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I'll keep the below updated with changes to the site, new features, bug fixes, etc.

December 10, 2024

  • Design changes to homepage for logged out users.
  • Integrated bundles into SteamTrades footer.
  • Removed Google Analytics from SteamTrades.

December 7, 2024

  • Integrated Humble Bundles into the site.
  • Changed how wishlist data is collected since Steam now offers a better method.

December 6, 2024

November 27, 2024

  • Fixed an issue with wishlists not syncing due to Steam being down for logged out users.

November 26, 2024

  • Fixed a memory issue when syncing Steam wishlists over 50,000.
  • Fixed a bug when searching comments for certain characters.

November 21, 2024

  • Fixed an issue with Steam wishlists over 15,000 games no longer syncing.
  • Fixed an issue with Fanatical deals no longer loading.

November 19, 2024

  • Fixed an issue caused by a recent Steam change that resulted in certain game images not displaying.
  • Fixed an issue that would cause a wishlist to empty when Steam is down.

November 18, 2024

  • Fixed an issue caused by a recent Steam change that resulted in all wishlists not syncing.

November 17, 2024

  • Small revision to the guidelines to clarify that won gifts should not be marked as private on Steam. "Gifts you win must be activated on the Steam account you used to register. Do not regift, trade, or sell the gifts. After activating a gift on your Steam account, do not remove the game or set it to private, as we may need to verify the activation if your account is reviewed in the future."

November 4, 2024

  • Fixed minor display issue with active user graphs.

October 22, 2024

  • Added markup on giveaways and profiles for search engines.

October 10, 2024

  • Added stats for active users.
  • Removed Google Analytics from the site.
  • Added utm_source to outgoing Steam links so developers can better track incoming SteamGifts traffic.
  • Fixed a minor bug on the account page where the screenshot for Steam privacy settings could appear multiple times.
  • Added links in the community wishlist to the corresponding game pages.
  • Added a secondary order on the homepage, profiles, and groups, so giveaways with the same end time do not shuffle around each refresh.
  • Updated discussions to include some markup for search engines.

October 9, 2024

  • Updates to entries page.
  • Simplified email notifications into a single category.
  • One-click unsubscribe setup for emails to ensure they continue to be delivered to Gmail.
  • Times no longer use decades on the site. For example, you will now see 12 years ago, instead of 1 decade ago.

October 3, 2024

  • HumbleBundle referral links moved over to Impact.

July 25, 2024

  • Turkey removed from EU presets when creating a giveaway.

April 20, 2024

April 16, 2024

  • Minor update to logging system so moderators can better compare keys and gift links across giveaways.

February 13, 2024

  • Logging system for support members to see a history of key and sent/received feedback changes for each giveaway winner.
  • Improvements for support members to better identify users with multiple accounts.

January 10, 2024

December 11, 2023

  • Updates to comment pagination, and faster load times on comment pages, messages, and stats.
  • Improved load times on SteamTrades.

December 6, 2023

  • Changes to entered giveaways page.
  • Improved load times across the site (optimized code for navigation bar notifications) and for the homepage.

December 2, 2023

October 27, 2023

August 26, 2023

  • Fixed an issue causing recent backups on SteamGifts to occasionally fail

May 31, 2023

  • Added links (Steam store, screenshots, and more giveaways) to the description of deleted giveaways or giveaways you do not have permission to view.
  • Added additional links to game notes on moderator pages.

May 3, 2023

  • Added game pages to display giveaways and stats for individual games.
  • Added a stats page to giveaways, so users can see the number of entries per hour joining their giveaway.
  • New footer design with more links.
  • Various SEO changes.
  • Improved search for moderators trying to find games by app and sub IDs.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing Steam packages to temporarily stop syncing.
  • Updated user Comments Per Month and Giveaways Entered Per Month graphs to include months with zero values.

March 22, 2023

  • Added a sitemap so Google can better crawl our discussions.
  • Reduced the number of scripts being loaded on certain pages to improve performance.
  • Displaying Fanatical bundles to users that choose to block advertisements.

March 13, 2023

March 5, 2023

  • Fixed a bug that would prevent discussions from being deleted if they were bookmarked.
  • Minor SEO changes.
  • Minor ad changes.

March 3, 2023

  • SteamTrades mobile improvements.
  • Fixed a minor text wrapping issue on SteamTrades.
  • Faster performance on SteamTrades when browsing trades with a high number of comments.

February 23, 2023

  • Fixed a bug that would cause new discussions to fail to create when the poll question was too long. Now an error message is displayed.

February 22, 2023

  • Updates to SteamTrades to improve the layout on mobile devices, along with a number of SEO and accessibility changes.

February 4, 2023

  • Added a secondary sort when viewing your list of created giveaways, so multiple giveaways with the same end time are consistency displayed in the same order to avoid this problem
  • Updated system for adding Fanatical sales and bundles to the homepage.

February 3, 2023

  • New design for the header on SteamTrades.

February 1, 2023

  • Improved performance for moderators viewing tickets.

January 9, 2023

  • Added Noxco as Junior Moderator.

January 8, 2023

January 2, 2023

  • Renewed servers and switched our database server to one with less RAM to help keep costs down.

December 20, 2022

  • Modified polls so the answer you vote for is highlighted in green, rather than the top voted answer. It seemed confusing to have it the other way.
  • Fixed an issue with polls in Google Chrome where the results page was not sorting by highest voted.
  • Minor change on the homepage adding "View More" buttons to the Deals and Discussions headers.

December 19, 2022

  • Added Community Polls and Community Polls (Ideas) forum categories, along with Poll Manager and Poll Contributor user roles.
  • Added a graph where users can see their number of giveaways entered per month.

December 3, 2022

September 22, 2022

  • Fixed an issue where permanent suspensions started displaying as 10 years.

September 5, 2022

  • Resolved an issue where users with large Steam libraries could experience trouble syncing their account.

August 22, 2022

  • Added GOG as an affiliate.

June 5, 2022

  • Fixed a bug that could prevent an email from being sent in rare instances when the subject contained multiple games with long titles.
  • Fixed an issue with SSL certificates not authenticating on some Steam images, which would cause our site not to generate background colors for those games and their corresponding giveaway pages.

April 14, 2022

  • Adjusted some database indexes for a small improvement in page load times.
  • Reduced chance of database deadlocks when syncing the same account from multiple pages.

April 13, 2022

  • Updates to the software on our database server.

April 10, 2022

  • Fixed an issue where genre graphs on the stats page would not render when your account had zero games or value in a genre.
  • Fixed a rare issue that could cause a user to receive multiple registration emails.
  • Fixed a very rare issue that could cause a user to be unregistered a few seconds after registering.
  • A few other minor bug mixes.

April 9, 2022

  • Improvements to the screenshot viewer.
  • Software updates to the SteamGifts web servers.

April 8, 2022

  • Software updates to one of SteamGifts servers. Others to be updated in the coming days.

April 6, 2022

  • Software updates to SteamTrades servers.

April 5, 2022

  • Fixed a bug that was preventing Steam group data from refreshing recently.

December 27, 2021

  • Dropped TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support.

August 26, 2021

  • Fixed minor redirect issue when using "HTTPS-Only Mode" in Firefox and potentially other browsers.

July 26, 2021

May 6, 2021

  • Improved performance when opening comment permalinks in large discussions.

December 18, 2020

  • Fixed an issue that could have led to some users not receiving emails in rare situations.

December 16, 2020

December 11, 2020

December 3, 2020

  • Implemented JSON support for certain pages.
  • Updated bundle games page to include both the reduced and no value dates.
  • Minor performance improvements when viewing user profiles.

November 22, 2020

  • Profile limited games now syncing through the Steam API.

November 10, 2020

  • Added consent management provider for users in the EU.

November 6, 2020

May 1, 2020

  • New pages added to the homepage for browsing giveaways for multiple copies and DLC.

April 28, 2020

April 13, 2020

  • Fixed an issue with slow performance or timeouts when searching comments on certain discussions.

February 18, 2020

January 4, 2020

  • Starting to add new discussion categories, and descriptions for categories when creating a new topic.

December 5, 2019

August 26, 2019

  • Added a "View Bookmarked" button into the navigation under the "Discussions" button.

August 24, 2019

May 30, 2019

May 18, 2019

May 16, 2019

March 4, 2019

  • Fixed an issue that occurred when a user deleted their account (resulting in the removal of their comments), and they had the last post on a discussion or ticket. It would cause the "Last Post" section to display no avatar or username, instead of falling back to the last active comment, which happens when users normally delete comments.

March 2, 2019

  • Resolved an issue with daily database backups occasionally failing.

February 12, 2019

  • Performance improvements to the archive page.
  • Removed the page for users to help categorize discussions that were uncategorized, since it was not very effective.
  • Minor adjustments to advertising code.

February 11, 2019

  • Increased database volume size.

February 10, 2019

  • Moved all of our domains from NameCheap to Amazon.

December 9, 2018

December 3, 2018

November 25, 2018

  • Fixed an issue that would cause a comment not to be posted if the name of the discussion, ticket, or giveaway changed while the user was writing their comment.
  • Fixed an issue where a user could submit comments to a giveaway they didn't have permission to view.

November 21, 2018

  • Fixed an issue with attached images in comments, where alt and title attributes containing quotations would be double escaped.
  • Minor javascript update to the way permalinks are rendered, and small CSS updates to fix a couple of rendering issues.

October 5, 2018

  • Montenegro and Serbia added to the "Europe - Humble Bundle" preset when creating giveaways and setting region restrictions.

August 4, 2018

  • SteamTrades users can now also delete their account.

July 25, 2018

  • Users can now delete their account.
  • Small updates to the FAQ and privacy policy to inform users about deleting accounts.
  • When users change their username, the corresponding user report, unsuspend request, and increase giveaway limit tickets will have their names updated to match.

May 25, 2018

  • Updates to our privacy policy and cookie policy.

May 11, 2018

  • We no longer log previous usernames, since they're personal data. This means you can now change your username to one that was previously used by another user.
  • Usernames can now be changed every 30 days, instead of once a year. This is done so users can more easily modify their personal data.
  • Improved detection for automatically finding Steam games to add to the giveaway list.
  • Fixed a performance issue with the database query planner, which was incorrectly choosing an index in rare situations.
  • Switched to anonymous IP addresses for Google Analytics on SteamGifts and SteamTrades.
  • The terms of service on SteamGifts and SteamTrades has been updated from a 13 to 16 years of age requirement.

May 9, 2018

  • Users on SteamTrades can now view a history of their comments, and change their usernames. Read more.

May 7, 2018

  • We no longer store timezone data for users in our database, which is why it is no longer displayed on the account page.
  • A variety of user Steam API information that was collected, which we did not actively use, has been deleted. We also stopped collecting information which we previously used to generate a user's "Steam Level" graph, and therefore the graph is no longer displayed on the stats page.

May 5, 2018

  • Existing and new users will now need to opt-in to our email announcements and promotions. Read more.

May 2, 2018

  • Users on SteamTrades that are inactive for 4 weeks will have their trades automatically closed. Read more.

April 30, 2018

  • Comments are now permanently deleted on SteamTrades after 5 minutes. Read more.

April 26, 2018

  • Comments are now permanently deleted on SteamGifts after 5 minutes. Read more.

April 13, 2018

  • Updated a number of scripts and libraries used on SteamGifts and SteamTrades to newer releases.
  • Added link back to SteamGifts from SteamTrades.

April 11, 2018

April 6, 2018

  • Fixed issues related to Steam Community switching to HTTPS. This temporarily prevented users from logging in on SteamGifts and SteamTrades for a few hours, and caused a minor bug with updates to Steam group data.
  • Various links on SteamGifts and SteamTrades to Steam Community updated to HTTPS.
  • Added GreenManGaming back as a referral.

March 27, 2018

March 14, 2018

  • Minor SteamTrades update, allowing advertising to be disabled on individual trades.

March 13, 2018

March 9, 2018

  • Max key length increased from 32 to 35 characters, due to some longer keys being reported.
  • As requested, added Redeem button to the gifts won page, which redirects to Steam for quickly activating keys.

March 6, 2018

  • Standard operating procedure updates for staff members.

March 1, 2018

  • Removed support for IndieGala gift links since they're no longer available.
  • Updates to Fanatical referral links since they switched affiliate programs.

February 23, 2018

February 18, 2018

  • Finished database schema changes.

February 16, 2018

  • Database schema changes on a couple of tables due to growth.
  • Fixed an issue with wishlist syncing after a recent Steam update.

February 2, 2018

  • Added support for gift links in the humblebundle.com/?gift= format.
  • Removed Humble Bundle partner links.

January 23, 2018

  • Added Humble Bundle partner links.

January 4, 2018

December 12, 2017

  • Minor changes to SteamTrades background images to allow for better text readability.

December 8, 2017

  • Improvements to our daily backup solution to remove the need for temporary disk space when backups are generated.

December 7, 2017

  • Tested alternative database servers of different specifications for SteamGifts. In the end, decided our existing server continues to remain the best fit.

December 6, 2017

  • Changed database servers on SteamTrades (switched to a server of similar specifications).

November 28, 2017

  • Fixed a bug where in rare situations a ticket could be created to delete an open giveaway, and it would not instantly be approved.

November 4, 2017

  • Changed BundleStars referral to Fanatical due to their name change.
  • Added Humble Monthly referral to hopefully generate some Humble credit for gifts.

October 26, 2017

  • Email optimizations for faster processing times.
  • Setup an automated task to clean-up processed emails to reduce diskspace.

October 23, 2017

  • Started an email campaign to reach out to inactive users.
  • Setup an automated task to keep Patreon user information up-to-date and synced.
  • Fixed issue where feedback could be locked as not received if manually changed by a moderator.

October 18, 2017

October 6, 2017

  • Point system updates.
  • Automatic syncing now occurs every 24 hours.
  • Region restricted giveaways are now viewable, as requested, but they simply cannot be entered.
  • New email notification setting related to inactive users.

September 21, 2017

  • Added more search parameters for the homepage; release_date_min, release_date_max, metascore_min, metascore_max.
  • Users can now search for games by their app or sub ID when creating a giveaway.
  • Added search support for country codes when viewing a giveaway's region restrictions.
  • Implemented ads.txt for SteamGifts and SteamTrades.

September 20, 2017

  • Added country codes when viewing a giveaway's region restrictions.
  • Fixed a rare display issue regarding locked feedback that was manually changed to "Not Received" by a moderator.

September 12, 2017

  • Changes to giveaway entries, preventing users from entering to win games they previously won, and removing open giveaway entries for synced games.
  • Automatic syncing now occurs every 48 hours when a user visits the site.
  • Added support for IndieGala gift links when creating a giveaway (https://www.indiegala.com/game?game_id=xxxx and https://www.indiegala.com/gift?gift_id=xxxx formats accepted).
  • When creating a giveaway, country codes are now displayed and searchable on the region restricted country list.
  • Fixed minor issue when creating a giveaway, where blank spaces could cause invalid key errors.
  • Changed "less" to "fewer" on the stats page as requested.

September 8, 2017

September 1, 2017

August 25, 2017

  • Patreon beta updates.

August 23, 2017

  • Character limit for poll answers increased from 255 to 500 characters.
  • Updated email notification page with two new notification types: announcements, and promotional giveaways.
  • Setup Patreon donator tags next to comments.
  • Minor HTML/CSS changes.

August 17, 2017

  • Minor database maintenance.
  • Recommended category on the homepage extended to show recently released games with high metascores.

August 16, 2017

  • Patreon beta updates.
  • Updated the permissions for the stats page, so it's only visible to logged in users.

August 9, 2017

  • Fixed an issue with Steam games not correctly syncing from the API the past few days.

August 4, 2017

  • Redesigned tooltips when users hover over the gifts sent and gifts won data on profiles
  • When creating a giveaway, users can now hover over the * icons on the game list, to see when a game started receiving reduced or no contributor value.
  • Updated tooltips when mousing over dates throughout the site.

August 3, 2017

  • Incorporated new ad exchange partner on SteamTrades.

July 27, 2017

  • When creating a giveaway, the game list now has a written description of the * and ** icons for clarity.

July 26, 2017

  • Added reduced CV and no CV giveaways.
  • When creating a giveaway, the game list will display * and ** icons to represent games that offer reduced and no contributor value.
  • Graph that previously showed the percentage of bundle games per month on the stats page now shows a breakdown of full, reduced, and no CV giveaways per month.
  • Background and text colors for giveaway and group pages are slightly more intense.

July 21, 2017

  • Design changes to the bottom of the homepage.

July 3, 2017

  • Patreon beta updates.
  • Improvements to cookie handling, which might result in some users needing to log-in again.
  • Updates to how we sync game prices with Steam, which should result in games keeping their value when they're removed from the Steam store, instead of changing to zero value.

June 30, 2017

  • Patreon beta update, allowing giveaway creators to choose a GIF from a list of options, that will be displayed to their winners.
  • Minor server configuration changes to SteamGifts and SteamTrades.

June 28, 2017

June 27, 2017

  • Feedback now locks after it's in the received state for 30 days. After that point, users will need to submit a ticket to modify their feedback.
  • Incorporated new ad exchange partner on SteamTrades.

June 26, 2017

  • Added View Key button for winners.
  • Giveaway creators will see an eye icon next to each key on their giveaways, if the winners have clicked the button to view them.
  • The notification in the navigation bar will blink if a user has an unviewed key for a win that requires feedback.
  • Added View Closed Invite Only Giveaways permission, allowing all staff members to view closed invite only giveaways for assisting with moderation.

May 21, 2017

  • Implemented two-way blacklists
  • Added DLC filter.
  • Minor redirect improvements for staff members viewing tickets.
  • Fixed bugs with syncing that caused issues with certain API dates, our site not syncing an empty wishlist state when a user removed all of their wishlisted games, and other minor issues.

May 20, 2017

  • Started Patreon beta testing.
  • Added notification on the giveaways won page, reminding users to activate their wins.
  • Profile background and text colors are slightly more intense.
  • Updated advertising to better understand the revenue split between different ad units.
  • Fixed bug where staff members with the Manage Winners permission were unable to see certain winners in giveaways with a high number of copies.
  • Staff members can now remove suspensions issued by staff members of the same rank, when they could previously only remove suspensions issued from roles of a lower rank.

May 11, 2017

  • Added Manage Winners permission for Super Mods (allowing them to both delete/add winners, and modify feedback of winners).
  • All Support users have been changed to Moderators.
  • Rinarin has been changed from Super Mod to Moderator, since she is not currently active.
  • Raiden and wbarton have been changed from Support to Members, since they're not currently active.

May 9, 2017

  • If a user's e-mail address temporarily bounces, the site will now wait 5 days, instead of 2 days, before contacting them again.
  • Running advertising experiments on SteamTrades.

April 22, 2017

  • E-mail notifications are now being sent to users when they win a game, or when one of their giveaways end.
  • E-mail notifications can be managed on the new section of the account page, or by using the unsubscribe links at the bottom of every e-mail.
  • Welcome e-mails are sent to new users when they register.

April 18, 2017

  • Minor changes to account page.
  • Miscellaneous updates for upcoming e-mail notifications.

April 7, 2017

  • Scaled down to smaller instances for SteamGifts' web servers and task server, due to performance improvements as previously mentioned.

March 30, 2017

  • Annual renewal for SteamGifts' web servers and task server is coming up, so I'm running tests this week with smaller instances. There's been a number of performance improvements this year, and we should be able to scale down resources to reduce costs.
  • Removed various automated tasks that were pulling regional pricing information for the sales page that was previously removed. The wishlist page also displayed regional pricing, but it has been switched to USD. Database has been cleared of regional pricing and sales data.

March 18, 2017

  • Added XSRF tokens to logout links.
  • Incorporated more ad exchange partners.
  • Fixed minor issue with HTML tags.
  • Fixed alignment issue with certain dropdown menus on SteamTrades.

March 11, 2017

  • Ad experiments in progress, with the goal of increasing revenue from our existing ad units.

March 8, 2017

  • When you win a game, the site will now check your other giveaway entries that are open, and remove those for the game you just won. Read more.

March 5, 2017

  • Running an experiment on the homepage and giveaway pages to move the advertisements that are above the sidebar content to below the sidebar content. Seeing how revenues compare, and if we're able to relocate the advertisements lower so they're less annoying. Conclusion: No, we can't move them.

February 28, 2017

  • Experimenting with affiliate links.
  • Fixed an issue with the New page, were it was only showing open giveaways created in the past 24 hours sorted by their start time, instead of all open giveaways sorted by their start time.

February 21, 2017

  • FAQ button changed into Help dropdown with links to Comment Formatting, FAQ, and Guidelines.
  • Delete Winners permission changed to Manage Winners permission. Now allows the ability to undelete winners, and to change feedback state.
  • https://www.steamgifts.com/user/id/76561198020696458 link format removed. Please use the newer format, https://www.steamgifts.com/go/user/76561198020696458, when searching for users by Steam ID.
  • Fixed an issue where giveaway creators were unable to search their winners in the awaiting feedback state using the search box.
  • Fixed "bug".

February 16, 2017

  • Giveaway settings will now allow a user to toggle their list of filtered games on and off.
  • The hide game icon next to giveaways will be hidden if the game is already on a user's list of filtered games.
  • Added View Anonymous Winners permission for staff members for viewing and searching winners that are in the awaiting feedback state.

February 15, 2017

  • Fixed an issue with groups not syncing due to Steam request limits.

February 11, 2017

January 17, 2017

  • Improved the layout of the standard operating procedure pages for staff members.
  • Minor redirect enhancements for staff members.

January 11, 2017

  • Moved the advertisement lower down on the giveaway pages to hopefully reduce accidental clicks.

December 8, 2016

  • Setup SMS messages to be quickly notified if the servers are not responding.

December 6, 2016

  • Daily encrypted backups are now being sent to S3 instead of EBS volumes for increased durability.

December 5, 2016

  • Moved our database server to newer hardware of similar specifications.

November 19, 2016

  • Added North America (Canada, United States) and Saudi Arabia + United Arab Emirates regions.

November 11, 2016

  • Setup caching engine on web servers for lower CPU usage and faster load times.

November 10, 2016

  • Added the Steam, search and hide giveaway icons to individual giveaway pages.
  • Removed sales page

November 9, 2016

November 8, 2016

  • Deleted all trade related information from our database.

November 3, 2016

  • Updated backup volume to 1TB of storage.
  • Updated data volume to 250GB of storage.
  • Converted character encoding across our site, allowing support for the full range of Unicode characters.

October 27, 2016

  • Changed the way dates are handled on the site, allowing the local times to be generated on-the-fly by the browser, instead of on our web servers for improved load times.

October 26, 2016

July 6, 2016

  • Added a setting to filter giveaways by OS, allowing users to only show Windows, Linux, or Mac giveaways.
  • Added buttons to the won page for copying keys in a single click.
  • Started work on a standard operating procedures page for staff members, so we'll be able to improve consistency and bring new staff members up to speed faster once complete.
  • Fixed a bug that could allow users to search for anonymous winners.
  • Fixed a recently added bug that wouldn't allow users to create tickets for invite only giveaways that were still open.
  • Fixed a bug that wouldn't allow users to view past their first page of suspensions.

June 1, 2016

  • Added a region for Germany when creating a giveaway.

May 19, 2016

April 27, 2016

  • Minor font updates.

April 26, 2016

  • Moved our static elements to a CDN (cdn.steamgifts.com), for faster load times in far off lands.
  • Minor display improvements on mobile devices.
  • Region restricted giveaways now require 5 entries or more to increase levels.
  • Fixed a numbering issue when creating tickets for certain categories.

April 21, 2016

  • Improved URLs when handling foreign languages.
  • New users start with 300 points instead of 100.

April 19, 2016

  • Added more search parameters for the homepage; copy_min, copy_max, region_restricted.
  • Minor changes to pagination on certain pages.

April 15, 2016

  • Improved wishlist syncing, preventing wishlists from being cleared when Steam is down.
  • New is now sorted by start time, instead of created time.
  • Testing recommended page, showing giveaways for top wishlisted games in the community, and games you frequently enter to win.

April 13, 2016

  • Implemented HTTPS.
  • Fixed a bug where suspended users couldn't use comment permalinks.

April 12, 2016

April 11, 2016

  • Ability to hide advertising on a per giveaway basis, when user content is flagged as inappropriate by our ad networks.
  • Updated hide games feature to save without refreshing the page.

April 7, 2016

March 21, 2016

March 10, 2016

February 9, 2016

  • Fixed a bug that would count deleted giveaways when calculating a user's featured giveaway limit.

February 8, 2016

  • Rebuilt our table of user games for a slight performance increase, and better flexibility as it continues to grow in size.
  • Added permission for support and moderators to modify user regions.

January 19, 2016

  • Added a new tool and role permission for admin to remove giveaway winners.

January 8, 2016

  • Fixed a bug that could allow an incorrect number of points to be returned when entering multiple giveaways at the same time.

November 28, 2015

  • Added 500 GiB of storage for automated database backups, saving daily backups for the past month, and monthly backups for the past year.
  • Added link to our Steam group in the footer.
  • Site now displays 50 instead of 25 results on the homepage, created, entered, and won.

November 27, 2015

  • Reduced javascript file size.
  • Improvements to notification spacing in the navigation bar.
  • Minor changes to how input box placeholder text is handled.
  • Removed logo.
  • Changed how the featured giveaway on the homepage is displayed.

November 26, 2015

  • Updated the daily giveaway limit from 100 to 300 individual giveaways per user.

November 25, 2015

November 24, 2015

  • Additional moderator tools.

November 19, 2015

  • Fixed redirects to correctly return you back to the page where you logged in or logged out from.
  • Outgoing links in comments and descriptions are no longer followed and open in a new window.

November 12, 2015

  • Three new regions added; India, China, and Hong Kong + Taiwan.

November 8, 2015

  • Adjustments to homepage pagination system, and other performance improvements.

November 1, 2015

  • Changes to date and time settings, to better handle daylight saving time in the future.

October 24, 2015

  • Updated the way files are executed on the web server for faster load times, and a smaller memory footprint.
  • Fixed a CSS bug that could allow comments to break the browser width.
  • Added Vietnam to SE Asia region due to Steam changes.
  • Fixed a bug that appeared after the server migration, allowing certain users to create more giveaways than their limit allowed.

October 23, 2015

  • Implemented temporary IP blocks for users attempting to brute force giveaways URLs.
  • Redesigned error pages.

October 21, 2015

  • Message notifications in the navigation bar are now cached for faster load times.

October 18, 2015

  • Migrated the site to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

September 28, 2015

  • Fixed a bug that could allow multiple featured giveaways, for the same game, by the same user, to be open under certain conditions.

September 27, 2015

  • Profiles include links to Steam for logged out users browsing the site.

September 24, 2015

  • Changes to featured giveaways
  • Fixed a bug where new replies to month old comments wouldn't appear on the messages page.
  • Fixed an issue when searching comments with a search query containing multiple words.

August 30, 2015

  • Adjusted user ticket limits to 20 daily, and staff to 200 tickets daily.

August 29, 2015

August 28, 2015

  • Adjustments to the giveaway creation form, to help reduce the chance of users accidentally posting duplicate giveaways.

August 26, 2015

August 10, 2015

  • Fixed an issue with groups not syncing and being available for giveaways.

August 6, 2015

August 4, 2015

  • Fixed a bug where links would be visible in spoiler text, while it was not being hovered over.

August 3, 2015

  • Fixed an issue with prices in Brazil, Europe, and Russia being displayed incorrectly.

July 31, 2015

  • Added tool for changing user roles.

July 30, 2015

  • Added tools for changing user regions and giveaway limits.

July 25, 2015

  • Fixed an issue with certain wishlist items not being synced after a recent Steam update.

July 18, 2015

  • Adjustments to the server to hopefully prevent the blank pages that have been loading during peak hours.

May 21, 2015

  • Improved session management.
  • Revised our solution for automatic database backups.

May 17, 2015

  • Added information about levels to the FAQ.
  • Minor changes to markdown styling, and fixed an issue with ordered lists nested in unordered lists not being numbered.

April 21, 2015

April 20, 2015

April 17, 2015

  • Minor style changes to radio buttons, with a dotted line between options.

April 16, 2015

  • Improved indexing for ticket order on the staff moderation page, helping to reduce load times.
  • Due to an increase in traffic there were a few changes to the homepage to increase performance, such as the counts being removed for All, Group, Wishlist, New.

April 13, 2015

  • Added an arrow on the homepage to view additional featured giveaways if more than 2 are available.

April 9, 2015

  • Tweaks to the code used for recommending sales.

March 31, 2015

  • Developer giveaways limited to 100,000 instead of 50,000 copies.
  • Giveaway pages have the game image link to the Steam store.

March 18, 2015

  • Invite only giveaways are no longer indexed.

March 12, 2015

  • Giveaways can be assigned special tags that are appended to game names. These are going to be used in unique cases where a developer might be giving away alpha or beta keys, and we need to mark the giveaway as such.

March 11, 2015

  • Links to the new group pages now listed under account and on giveaways.
  • Improved base game requirements for packages that contain all DLC for a single game.

March 7, 2015

  • Added jatan11t and SleepyCat to support.
  • Added brand assets page.

March 6, 2015

  • Added Crazee, Khalaq, and Ronix to support.

March 1, 2015

  • Fixed bug that caused slow web server restarts, resulting in brief periods of downtime throughout the day for 5 minutes, instead of a few seconds.

February 28, 2015

  • Added more stats to group pages.

February 27, 2015

  • Added stats to group pages.

February 26, 2015

February 25, 2015

  • Fixed an issue with HTML encoded names being displayed for Steam groups.

February 19, 2015

  • Fixed a bug where you could determine the game title of an open invite only giveaway on user profiles, by using the search, and seeing whether or not the giveaway remained in the list.
  • Removed sales from the footer.
  • Added the ability to override incorrect prices in the database to start fixing inaccurate data reported by the Steam API.

February 13, 2015

  • Further improvements to the algorithm for recommended sales.
  • Trying out sales in the footer, instead of free-to-play games. Sales are personalized for each user.

February 12, 2015

  • Permalinked comments now get green arrows, instead of highlighted usernames, allowing them to work together with OP highlights.
  • Testing colored usernames, blue to highlight OP, and green to highlight permalinked comments.

February 11, 2015

  • Minor changes to commenting FAQ.
  • Fixed an issue with game data not updating after recent changes to the Steam API.
  • Testing free-to-play offers in the footer for certain countries as an alternative to ads.

February 8, 2015

  • Bundler role added, which has identical permissions to the Member role, with the added permission of managing the bundle list.

February 7, 2015

  • Staff members can view a list of deleted giveaways on user profiles.

February 6, 2015

  • Remove Entry button now yellow instead of red to differentiate from errors.
  • Minor tweaks to CSS to improve spacing.
  • Fixed an issue with ads overlaying some content on lower resolutions.
  • Experimenting with ads in the sidebar on certain pages.

February 5, 2015

  • Searching your giveaway entries would result in an error for the past day. It's fixed.
  • Stats for Steam games added.
  • Messages page has been added to the site.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a few giveaways to end without winners being generated.

February 4, 2015

  • Improved caching on trades and discussions, along with user entry counts, resulting in faster load times on certain pages.
  • Fixed an issue with the query optimizer that started overnight, bringing the site to a crawl.
  • Decreased the frequency of updating Steam group data, to hopefully prevent further blocking from Steam Community.

February 3, 2015

  • Last button will appear for results with 100 pages or less, instead of the previous 50 pages or less.
  • Users page has been readded to the site, allowing you to browse and search users in the community. Link also included in footer.

February 2, 2015

  • Birthday icons no longer appear for users that registered today, but instead only for users with one or more years on the site.
  • Fixed an issue with sessions not being written to the database prior to redirects, causing an infinite loop for guests.

February 1, 2015

  • Name field changed to Title in the form to create new trades, discussions and tickets.
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steveywonder75

Cheers for the update cg. :D

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zelghadis

Yay! My suggeston got added! thanks! :3

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shpasic

i like redeem button - very convenient!

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Ekaros

Wait there is now redeem button? Great job!

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grego87

A redeem button on giveaways marked as received is kinda pointless.

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JustArchi

But consistent with ones that you didn't mark yet.

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Ekaros

Hmm, what kind of spam will it be?

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rafaelgomesxyz

Omg, thank you for decreasing the time limit to change our usernames from 1 year to 30 days! I didn't think this would be implemented, with the hostility that the community showed towards that idea every time it was suggested.

But maybe it would be better to log usernames for at least 31 days? Because if a user changed their username and then wanted to go back to their previous one and someone else already took it, they would be unable to do so. But with the previous username being logged for 31 days they could go back to it in 30 days.

Also, the comment history on SteamTrades is awesome, but can you please also implement it on SteamGifts? That would completely remove the need for ESGST to track people's comments.

Thank you for the amazing updates, cg!

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Gainja

I think old usernames should still be blocked; you can keep a log of used names without linking to a specific account...
Maybe not block used names forever, but a year? Something to prevent impersonating...

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rafaelgomesxyz

+1

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Mdk25

+1

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SKL01

I changed my username about 4 months ago, now with the 30 days rule, I cannot change it again, is there any problem with persons who changed the username in the past 12 months?

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NeverOnline

About May 11, 2018 changes: I agree that users should have the freedom to change their username but the 1 month limit seems a little short. Maybe 3 months or so to deter people from fooling around with the name-change system. Also since there's no log of old usernames, and that's a welcomed change, it's fine if you can change to whatever arbitrary name you choose (not offensive by common standards of course) and if it happens to be some user's old name, so be it. There shouldn't be a copyright in a name and this talk about impresonators can only go so far. People are afraid as if suddenly thousands of users will try to impersonate others, it's a bit overreacting. Some impersonators may try, they may succeed and they may get caught. No reason to punish all the rest of them/us and deprive from someone a username no longer active and abandoned, just because it was used at some point. Just because I happen to have found the coolest username evah (top 3 at least :p ) it doesn't mean I have a hold on it and in case I change have the "right" to reclaim it. All's fair in love and ..gaming..

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LostSoulVL

but the 1 month limit seems a little short. Maybe 3 months or so to deter people from fooling around with the name-change system.

+1 as this new feature will surely be abused by some who like to have a situation of chaos and confusion so that they will be removed from BL or that their SG comments or forum behavior are forgotten.

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76561198082881386

We no longer log previous usernames, since they're personal data.

Maybe remove usernames in general? Everybody has to login with their steam account so maybe use steam username instead?

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zelghadis

Steam Usernames are not unique, so we would end up with several users having the same nickname. attending discussions would become impossible, because you can never know if the adam123 you responded to is the same person you were previously talking to. Not to mention impersonation - I change my steam username to propofolpls, change avatar to yours and do some nasty shit a lot of people will link with you instead of me.

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76561198082881386

Ok - that would be a problem.
Is there no way to identify steam user fast? I mean - we can tell that somebody is impersonator by studying their steam profile but yeah - in the heat of discussion that will be impossible.

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zelghadis

only by their unique SteamID - but it's either random set of letters and numbers or just numbers, for example your ID is 76561198082881386. It would still be pretty useless in discussions thou, because such random sets of numbers are so hard to remember that you won't remember what was the number of any other user anyway. That's why unique nicknames in discussion forums are important thing.

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76561198082881386

It would still be pretty useless in discussions thou

Yup.

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Mully

now everyone look like bots 😱😭

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76561198082881386

I'm not a number, I'm a free man!
oh... wait...

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Tzaar

Lol pure win.
Love the new name.

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combatbeard

Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast
For it is a human number, its number is seventy-six quadrillion, five hundred sixty-one trillion, one hundred ninety-eight billion, eighty-two million, eight hundred eighty-one thousand, three hundred eighty-six.

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76561198082881386

For this comment alone - I think it was a good idea to change my name xD

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GauRocks

Given that you just changed the minimum age, what happens to all the 13, 14, and 15 year-olds who already signed up and are now in violation of the Terms of Service?

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maruten

That came to my mind as well and so I am curious about that.

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adam1224

They will be forcefed growth hormones, whey protein and alarm clocks

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Mully

time to make millions of cards ^^

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Deleted2137

damn, Bully still used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Mully

Leech too 😭

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Deleted2137

SuperMegaLeech is free 🤘🏻 but, maybe, later

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IovoI

It's easier to try MuIIy (capital i) or Mully (lowercase L). No one with either of these letters is safe now, even owls!

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MSKOTOR

I don't accept reply that's faster than 3 days

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IovoI

Not a problem for me!

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Deleted2137

but no joke there, no fun ;/

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trentjaspar

you can now change your username to one that was previously used by another user.
Usernames can now be changed every 30 days, instead of once a year.

Impersonators rejoice!

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Tzaar

Since any username is personal data, I believe everyone should have a blank username and avatar.

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combatbeard

That would actually do more to protect peoples personal data and identity. The option of changing names willy-nilly undermines it.

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canis39

cg,

If usernames are personal data, why have separate SG usernames? Why not simply link to the user's Steam account?

If there are no separate SG usernames, there's no personal data to worry about, right?

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zelghadis

because steam usernames are not unique, so we would end up with multiple users having same nickname, plus it would make it very easy to impersonate other users on SG.

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adam1224

I support Mully's 76561198005776799's idea to use SteamID64s as they are unique, aren't considered as personal data and easy to use! :D

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zelghadis

and not human-readable / rememberable thus would be the same problem - not possible to have discussions in forums.

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adam1224

How is life without a sense of humour though? -.-

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zelghadis

Sorry. First of all Poe's Law, 2nd in my defence humour detection in written text does not work the best at 2AM.

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Nudiustertian

We no longer log previous usernames, since they're personal data.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. A user name allows you to associate a user with personal data. It is not, in and of itself, the kind of personal data that should not be logged. If keeping a history of user names is necessary for proper operation of the site, you'd certainly be allowed to keep them (for a period reasonable to the use). At the very least, you can make a good argument for tracking the last user name and the date at which a change happened, to catch the most flagrant abuses. With one change every 30 days, keeping a history of one name seems reasonable and sufficient -- if an impersonator isn't acted on in 30 days, you've got bigger problems. Having no record at all seems iffy (notwithstanding that users could and should check these things themselves using Steam profiles).

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Mully

June 13, 2018

  • We no longer log previous wins, since they're personal data. This means you can now leech as much as you want without fear of getting suspended.
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rafaelgomesxyz

Fixed an issue that would cause a comment not to be posted if the name of the discussion, ticket, or giveaway changed while the user was writing their comment.

Finally! Thank you!

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kazerniel

Groups can now be searched by their Steam ID. For example, https://www.steamgifts.com/go/group/103582791432125620

yay! \o/ I wanted this feature for so long!

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rafaelgomesxyz

Finally! \o/

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Reforced

Thanks for the ongoing support, cg! ^^

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icaio

appreciating the lil' fix made at GMG links (they do works, now!)

<3

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Kappaking

May 30, 2019
Find Steam Friends on SteamGifts
((φ(･Θ･｡)

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Wintermute75

Happy CakeDay, cg!

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