Hello.
I'll talk about curseforge's sorting option.
Curseforge havs 5 options.
・Date Created
・Last Updated
・Name
・Popularity
・Total Downloads
They are not too bad, but they might cause modded minecraft's mannerism.
I frequently use "Popularity" and "Total Downloads".
They are so useful because I can search popular mods easier.
However, whenever I sort these way, I get same results.
Popular mods are always showed top of the page and "Popularity" and "Total Downloads" are almost same contents.
It causes mannerism because users playing same mods many times.
Since I belong to modded minecraft server's development, I can feel mannerism from players.

To solve this problem, I have an opinion.
Making weekly/monthly ranking or don't show mods with more than a certain number of downloads in "Popularity".
We can get following advantages do this.
・Unpopular mods are coming to played more than now.
↓
・Many modders get opportunity becoming popular.
↓
・Modding competition will become fierce.
↓
・Modded minecraft becomes active

It takes time searching from "Date Created" or "Last Updated".
And I wanna play many good mods.
Thank you for your consideration.

The new one looks like simplified garbage. Make sure to leave your reasons in the comments. 128 people voted for the old improvement and CurseForge didn't even consider it and just declined it. Starting a new one until they at least make the new site functional.
~Too much white space takes up the screen and is not utilized properly, leading to my next point. Text is too small, making this abundantly obvious. The UI looks like it's trying to fit into a phone screen, a device that doesn't use mods at all. This makes everything look awful from the notifications to the mod pages themselves.
~No text highlights like the old UI. Combined with the small text, it's harder to tell what exactly you're clicking on.
~Toolbar is nonexistent. Why get rid of something that worked perfectly fine? Why is the feedback at the bottom of the page instead of the top where everyone can read it? Are you trying to shield yourselves from any criticism?
~Notifications lead to the wrong version of a file. I want to download the main .jar file of a mod, and I get deof/API file instead of the one that everyone is going to use. Trying to find the right Minecraft version of a mod is insanely difficult to do, unlike in the old layout where it was neat and organized and wasn't shoved away to make room for the 3 files I don't need. This makes the files tab for mods confusing. It needs to stop assuming the mod files I want and just list all the mods like it did before. Files need 5 seconds to download? Why? Now you're purposely trying to irritate everyone using the site.
~If you're designers are somehow attached to this ****** layout, could you at least enable the old design and keep the new one? The old notifications are still active and that's the only part of the site I'm willing to use.

Post any ideas in the comments of issues I missed.

CurseForge is knowingly and purposely trying to **** off it's userbase by refusing to listen to what the users want.

Both Minecraft and Java have changed a lot over the years and things have changed.

When you launch a minecraft modpack through the Twitch Client, it will automatically assign a couple of flags a user has no control over. One of them being the -xms flag which is always set to 256m and the -XX:PermSize flag which is also set to 256m.

First of all, PermSize has been deprecated with the release of Java 8, meaning it has been ignored since even before Amazon acquired Curse and fused it with Twitch.
PermSize has been replaced with the new Metaspace. I highly recommend setting the flag -XX:MetaspaceSize and tuning it to 256m instead.
I also recommend allowing a user to choose to set the -xms flag.
There are a couple of reasons for this:

When Java Virtual Machines periodically garbage clean, they attempt to scan and reduce anything towards the set xms value. This can cause seconds long freezes if it involves a modpack.
Modern minecraft requires 2G RAM to play, so it will even affect vanilla. Even if you don't want users to set the flag exactly, I highly recommend raising it to 1 or 2G since this will reduce lag experienced during these global gc scans. (though some users may want to raise it to 4G if the pack is very large and thus requires a lot of stuff to remain loaded in memory)
You can, like you did with the xmx value, limit the amount a user can set it to, if programmed properly. Your client is capable of detecting how much RAM is installed, you can use this to for example define what the limit of the slider will be on the xms as well.

I also need to inform you that minecraft vanilla itself has jvm arguments set by mojang. These arguments are: -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32M

None of them appear (by default) in the 'additional arguments' tab and in fact if you don't fill any in, these will be removed completely when the game is launched. This can cause a lot of issues. I recommend adding these (and allowing users to change them if nessecary) in the additional arguments tab if the additional arguments option is empty.

I also recommend adding the -version:1.8+ flag to additional arguments by default. This way, if the client has a java 8 version installed that is in version higher than the included one, JVM will prefer to use that one instead.

If you have questions about the arguments, please have a look here:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/windows/java.html

Thank you for your time, reading and understanding.

I'd love to see auto-generated plots/graphs for analytics found on https://authors.curseforge.com/dashboard/projects. They would provide easily interpreted visuals that would really help authors and motivate them to boost downloads and points, which will help Curse Forge as well by getting more people to visit the website.

I've already created a python interface, https://github.com/EricHedengren/CurseForgeProjectAnalytics, but this requires downloading the cvs file for each project and executing a python file, which can be annoying for authors who don't have python installed on their computer and some authors have dozens of projects, which would take considerable time to download each cvs file.

A compiled python file could easily be integrated into your website, allowing authors to download an image of the graph instead of just raw data. The graphs currently look like this: https://preview.redd.it/68bp2xz5lj151.png?width=3000&format=png&auto=webp&s=da275e8a747e2c4042c51f20e6ef3ec877f2878b

Thanks for considering!

Ignore everything below, or don't.

I see a lot of people don't like the new layout. Here are a couple of things I noticed or missed immediately after the layout switch: the site clearly prioritizes Twitch App users which is noticeable in the download button layout, and users can't filter mod files by game versions anymore. EDIT: the mod list is also missing pagination at the bottom of the page, and there isn't a "back to top" either. EDIT 3: no search bar in the header despite the fact that all file content is- nevermind, this is hard. I'm going home.

The whole update feels rushed and it's clearly a tangentially designed and developed layout that doesn't seem to learn much or hasn't been developed to the refinement of the OG layout. wtf guys come o-

The download button is an easy fix. Instead of treating every web user as a second-class citizen (especially if the user can't use your amazing app because it repeatedly fails to download Minecraft properly [macOS, hello], yay) just- use a better design. Instead of two buttons with Twitch accented, get an icon button, stick a divider in-between (like those settings and dropdown buttons) and stick the Twitch logo at the end. Both options are then visibly important and -- you know -- proportionally accurate. 😒

Also, the fact that the file game version filter is missing is what really makes me believe that somebody didn't even look at the original design before literally "generating" this new design out of thin air. I know redesigns are difficult guys -- that's why you don't do them half-heartedly. This is more for management and not the developers. I'm looking at you, Richard. Don't laugh Brett you're next.

EDIT: I completely glossed over the last flaw that actually prompted this post. Can somebody explain to me how someone forgot to add pagination to the bottom of mod pages? Not back to top either. Come on.

EDIT 2: I keep finding new things. This sucks. Let me start over:

1. bad download design (web land is now second-class; there doesn't have to be such a direct conflict)


2. missing game version filter in the file list


3. missing pagination on the bottom of the mod list


4. can't search from the header anymore and oh my god I see what you've done. You broke the boundaries. You maniacs. What have you done? Previously, minecraft.curseforge.com hosted all Minecraft content. Now www.curseforge.com hosts all file content and minecraft.curseforge.com only hosts community content (I think?) so now you can't include a search bar in the header ahhhahhghajadfadsf