Well, nowadays there are less & less people making custom maps/ campaigns, so focusing only on maps/ campaigns wouldn't be good, I think, because that would make a site have only very few contents to show. As for mods, when I compare gamemaps to steam workshop, gamemaps still has more organized mods. For example, if you search for "campaign" or certain mode like "coop" in workshop, you'll find not only maps but also tons of unrelated mods mixed in them & that's frustrating as you'll have to look one by one on those mixed contents. But if you search "campaign" or "coop" here in gamemaps, there will show maps related to "campaign" or "coop", & only very few mods unrelated to maps will show up.

So, I think focusing not only on maps but also on mods & other things is the right decision to do. It still provides maps/ campaigns, & visitors can still search on map section if they only want to search maps (at least that's what I usually do when I want to search only specific mods or maps). Having more choices can attract more visitors to come. Well, at least that's my opinion.

Gamemaps has FAR TOO MANY spam mods to be sure (especially by l4dkk), but is still superior to Steam where finding anything is a pain.  I agree with kurochama, that gamemaps had to evolve.

Solved does make a legitimate point in that gamemaps, which I've been using since 2015, and where I released 50 script mods between 2017-2021 has become more like the Workshop.  But that was necessary and overall the right move.

I've dealt with the people at Steam and at gamemaps and there's no comparison- the people at Steam are a real pain often because the system relies on a 3rd party automated system for policing purposes.  So eventually you'd be dealing with humans, but at first you might have a mod blocked even if no rule was violated.  In contrast, if I ever had a problem the people at gamemaps (especially rayman1103) were VERY responsive and fair!

That said, solved is right in that the mod spamming problem is getting a lot worse and something must be done about it!  It's getting a lot harder for example, to find a SINGLE character replacement if you don't specifically know what you are looking for and are just scrolling.  The reason is there are so many spam mods where all 8 characters are the same (l4dkk's specialty, even that person has once in a while made something else over the years and has talent), that must be "passed" if you will to get to anything else.

This problem also exists if looking for weapons THAT DON'T HAVE A SCRIPT l4dkk added to it.  l4dkk's specialty is making mods from derivative works, and that means there are so many of that persons releases that basically l4dkk has been able to mostly take over the Left 4 Dead 2 section of the website.  This has lead to some big names in modding like Funreal NEVER releasing anything new on this website, because they figure there's no point because they'll release something and 5 minutes later 10 spam mods will be released and then nobody will even notice their mod.

I still think a section of the website just for requested mods, which many of l4dkk's releases are, makes a lot of sense because it would solve this problem.

Have a nice day everyone.

@solved:
That's a good idea. & a mod spam also just happened recently on L4D2 main page. Actually some members have ever suggested something like cooldown timer during uploading several mods at once & about giving upload limit at certain time/ day. AlfredENeuman is one of them who also has been keeping reminding about the mod spam. But unfortunately, the mod spam still happens until now. Probably admin & staff are still trying to find the best solutions for this mod spam problem.

Part of the problem is, of course, that as long as the website is in still in beta (I was hoping it wasn't, but it is) the programmers are going to focus on finishing the website before solving any other problems.  I, however, think this problem is so HUGE that it should be solved IMMEDIATELY.

I appreciate the fact that kurochama and some others, such as solved, are making their voices heard on this and please keep it up!

So, what is the best solution?  Personally, I don't think it has to be complicated at all:  if a person could only upload one mod or UPDATE to a mod every 72 hours it would help a lot, wouldn't it?  Also, as I've said before there should be a a section just for requested mods.  iLL has made it clear to me in the past that l4dkk is going to be allowed to continue to make mods from other people's mods, and there are others doing that too no doubt.  Well, if those mods were automatically put into a special section instead of on the home page when released it would prevent new mods from getting buried because somebody uploads 10 mods five minutes after a new mod is uploaded.

This is exactly what happened to me during the release of my last 10 mods before retiring, and even though some of those mods were some of my best ever they flopped anyway.  And the assumption that could happen to anyone is the reason why a lot of legendary modders (Funreal is a perfect example), put their stuff on the Steam Workshop but no longer put it here!

The Left 4 Dead 2 section has basically been taken over by one person to a great extent, l4dkk, and something has to be done about it!  Just try finding a character replacement for example, without knowing what you are looking for:  you'll have to go past an INCREDIBLE number of mods to get past l4dkk's mods where all 8 characters are the same characters.  This fact discourages mods being made in the first place, and the huge number of mods from derivative works are in other sections too such as the weapons sections where l4dkk has added scripts to a lot of weapon model mods made by others.

A member, I can't remember their name (sorry about that), recently complained of crap mods everywhere and I hate to say it but they have a point we have too many mods that aren't exactly original around.