verysoft

I was wondering what happened to the Discord IPO. Discord already went to shit, I don’t know what else an IPO could do to it? More restrictions?

Convenient, easy to use, available everywhere.

They have some good quality of life suggestions in the video, but also a lot of horrible design decisions.

I do like the idea of displaying the review ratios on games instead of “Mostly positive” etc. and the expanding info when you hover which moves the add to cart button is a problem Valve could fix. But that’s like the only takeaways, everything else was a downgrade, while I can see where they are coming from with their ideas… they are just not good UX. Their design is a case of wasting space and minimising the amount of stuff shown, they just outright remove useful information because ‘it exists elsewhere’. Just because it exists elsewhere doesn’t mean it can’t be somewhere else to be seen at a glance.

They mostly looked at it from a design perspective and not a functionality perspective, they are new to Steam it seems from their profile shown in the video, so it makes sense they don’t really know what people want/expect from the application.

That new generation design mentality, every webpage should have a max of 3 buttons, take up 50% of the page and the other half of the page can have 100 words maximum. Function over form please, every website is slowly devolving into this form over function bs the last 5-10 years. I think the UX designers all retired.

No, that redesign is horrendous. It follows modern ‘design’ principles of putting as little information on the page as you can and that’s just a no go.

Steam’s current UI isn’t bad at all, everything functions and is similar to previous versions allowing anyone to find their way around comfortably. There are some issues, like in the older workshop pages and there is absolutely a lot of QoL that could be made, but the main store, discovery and library are all totally functional and nice imo. Steam having a slightly different style on different pages isn’t actually a bad thing, at a glance you can easily tell what page you are on and makes it easier to find what you are looking for, whereas if it all looks the same, it’s not as simple as they all become too similar.

Just because there isn’t a shit ton of padding, doesn’t mean it needs a redesign. Steam should definitely add skin support back though, for people who want to play around with it. I did personally use metro for the longest time.

It’s not the size of the ship, it’s the motion of the ocean.

On LCD and can see the richer colours on the OLED version, it’s a picture so the differences will still show. I think there’s some LCD panel quality and/or colorblindness coming into play for ones who can’t see a difference.

Just use the NewPipe + Sponsorblock fork.

deleted by creator

Yes wait for a Steam sale. https://steamdb.info/sales/history is good for tracking them, although they are usually all the same dates every year, so not exactly unpredictable.

They are clearing inventory of the current SKUs ready for the refreshed ones, so it’s highly likely it will be on sale again this month and/or during the Autumn sale in November.

Native on Steam Deck is 1280x800 (16:10). Pedantic, I know.

I agree though, Steam Deck is great for games and while can be used like a laptop, I wouldn’t recommend it either.

It’s great for sure, my only complaints are the grips should be wider, you have to really bend your fingers to use the back buttons, it could be a lot more comfortable. Also the vent at the back is too close to the fingers on the right, along with the previous issue, your fingers want to rest on it. So a revised model in the future would be great for things like that, the display is fine imo, a bigger battery would obviously always be welcome.

For clicks and to bait comments exactly like this one.

Linux, currently, cannot handle everything Windows can unfortunately. Windows also has a massive software support advantage. Valve are in the best place to try and give Linux to the masses, but that’s a lot of work and it won’t have much return for them. Windows getting worse is the way Linux will get more market share, but most people are not power users and will probably just use Windows anyway as it ‘just works’.