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Notifications System further updates
The new system was sending notifications for new comments on tracked mods. This was an error and we switched this off but 300,000 notifications of this type were delivered. We cannot easily delete these and you will see these if you are logging in for the first time since this release. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Hopefully, the deletion functionality will allow you to manage these efficiently.
"Tracked Mods/Users" notifications were not sending properly at the time of release. We have worked to bring this important feature back and have now released an updated version. You will now be able to receive tracked notifications for mods and users you tracked since the start of January. You will also be able to toggle these options on the updated Preferences page.
We are currently running a migration to re-sync all of your "Tracked Mods/Users" notifications from before January. This migration is expected to be fully finished early next week but may also finish for individual users over the weekend. Until then you can visit a mod page and un-track then track the mod again to ensure you receive new notifications until the migration is complete. The new preferences page will hopefully make it clearer how to control your various notification options and we will be working on further improvements to make it even easier.
We appreciate all of your patience and feedback since the launch of the system and apologise for any inconvenience caused by the update. Please continue to give us feedback on the system as we continue to make further adjustments.
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A moderator has closed this comment topic for the time beingBecause i hate that i have to manually search the comment page after comment
page of a mod to see if it was mentioned somewhere that this mod is
compatible with another specific mod. It's annoying and time
consuming!
-hard to distinguish between newly created mods by authors and updated ones by the same authors..
-picture updates by authors are packed in a bunch, it's hard to check which is the new one and which is older as the link in the notification isn't direct you to the actual picture, but the gallery of the uploader
-still can't block notifications from games I don't care about
-have to refresh the whole page to get more notifications from the roll down menu, the [VIEW ALL] button leads to the rooster of all games on Nexus instead of MY notifications
Feel free to upvote and discuss it there.
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See and Tag your own Feedback Posts
XilaMonstrr · Nov 2022
Wow this forum is terrible for navigation. It's impossible to find posts that I've made.
I can't search posts and I can't put tags on my own posts.
Lots of posts have tags but no idea how they got them--I can only assume that admins put the tags on because where else do they come from? Why have tags if they can't be used?
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Pickysaurus
Tags are only assigned by our team, this in intended.
You are able to see all your content (and content you've voted on here: https://feedback.nexusmods.com/?view=my-votes)
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The problem is, I vote up a lot of good ideas I see on there, not just my own, so finding my own posts among all that is prohibitively difficult.
https://feedback.nexusmods.com/posts/2015/bring-back-notifications-for-comments-on-mods-im-tracking-even-if-im-not-the-mod-author
Another relevant one, by Pickysaurus:
https://feedback.nexusmods.com/posts/252/granular-notification-options
The replies are there (more replies than to other recent posts), I'm just not getting notified about them. (I have all notification options toggled on, except for Game Specific notifications.)
Edit: Oh, and these would likely be the notifications on the Forums side rather than on the mods side, from what I can tell, which is counterintuitive.
Edit 2: My brain isn't working today, when you make a post, it signs you up by default to receive notifications for replies to that post... or so it claims. And I left my posts in the subscribed state, but I also never got notifications about replies to them, and yes, there were some. So that does not appear to be working, no. I did post a Feedback post about the Feedback Board to the Feedback Board.
Edit 3: Of course you likely won't receive notification of this reply to your comment about notifications. Is it just me, or is this getting really meta?
I can imagine that some would want to turn comment notifications off here and there on individual, single mods. But I assume that no one would have wanted this feature to get removed entirely.
I know that most mod authors are very grateful when people like me help out others on their mod pages - it's something I enjoy doing, and I'm not the only one. It was also only really feasible by using the comment notifications. Without it, it's next to impossible, unless you're only tracking a very small number of mods (eg. 10-15).
I imagine that having so many members and so many messages would cause for a lot of "bloat". If the "bloat" issue is caused by us members not deleting posts from mods that they're tracking whether read or not, then I would like to add my voice to the suggestion of some of your other members that messages sitting in people’s notification queue should be deleted after a reasonable period. I believe 14-day retention was given by some people, which sounds reasonable to me.
I track about 200 mods over just 2 games. Now I receive no notifications. I don't have the time to go into every mod and see if someone has left a comment or not. I would log onto your site at least twice a day to see new mods and new notifications, and I really enjoyed reading other people’s comments for the most part. In fact, some people’s advice sometimes indicated to me an important tidbit of information even though they didn't create the mod. Since this change took effect a few days ago nexusmods has lost some of its wonderful appeal to me. Not only was this a great place where you could upload and download mods safely and securely, utilities to manage your mods like (Vortex) was also available, and you could converse with your fellow gamers about the games and the mods you played as well as learn a lot in the process.
Maybe we as members of nexusmods let you down by not conveying how important the comment and notification system is to many of us. I appeal to you to try and find a way to bring this back, please.
But you are right. This feature was the reason (or one of them) why the notification system was at its limits. Maybe we will get it back in a diffferent form. Maybe not new notifications for every single comment but just that there are new comments in a mods comments tab. That way a new comment wouldn't generate a new notification but, if anything, just bump the corrosponding mod-comment notification to the top of your inbox.
Having the "delete all notifications" button back is already a huge improvement to deal with the bloat on the users end, tbf. (Though I have no Idea how this this bloat problem was working behind the scenes.)
Maybe there could be a system where you could be able to track comment notifications separately from just clicking on the track button. Maybe like a pop-up that appears after clicking the track button that asks whether you'd like to track comment notifications as well as other updates, or just like how it is right now instead.
I also like LiloLila's idea of a generic "New Comment" notification, instead of listing the specific user's name, and what not.
However, that is on the basis that you'd get a new notification whenever a single new individual comment is made. Or rather have a relatively short update cycle of how often a new comment notification is sent. I'd hate to get spammed with a barrage of the same notification about a ton of new comments within the span of like 5 minutes lol.