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Latest site updates

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We've made lots of updates to the sites recently. Because quite a few of the changes we make these days are subtle, rather than obvious, here's a run-down.


Notifications

This is the least subtle of the changes we've made recently. We've completely revamped the notifications system on the sites to be much more powerful and useful, especially for mod authors. Notifications are still located in the top bar of the site. If you have notifications you will see a globe symbol with a number next to it which indicates how many new notifications you have.

The new notification system follows a similar style and system more in-line with the way Facebook notifications work, so users of Facebook should recognise the changes easily.

Your site preferences page now contains options that will allow you to customise exactly what you'd like the site to notify you about, or even if you'd like to have the system on at all. These options include:

  • Game specific notifications - whether you'd like notifications to only show for the game you're looking at, or whether you'd like to, for example, receive notifications for updates made to Fallout 3 files while you're browsing the Skyrim Nexus section.
  • The ability to track and receive notifications when other users of the site upload new files or images.
  • Notifications for comments on your files, images and videos.
  • Notifications for files you're tracking, including a separate option to enable or disable notifications for comments made on tracked files.
  • Notifications for new images or videos that people add for your files.
  • Notifications of changes made to your files by other members of your team, or by members of staff


If you would like to track a user you like then there is a new option to do that on user profile pages.

Notifications will now remain on your account even after you've viewed them (new or unread notifications have a lighter grey background to indicate their unread status). They can be removed by clicking the red cross symbol. You can have a maximum of 50 read notifications at any one time, and new notifications will delete the oldest read notifications in the list if you go over 50.

We are open to hearing feedback and ways we can improve this new system, including if there should be any more options to track other sorts of things you could be notified about on the site. What we won't be doing is going back to the old system or running both systems side-by-side so if you're resilient to change I'd save yourself the typing time if you want to suggest that.



Specify your main NMM file

You've probably noticed during your time using a site that has NMM support that some files have a green "Download (NMM)" button in the top section of the file page while some don't have that button and only have the green "Download (Manual)" button. This doesn't necessarily mean that the file doesn't support NMM, more often than not it means that the author has uploaded more than one "main file" and so the option to download through NMM isn't presented as we don't know which file is the main file NMM is supposed to download, and authors often provide multiple main file options (e.g. texture replacers of varying sizes).

We've added a new option for mod authors when managing their uploaded files labelled "Set as main NMM file". If you click this NMM will now know which is the main (MAIN!) file and will show the "Download (NMM)" button on your file page.



VirusTotal improvements

Over the past couple of months we've had a few glitches with the automated VirusTotal virus scanning system. If it took too long or VirusTotal were doing some maintenance then newly uploaded files wouldn't be downloadable until the issue was resolved.

We've now changed the system so that you can download all new files straight away, before the virus scan is complete, but you do so completely at your own risk and the system tells you as such.



Arrow keys on Images

We've update the image gallery on file pages so you can use the arrow keys again.

We are currently rolling out 8 new static content servers to try and resolve the issues with images loading slowly for people.



Spoiler tags in file comments

A long requested feature, the spoiler bbcode tag will now work like it does in the forums. These tags can be used in file/image descriptions as well as file comments.



Action log shows user

File pages contain two action logs. One is a tab, which shows all the actions performed on a file, including things like endorsements. The other is accessible by clicking the little cog icon in the actions bar labelled "logs". This will tell you all the actions performed by just the authors on the file page.

We've made a slight update to this second log that will also tell you who made this edit. This might be helpful for mod teams who all have access to the same file page. If you don't like an edit or want to keep track of the edits being made you can now see exactly who has edited what and when.



Bug fixes

We've also fixed some minor bugs on the site. These include:

  • Fixed several issues with the "Manage other files" system, including the sorting system on that page, issues when you hide the mod, and uploaded images going to the "From users" tab rather than the "From author" tab. Also added a link to "Manage other files" to the "Files" drop-down on the main site navigation.
  • Fixed the pagination on the news archive page and added pagination to the top as well as the bottom of the page.
  • Fixed a few bugs with donating Premium Membership to other users as a gift.
  • Fixed an issue with ordering files by "file size, descending" not working properly.
  • Fixed an issue with certain search terms not returning the correct results when searching in the "mod description" search field e.g. searching for skyrim.ini.




Current To-Do List

Work we've earmarked for the immediate future:

  • Roll out 8 new static content servers (mainly images) to replace the 4 current static content servers. Links should be preserved so if you directly link to one of the current static servers they should still work after this change.
  • The ability to block files/images added by specific authors. If there's an author whose work you're really not a fan of and would rather not see, you can block their work from showing while you browse the site, like tag blocking.
  • The ability to disable emoticons from showing in file comments, for those times when you're referencing code or file paths and emoticons annoyingly replace what you've written.
  • A "remove all" option in the notifications drop-down.
  • A complex bug reporting system for file pages to make use of.

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  1. Brigand231
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    Could the "remove all" button be relocated to somewhere not so near where the X for dismissing a notification appears? When the Nexus is having slow moments or responding sluggishly, notifications don't dismiss instantly and one never knows at what second they'll actually poof or if the X needs to be pressed again.

    If the message removes at/near the same instant one presses the X, sometimes it activates the "remove all" button instead and of course there's no way to recover the lost notices.
  2. shadowjukkis91
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    ok good to know
  3. Jebbalon
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    I sometimes refer to this page for how to use BBcode ... with Spoiler now available, that page could use updating
    Spoiler:  
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    Thank you for adding this to comments, it's very useful!
    1. AaronOfMpls
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      Done, mostly, about a month ago as I type this. It could still use an example of the Spoiler tag
      Spoiler:  
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      probably using the wiki show/hide tables function
      and the wiki's Youtube embed function seems to be broken, but beyond that, I think it's reasonably good.
  4. Thandal
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    @shadowjukkis91;  DAI isn't even stable yet.  Mods that work for it under one patch can, and do, break the game under the next.  So "No, NMM won't be working with DAI for the foreseeable future."
     
    (NOTE:  This query should have been posted in the "Open Beta Feedback" forum.  It has nothing to do with overall Nexus site  updates.  Just as crashdragonknight's post should have been made in the "DAI" forums.)
  5. shadowjukkis91
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    Are they Going to add Dragon Age:Inguisition to the next Version of NMM
  6. Xander9009
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    I'm not sure how I missed this post. It's awesome. Glad to see these updates? I'm happiest about the spoiler tags and notifications, I think. The bug reporting system should be extremely helpful.
  7. Thandal
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    @hopwooper;  Please use the Nexus Download Diagnoser (NDD) to report download speeds and conditions.  You can read Dark0ne's instructions and post your results  here.
  8. hopwooper
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    Date 3/4/2015 Time9:28 pm. Dear Nmm - trying to download Naughtion Race approx, 310000 Kb, to download running at 47 kb  time to download 247.00 minutes. What is wrong with this picture ? Nmm updated yesterday to 53.6 , two updates within the last 2 weeks. All these years for Nmm to get it right, has Failed. can you wait over 4 hrs to download 1 Mod ?
  9. crashdragonknight
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    To all Craters,

    They have just did patch the game with version 6. None the the mods now works. I for one apprecate all the hard work that ya'll do. Just wanted to give everyone a heads up.

    Thank you
  10. AaronOfMpls
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    I see the "disable emoticons" option is now live in comment threads. Unfortunately, it's still not in the "Edit" popup -- where I'm most likely to want use it to remove accidental smileys.

    Still, I like the recent improvements overall. I'm very glad we can now use spoiler tags in comments. I've also gotten quite used to the new notification system, which makes it much easier to follow my favorite screenarchers.

    Thanks Robin and co. for all this!