Monthly Roundup - July 2024

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It’s time for another monthly roundup. I know, I can’t believe how fast the months are flying by either! I’m a little delayed on posting this one this month, as there’s been a lot going on our end, but we've got some big updates from July, so let’s take a look at what we got up to.

My Reports Page
A new ‘My Reports’ page, which displays all of your moderation reports and their current status. You can find the page by navigating to your moderation settings and clicking ‘My Reports’. Here’s the link: https://next.nexusmods.com/my-reports

We’re still working on improving this by tidying up the display of some report data, adding closure reasons for reports and adding optional notifications when your reports are closed.




Mod Comment Search Feature
You probably saw we had some downtime early in July specifically for this, as we explained in our news post, the long-awaited mod comment search feature finally made its glorious return. We’re happy about it and we know you are too.



Nexus Mods App

To update on the new app, well, there isn’t one this month. However, we can explain why.

We decided to skip this month’s release due to some fundamental changes we’re making that require updates to almost every part of the UI. With so much needing to be worked on, we simply wouldn’t have it completed in time. So, we thought it was more important to make sure that when we give you the new release, it is better than the current 0.5.3 version. 

You can find a lot more information in our forum post here, this will cover what we’ve been working on, why it’s important and how it will benefit the app in the future.



New Server
We launched a new Singapore CDN Server to improve download speeds for users in the region. At the moment you’re not able to manually select this server as we’re not sure if it’s going to be permanent. We’ll be able to update you all on this in 3 months at the end of the trial period.




Moderation Tools
There’s been a handful of updates to our moderation tools, so let's run through them all:
  • Block/Unblock Mod Donation Points: Community Managers (not Moderators) now have the ability to block a mod or user from earning DP. This is another tool in their kit to be used when there is a flagrant breach of our ToS.
  • Related Reports: Our Moderators now have the ability to quickly view all of the previous reports made against a user or their content, allowing the moderation team to spot trends and make more informed decisions.


What else?
  • Design System: We’ve continued working on the Next site so it uses a more consistent and considered design system. As you all know this is an ongoing project that we’ll continue to work on for the foreseeable future.
    • Updated mod cards are now available and an example can be seen here: https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/Pickysaurus/mods. We’ve made some changes to the mod tiles. The entire mod tile is no longer a clickable link. Like the old mod cards, only the image and title will take you to the mod page. Whereas now links to the author name, game, and category have been added for easy navigation. Another update we've made is that images not using the correct aspect ratio are now filled with a gradient, which looks much nicer than a solid colour. The author icon and name are displayed on the tile because a specific design for profile pages hasn’t been created yet, ensuring a uniform look across the site. More improvements are on the way, including the return of the menu to quickly track, endorse, or view the mod image gallery.
  • Download Statistics Update:  We changed how/when we update statistics, so that updates are no longer instant, but happen periodically now. For example, on mod pages the count of downloads now updates every 15 minutes.
  • File Tabs Update: We updated the ‘Files’ tab on mod pages to give the premium banner a refresh. It’ll now call out a little more strongly that users with ad blockers are being throttled more than those without (1.5 MB/s vs 3 MB/s). Whilst this is nothing new, not all of our community were aware of this, so please consider supporting us and Mod Authors by displaying ads.
  • External Links: Any navigation links to external sites will now open in a new browser tab by default.


Eww, Bugs
  • Fixed an issue introduced by last month’s navigation updates, which broke the blurring on game-specific pages.
  • Addressed VirusTotal timeouts, we’re aware more can be done here though.
  • Fixed an issue with new game notifications.
  • Mod image titles can be edited again.
  • Gave mod download stats a kick after they stopped updating.
  • Fixed mod counts for new games.


What’s to Come?
  • New Pages: We’ll be working on moving the ‘Mods’ and ‘Game’ pages over to the new Next site, which will involve moving them into our new design system.
  • Mod Download Statistics: Another new page is in progress, which will deliver a monthly breakdown of your mod’s download statistics. Although this is to replace functionality we plan to remove from Donation Reports, we may enrich the new report in future with other statistics (e.g. Endorsements).
  • Attach Files to Reports: To finish off the work on our new moderation system, we’ll be giving users the ability to attach files (e.g. simple images and text files) to reports. Moderators will be able to use this extra contextual data to make better moderation decisions.
  • Image Compression Changes: Some of you noticed we made some image compression changes, by trying a smaller WebP, and were unhappy about this. We saw this, we heard you, and we rolled back this change. We’re currently testing AVIF instead.
  • Design System Improvements:
    • Collection Card Tiles - We’re making some changes to the collection card tiles as seen on user profiles.
    • Collection Lists - New grid layout, filter design and more.


As always, keep your feedback coming; we’ll bring more updates next month!

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  1. SlugGirl
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    For anyone looking for information on the Donation Points System, we have our news post here. We'll also be regularly updating the pinned comment here when we have more developments on this.
  2. Mfiaslot
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    Please consider adding an option to unlock all blurred images on the mod page with one click, like clicking page header Show button to unlock all
  3. 0verboss
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    It would be rad to have a mobile nexus app for the forums/messages.
  4. ArngrimEinherjar
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    Question: Is there a reason why we can't have "Recent" as a category to view mods and images in the main pages of games? I only have "New Today" and "New this Week" and I don't we why we can't just have mods/images sorted by upload date without being limited by day/week.
    1. xdebugger21
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      Isn't it that the "New Today" and "New this Week" the recent mods?

      When you go to "Explore all mods" you can sort the Date Published by Ascending or Descending. You can also filter it by Time(24hrs, 7days, 14days, 30days, 1year and Date Range).
    2. ArngrimEinherjar
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      Nope. As I said, those two options are limited to the current day and one week.

      Of course I can go to "explore all mods" and sort by time, but what I'm asking is having an option to set as default a "Recent" tab that lets me see the latest mods of a game not limited by a time frame.

      Normally I just browse the front page of a game to take a quick peek at the most recent mods, and If it's a game with a not so active community I haven't visited in some time, I don't get to see all the recent mods in the front page, but very little, maybe even sometimes just one or none, if they haven't been published in that week.
  5. thrive4
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    Might have overlooked this in the comments or earlier reports from the nexus
    but will 'trending' be added / restored in the dropdown options in the right
    side filter (endorsements, downloads, last comment, etc)? at:
    https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/thrive4/mods
    it still exists in the results of old markup 'search on users'.....


  6. Qrsr
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    You could think about something very handy, add the option to switch language per mod page. A user lately asked me if he can add a translation juft for the mod page, but he wanted to reupload the original file, which interestingly didnt need a translation. Just the mod page.

    Is anything like that planned? I think that could be very easy to implement and would help alot of your users. Since even today i assume there is alot of language barrier here and there, and most users are probably not so experienced with other language cause of age.
    1. Iluviel
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      Thanks for the feedback.

      We don't have anything planned for this, because there's a lot of excellent online translation sites and browser extensions! I often use something like Google Translate and whilst it's not perfect, it's close enough.
    2. Qrsr
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      :D yes. I like the answer.
  7. CHIMgarden
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    Please consider adding an option to unlock all blurred images on the mod page with one click, like clicking page header Show button to unlock all
    1. Iluviel
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      Thanks for the feedback.

      We don't have any plans to work on this, but I can see it has been suggested by other users. Please consider giving it an upvote: https://feedback.nexusmods.com/posts/1971/blur-adult-images-unusable-for-viewing-gallery-and-missing-adult-signification-in-mod-requirements
  8. MacKom
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    Are there any plans in the future for mandatory uploaded image tagging, just like with mods? Please?
    1. Iluviel
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      No plans for this at the moment, sorry.

      Please consider making a suggestion on our feedback board: https://feedback.nexusmods.com/
  9. Tenz81
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    After the search golden adding, what about add the possibility to find the list of your own comments? It would be very useful for example for me to find my comments about the dungeons I played to remember which ones I liked more to play them again
    1. Iluviel
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      Sorry for the slow reply!

      Yes, we'd love to do this and have plans to work on it in the future. I can't give you a firm timeline or estimation of when we'll get to this though. You can always upvote this suggestion, the more votes the higher it gets on our list: https://feedback.nexusmods.com/posts/1640/comment-posting-history
  10. Aldino112
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    we need comments notification, so we can track who and what is replied to our comments
    1. S1nonim
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      +
    2. MonkeyChief117
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      +1
    3. GiraPomba
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      We already have this, but only on the comments we posted, not one the ones we reply or are tagged in.
    4. S1nonim
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      @GiraPomba yeah, but it would be nice to get notifications of the comments the ones we reply too
    5. Pickysaurus
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      It's something we could add in the future, but the biggest issue with that right now is there's no way to "Opt out" of specific notifications. If you reply to a long thread I think it's safe to say you don't want to be notified of every further comment forever. You can upvote this kind of thing on the feedback board if you want to show your support for the idea

      Best way if you want to be informed of replies is to make sure you're leaving a new comment and not replying to someone else. (There are no notifications at all for comments on site news posts at the moment though!)
    6. NukaCola069
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      +1 definitely
    7. HomelanderSoldierBoy2
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    8. Aldino112
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      @Pickysaurus
      what about "mention" features?
      so if someone click reply to my specific comments, they also mentioning me, so i only got notification when someone mentioning me

      well, this feature can be active by default and be deactivated in user settings

      --- --- --- ---

      people often forgot in which mods they put their comments and didnt realise when someone is replying to their comments
    9. Pickysaurus
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      They'll be notified of replies if they posted a "top level" comment. .

      Mentions is something we're also considering. I'm definitely in favour of this. 
    10. MindDoser
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      Mentions would be awesome. So, mod authors or users would get a notification when someone mentioned them. Seems like Nexus & Vortex getting better & better.Can't wait for more improvements.
  11. RoyBatterian
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    I saw a significant increase in payout, but I suspect that was due to the surge of the Fallout series. It has urged me to mod again, I hope it remains this way, but if not that's OK too. I just hope my earnings don't decrease below previous levels, it's not worth my time to mod anymore if that happens.
    1. Pickysaurus
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      Please use the comments here to discuss the DP changes. We'd prefer that you conversation stays in one place and doesn't derail other threads. Thanks!

      Glad to hear the April traffic has motivated you to mod again!