Post by InternWaffle on Jun 6, 2020 22:16:48 GMT -5
If you click Latest STudio Uploads, you get what is essentially a search result page sorted by most recent.
The page numbers are only at the top of the page, which is really poor web design, as you *start* at the top, *finish* at the bottom, and *then* want to go to the next page. Any web designer from 30 years ago could tell you putting the next buttons at the top of the page and not the bottom is silly. Why aren't they at the bottom?
That alone is annoying, but there's also no sorting options, whatsoever. You can't sort by the type of mod, they're all just categorized as "CC". You can't show just mods, just hairs, just furniture, etc. It's all lumped together. Categorization is obviously a necessity for such a large number of files and yet there's none.
And without categorization, your only option is to view everything. So when you start seeing page upon page upon page of "Custom TV channels" because one guy uploaded 30 of them in one afternoon as individual posts, you can't go "OK, I don't want to see these, I'm looking for CAS stuff" and go to the CAS category. When you start getting to page after page of non-simlish movie posters imported into the game because one guy uploaded 30 of them in one afternoon as individual posts, you can't decide to go look at another category, you just have to wade through it until you get to something else.
There isn't even a way to show more items per page!
And again, the entire time, you scroll down to the bottom, then have to scroll back up to go to the next page.
When you find a mod you like and open it in a new tab, it doesn't have *its own page*, but instead it links to a single post on a large thread of someone's files, all posted as if they're individual comments on one individual thread. Which is...really remedial design, to be frank.
And of course, the page almost never actually automatically scrolls to the mod, so you end up a few mods above or below it and have to scroll around to find it.
Why is all of this designed so backwards and poorly put together? This site could rival Mod The Sims- or even surpass it, it gets enough submissions- but I've noticed a lot of people actually don't even know S4S has posts like these, because the entire website is formatted like a free forum designer website from 2004, instead of a proper website with proper pages.
Why is it like this?
The page numbers are only at the top of the page, which is really poor web design, as you *start* at the top, *finish* at the bottom, and *then* want to go to the next page. Any web designer from 30 years ago could tell you putting the next buttons at the top of the page and not the bottom is silly. Why aren't they at the bottom?
That alone is annoying, but there's also no sorting options, whatsoever. You can't sort by the type of mod, they're all just categorized as "CC". You can't show just mods, just hairs, just furniture, etc. It's all lumped together. Categorization is obviously a necessity for such a large number of files and yet there's none.
And without categorization, your only option is to view everything. So when you start seeing page upon page upon page of "Custom TV channels" because one guy uploaded 30 of them in one afternoon as individual posts, you can't go "OK, I don't want to see these, I'm looking for CAS stuff" and go to the CAS category. When you start getting to page after page of non-simlish movie posters imported into the game because one guy uploaded 30 of them in one afternoon as individual posts, you can't decide to go look at another category, you just have to wade through it until you get to something else.
There isn't even a way to show more items per page!
And again, the entire time, you scroll down to the bottom, then have to scroll back up to go to the next page.
When you find a mod you like and open it in a new tab, it doesn't have *its own page*, but instead it links to a single post on a large thread of someone's files, all posted as if they're individual comments on one individual thread. Which is...really remedial design, to be frank.
And of course, the page almost never actually automatically scrolls to the mod, so you end up a few mods above or below it and have to scroll around to find it.
Why is all of this designed so backwards and poorly put together? This site could rival Mod The Sims- or even surpass it, it gets enough submissions- but I've noticed a lot of people actually don't even know S4S has posts like these, because the entire website is formatted like a free forum designer website from 2004, instead of a proper website with proper pages.
Why is it like this?
