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.
'E’s only mostly dead.
Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.
Seems like a good idea. I wonder if there’s anything already similar. It’d be a real treat to see a VC company get shafted.
„Trust me, bro, we won‘t enshitify, please don‘t leave and make something new elsewhere that’s out of our control.“
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.
All the examples I could think of have been recent acquisitions… which means they just haven’t soured… yet. Sadly its inevitable.
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.
Nexus is dead, Start making a new one.
Easy to say, yet so far most of the other modding sites seem to be content sitting on their butts right now.
Building an alternative would take time. And some money.
They’re definitely gonna monetize it to death.
Promise in one hand, shit in the other, let me know which one fills up first.
Let me just use this promise hand to send you a pic.
Maaaaaan. Fuck. I really like Nexus Mods. Get ready for another enshittifying ride to the bottom.
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
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.
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
I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.
Make it a legally binding contract, otherwise don’t bother promising.
Pinky promise?
