StalkR

Hi all! this is my first time posting here. At this point I've run out of options. So I recently decided to get into modded minecraft after years of playing vanilla. I've used shaders in the past, and they worked just fine. So today I downloaded Forge for 1.19.3 as well as Fabric, installed them both, no issue there. However after that I downloaded a few mods, I made sure that they are the correct version ( that being 1.19.3), and copied the jar. files into the mod folder inside the .minecraft folder. but when I started the game, none of my mods show up in the Mods menupoint. I spent half a day trying to figure out what's the problem, I tried downloading older versions for Forge, Fabric, as well as for the mods themselves. Nothing works. Every time I open the Mods menupoint, it only shows the version of minecraft I'm currently usinas well as the current version of forge, nothing else. It's weird, because when I put Optifine into the mods folder, I could then use it ingame, despite it not showing up in the Mods menupoint. So if by any chance someone has a solution for this, I would greatly appreciate it.