Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
WIth the volume of new Nexus addons showing up each week, the library is getting a bit unwieldy to parse through. Currently the list is ordered purely alphabetically, and it's just going to get harder and harder to find what you're looking for as time goes on.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great to incorporate some sort of "addon category" functionality, whereby each addon can register themselves to match specific primary and secondary categories, e.g. combat, UI, chat, audio/video, achievements, map/minimap, crafting, libraries, miscellaneous, etc. It would then be great if the library could show the addons grouped by their primary category, and then the ability to filter by category. I'm sure there's many UX design paradigms that could be copied in this regard (e.g. curseforge, wowup, etc).
Additional context
In order to facilitate category views such as this, we would need a published list of categories for authors to subscribe their addons to. Likewise, the Nexus API would need to be extended to allow addons to subscribe themselves to the appropriate category at load, and it would need to cleanly deal with addons not yet updated to make use of such functionality.
Allowing addons to sort themselves into primary/secondary categories seems like a logical progression for an addon ecosystem like is being built here, and it's possible this issue should be split into multiple sub-parts regarding both the backend API side of things and then frontend UX implementation.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
WIth the volume of new Nexus addons showing up each week, the library is getting a bit unwieldy to parse through. Currently the list is ordered purely alphabetically, and it's just going to get harder and harder to find what you're looking for as time goes on.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great to incorporate some sort of "addon category" functionality, whereby each addon can register themselves to match specific primary and secondary categories, e.g. combat, UI, chat, audio/video, achievements, map/minimap, crafting, libraries, miscellaneous, etc. It would then be great if the library could show the addons grouped by their primary category, and then the ability to filter by category. I'm sure there's many UX design paradigms that could be copied in this regard (e.g. curseforge, wowup, etc).
Additional context
In order to facilitate category views such as this, we would need a published list of categories for authors to subscribe their addons to. Likewise, the Nexus API would need to be extended to allow addons to subscribe themselves to the appropriate category at load, and it would need to cleanly deal with addons not yet updated to make use of such functionality.
Allowing addons to sort themselves into primary/secondary categories seems like a logical progression for an addon ecosystem like is being built here, and it's possible this issue should be split into multiple sub-parts regarding both the backend API side of things and then frontend UX implementation.