Experimental Interface Option, not advertised much, in the Account Settings for power users.

[jiwachow]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

What I feel was good set of features, won't be implemented, because of policy to force people to read stuff all the time, even though they'd like to skip it and have the Ultimate FAST Experience.

It's not offered anywhere else, and it's not possible anywhere else. Your website is the fastest, and it could be ultimately fast -fastest possible.

When people try creating modpacks for their nephews quickly, in their busy lives,
When they experiment with odd things Minecraft.
When they're running statistics on different set-ups, etc. etc.
They value their time more then anything.

It's really frustrating having to go through long process of opening every mod page, dependency and option separately, and getting to the right version of what you want, knowing that it could be many times faster, especially when you have important stuff to do, and the process is dragging for a long time.

Describe the solution you'd like

I put real thought into it, and discussed this as useful issue on your discord, then created a 4 issue(now 5) 1 bug solution, that is universal, simple, and cheap, without you having to add a whole new interface, like catalogue. And without the need to set-up collections.

Not much to do to achieve it:
12 changes or so, that would put your website at ultimate speed.
Costing almost nothing. And saving a lot of people a lot of time.

-one setting next to sorting (download dependencies/optional)
-one settings link (defaults) and,
-one filter (followed only) in filter pane
-one backend change to save current session filters as default filters,
-one backend table, from 6 proposed solutions, to solve the bug
-one backend table, (or proposition to use the same from the bug solution), for follow only filter
-one icon changed into a download link from said tables
-one error tooltip on hover
-one download all filtered button
-one download all pop-up (with 5 fields that are already created, and 2 new created (already counted))
-one setting in accounts settings allowing experimental use
-one settings unfolding or pop-up panel in account settings (default filter)

Note: Since I'm on holiday now I'll gladly help.

Solution:

I'd like below option to be added to settings, in some dark corner, that won't be advertised much, so that only people who know what they're doing can turn it on. This is a solution that should satisfy both "force read everything" policy, that @triphora taught me, and power users such as me (comments in <>):

{
Warning: Turn this option at your own responsibility, as it may allow multiple files to be downloaded at once.
We can't promise you that you'll get expected result, without vetting each individual mod descriptions.

"Experimental Interface" : Boolean <This is the option, below is option description>

• enables quick download button < modrinth/knossos#926 >
• enables dependencies download and optional downloads settings in sorting pane < modrinth/knossos#926 - described in Additional Context section >
• enables default filter management < modrinth/knossos#924 >
• enables followed-only filter < modrinth/knossos#923 >
• enables download all filtered button < modrinth/knossos#925 >

Then if someone turns this on, below additional option appears.
It will pop up a pane, or unfold it.
That additional Option is: "Configure default filters"

Once you click that additional option, pop up, or unfold a pane looking almost like the filter pane where you could choose defaults for:
-Categories,
-Loaders,
-Environments,
-Minecraft Versions, <it should include the (latest release, latest snapshot) options>
-Open Source,
-Followed Only,
-What to Download

Describe alternatives you've considered

Collections, previous followed only filter implementation

Additional context

The issues connected are:
Bug:
modrinth/knossos#922
Features:
modrinth/knossos#923
modrinth/knossos#924
modrinth/knossos#925
modrinth/knossos#926

Thanks for consideration