Valve details Steam Community update
Valve has outlined the upcoming Steam Community update, with large changes coming to the way the Community and Friends are separated, along with changes to Groups and your own page.
Valve has been teasing a new Steam Community update, which will add a host of new features to the popular storefront. The major changes come to game pages, Groups, personal content hubs, and Friend lists, and each one is getting several tweaks.
According to Valve, the Game Hubs will house all of the content for a particular game -- screenshots, videos, workshop items, and news -- into a single place. It will also house discussion forums, and the content will be curated by users. Groups will get a new layout, its own discussion board, and personalization options like favorite games or default language.
Your own content updates will all be filtered into the same place as well, including your own image wall and Favorite items. The Friends list will now be broken off from the Community section, which is devoted to the Steam community at large, and instead will be tailored only to friends. It will feature a quick look at friend activity, status postings, and nicknames.
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Valve has outlined the upcoming Steam Community update, with large changes coming to the way the Community and Friends are separated, along with changes to Groups and your own page.-
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Yeah.
It provides views on a lot of good info, and for those of us who've been on Steam since the beginning, I'd assume that most aren't that confused by it. But if you step back and take a fresh look at the client it really is a pile of menu bars, buttons, nested containers with additional menus and side tabs... Links may change the context that immediately contains them, or change the whole page, and there may or may not be a direct way to return. There's at least a few entirely different interface styles. Etc.
I enjoy poking around in it regardless. I just wonder if they'll always be content to let it kind of evolve, or if at some point the User Experience Hammer is going to come crashing in to give it a top-to-bottom makeover. -
Oh so thats why I got a beta code, badges at work for you! But I have the same opinion, good info, but a bit overwhelming.
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I know there are extra invites for this floating around. I would greatly appreciate one!
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If you haven't got one yet, shackmsg me your Steam community ID and I'll provide.
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The amount of nudity on most games screen shot pages those first 24 hours was hilarious.
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I hope they redesign the Steam desktop client soon. The Big Picture interface looks really nice.
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Valve has gotten really lazy, they're adding features but Steam itself is already using almost 100mb of RAM (I know that doesn't seem like much in this day and age, but the point is it can't even load a webpage without a struggle).
It's like nobody over there can be bothered doing any debugging anymore, who cares about good code let's just work on the next big thing!
I'm afraid to think what this new update is going to bring, if things continue this way you'll need the full power of your gaming computer just to run Steam.-
How much ram do you have if your computer struggles to load webpages. If having steam on is bogging your system down it is probably time to upgrade anyway. Programs like Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome all use more than 100MB.
I have seen Steam hit the 100MB usage when using the large mode view and around 30MB when minimized. Either way it should hit your system that hard. -
I don't see many bugs in their stuff so they're doing something right.
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i'd say the main reason is it's all web based, try loading steampowered.com in ie and see if it uses about the same
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