BLOG PIECE: supporting modding in totality
It’s been a couple of months since [url=http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/news/281/]my last blog piece[/url] where I updated you all on what we had planned for this year, focusing a lot on stability and a...
View ArticleDowntime today
Hi folks,Just wanted to drop a quick notice that we're aware that some people have been experiencing down-time on the sites today with error messages saying the sites don't exist. Just wanted to let...
View ArticleCategory and search results page update
Today we’ve rolled out an update to the category and search results page on all the Nexus sites and I’m quite excited about it. I think it’s really good, ergo if you don’t like it I’m going to be...
View ArticleSite updates and fixes
Following on from last weeks update to the way file search and category results are displayed we’ve patched in a few fixes and added a few more features based on user feedback. Perhaps most important,...
View ArticleDownload history functionality on file comments for mod authors
We’ve updated the sites today with what will probably be the last new feature we add to the sites for a little while as we focus fully on expanding the Nexus sites to support all PC games which I...
View ArticleInterview with Edge magazine
Back in January when I blogged about [url=http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/news/281/]money and running these sites[/url] a lot of people expressed an interest in what I’d written and surprise at how I ran...
View ArticleNew Premium servers and more payment methods including paying by SMS/text...
As you’re probably aware from the advertisements we’ve dotted around the sites and in NMM we offer a Premium Membership service to users who would like to support the sites and get a little something...
View ArticleWitcher 2 \"Redkit\" SDK released for modders, NMM support inbound
CDProjektRed committed to releasing a powerful toolkit for The Witcher 2 some time ago and it’s been in a closed beta for many months now, but today the lid is off and...
View ArticleScheduled downtime all day tomorrow, 29th May 2013
It seems like an age ago that I was here writing about our plans for stability through server clustering. It was a long time ago, a much longer time than I was anticipating or hoping, but we’re as...
View ArticleForums back up
After 2 days and no sleep (Axel has been up since the early hours of Thursday morning), we’re back to fully operational. With a heavy heart I also have to report that we couldn’t get our clustering...
View ArticleNew file adding \"wizard\", tagging and more prominent content blocking
While we have our cluster setup looked in to we’ve been busy looking in to some other areas of the site we’d like to improve before we “centralise” the Nexus in to supporting mods for all games. We’ve...
View ArticleDragon Age support for NMM, DA2 support incoming, site splits and top file...
As we (continue to) ramp up towards our centralisation of the site databases we’ve started work this week on “splitting up” sites that currently host more than one game. Each game for Dragon Age,...
View ArticleDDoS season begins, sites a little bit unstable
We've been no strangers to bog-standard DoS attacks and thousands-strong botnet DDoS attacks over the past 12 years. Any given week we'll be DoS'd, just most of the time you won't notice it because...
View ArticleRolling down-time this coming week on all sites
There is going to be some down-time on all Nexus sites and the forums this week as we work to move our databases over to our new cluster setup. Each site needs to be taken offline while a “dump” of the...
View ArticleCluster move complete, a few bugs to fix
We successfully completed the move of our databases over to a new centralised cluster yesterday with the final site, Fallout 3 Nexus, moved in the afternoon. Moving the databases off the same servers...
View ArticleShadowrun Returns and Chivalry Medieval Warfare now supported on the Nexus
With the worst of the fallout from the recent site changes now behind us and things improving in the long run we’re back to working on improving the site functionality and expanding the network. While...
View ArticleNew file adding \"wizard\", tagging and more prominent content blocking
While we have our cluster setup looked in to we’ve been busy looking in to some other areas of the site we’d like to improve before we “centralise” the Nexus in to supporting mods for all games. We’ve...
View ArticleDragon Age support for NMM, DA2 support incoming, site splits and top file...
As we (continue to) ramp up towards our centralisation of the site databases we’ve started work this week on “splitting up” sites that currently host more than one game. Each game for Dragon Age,...
View ArticleDDoS season begins, sites a little bit unstable
We've been no strangers to bog-standard DoS attacks and thousands-strong botnet DDoS attacks over the past 12 years. Any given week we'll be DoS'd, just most of the time you won't notice it because...
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