Millionth member milestone

Today, the 1st of May 2009, TESNexus has hit the one millionth member milestone. This means that in the past 6 years over one million people have registered on this site and the sites before it to download files, upload files, leave comments, post images and interact on our forums. This is a proud achievement for me; to see this community continue to thrive and grow and for modders to continue to release awesome work on this site is a real honour. Over the past 8 years the sites have served o...

Yet another "we're banning you because you can't read" news post

I'm still getting reports almost daily in my inbox about people thinking they've been banned unfairly for rating down mods, leaving abusive and unconstructive comments or just generally being a nuisance. There are numerous warnings posted on the site and available within the terms and conditions that everyone has to agree to before they can post or make ratings on the site and I'm begrudgingly taking the time out of doing other more productive things, like adding new features to the site, to wri...

Millionth member modding competition

The Nexus sites are very close to hitting the million member milestone which is an exciting achievement for myself and the other staff here at the Nexus. We started accumulating members back in July of 2003 when Morrowind Source was launched and the site has been receiving a steady flow of new members each day since then. The millionth member milestone is greatly coveted by me. As the owner of the site it makes me proud to see so many people registering to make use of the site's features and...

Second file server now available

Thanks to the very kind donations put forward by certain individuals of the community recently I have set up a second 100mbit file server located in Dallas for general use. The site is eating through bandwidth at an astonishing rate and last month both sites used over 70 terrabytes (70,000 gigabytes) of bandwidth. Thanks again to all premium members who have made this possible....

Changes to the way files are organised and displayed

The way in which files uploaded to the site are organised, sorted and displayed to both file uploaders and downloads has been changed. Most importantly I have adopted a new category based system for organising the uploaded files that is changable by the owners of the files. There are five file categories. Main files. Files the user actually needs in order for the file to operate properly Updates. Files that are used to update from an old version of the file to a newer version. Optional ...

FileFront closing its doors - Not anymore!!!

EDIT 4/2/2009 by LHammonds - FileFront is no longer being closed as it was re-acquired by the original founders. Popular file-sharing website FileFront is closing its doors in the very near future. Here's the blurb: We regret to inform you that due to the current economic conditions we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront site operations on March 30, 2009. If you have uploaded files, images or posted blogs, or if you would like to download some of your favorite files, please ta...

New premium member only file server added

As per the recent file server consolidation announcement there is now a new Premium Member only server available. Located in Texas, this server has download resuming features enabled and is capable of multi-threaded downloading. I managed to get a good 1mb/sec download speed off the server using the "DownThemAll!" FireFox plugin. Without the plugin I get only 120kb/sec. So if you're a premium member and you're a big downloader then I'd totally recommend the plug-in to you. The London based Pr...

YouTube videos on file pages

Here's something I've been meaning to do for a while! Do you like making videos of your mods to show them off on YouTube, or has someone else made a video using your mod and put it on YouTube for others to see? Instead of cluttering up your file description you can now add links to YouTube videos that are relevant to your files. YouTube videos you add show up in their own tab, next to your images tab, and provide a gallery of simple to operate YouTube videos for people to watch straight off t...

TESNexus records highest trafficked day of all time

In light of the recent server upgrades it seems only fitting that yesterday (Sunday, 8th March) was actually the highest trafficked day of all the site's history, dating back to August 2001. The last record was held by TESSource on the 5th of April 2006 (just after the launch of Oblivion) where the site clocked an impressive 75,489 unique visitors. Yesterday set the record at 76,396 unique visitors and only stands to confirm the longetivity of Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series, and...

File server issues and consolidation

When it rains, it pours! I am aware of the current issues with the file servers for both TESNexus and FO3Nexus. This is a completely unrelated issue to the down-time and work that went on yesterday and revolves around a financial move by myself to consolidate the current servers. Several ISPs are currently in a price war with their 100mbit unmetered services that has brought prices right down. As a result TESNexus and FO3Nexus are being taken down to 1 file server each, along with an addtiona...

Down-time over

The forums have now been moved on to their own server and I have now entered the phase of tweaking the new setup to better accommodate the situation. Please be patient if problems arise, I am monitoring all the servers in real-time and will be performing various tweaks over the next 24 hours to improve the current setup further....

Expected down-time Wednesday 4th March

As part of plans to stop the recent spate of "IPS Driver" errors I will be moving the forums on to their own dedicated server. As a result all the Nexus sites, including the forums, will be offline tomorrow from 12pm GMT to 6pm GMT while the move takes place. Please be patient during this process; I will update the sites throughout the process should any potential issues arise that require me to leave the sites down for longer....

And you thought installing user made mods was hard?

So it seems the first official downloadable content for Fallout 3 has been released. Titled Operation Anchorage, the official mod is now available for purchase for PC and XBox 360. Apologies for not getting the word out sooner but I'm in the middle of end of module exams for my final year of university and there wasn't an email from Bethesda PR about it (not that I expected one) ... so yeah, no news! Reaction to the DLC seems varied and there are some highly entertaining, if not utterly perpl...

Top 50 and Files of the Month launched

The Top 50 and Files of the Month features are now available for public viewing on Fallout 3 Nexus. These lists help to provide a list of the more popular and well-made mods available for Fallout 3. Please remember that the Top 50 works off of a baysesian mathematical formula that is very different from ranking mods based on their total votes + total rating. Only files with 25 ratings or more are accepted. I had hoped to delay the launch of the top 50 until I had gotten around to completel...

File Server #2 Live

A second file server located in Texas, USA is now live and available to download from for both normal and premium members....

Data Center issues causing problems with the site

It has come to my attention that my main web server provider is having some quite major issues, so much so that even their main website is down for me. For those with a technical mind I haven't gotten around to setting my own name servers up since the site move a couple of weeks back and so my domains DNS reside at my server provider. Since they've gone down the domains no longer route to where they should. Sites affected include the file servers and Fallout 3 Nexus. TESNexus and the forums, ...

Server updates in the pipe, possible down-time and desynch of information

As mentioned in my previous news post the Nexus servers have been under increased processing strain after traffic spiked following the release of the Fallout 3 SDK. The situation is a little more complicated than simply throwing more money at it due to the complex way in which the three sites; TESNexus, FO3Nexus and the forums communicate and share data with each other via a central database system. Today I have updated the databased infastructure on the two web servers to use a new duplicati...

Slow site and fixes coming soon!

Just wanted to let you all know that I am aware that Fallout 3 Nexus is running a little bit slow/hitting errors at the moment. Traffic on the site has hit all time highs of over 70,000 unique visitors and over 600,000 page views daily. Or in other words, 7 page views every second, and the servers are trying hard to cope. I'll be working on fixes over the next 48 hours that will hopefully not require any down-time but in the mean time please bare with me while I work through the hordes desper...

General Fallout 3 info at NMA

Brother None over at NMA Fallout sent me word a couple of weeks back (before I went to China) about some of the general information available over at their site. I promised I would pump it and I'm a bit late I know; but better late than never! Here's the low-down on what they have to offer: A basic character stats guide A Fallout 3 world map An interactive Flash-based Fallout 3 world map complete with secondary locations Interesting item/NPC locations A detailed recruitable followe...

GECK (SDK) released

The GECK (Garden of Eden Creation Kit) was released today. You can download it from the Bethesda website or here at the Nexus. The announcement came from their BLOG site which gives some nice information about it (video tutorials). Have fun!...