Bit of a weird one, but it's a request that I hope can at least spawn a discussion of other solutions to my problem. This is a very specific thing, and I'm not sure how many other users this has affected.

But at the moment, sales links are using random strings to link to the sale. For example:

http://www.steamgifts.com/go/sale/bfkQw

bfkQw, has no relation to the Steam url whatsoever. what I'm proposing, is that for Sales on steam, we allow AppIDs to be used. For that example I posted, The Witcher 3, the URL would look like this

http://www.steamgifts.com/go/sale/292030

This may seem insignificant, but one problem I have encountered means it isn't. The character limit on trade threads, is 60,000. For my formatting, I use a list which has links to every single Steam game. That being over 800 games, gets quite heavy on the character count. The problem comes with this. The URLs that I have to use, appear as following.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/292030/

This can be shortened to:

//store.steampowered.com/app/292030

But even with that, I am in danger of reaching the character limit once again. However, Using Steamgifts' sales redirect URLs, and relative URLs using Parsedown, I can cut that down tothis

[Link](/go/sale/bfkQw)

Which would result in the following.

Link

Being able to do that, would mean I would not encounter the character limit again for almost triple the amount of games. But I can't do that with the random string URLs, as there is no way in editing my trade thread to have those strings, because I simply don't know them for each game. If it used AppIDs, I could simply use /go/sale/292030, something I know already from the Steam URL, and it would work fine.

Sorry for longwinded post, couldn't think of a better way to explain this.

9 years ago*

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