Translation: "Once all the hub-bub dies down we intend to as slowly as you'll allow, slip in monetization."
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Yup we've never seen this happen before, not ever. Not once!
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Exactly! No venture capitalist has ever taken something that could be monetized but wasn't, bought it out, and then proceeded to monetize it into irrelevancy before........
Just the tip, you won't even feel it.
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Narrator: they monetised the site to death.
Won't monetize it "to death", just right up to the line of death.
Define "death."
- Some lawyer, probably.
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Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.
Someone mentioned this in another thread and I found it interesting:
Ckan kerbal space program mods
Apparently its a frontend for mods that's hosted on github
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Would a federated discovery frontend work? Peertube's back end of the service would probably work great as a starting point since it uses torrents to ease up on traffic for individual servers
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Oh so they'll do it subtly enough to think people won't notice.
„Trust me, bro, we won‘t enshitify, please don‘t leave and make something new elsewhere that’s out of our control.“
Reminder that ModDB still exists, and works.
EDIT:
Seeing as this is fairly decently upvoted now:
and also, I found this
https://github.com/loicreynier/awesome-modding
absolutely gigantic compendium of tons of mods, websites that have tons of mods for various games that are not nexusmods.
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The new owners are so trustworthy that they weren't even transparent about who they are. In the comments of the original announcement they defend that with:
This post wasn’t about Chosen — it was about Robin and the legacy he built over 24 years. We’re the new owners and ultimate decision-makers at Nexus Mods. We’ll share more about ourselves when we’ve earned that right. For now, we’re focused on listening, learning, and making modding even easier, and yes, you’ll see us around in the community being active.
I can't say I find that statement to be particularly trustworthy given it's coming from an NFT bro.
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Ah, so basically Nexus Mods is dead to me now. Whenever venture capital is injected to anything, it's a bad sign. Ugh, great these particular Capitalists are from the crypto community...
They've been souring a lot of potentially cool projects with blockchain/web3 nonsense, like Playtron, for example. Lutris is now dead in the water and hasn't been updated for months now; the former dev is working on Playtron. There is a huge issue log that doesn't seem to be addressed at the moment.
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If there was one god damned example of any company saying this and sticking to it I might believe them. But I have yet to be proven wrong. Sucks too as they were my go to for mods.
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Maaaaaan. Fuck. I really like Nexus Mods. Get ready for another enshittifying ride to the bottom.
Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.
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venture capital
Aaaand it's gone.
As a software engineer i always found nexus simply archaic. Hot take but the molding industry might be better off with a new mod index.
Here's how it goes with half the games I mod these days.
- Game not manageable in Vortex out of the box
- Find the extension that makes the game manageable
- All popular mods are based on one single mod that acts as a framework or SDK for those other mods
- That prerequisite mod isn't well maintained on Nexus, and the author recommends using $otherModManager to manage this game
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It should all be open source.
First thing is mods should just exist on free hosting providers for source code like GitHub/Lab etc.
Then an optional mod manager software that can import mods from these sources.
Non of this really needs a centralised community, these places already exist thanks to other better suited services like social media
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See all these free mods!? They're just for you to use however you want to!! Pretty awesome right. Just enjoy this .5mbs download. Oh you want faster download speeds? Well... Sir. That will be $12 a month. Evil laugh
Don't they already do that?
That's the joke
Tbh, unless you're downloading a DLC size mod or a big 4K textures pack the installs are nearly instant at the moment
asdf
pinky-promise
I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.
They're definitely gonna monetize it to death.
This is tragic. I have been on NexusMods since the 2000s. I learned how to mod games because of that site. I will be pouring one out for this landmark of a website after work today. Paid for Lifetime and everything, because the website made it easy to find, install, and update mods for any given game that supported mods. Damn, man. Damn.
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Make it a legally binding contract, otherwise don't bother promising.
Currently downloading everything to MO2 and setting to not check for updates huehuehue
People gonna see torrents for a "preset packages" of Skyrim mods
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Fuck Nexus Mods. You already need an account to download anything.
Well, unless someone makes an alternative, people are going to use it.
They do need to provide a lot of bandwidth, which isn't free, though I wonder how viable it'd be for someone to create a Nexus-like Website using magnet URLs and BitTorrent as a backend.
Maybe too much of a technical bar to attract users.
The issue with using torrents is longevity. You'd still want/need traditional storage backing it all. Don't want some mod to become lost media because nobody is actively seeding it.
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A free account.
It's still an extra barrier. There's zero point other than tracking what people do.
News flash running the servers isn't free.
Yes they are tracking us. That's how they pay to keep the servers running.
If your not paying you are the product.
If you're paying they're also tracking you.
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It also tracks what you've downloaded to provide update notifications and encourage you to participate in the mod quality ratings system.
It's not 100% without reason beyond tracking users.
And to limit scrapers.
I have a bridge to sell anyone who believes that.
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