I found their platform quite toxic, walling everything behind login and making the registration and login atrocious to deal with. Hopefully things will change, so that one can just get done what one came for: Downloading mods, without other shenanigans.

> I just wanted to make a place where modders could share their work without worrying it would vanish into the internet

And ended up making a place that memory-holes mods that change a string or a flag texture to something inoffensive.

Hopefully this inspires more developers to either build-in their own mod browsers ( e.g. Factorio ), or for communities to build their own open source mod platforms ( e.g. KSP's CKAN ).

Both of those are preferable to the relative hell that is dealing with nexus mods.