New Steam Chat Interface

[SSgt (Ret) Miles]

The rumors were true, steam chat is discord now!

 

https://steamcommunity.com/updates/chatupdate

 

[Maj (Ret) Ray]

This was really jarring when it appeared last night. But it seems to work well enough.

[Capt Koch]

Looks like the rest of it will be released before January, they are officially cutting XP and Vista support cos of this

[Maj (Ret) Ray]

8 minutes ago, Capt (Ret) Koch said:

Looks like the rest of it will be released before January, they are officially cutting XP and Vista support cos of this

It's about time.

[MSgt (Ret) Wolfe]

I'm So lost O_O I'm to old for this shit.  

[Maj Whelan]

23 minutes ago, MSgt Wolfe said:

I'm So lost O_O I'm to old for this shit.  

 

You're too old for steam to begin with, I don't see you coping with this

[Capt (Ret) Jones]

It's really fluid and sleek. If the UI redesign is this good, I guess I won't need a steam skin anymore.

 

Does anyone else dislike the new notification sound? 

[Capt (Ret) Wauben]

yall use a steam skin? wut? I remember the good old days of this....

[Capt (Ret) Jones]

13 minutes ago, 2ndLt Wauben said:

yall use a steam skin? wut? I remember the good old days of this....

Oh yeah. I can't stand the default look of steam, so I've been using Metro for years.

 

https://metroforsteam.com/

 

Not my picture, and not the most recent update to it, but it makes it so much nicer. Also allows customization of highlight colors, background images (like the steam logo in the image), and even font.

Edited June 13, 2018 by SSgt Jones

[Maj (Ret) Ray]

The question is, are any third party skins compatible with the new beta? I doubt it, it's too soon for them to have updated.

[Capt (Ret) Jones]

4 minutes ago, Maj Ray said:

The question is, are any third party skins compatible with the new beta? I doubt it, it's too soon for them to have updated.

Having Metro on while using the beta made the chat windows open for only a brief second before closing. It was working perfectly fine earlier (albeit with awful graphical issues on the main client as Steam was overriding certain parts of it). From what I've read on the group page for Metro, the primary developer is thinking this is the end of Steam skins for a time as it no longer uses VGUI, but Panorama (which is Valve's take on some HTML5/CSS stuff?). It would also seem that even though it's edited through CSS, the files will be replaced with default files each update which makes it impossible to maintain the skin.

 

This is mainly speculation on the developers part, but right now it looks as though Steam isn't going to support the skins at the release of the new client (that or the beta is not supporting it.)

[GySgt Cole]

It's funny because like a week ago I was yelling at a friend that Steam chat needed to be more like Discord. Happy to see this update

[Capt Koch]

3 hours ago, SSgt Jones said:

Having Metro on while using the beta made the chat windows open for only a brief second before closing

Bug with the new design that was fixed in an update a few hours ago

[SSgt (Ret) McCelvy]

 

16 hours ago, MSgt Wolfe said:

I'm So lost O_O I'm to old for this shit.  

Ditto

[GySgt Cole]

 

I'm still missing this old sound (ignore the fucking thumbnail)