Please confirm the following.
What parts of Modrinth is your feature request related too?
Modrinth.com website
Is your suggested feature related to a problem? Please describe.
Modrinth is an project that I have been a fan of since the start, making downloading mods so easy. However Modrinth is essentially useless to discover new mods that you did not know you needed. Only after a project has racked up a considerable amount of downloads can it be realistically found by someone looking for something new.
Describe the solution you'd like
My proposed solution is a reworked/extended search interface on the modrinth website. This should allow users to not only find the most popular mods, but also up-and-coming or even less popular mods. Here are a few ideas:
- filtering by date range for created/updated
- filtering by download count/download count in the past month
- filtering by creator
- filtering by source code availability/license
- filtering by content type (e.g. searching for plugins and mods at the same time, or datapacks and mods)
- filtering out archived mods
- precisely filtering by client/server requirement
- improved filtering by version (why can't I type >=1.21?)
- sorting by "downloads this [time range]" (e.g. downloads this month)
- sorting by trending (e.g. if a project recently had a massive increase in download count)
- sorting by random (because why not?)
- improving the word matching so that searching for "reach around" finds the project "reacharound"
There are also a few related issues on this topic:
This would at least allow invested users to not have to scroll through pages of pages of mods when searching for something new. Modrinth has had some great updates over the year, but the search aspect has mostly stayed the same. I hope this will be improved upon in the future!
Also noteworthy:
Some tags, like the "optimization" tag, appear under a lot of mods where they are not appropriate. I, myself, have pondered whether a tag is appropriate for my project in the past, some of them are just vague and they are not defined anywhere (does a screenshot deletion tool count as "storage"? probably not but could be interpreted either way). One way to fix this would be to simplify the amount of categories (e.g. only "content mod"/"no content mod", see #5406, although this is probably too generic)
Please confirm the following.
What parts of Modrinth is your feature request related too?
Modrinth.com website
Is your suggested feature related to a problem? Please describe.
Modrinth is an project that I have been a fan of since the start, making downloading mods so easy. However Modrinth is essentially useless to discover new mods that you did not know you needed. Only after a project has racked up a considerable amount of downloads can it be realistically found by someone looking for something new.
Describe the solution you'd like
My proposed solution is a reworked/extended search interface on the modrinth website. This should allow users to not only find the most popular mods, but also up-and-coming or even less popular mods. Here are a few ideas:
There are also a few related issues on this topic:
randomprojects, or random indexing for search #5549, Suggested Mods on the app should show random mods not the most popular #3707This would at least allow invested users to not have to scroll through pages of pages of mods when searching for something new. Modrinth has had some great updates over the year, but the search aspect has mostly stayed the same. I hope this will be improved upon in the future!
Also noteworthy:
Some tags, like the "optimization" tag, appear under a lot of mods where they are not appropriate. I, myself, have pondered whether a tag is appropriate for my project in the past, some of them are just vague and they are not defined anywhere (does a screenshot deletion tool count as "storage"? probably not but could be interpreted either way). One way to fix this would be to simplify the amount of categories (e.g. only "content mod"/"no content mod", see #5406, although this is probably too generic)