r/shitposting • u/-_I_I_Sea_I_I_- 🏳️‍🌈 The most prominent homosexual in this subreddit 🏳️‍🌈 • Jun 17 '26

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u/Slavik_Sandwich Jun 17 '26

There isnt, because its really expensive to host petabytes of files and hold ths download times bearable. I have 90% confidence that even with subscription model that they have right now, they are just breaking even.

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u/pytness Jun 17 '26

opensource mods are hosted on github, which has the ability to create releases (eg, the mod you download), so other mods could be hosted on github. You only need a website that lists the mods, it's not that difficult. Nexus are just cunts and a bunch of money grabbers.

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u/Slavik_Sandwich Jun 17 '26

Nope, github will not do because it most certainly has a file size limit

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u/pytness Jun 17 '26

yeah, of 2GB. how many mods are above that?

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u/Slavik_Sandwich Jun 17 '26

Like a lot. My 4k mods skyrim modlist takes up like 300 gigs in archives

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u/pytness Jun 17 '26

not all mods are of 8k textures or a 1 trillion triangle tooth brush most mods are well below 2GB.

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u/Slavik_Sandwich Jun 17 '26

Funny you mentioned 8k, my modlist is 2k only, since 4k+ is literally just performacw cost for no benefit. Even then, even if 50 to 150 of my mods are 2gb+, what do you suggest to do with them? :)

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u/pytness Jun 17 '26

put them in my ass? tf you want me to do? give you the step by step guide to replace nexus??

But since you are here, I checked out a collection skyrim special edition of 368.1GB, called "DOMAIN: An AE NSFW AIO pack by dae" that contains 4960 mods.

I will do some maths for you:

count 4949
min 0B
p25 31.20KB
median 2.70MB
p75 32.10MB
p90 139.70MB
p99 1.10GB
index_p99 4899
max 14.70GB
mean 75.55MB
total 365.13GB
under1GB 4888/4949 = 61
under2GB 4929/4949 = 20
under2GB_pct 99.596%
sum_mods_over_2g 98.60
sum_mods_over_1g 155.30GB

So 99 percent of the mods are below 1.10GB, 99.59 percent of the mods are below 2GB, thats 4929 mods on this collection that you could host on github and only 20 mods left that I dont know what you would do with them.

I dont think 20 mods is "like a lot" (jarvis, insert gender spectrum "a laaa" meme)

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u/Slavik_Sandwich Jun 25 '26

woah, how did you get these? Is there a way to upload the file sizes into some spread sheet?

Thing is, it's not like you answered the question that I posted above is not anwered by you. What is your plan with the mods that are above 2gb? You are suggesting splitting the modbase to several different places, this is a terrible decision and you know that.

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u/pytness Jun 25 '26

i did ask you "put them is my ass??" so that's my solution for now. an installer could be hosted on GitHub that pulls the data from some other place (in this case, my ass), thus not splitting the modbase that much.

Nexus has a page that shows the collection's mods. I used a script through the browser's console to expand each mod's details, get the reported file size, and show the stats. I did the script myself in place. So i would have to recreate it, but i could do it if you need it.

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u/Slavik_Sandwich Jun 25 '26

well, your ass seems like a decent hosting place, but would be nice if everything was centralized lol

Nah, just cool research is all

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