Honestly the comments so far don't line up with my experience.
Possibly for the very experienced devs/games on HN who are making their own mods Nexus was limiting and annoying.
For me it was the level of difficulty just low enough I didn't have to work to enjoy mods. I remember trying to install mods on Halo CE pre mod managers and it was a nightmare.
Did Nexus solve all of that? No but it was an easy enough experience that I could know one website, one tool, and be able to mod my games.
For the normies. For myself Nexus was a fixture throughout my teens and into my adult life.
I'm very thankful for all the hard work they put in.
It's impossible to keep everyone happy all of the time, but for some people like myself it just worked and we were able to enjoy it.
Yeah. I paid for the lifetime plan a long time ago. It’s fast and easy to use. Generally I would categorize it as inoffensive.
I loved the change a few years ago that prevented mod authors from removing mods. I use Wabbajack, an amazing program where modders compile lists of mods and bundle them with compatibility patches to make everything work nicely. The Wabbajack program automatically downloads and sets up everything.
But random disappearing mods created endless work for the Wabbajack modders, because they would have to adjust lists and compatibility patches every time someone removed an old version. Mod lists would go away for days, weeks, or forever because someone removed some tiny mod from Nexus for no good reason. It’s so much better now.
Yes it is very interesting how the comment section is overtly negative yet NexusMods is one of the rare thing that "just works" for me. Even my girlfriend who is not well-versed in tech at all mods her Skyrim/Oblivion herself thanks to how easy it is with NexusMods.
Judging by your two's comments, there seem to be a mismatch what people think of when they hear "Nexus Mods". Originally, it was just a website where people uploaded mods, and others downloaded them and manually re-organized stuff on disk, or with some game-specific mod manager.
But what you two seem to be talking about, is the relatively new mod manager that Nexus also has, which basically allows you to one-click install mods.
I think many comments talk only about the website (in isolation), while both of you are talking about the mod manager, hence the mismatch in experience.
As an occasional user of either form of NexusMods, both have been worth paying for in the recent past. The last time I played through SDV I had approximately thirty mods that I hand-installed because I was patching them locally to improve weather handling and learning C# from it. I’ve also used the mod manager to do a couple other games that badly need the improvements (“Stop Wasting My Time” is the best mod ever) and that I wasn’t modifying further. In both circumstances, I paid for a membership to support them, and I ended it when I stopped playing the game I was modding. Glad they exist and will continue to pay them when I use them, especially if they continue to be opinionated along current lines.
Seriously, Nexus works great and I vastly prefer it to the clunky Team workshop or, God forbid, manually installing everything.
I'm convinced a ton of people commenting here haven't even used Nexus in years or convinced themselves they're "power users" who don't need to use a launcher, just to blame Nexus on the subsequent pain.
Some of them are clearly commenting in bad faith though, and have never used Nexus and are just slinging mud because of their audacity to moderate offensive content or inflammatory users.
This is your tried and true. C level read a magazine, mandatory implementation order, engineer ticks the checkbox and waits for hype to pass so they can remove it.
A scary version of this is driven home to me when I go to Washington DC and see all of the very expensive billboards at commuter stations near the Pentagon advertising fighter jets and other military equipment.
It scares me every time because they wouldn't be splashing out the big bucks for those billboards if they weren't effective, and I absolutely don't want the military (or any other entity engaging in major expenditures) to be making those decisions based on billboards.
I haven't seen any overwhelming support. I absolutely love this thing. Coming from Kindle and Kobo. It's not a good smartphone replacement. It IS a fantastic E-reader. I carry it with me everywhere. I do Anki flashcards, do my Obsidian notes, read my Kindle and Kobo libraries I've accumulated finishing books I've procrastinated on, I use Omnivore.app for any articles I find on my Pixel, and the web browser for things like Crossplane Docs which don't get captured nicely as an article. I can share notes with Android to my Obsidian. Look I know it's Android, I know it's probably not the latest kernel, I know it has drawbacks. But from my personal experience this device has single handedly revived my ereading and replaced 90% or my doom scrolling because of the convenient form factor.
Other vendors make competition! I want color and a more secure android please.
Do you think others might like it as well or do you think your love of it is more idiosyncratic? As a fellow Anki user, I know the feeling of "Why don't other people LOVE this???". Only to learn they have good reasons - reasons that, for whatever reason, don't apply to me.
I memorized and forgot 50 digits of Pi after doing some memory training game. Was a cool bar trick but ultimately lost my memory palace discipline. I might be able to pull out some percentage of accuracy if I focused but it feels fairly pointless.
Possibly for the very experienced devs/games on HN who are making their own mods Nexus was limiting and annoying.
For me it was the level of difficulty just low enough I didn't have to work to enjoy mods. I remember trying to install mods on Halo CE pre mod managers and it was a nightmare.
Did Nexus solve all of that? No but it was an easy enough experience that I could know one website, one tool, and be able to mod my games.
For the normies. For myself Nexus was a fixture throughout my teens and into my adult life.
I'm very thankful for all the hard work they put in.
It's impossible to keep everyone happy all of the time, but for some people like myself it just worked and we were able to enjoy it.
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