What do you think?
I'm liking it very much =D
Much, much than Discord tbh. Also new in this update is some sort of Steam Announcements link next to when we get notified about unread messages or inventory items. Very neat IMO.
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I've been testing it for awhile. I didn't care for it at first, but I love it now :)
There were still some annoying bugs happening yesterday before launch so i was kinda surprised to see it go live already. The dev/publisher home pages seem great and I haven't encountered any bugs, I thought that feature would of been out before the new chat system.
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If you update to the new Steam Client, your microphone is automatically set to "Open Mic" within the new chat-mode. Meaning if you don't change it to "Push-to-Talk", then everybody you chat with can hear what you are saying. I recommend to change it immediately.
In addition to this, you can no longer go offline in "Friends", you can just set yourself to "Invisible".
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Invisible is better, since you show as offline but it won't actually function as if you are really offline. You can chat normally with anyone. I am pretty much permanently set to invisible and I prefer it over being always being set to offline, which I used before this change.
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I usually set myself to "Away", because I don't want people to know if I am there or afk. I want to choose myself if I answer someone immediately or not. But some people seem to think they have the right to get an answer from me, if they see I'm online. So they write multiple messages and that can get pretty annoying. ^^ Invisible might be a good alternative to Away.
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Like it so far. But I do have two questions:
- Is it possible to remove the "groups by game"? I just want plain Online and Offline categories.
- What does the second number mean on my friends page?
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Max number of friends which increases with your level.
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AAAArgh, i was like new steam chat, what new steam chat? Well today i found out, broke my skin, chat looks ugly.
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I've been using the Beta for a while now. They needed more time in the beta oven before pushing it out to everyone. A lot of things are still broken or annoying. You can't set a default state when starting Steam like before. I used to have it set to be offline because sometimes I just want to fire up Steam and play something alone. Now it just remembers your previous state when you close it and restores that when you start up again. Sometimes I manually set myself to Away so people wont bother me while I'm using my computer, but if I forget to change this when I close Steam, the next time I start, it shows me Away. I try to remember to go invisible before closing Steam now, but when it's late and I'm tired, I sometimes forget.
The biggest problem I still have is that you sometimes cant invite to friends to games. It doesn't always appear on the right click menu on the friends list. Sometimes it works if you open a chat window and right click the tab, but not always.
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A bunch of useful additions but it's hideous af... should've stayed in beta longer as far as i'm concerned
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Chat logs and a better emote list was all that was needed. Haven't found an issue yet though.
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Uhmmm after the update of the client my menu is kinda bugged now... does it happened to someone else? How can I read the notifications now...
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I think you'll need to use the default skin until skin authors update their skins to support latest features/layout.
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I asked to my boyfriend and he also has this problem after the update, but he never used the Steam Customizer app. Welp
Edit: Nevermind, it's really a problem of the skin editor... awwww.
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Still can't edit already posted messages in the Steam chat. So Discord this is not. For someone who types way too fast AND cares about grammar afterwards, Steam really didn't do jack with this new interface update.
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I want my damned offline mode back. Not this invisible crap.
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I like some improvements, but other i hate. For example every time i start Steam i get a pop-up of the chat window even though i don't needed at the moment.
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and new "improved" chat is dead for me xD work again. Well i don't like when after >1month from starting beta this chat is still bugged
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Didn't even notice. I have bitlbee connected to steam and use weechat.
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On top of the new chat some games appearing that some of your friends are playing at the moment. You can only minimize the friends with the minus sign, but the game icons themselves are just staying there. So far I couldn’t find a way to disable this. It would be nice if there was an option to turn it off and/or to manually add only some games that you would be interested at.
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Does anyone know if there's some way to delete all chat history manually?
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in case anyone wants their old steam chat and friends back, with the newest Steam update you need to add -steamos to your shortcut instead of -nofriendsui since that one doesn't work anymore.
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Is there any way to work around the emojis? I use a lot of :) :D while typing and it always opens the smiley prompt that you can't close. I end up spamming :dustpan:. Haha.
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https://steamcommunity.com/updates/chatupdate#tryit
Update: Out of beta now
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