It's was a lateral move from one person inside Nexus to another moderator. It wasn't sold to some faceless corporation
Edit: fuck me I was was wrong:
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1lcyzxz/nexus_mods_was_acquired_by_chosen_a_company/
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That’s a good chunk of money for some internal moderator to have on hand. (Not that it was an all cash deal.)
Yep I was wrong. I edited
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No mention of who it is even being sold to, so bizarre.
That's a big red flag. Good news would say something like "we're happy to announce a team of community ownership".
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Would it be possible to build a fediverse modding platform? What would that look like?
I guess you still have the issue of someone needing to pay for the huge number of downloads, most of which are going to come from users who make no other contributions to the site. Maybe you could combine a fedi site with torrents or something?
The Internet Archive. No need to reinvent the wheel. Have a discussion with them - set up a new project. Boom - everyone's mods hosted in perpetuity by a free digital library.
Can things be fedirated and monetized so long as the monetization is put into maintenance & upkeep?
Nothing stopping you trying!
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Good luck hosting the terabytes of data that mods have.
Since mods are almost exclusively unable to be copyrighted nowadays, there is a very good chance the Internet Archive would be more than happy to host the mod data - as they have with many community projects.
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What would you federate? Would you federate posts of each mod with a link back to the home instance. Would you federate the entire modfile.
I'm not sure activity pub is the right fit here. We would lose so many mods and it would make it much harder to find mods.
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Oh this is sad news.
Let the enshitification begin.
sigh.
They didn't say anything about a sale...?
So are they going to stop banning mods? Also we need more modding sites.
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Oh no, this is never good. How long before they implement a required pay system?
Instant death of nexus if that happens
If they make it $1 a month and it doesn't charge you for .months you don't download anything I'd be fine.
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Well, there's still ModDB? (I don't use ModDB so I dunno if it's controversial or not)
Idk if it's controversial, but I've always hated the layout of that site. It seemingly has not changed in decades, either, looking at it now.
I've seen too many services go through enshittification, which is why I've always made backups of the mods I installed.
That said, that obviously scales poorly if you download a lot of mods or really massive mods.
Sounds like people need to start taking their mods off of there quick.
Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn't want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.
Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it's still there in the background.
(All this is from memory. I hope I'm wrong)
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I wouldn't advocate removing mods. Definitely put them on another site though.
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Wait, was it confirmed sold? The news post on Nexus fron this morning indicated that the existing head admin and CEO (of 24 years) was just stepping back (and not even away entirely), and had already put the year+ in of identifying two successors from his existing team.
I didn't see anything regarding a sale, and the existing admin said quite a bit about taking this seriously from a standpoint of what's best for mod makers and users and not best for business profits.
Edit: I'm not seeing any company name given because as far as I can tell, it wasn't sold. It's the same company, same employees, the person at the tip top is just shifting.
And since when is "comicbook dot com" a source for game modding news? Unless someone can show me something from a more direct or reputable source, I think this is just someone running with the most click bait interpretation of the nexusmods post.
Edit x2: Dormedas's resetera link has some convincing investigation that the two people named as taking over the reigns may work for a company that provides esports training, and also consulting services for user generated content focused companies.
Best I’ve got for you is this
Post in thread 'Nexus Mods site has been sold' https://www.resetera.com/threads/nexus-mods-site-has-been-sold.1219452/page-2#post-141554013
Thanks! That's damn good for "best effort"! A convincing lead on what company it may be.
Personally, I still don't think it's time for immediate red alert, but I'll have to keep an eye on things. Hopefully we'll see some competitors like GameBanana step up to the challenge.
They say ownership has changed hands but that it isn’t a corporate “exit”. The whole announcement is extremely vague on the details with the only names given are two people.
Fuck em nexus has sucked for a while anyway, they started enshittification years ago.
Care to explain in what way? I've been a casual user of the side for a few years now and except the short waiting times for downloads and endorsement reminders there has been nothing to really frustrate me.
The constant pushes for their premium model, while understandable, sucked as a user. Same with the increasing push to do EVERYTHING through their mod managers which actually had a tendency to conflict with the community made installers for a lot of older games.
They also had weird stances as to what triggered a mod as NSFW. Nobody (sane) would complain about the straight up sex mods but it had the same youtube problem where mature/"mature" content would get age gated. Same with their very hit or miss rules on "politics". The reality being that it was just a way to blanket ban content for the moderators but it led to hilarity when Skyrim (the game that site basically was built on) has white supremacists in-game but you can't even acknowledge that because it would make the chuds angry out of game.
For what it was? I liked it. But it has been on the decline for... probably about half the time it has existed.
I'll also add on that there is a tin foil (but not THAT much) conspiracy that a lot of the pushback against Bethesda's premium mods came from the Nexus mods staff/team since it was a direct competition to them and they realized no modder would risk that smoke from... asking to get paid for their hard work.
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I’ll probably keep using it and see what happens. To be honest I’ll just go where the content is, and if the new people fuck it up it’ll likely go elsewhere.
I got a "lifetime membership" on discount right before they did away with that option entirely. I'll stick around for a bit, too, mostly.out of convenience, but I ain't contributing, and I'm leaving uBlock on at all times.
They had a good run. It was fun while it lasted.
I remember getting my Morrowind mods off there. Peanut Gallery edition for me!
This is shit but... if people weren't already concerned over the massive monopoly that Nexus had then they weren't paying attention.