Steam New Profile Privacy Settings [ALSO, STEAMGIFTS 0 WISHLIST BUG]

Useful for some, just not for our community, at all. Being invisible in the future sounds good tho, it's a neat little feature sometimes.

Always keep my total playtime private even if users can see my game details.

lol, so nice for card idlers :D

More features are good but it is probably going to mess up quite a few websites :/

By the way, new settings are set to hide games and library info from the public (friends only) by default. You might want to change it if you had your profile public before. https://steamcommunity.com/my/edit/settings

the privacy settings page is blank right now for me, I'll try again and see what changes there are later.

Not changing anything for me but I like that upcoming feature

If you choose to set yourself to invisible, you’ll appear as offline, but you’ll still be able to view your friends list, send and receive messages.

I've been using that constantly on Facebook for years, will do the same on Steam.

Now I just wish they would allow to idle without registering playtime.

Thanks for the thread, this would probably have gone right by me since all I have time for on steam right now is card idling.

nice. Now those people can finally hide their VN games.

Does this mean it effects those 'tsupertsundere is now playing 1bitHeart!' popups? Those bug me - and I'm afraid I'm bugging my friends if I'm having trouble, say, launching a game, so they have to see the popup over and over again.

Is funny how this shows up out of nowhere the same day Zuckerberg was about to give his statement to the US congress about the Facebook privacy scandal LOL

well, this is annoying..

what a nonsense, especially making profiles/game details private by default, it will ruin getting new friends with common interests as most people will not change this again to public.

I guess SG users will have to set their games to public to enable the syncs.

This will Change Reviews as i always believe people who have more game time over those who have very little. Now people can say they have tons of time when they don't.

Now I do not have to worry about the hours played in certain anime games ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

For those of you saying your wishlist is empty, you have to go to your privacy settings and change Game details from Friends Only to Public, then sync. It should fix the problem for you.

I couldn't care less who sees what games I am playing or how much, but they could have at least added privacy settings for Friends and Groups as well.

Baby steps, I guess.

If SG could not see wishlists can we assume that it also can't see game list? That pretty much breaks the rules unless you require everyone to set their game list public in order to be a member.

That explains why TSA didn't scan my latest achievements. Guess everyone who uses achievement tracker sites needs to change their settings back to public.

Thanks for the heads up. Set the games list to public and my wishlist games show up again.

i'd still rather they fix the steam client to stop changing my status from away to online for no reason. changed my games lists back to public.

Couldn't figure out why sgtools kept denying me, saying I had unactivated wins. Now I know. I really like having privacy options, but the rollout could have been...more transparent.

I was wondering why I couldnt pass a simple sgtools check.
Now I know why, but sgtools doesn't seem to want to sync, even though I did Home > Synchronise.
Any ideas how to fix this, or just let it self sync again when it does?

Edit: It synced after trying a couple of times. I think it just needs time for steam to update its api and sgtools to resync.

I may be wrong but doesn't the update kind of kill steam spy?