Following site-wide discussion on AI use, Nexus Mods add a "daily limit" to the spots in the new mods tab one person can hog via multiple rapid-fire uploads

It's a "stopgap solution" while the site's staff are busy "working on more sophisticated tools"

The folks behind Nexus Mods have rolled out a new "daily limit" system which ensures modders who upload multiple works in bulk during a single 24 hour period can't take up more than one spot in the tabs dedicated to showing off new mods for different games. Instead, those who chuck up their mods in bulk will see one of their works given a spot, while the rest are neatly filed away behind it, ready to spring out if you click a bit of text indicating that modder's got other fresh works to show off.

"Nexus Mods owner and CEO Victor 'Foledinho' Folmann hinted measures related to making the glut of new mods currently uploaded on a daily basis less of a discovery nightmare in last week's announcement post about the site's current policy regarding the use of genAI in mod making. "We’ve received feedback regarding authors uploading numerous mods at once and overwhelming the Recently Added section, pushing everyone else down the page," he wrote. "This is less of an issue related to AI, but it’s becoming much more prevalent as mod production is speeding up. Thus, we’re trying out limits on the number of mods from one author that can be shown in this section to give others a better chance of getting noticed. We’re also putting tighter restrictions on uploads from newly created accounts. The first of these updates will be available soon."

Cue an an announcement on Nexus Mods' Discord server yesterday by community manager Phoenix introducing the new "daily limit", which Nexus were keen to emphasise is "an experiment" they're open to feedback on. "We know that time in the New Mods view is important for a new mod to be discovered and we believe every mod author should have equal chances of having their work seen," they wrote. "While we're working on more sophisticated tools to give you control over the mods displayed to you, we are testing a stopgap solution that we hope will address the issue for now: For the time being, the New Mods view will display one mod per mod author. This limit refreshes every twenty-four hours – so if you publish one mod every day, you won't be affected."

The All Mods, Updated, Trending, Popular, and Surprise tabs for games are unaffected by the change, so will still dedicate a tab to each work regardless of who uploaded it when. If you take a glance at the New Mods pages for the likes of Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Cyberpunk 2077 this morning, you can already see the new mod stacking in action. The most mods from the same author I've seen stacked atop each other so far is 14 Fallout 4 works piled up.

It's worth noting you can also toggle the show only one new mod per modder rule off in the new mods tab, bringing back the older layout with one slot per mod regardless of uploader.

Personally, I tend to sort by mods with the most endorsements or downloads within the past 24 hours or seven days when I'm scanning for new mods, rather than just scrolling back through the new mods tab. Though I appreciate that could mean I've been missing out on some stellar works by lesser known modders whose creations never get the traction they merit thanks to being buried under an avalanche of other works. If so, hopefully this update does help the lone mods avoid being run over by mass upload freight trains.