Anyway, I have some big updates for you, the main one being the logged-in homepage, which will be explained in more detail below. We wanted to give you all more notice about this change; however, the bank holiday yesterday messed with us a little, but in the future, we will endeavour to give you all more of a heads up about website changes.
Logged-in Homepage
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been hard at work rolling out new features using our updated backend frameworks. As part of this, we’re introducing a new, more customisable "logged in" version of the homepage, with a greater focus on tailoring it to the content you want to see.
Here’s a quick rundown of the new page:
Your favourite games are now highlighted instead of the most popular ones. We’ve made this list more compact and relevant to you. The Mods, Collections and Media lists that appear on this page are now scoped to your favourite games and reflect your preferences. You can select one or multiple games in these lists, and then refine them further on a full listing page by clicking "View more".
It’s now quicker to get to the pages you want to see. We’ve added more prominent links to your tracking centre, download history and My Content pages.
Feedback is important to us, and your comments about the logged-out homepage helped shape some of our design choices here. We’ve made the headers more compact and moved mods higher up the page compared to the old design. This should reduce the need to scroll and help you access the content you care about as soon as you land on the website.
We’re keen to hear what you think about the changes and the increased level of customisation. If you’d like to see even more personalisation options for this page in future, there’s a "Customise" button that lets us gauge interest in that feature.
The longer-term vision for this page is to become a hub for content that reflects your interests. Our first step in that direction is filtering the page to show content for the games you care about, rather than everything all at once.
Site changes
- Mod comment search links: Comments found through search now include a link that scrolls directly to the original comment on the relevant page.
- Mod removal messaging: Mods that have been removed now show whether they were taken down by the author or by staff.
- Supporter Image listings: These pages have been migrated to the new design system and now match the layout of standard Images and Videos pages.
- Media pages redesign: The generic Media pages, linked from the game home pages and showing both images and videos, now follow the updated design.
- Mobile search UI: We’ve updated the mobile search interface to match earlier improvements made on desktop.
- Custom date range on mobile: You can now filter by a custom date range when searching or browsing for mods on mobile devices.
- Wider notifications dropdown: The dropdown has been widened so that longer text entries are no longer cut off.
- Improved error messages: Errors that occur when fetching content now include more helpful messaging and links to contact support or check the site status.
- Preferences: We’ve made changes which make preferences linked to in the ‘Logged-in Homepage’ section better. If you have previously set your preferences to “Latest” or “Tracked”, you may have to update your preferences again
Tech Talk
- Forum tooling migration: Moved a lot of admin moderation tools from our old, deprecated forums to supported areas of the site.
- Security: Patched multiple security vulnerabilities.
- Caching improvements: Enhanced caching for unauthenticated users to reduce server load and improve performance.
- Code cleanup: Removed a large amount of deprecated and unmaintained code.
Eww, Bugs
- Game tiles: Fixed an issue where the download count would disappear on smaller screens. It’s now visible more often, and when space is limited, the collection's stat will drop off first instead.
- Notifications: Fixed a bug causing the ‘Collections’ category on the notifications page to return an error when viewed.
- Download counts: Skyrim Special Edition download count is no longer capped at 4.2 billion; it now correctly displays 7.4 billion.
- Moderation: Fixed an issue where some moderated content was briefly visible.
- Collection pages: Resolved some broken links to user profiles on collection pages that were returning errors.
- Tracked content pages: We fixed pagination issues that were preventing proper navigation.
- Mod media uploads: Fixed a bug where mod authors couldn’t add images or videos to their mods.
- Commenting: We resolved an issue that caused duplicate comments to appear.
As always, keep your feedback coming; we’ll bring more updates next month!
36 comments
The list of games on the home page was better. Not all the games I browsing are among my favorites. A list of games that start with favorites would probably be more appropriate.
New mods on home page. With more favorite games, unusable and cluttered.
As this is written in Russian, I will say that we have seen some Russian users have issues stemming from their ISPs. I'm afraid there is not much we can do to resolve those issues on our end.
To offer some feedback, perhaps the thing I would find most helpful right now would be for the forum: bringing back the option to block DMs from certain users that are blocked from all the content in the site. Currently, when someone is added to an "unwanted" list, they're still able to send a message, but it shows up as "ignored" and is hidden. This ends up being unpleasant, especially for mod authors and people targeted by trolls. The moderation team has been very responsive when it comes to receiving reports and taking appropriate action, but being able to actually block (rather than just "ignore") certain users on the forum as soon as they're blocked on the site would go a long way in helping us have more control over the information that reaches us.
I think it makes sense to swap it for the games that I favorite and actually own.