Workshop viewing habits

[l0rdgumby]

One thing that you may notice if you check the workshop for Don't Starve and Don't Starve Together is how the most popular items are organized. For Don't Starve, we see that 3 mods are showcased and automatically scrolls down the scroll bar near the bottom of the image. This essentially displays 9 mods on the front page of the workshop. Don't Starve Together's workshop only hosts 3 of the popular mods on the front page, but it has a button where you can view all of the recently popular items that Don't Starve lacks. However, for both workshops you can click on the blue Most Popular Items in the past week to get there.

For those that aren't familiar, when new mods are published, they gain traction towards the front page from statistics. While I don't know what exactly causes this, it seems to correlate with subscribers, views, ratings, and etc. Mods that tend to hit the front page tend to get more attention since they're not hidden amongst the recently published tab and can potentially snowball more "good stats" as opposed to being in the recent tab.

Don't Starve has 9 mods showcased on the front and Don't Starve Together workshop currently has an explicit See all Popular Items button. I wanted to know what people prefer and possibly some insight into how they browse the workshop to see if it all matters that much. 

[LinknAllie]

It's all anime or poorly coded mods that don't function most of the time.  But sometimes there's a gem in the pile.
 

[jtubio88]

22 minutes ago, LinknAllie said:

It's all anime or poorly coded mods that don't function most of the time.  But sometimes there's a gem in the pile.
 

Yes like the bestiary mod or the warsak Game mode

 

[Empa505]

51 minutes ago, LinknAllie said:

It's all anime or poorly coded mods that don't function most of the time.  But sometimes there's a gem in the pile.

Im not that against it, but when 99% of it is just that.... You really cant find anything else in workshop just by browsing the main page. 

[Maxposting]

The common mods are an assault on the senses.

[Cheggf]

I used to check every single mod that was uploaded but I stopped doing that since now for every mod uploaded there's like 30 blank pictures with no description or a description like "FOR ME" with a title that's something like a bunch of Chinese character, "no", or random letters. Don't look at the workshop at all anymore.

[l0rdgumby]

It seems that a lot more people are indifferent to the format differences than I would have thought. From what I gathered before making this poll, people don't really like the mods in the recent tab all that much. My thought process was if you tend to browse the DST workshop, you're probably going to be looking for the most recently popular mods to see if there is anything neat you might be willing to try. The Don't Starve workshop displays 9 of the most recent upcoming mods in comparison to Don't Starve Together having 3 mods. While I have a few ideas for why it wasn't a straight correlation, could people explain why they're indifferent?

[jan Mele]

1 hour ago, l0rdgumby said:

It seems that a lot more people are indifferent to the format differences than I would have thought. From what I gathered before making this poll, people don't really like the mods in the recent tab all that much. My thought process was if you tend to browse the DST workshop, you're probably going to be looking for the most recently popular mods to see if there is anything neat you might be willing to try. The Don't Starve workshop displays 9 of the most recent upcoming mods in comparison to Don't Starve Together having 3 mods. While I have a few ideas for why it wasn't a straight correlation, could people explain why they're indifferent?

I always look for more anyway

[Echsrick]

its always a great thing to see not the boring anime mods or mods that you cant make out the words, its rare that i find something good

[-Variant]

I can't leave the Workshop. I browse it between the hours, I've been walking around here for months now.

The anime mods and self use mods don't hold much nutrients. I can't find the exit. Someone send help.

[Juny Pear]

27 minutes ago, -Variant said:

I can't find the exit. Someone send help.

You know there's an exit like right next to the most subscribed aisle right?

[maradyne]

Anything to promote new creations, really. Keeps people creating.

Would also be nice if Steam gave similar 'exposure weight' to recently updated mods. New content within existing things is just as neat. Promote active developers and whatnot.

Spoiler

Could be abused, but uh, so can literally anything.

 

[dubious little]

Does anyone know WHY the workshop is filled with no image mods though? Like what do any of them even do? Granted I don't have many games with workshop support but the ones I do have don't have anything like this, heck the Don't Starve workshop doesnt even suffer from that issue much.

[Left 4 Sharkb8]

8 hours ago, maradyne said:

Anything to promote new creations, really. Keeps people creating.

Would also be nice if Steam gave similar 'exposure weight' to recently updated mods. New content within existing things is just as neat. Promote active developers and whatnot.

  Hide contents

Could be abused, but uh, so can literally anything.

 

This! Honestly!!!! It feels kind of unfair to put in a ton of updates for my mod, only for it to see no different attention from a mod that isn't even functional anymore. I try not to mind it much, since my mod is mostly just a character I've made that I like to play at this point, but it just kinda gets on my nerves, y'know? It really doesn't make sense that after a few weeks, a mod will get forced off of the popular tab and basically never seen again.

[maradyne]

3 hours ago, dubious little said:

Does anyone know WHY the workshop is filled with no image mods though?

A mix of altered mods for use on particular servers, unfinished parts of mod updates that are being tested by small groups, and...occasional bursts of meme/troll uploads.

[Left 4 Sharkb8]

6 hours ago, maradyne said:

A mix of altered mods for use on particular servers, unfinished parts of mod updates that are being tested by small groups, and...occasional bursts of meme/troll uploads.

It's absurd how many people seem to either think you need to upload a mod in order to use it, or simply can't think to make their mod private while testing

[CaptainChaotica]

Huh.  From the title, I expected this topic to be a poll about the PLAYER'S actual workshop-viewing HABITS.  Like,

"When you go to the Steam workshop for DST, what kind of mods do you tend to look for?"

(list various types of mods here)

"Why do you like those kinds?"

(various answers)

"Do you think mods that are badly-made or don't fit the game should be taken off the workshop?"

(Yes/No/Maybe/I dunno/They might be making bad mods NOW, but let's not discourage new creators from practicing.  Some of them might get better later.)

Instead, this topic is about how the workshop _itself_ looks.

Edit:  Okay, two of the questions are about workshop-viewing habits; but I was thinking something more detailed than just "Do you look at the popular stuff tab Y/N?"

...Notorious  

[dubious little]

8 hours ago, maradyne said:

A mix of altered mods for use on particular servers, unfinished parts of mod updates that are being tested by small groups, and...occasional bursts of meme/troll uploads.

Very weird but that makes sense. Like Sharkbai said though its odd people don't just set their mods to private.

[l0rdgumby]

2 hours ago, CaptainChaotica said:

Huh.  From the title, I expected this topic to be a poll about the PLAYER'S actual workshop-viewing HABITS. 

Instead, this topic is about how the workshop _itself_ looks.

The poll, as discussed in the meat of the main post, was supposed to be focused on what workshop format you prefer. I gave the information on how DS displays 9 mods and DST displays 3 on the front page paired with a button. I also gave the argument in the post on how these formats may actually affect mod ratings (thereby having a functional purpose imo). This idea came from how I initially observed people not liking the recent tab before making this thread, so I wanted to see if they would pick DS since it displays more "high quality" mods on the front.

How often you visit the workshop itself and how often you visit the recent tab are supplemental questions to the first one. Although not very specific, these are still viewing habits of the workshop. There's probably a better title to convey what I wanted, but I didn't think of one and the current one isn't entirely ill-fitting.

TLDR This poll is not entirely about looks and how often you view the workshop are still viewing habits, apologizes if my thread was worded poorly

[Left 4 Sharkb8]

On 3/14/2022 at 9:03 PM, dubious little said:

Very weird but that makes sense. Like Sharkbai said though its odd people don't just set their mods to private.

God I've been reminded that I made a typo in my username! 

I've made this typo twice before, and it was on another forum site.

[dubious little]

7 hours ago, Left 4 Sharkbai said:

God I've been reminded that I made a typo in my username! 

I've made this typo twice before, and it was on another forum site.

Oh is it meant to be SharkBait? xd

[Cheggf]

On 3/14/2022 at 11:18 AM, maradyne said:

A mix of altered mods for use on particular servers, unfinished parts of mod updates that are being tested by small groups, and...occasional bursts of meme/troll uploads.

They're altered? I always thought they were just stealing mods for no or bad reasons. I saw someone complaining that mods update who wanted to just steal them to turn updates off.

Weird that some people are smart enough to edit mods and figure out how to upload them to the workshop but too stupid to hit the friends only button.

[maradyne]

19 hours ago, Cheggf said:

They're altered?

Depends; there are also the cases where nothing is changed, like you said, for update prevention, or in some cases...people mass-uploading copies of the same mod over and over again. As like, protest or something.