides instead? Rather than wasting your real estatemake use of it. GrantedI'm sure many would rather it be entirely removedbut againI understand the desire to promote it. 2
Elianora Posted February 42025 Posted February 42025 1 hour agoGlitchfinder said: I feel like I'm just repeating feedback that's already been givenbut this is my first impression of the new game page: Spoiler 1 hour agoCrystan said: Also for someone who doesn't really use collectionit would be great if we could hide or move this section below the More Mods sections. Alternativelyyou could make it a tab/filter in the More Mods section (like UpdatedPopularSurprise - see attachment) or find another spot where it doesn't interrupt the flow of the page. I understand the need for having a spot for it but atleast for meit's a disturbance in the flow and overview. Spoiler Just adding my +1 to some of these points. Glitchfinder is right about the game banner and stats taking up a lot of space so you have to scroll more "to get to the good stuff". Also the Popular Collections will forever be the same twoso it's fairly pointlessand I really like Crystan's suggestion about adding it to the More Mods section after Surprise! 2 hours agoSboob said: There's too much wasted space in the new design. The area highlighted in the screenshot should be condensed. Spoiler Basically same as Glitchfinder said. It takes up A LOT OF space just to let us know how many mods and collections there are and we can already see which game we're browsing from the top left corner. I went to Paint to see if I could find a better spot for the info but I am no web designer and it my version is kinda crappy.. xD Spoiler 1 1
Karna5 Posted February 42025 Posted February 42025 I extremely dissent from complaints that the new page layout has wasted space or is too big. I took a screen shot and marked some reasons I love the new layout. There is no wasted space. The text is uncluttered. The buttons are much larger than before and easier to find. Againthank you. 1
LewisElementary Posted February 42025 Posted February 42025 There are lots to say: I couldn't find the pops-up survey on each page. Yes I open them but nothing happenso I write my feedback here... The dark theme isn't perfect. There is some flashy light in the background that make them greyer than darker. Which is harder to read. Alsothe font text in Post/Comment and other page aren't perfectly whitein contract to the grey background I critic. For accessibilityit would be better we have "light theme" and a better colour contrast between the black/white and orange/red. Most of the description were written with the old dark colour in mind for visibility and accessibility as well. Now since the background has change but not the descriptionit breaks their visibility and hard to read. That goes the same for the default link colour. It was redand we all make the rule of NOT using this colour to avoid confusionthus to improve accessibility. Now they are orangeso old description that use this orange colourpeople will think it's a link... but it's not. Please don't highlight "Popular Collection". I'm on The Witcher 3 and every day I have to tell "don't use popular mod because they are outdated". That goes to Collectionthey are likely old/outdated/overused that hide recent and good collection that perfectly follow the today tendency. What I suggest it taking the same algorithm as "Hot Mods". Meaning one collection is created and if it took enough endorse/voteit is temporally highlightedand then never showcase. To add more about collectionsdon't hide how much collection. I visit every time a new collection is createdso I gave feedback (mostly saying if it properly follows the game version or would break it). (AlsoI write a mod list as well which is not a collection... so having bigger advertise to collection than my mod listthat's not very nice of you...) remove the "New Today" and "New Week". That's a good thing. But removing the "Tracked Content Update". ABSOLUTELY NOT!! I use it to see comments of hundred modsthat's how I'm very active and always reply. PLEASE BRING BACK "Tracked Content Update"! The quick search is bigger. Goodbut... Would you please sort the quick search as "Last Updated". Not as "Download". Or at least gave the possibility to sort the order. On The Witcher 3 and the majority of gamesit's a problem to take "popular" mods that are easily old/outdated/overrated modsthus hidden visibility to recent and better mods. 3 1
