Submitted 2 weeks ago by GamingBot@lemmy.zip [bot] to gaming@lemmy.zip
NexusMods has been enshittifying for a while now.
Useless website design that only serves the purpose of making you scroll past more unwanted content, annoying ads, a “We value your privacy” popup that doesn’t value your privacy (1072 partners in the cookie popup) and the gall to ask for premium subscriptions after tracking and selling your data.
a “We value your privacy” popup that doesn’t value your privacy (1072 partners in the cookie popup)
You misunderstand, they value your privacy monetarily, as in invading it makes them money.
They also can’t build a mod manager to save their lives.
God help you if you think they understand anything about how to write any OS agnostic code.
don’t worry, it’s even worse than that:
they already built one, and then abandoned it!
the NexusModsApp (terrible name) WAS OS-agnostic and already in beta.
they killed it because it was “splitting their resources”, and “confusing users”… bullshit, their new onwers forced them to cut costs.
they’re effectively dead, just a matter of time until their new owners slaughter the golden goose because it isn’t laying eggs fast enough…
I’m a fan of thunderstore, having been there when it was made for RoR2. Not sure how I feel about the UI redesign, but it’s simple and as of yet unenshittified.
Please don’t browse the web without ad blockers (which also block trackers and cookie banners). It’s unsafe and not good for you.
Given Chrome’s changes, this should also read: use Firefox or a non-chromium based browser, with an ad blocker.
LibreWolf + uBlock Origin here. I only got ads on NexusMods once, when I opened the wrong browser on accident.
shit sucks, i remember endlessly browsing nexus mods back when i played fallout 3 and new vegas. I tried using it with fallout 4 a couple of years back and it straight up was unusable.
Community built assets sold to venture capital by website admins.
It’s a tail as old as the Internet, and still incredibly shitty.
One Person built it and he asked for help several times
So the headline is wrong and it’s not actually a community-run database?
The point is all of these sites, be it reddit or imbd or steamdb are only valuable because of the user content, and for some reason we’ve decided it’s completely acceptable that the people that administrate the website can claim ownership of the data and sell it off to the highest bider.
That doesn’t mean running a website isn’t hard work, it is, but that we’re making people rich on the basis of work other people did for free.
In search of hope - I guess there is a better certainty this project can be recreated as it had already been done.
Fuck they’re going to break steamcharts and IsThereAnyDeal aren’t they. They’re going to put an API Paywall up
oh, this is bad. I use SteamDB to check for new releases and get info about games… how am I going to find new games now?
I always wondered why those solo devs/admins don’t ask the community for a help if they feel the pressure or transfer it to some other hobbyist that would have the time for the project, instead of making a decision that pretty much dooms the project?
Hey asked for help/ looked for so to take over several times.
He did? I have never noticed. My bad then.
However, it is surprising that noone came to help him.
Welp, let the enshittification begin. Nexus has degraded significantly these past few years.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Solo devs burning themselves out on their hobby projects is basically how the entire Internet used to work, and we're currently living in the consequences of that.
sidebro@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The “Buy them out and monetize their shit”-phase
PostaL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We should have normalized sponsoring community projects we like, maybe?
absquatulate@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m just amazed at the entitlement of people about this, or number of people treating this as some sort of betrayal because he sold out and didn’t want to continue free solo work on it.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
I've built a game mod that now has a couple thousand users, it's true about the entitlement. I'm grateful to those users who expressed their support and glee, but so many -- admittedly well-meaning! -- people come in asking for basic assistance that don't read the FAQ. And then there's the handful of people who really believe you're there solely to serve them.
Can't even imagine single handedly supporting a site the size of SteamDB.
arules@retrofed.com 2 weeks ago
Threadiverse would be the first to cite you Pareto distribution’s without proposing ways to inverse it. Damn leeches!