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Nexus Mods Fine With Bigots Leaving Over Removed Starfield ‘Pronoun’ Mod (kotaku.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's stuff like Curseforge, but it's only for some games, mostly Minecraft. The problem, if someone considers it a problem, is really that communities for games generally centralize around one site for their mods for the most part, and Nexus has garnered a lot of trust and therefore has more pull/inertia for communities working those things out.

As for Github, I believe the vast majority of mods have Github pages, but Github itself doesn't really have a UI suited for mod downloaders, and no real incentive to implement one. So sites like Nexus and Curseforge are still a necessity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.curseforge.com/starfield

Starfield mods (a few) on Curseforge currently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! Personally I don't have any particular issue with Nexus, but it's always nice to see diversity. Monopolies are pretty much never good for end users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My only issue with Nexus is that I have to create a login to download mods there. I don't want to sign in to websites just to DL something. Curseforge is good for Minecraft mods and doesn't hassle me with a login prompt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair.