Monthly Roundup - October 2024

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It’s that time once more, your favourite time of the month. November is here, and so is a new roundup! Once more I bring you all our offerings of what’s been happening and the goings-on behind the scenes here at Nexus Mods.


Mod Author Analytics
A new Mod Author Analytics page is now available, giving authors a monthly breakdown of the total and unique downloads for their mods. You can find the page here.


Premium Membership Payments
Great news for our Chinese users: Alipay is now an accepted Premium subscription payment method for anyone in China. Our China-based users make up approximately 10% of our overall user base, being our second-highest source of traffic by country. So this is a big step to being able to offer more flexibility in how they pay.




Quality of Life
  • Enhanced User Interaction: Mods can now be endorsed, unendorsed, tracked, or untracked directly from the tile on user profiles. Simply hover over the tile and click the three-dot icon in the top-right corner to access these new options.
  • Improved Icon Consistency: Icons on the newer Next site (next.nexusmods.com) now use standard sizing. Previously the sizing was inconsistent, even for the same icon, depending on the page. 
  • Streamlined Media Sorting: We’ve also improved the user experience when sorting media and mods on user profiles by stopping the page from jumping/scrolling unnecessarily.
  • Customisable Display Options: User profiles and Collection pages now respect the “Number of items to show per page” setting that is available to Premium members. For example, where a profile has 80 or more mods and the setting is set to “80” you will see 80 mods per page.
  • Simplified 2FA: The 2FA code input field which you’re prompted to use when logging in is no longer a ‘password’ field, meaning it doesn’t hide your code by default as you type it in.




Moderation
  • DMCA and Takedown Requests: are now being published publicly here. The banner on the mod page will remain unchanged for affected mods, but you can cross-reference this information with the new forum thread.
  • Reporting Content: When reporting any content on the site (e.g., Mods, Comments, Collections, Users), you can now attach up to five images or text files as evidence. These will be available in our moderation centre for review.
  • Spam Option: We’ve also added a new 'Spam' reason that can be selected when reporting content that is clearly spam.




Eww, Bugs
  • Expandable Comments: We’ve changed how some very long comments (mostly on mods) are displayed. We had a few rare scenarios where a comment was so long or included many images that attempting to load it, at times, would cause the whole comment section to break. These comments are now hidden by default until you click a button to ‘expand’ them to be visible.
  • Hidden Mod DP: When hiding or unhiding a mod, its Donation Points opt-in status will now be correctly maintained.
  • User Profile Errors: We fixed a bug that caused users on our newer Next site (next.nexusmods.com) to get application errors when viewing a user’s profile.
  • Reporting Comments: A bug preventing some mod comments from being reported to moderators was fixed.
  • Mod Author Analytics Page: We fixed a bug with our new Mod Author Analytics page, which caused some mods to appear twice. Hidden, removed or unpublished mods are also now included.
  • Search Results: A bug on our newer Next site which caused it to return no results for any search was fixed.


Content
Just a quick one from me and the Content team. Last week our first competition came to a close, thank you to everyone who participated. We had a lot of fun looking through all the submissions. The winners’ announcement post is here if you missed it, and you can check out all the entries in this forum thread here.

We’re also planning a festive competition, so stay tuned!


Nexus Mods App
Since our last roundup, our app team has released another alpha, this time focusing on:

  • Initial support for Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Support for GOG games installed via Heroic Launcher on Linux
  • Further bug fixes and improvements

The full changelog can be viewed here for anyone interested. If any modding experts want to participate in discussions for Baldur’s Gate 3, Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, or Stardew Valley, please get in touch with Pickysaurus


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

29 comments

  1. Sexyowl
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    A lot of the changes focus on mod authors being able to remove or report comments. No problem with that. Is there any way for users to report mod authors? There is at least one author who is removing valid comments about his mod once they contradict his narrative. This leads to the comments being skewed as to the performance of the mod, when in actuality it doesn't perform as claimed.
    1. Iluviel
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      Is there any way for users to report mod authors?

      Yes, go to their profile and use the 'Report' button.
  2. streetyson
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    That all looks nice but I still miss the Friends feature.
    1. Radsweeper
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      +1 On this
    2. IcewaterKat
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      +1
      It also still seems to be 'in the code' as well, but just hidden.
    3. Zanderat
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      +1
  3. Mhshssg
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    跳转不到第二页,这次更新bug太多了
  4. diillone5
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    Locked
    UNBLE TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING or browse anything over 1 search resoults. If I click on "2" tab to go to next results - website does nothing.
    If I click on Slow Download - nothing happens. Inspecting element shows
    <button id="slowDownloadButton" class="rj-btn rj-btn-secondary rj-btn-full" data-download-url="#ERROR-download-location-not-found"><span>Slow download</span></button>
    1. ElderScrollsFan001
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      Same thing is happening to me too. Everything was working fine the day before yesterday.
    2. JustThatKing
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      @diillone5 and @ElderScrollsFan001 Can you please DM me so we can go over this in more detail to resolve your issue.
    3. MorrisHue
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      Same.Along with other issues.(Page,Jump page, Sort by....options do nothing)
    4. Pickysaurus
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      This kind of thing is almost always caused by browser addons or privacy settings in the browser. Please see this help page

      If you continue to have problems, please PM JTK or post on the forums. I'll lock this discussion as it isn't related to the news post above. 
  5. daubuoibuoi
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    I don’t understand why I only received the report for the Donation Points I earned in October, but there was no report for September, and I didn’t receive any DP at all for that month.
    I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, as I don’t know where else would be more suitable.
    1. Dark0ne
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      Looking at your mod page logs, you opted your mods out of DP at 2024-09-30 08:15:00 and they were not opted in until 2024-10-01 10:42:52.

      The DP system checks for all mods that are active, visible and opted in for DP at midnight on the 1st of each month. As your mods were not opted in at this time, they have not been included in the DP report and this is why you cannot see a report for September.
    2. daubuoibuoi
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      I did not choose to opt out of my mods. On October 1st, I noticed that my mods had been opted out, so I opted them back in. Since September was my first month as a modder, I assumed that at the beginning of each month, all mods would be set to opt out and would need to be opted in again, so I didn't question it at the time.
  6. LoveStarfield
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    When can I clear the download history?
    1. Hiwatcher1
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      Second!
    2. BlockCoachmann
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      +1
  7. ElGamerEduard
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    What if you make the endorse count a button (like on YouTube) and remove the dropdown menu, replacing the three-dot icon with the bell?
    Less clicks, more convenience
    1. Pickysaurus
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      Thanks for the suggestion. I can actually answer this as I've spoken to our designers about this.

      We did try it the way you suggested in an early prototype but we decided against it as nothing else in the stats row at the bottom of the card is clickable so it was a bit confusing to have one exception. We've also got plans to add at least one more option to that drop-down menu for users so having only one action in the top-right wouldn't work for that. 
    2. ElGamerEduard
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      Well, it's sad it didn't make the cut.

      Another related idea on the topic, if you're going to add more options to the dropdown, it could be to add them as a button, but only have them appear when you hover over the mod. Like the + icon that appears on the homepage in the most modded games.

      Anyways, thanks for considering the option.
  8. streetyson
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    And not that my meagre points tally will likely reach a useful total, but it'd be nice especially for those of us who don't use Steam (and/or are opposed to it) to have other spend options - eg, GOG or more non game stuff.
  9. CaiotaBR
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    bugs, eeeewwwwww

    sponsor NexusMods Advance when? 🥲
  10. seanxx
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    How about a way to  sort collections similar to mods? i.e  sort by most endorsed in the last month/3 months etc.