Update - 21st November. Forums are once again live. Please post any forum-related feedback here.

The Forums will be going down for extended maintenance on Monday 13th November. This downtime is likely to extend until Tuesday 21st November.

After 20 years in existence, the forums are getting an update. While some planned changes will affect the forums visually and functionally, most of this work is on the back-end, to uncouple the forums from a variety of connected services. 

This update not only allows for a new, feature-rich forum; It also means the main website will be less reliant on the forums, making them more robust and secure.

We’ll start the upgrade on Monday 13th November and aim to finish on Friday 17th November. (Update: this downtime is likely to extend until Tuesday 21st Nov. The data migration is complete, but we have several setup tasks to complete and some teething issues to iron out).


During this time the forum will be inaccessible, some functionality on Nexus Mods will stop working and will instead link to our status page where you can get updates on our progress.

It's a mass migration

A colossal amount of data exists within the current forums (about 26 million posts), much of which is modding discussion but also large numbers of comment reports, file reports and other website content. Our aim is to keep all of this content available and in a readable form, hence the lengthy downtime.

There’s much historic content to preserve, from the first ban, the first post locked for trying to boost post count and early discussion on the forum design. All from 2003.

What will change?

The forums will move from a very old version of Invision Board, to the current Invision Community forum version 4. This means improved security, more features, a design facelift and more intuitive structure.

Behind the scenes a lot of services that were managed by the forums have been uncoupled and rebuilt. For example our avatars service, which is now a stand-alone service, will no longer be managed by the forums.

Other features connected to the forums will also be impacted:

Friends
The 'Friends' feature will be removed from the main Nexus Mods website and you will need to visit the new forums to use it.

Messaging
During the downtime messaging will be unavailable, but will return when the new forum version goes live.

Forum content
During the downtime the forums will not be accessible. You will not be able to view forum posts, profiles, or other forum content.

Some Links removed
Links to some content visible in the forum are being removed, this includes posts on mods, images, videos, articles, etc. The actual post content itself is not being removed and will still be visible on Nexus Mods, you’ll just no longer be able to also view it in the forum.
Our plan is to move to a new comment system, which can already be seen working in collections. This will be the format used across the site. We will update you about this further as it is rolled out.

Changes to some deep-links
Some links to game-specific sub-forums on Nexus Mods are being replaced with more generic links to the forum homepage. This is because we’re restructuring the forums to close some smaller unused sub-forums. Larger game communities will continue to have their own dedicated sub-forum.

Invoice Data
Any old invoice data held on the forums has been securely migrated to the billing page, where you can view the rest of your invoices.

Forum info displayed on website
Various forum-related links and information are being removed from the Nexus Mods website. For example, on user profiles you’ll no longer see a count of topics or posts. **Updated - Kudos will be remaining as a feature.

Will the old forum content be lost?

No, historic content will still be available, and none of the forum content will be lost. Years of community support, discussion, walk-throughs and guides will remain available. Keeping this treasure trove of information available has been a key priority.

This is a work in progress
The new forums will stand alone as an entity, enabling us to add new features independently from other connected site services. This will be an iterative process with new functionality, structural improvements and visual changes being added over time. Your feedback will be incredibly valuable during this period, as the forums are a community tool.

The new forums will also support and enable other planned projects such as Community Champions and more relevant modding content, tutorials and wiki content.

In Conclusion

After 4 days of downtime the forums will return in an updated form. There WILL be some quirkiness and missing features. We will be working to quickly bring them up to speed.

We are investing in building our forum community. While a lot of modding discussion moves to other platforms such as Discord, we see the Nexus Mods forums as the heart of long-term problem-solving, sharing and learning for the wider modding community. This update will allow us to begin better supporting and empowering new and seasoned modders alike.