New Steam Community Features Available

[Munro]

You may find your steam client losing connection for a while. It would appear Valve are adding additional Community features. So far the list includes:

• Redesigned Steam Community pages
• Official groups
• Blotter
• User groups on separate page
• Improved search
• Events time is showed in your timezone
• Profile status is changeable from home page
• Games on profile page are counted

Thanks to our AciD for the heads up.

 

[MaximusPM]

Official Game Groups! I was thinking about it just this weekend... "Why didn't they created official groups... at least for valve games?"

 

[Ennui]

Haha, I find it amusing that a guy named Acid tipped us off to the details of an update including a feature called Blotter

Thanks AciD!

I like the look of these changes, at first glance.

 

[Druckles]

It certainly involves a lot more common sense.

 

[eAi]

No actual official groups yet. I hope they don't steal my group IDs - I've got tfc, tf2, portal, hl2 and hl2ep2

 

[highlander]

ooo looking nice.

 

[AciD]

There is one more feature, you can see VAC status on profile. (If you are Vac banned)

 

[The Brick]

:/


edit: oh it's gone now.

 

[Sheepo]

I'm intrigued. I'll check it out later today.

 

[Crispy]

[*]Events time is showed in your timezone

Finally they fixed this. Now Steam is a much more viable meeting ground for organising map tests, playtests, get-togethers and other general shenannigans across timezones.

 

[mrman234]

What's Blotter?

 

[Operational]

Boot up your Steam Community and find out.

 

[Marler]

Much improved!

 

[kineaesth]

What's Blotter?

There's even a thread about it!