yes I am accepting constructive criticism
My reasonings
Good
- ROMhacking dot net is a good cataloguing site but won't host any actual modded roms, just the patch files
- don't really have anything bad to say about moddb except that there's so many abandoned WIP mods hanging around
- Gamebanana has a lot of really cool shit for games that can't be found anywhere else but god is its UI horrendous
Neutral
- GitHub is GitHub
- Nexus Mods has done a lot of shady shit, is arguably moving to become a monopoly but at the same time they will remove chud hate mods and aren't a completely hostile user experience
- Steam Workshop is a lawless wasteland
Evil
- Curseforge has done a LOT of anti-consumer motions in the past and is also gunning for mod monopoly status
- LoversLab
- idk if adfly is even still relevant in this day and age but it's been the bane of my fucking existence long enough so I'm including it
Yeah now that you bring it up, I probably could have put Modrinth in neutral good and moved moddb to lawful neutral since listing Github as a 'mod hosting site' is a little reductive lol
wrt Nexus mods I'm always of two minds of it.
On one hand, I do like a lot of its layout, its pretty feature rich (just being able to look at all a mod's dependencies and dependents is really nice). Its filtering system isn't terrible, and yeah the vortex modloader does make things a lot more approachable to users.
On the other hand, I don't like the idea of letting Nexus mods establish itself as The Modding Website, and how they used to have a lifetime ad removal purchase but have since gotten rid of it. I'm worried too much authority will get them doing worse consumer practices a la curseforge