https://kotaku.com/steam-libraries-are-getting-an-overhaul-1833473185

During a press pre-briefing on Tuesday, Alden Kroll from Valve described the library changes as a “complete redesign.” Users’ Steam libraries will soon have their own home page, not unlike the Steam store’s front page.
The Steam library home page will have a carousel dedicated to game updates and events, to keep players clued in about what’s going on in their games. There will also be a widget dedicated to friend activity, allowing you to see what your pals (and/or lifelong nemeses) are up to in individual games. From there, you’ll be able to matchmake into games with them, if you want.
Individual game pages in the Steam library are also getting re-tooled, again with a focus on providing players with information about updates, events, and friends. There’ll be a feed for events and updates, as well as one for friends’ screenshots, achievements, reviews, and things of the like.

personally: i'm actually thrilled that the updates will be aggregated into the client because right now i have to manually "follow" each game that i think will be getting active updates in the hopes that i see them on my activity feed; cuts some of the work down for the user to keep up with things. the rest of it tho i'm just gonna wait and see how it works and if it makes things harder or easier to organize.

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what do you think about these upcoming changes?

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it's about time we have something new!
eh, don't care.
no!! i prefer my current library system, don't mess with it!
potato client in a potato world.

as long as i can keep a simple list of games, it's fine. i don't care about extras and a UI filled with links and icons.

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Maybe this is why people couldn't post in the Group areas with the Client the past couple of days!

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I'm all for a redesign, but not the features they're redesigning it for

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I'm hoping Steam Client gets its performance improvement it's been sorely needed.

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I dread the day my nice compact list of games gets turned into "tiles" or some other absolute garbage because "the people want it that way." I do not. As I only play 1 multiplayer game, I don't really care what my steam friends are playing, I'd rather not know (thus why I have steam friends turned off as much as possible).

I only use the "follow" button as a way to bookmarks games I want, but not enough to see them in my wishlist. I never check the page which has announcements about such followed games.

Valve needs to realize that some gamers do not want steam to become another Facebook, and never use it as social media anyway.

I don't actually care what screenshots other people took. If I did care, I could check the community hubs for said games, or even -shock- my friends' profiles. Hint: I don't.

And--in the client--don't our libraries already have their own homepage? Or what is this pic?
In all seriousness, I use the right-click context menu to open steam at my library 1000x more than I open to the main homepage.

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I just hope hidden games can now be sorted by groups like non-hidden ones.

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Fingers crossed that they don't mess up my categories.

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I use this library view anyways so I don't care

if this view won't be available then fuck them.

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thank you for this! My account is 11 years old and I didn't knew that I can filter for metascore or used disk space!

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If anything I would like to add sub-catergories to my categories. Having too many games makes it a long task to sort them.

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All I ever wanted to have f2p games stay in my library. Now I'm gonna get a big boxy menu thing.

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Library design is perfect for me. Valve is still missing what we want from them. Sigh...

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I've been using:
Depressurizer - Releases

... to help manage my library for quite some time now. We really need this kind of functionality built into the Steam client.

Depressurizer is a program aimed at making it a bit easier to manage large Steam game libraries. It can auto-categorize your games for you. Currently, it does so based on data from that games' Steam store pages. It can use genres, Steam flags (like "Single-Player" and "Steam Cloud"), Steam tags, Developer & Publisher info, How Long to Beat times, year, and/or Steam review user scores. Auto-categorizing can be done manually or automatically via shortcut.

In addition to providing a way to quickly and easily modify games' assigned categories, it also lets you mark them as Favorites or as Hidden.

It also saves your configuration information independently of Steam, providing an automatic backup in the event that Steam loses your configuration.

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