Multi-select in mod installer

[Precontation]

The idea would be, when in the mod download page, have a checkbox to install multiple at once.

Here's my very temporary Google Slides model of this:

The actual UI shouldn't be too hard to make, although it might be a bit of a challenge to make sure nothing interferes with rate limiting or anything like that.

I would be willing to implement this, but I have very much C++ knowledge, nor do I even know where this installer page is in the codebase :/

Either way, while this isn't a very high priority feature, it'd be a nice QOL thing to avoid opening tons of menus.

[HJfod]

Hello!

This has been suggested a few times before, but personally I'm against having any sort of way to bulk-install arbitrary mods. My reasoning is that we already have a lot of users who just download the entire index without even checking what the mods are and then get confused as to why their game no longer works, and any sort of bulk-installing would just encourage that behaviour even more. At least currently they have to open the mod's description page, even if they are unable to to read it.

I do see some legitimate usecases for this, such as reinstalling your mods on another device, or installing a bunch of popular known-to-work-together mods. However, I'd much rather we solve those issues via loader profiles and modpacks respectively, rather than arbitrary bulk-downloading.

[Precontation]

Hmm, that makes sense.

I have a couple ideas that may help if you'd like to hear them:

1. Loader profiles and mod packs would be great; there could even be an optional account system or something, although then managing everything on different platforms would be kind of hard to deal with. The best way to deal with that probably would be an "incompatible mods" section because the current Geode incompatible mod system feels more like it's never supposed to happen and there's a bug in the code, but that could just be me.
2. Maybe when selecting, you have a limit of 10 mods at a time before you have to restart? Or you could make the button ONLY show "install mods and restart" so that you have to restart every 10 or so mods you install. That may feel bad but would probably stop the core problem. I could also see it so you can only select for the current page rather than keeping track of everything, but that would feel like an oversight rather than an intentional decision in my opinion.
3. (this one's pretty out there; maybe it itself has to be a separate mod): if multiple devices are connected to the same network, could we do some sort of LAN download system? From a technical standpoint, it still might have to hit the server due to different platforms (transferring from a Windows to Mac or something else) but you could probably store something? I don't remember if .geode files are cross platform or not, so that may be an issue.

I do see your reasoning, so I hope these ideas could help!