Nexus Mods, the world’s largest mod site and almost certainly a bookmark in your browser if you’ve ever wanted to fiddle with Skyrim, obliterate yourself in Fallout, or annihilate thugs with cans of soft drink, is celebrating a milestone. Specifically, it’s celebrating the fact that the site will today hit 10 billion total file downloads. That’s a one and ten zeroes.
It’s a staggering amount, but even more surprising—at least to me—is the relatively small pool of mods and modders it’s drawn from. “These 10,000,000,000 downloads are spread across 539,682 mod files,” reads the announcement from Nexus Mods, “created by a vibrant community of 128,361 mod authors, serving over 47 million total members, modding 2,683 different games.”
In fact, a quick glance at t…