Looks very useful, thanks!
It would be great, if you could add the keyboard Left/Right arrow keys as shortcuts for switching images and allow us to turn off the transition effect when flipping through them (maybe as another icon next to those in the top right corner).
For videos, maybe Ctrl+Left/Right arrow to switch between any different clips, because in that case the arrows are used for navigating the video itself.
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Hold on a sec am I actually going insane this time or did the "Deals" and "Discussions" tabs at the bottom of the page get inverted?
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Hey so I'm not the only one. I thought my browser's add-on was glitching again. Not sure if this is a permanent thing, it's not a big deal but pretty confusing.
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It feels like switching my right foot for my left hand, I can live with it but it will take a long time for my brain to assimilate it.
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I thought you were talking about the top bar. The "Deals" button feels new? Or if it just switched places, I never used it.
But for the tabs you are actually talking about, yeah just seen that it's switched as well. Seems like it will be uncomfortable for me.
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+1, was super irritated about the types of topics in deals when I noticed they switched lol. Bit late for an April Fool's, too, haha.
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Me, I was like "Why are the deals now mixed with general discussions. Who thought that was a good ide... ooooooh"
Also, yes, keep looking at the wrong side first still.
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I'm sure we'll get used to it eventually, but I definitely did a double-take the first time haha. tbh I check more deals than discussions and alphabetically it comes first too, so it makes sense. But hey, at least we know it wasn't a glitch in the matrix.
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They were switched, but there's some method to the madness. I added a "Deals" button to the navigation because it's a frequency accessed page with content that is likely worth highlighting. In the navigation I feel it makes more sense for the "Deals" button to appear before "Discussions". However, the summaries at the bottom of the homepage had them ordered the opposite way. So, I flipped them to stay consistent with the order of the new navigation.
I imagine everyone will hate it in the short term because it feels wrong seeing the content in a different place, but I think keeping the positions consistent is the right choice, and in a few weeks it'll feel normal.
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there's some method
are you seriously saying you weren't bored and started to play with SG navigation links??
obv kidding!
it took a few secs to feel it normal. plus, you can go directly to Deals in a single click. so, not everyone is hating it, but it's also "normal" that you'll get some "i'm horrified by this choice!", "what a scandal!" and so on by some of us. we should also think that you, the admin, have a more "complete" picture of the site (i'm thinking about all the non-SG-users that browse the Deals section...) and that changes are made to benefit all users.
i've also appreciated the new screenshot viewer: very light, very fast.
small request/idea: i'd put the Support button in the Help one (Support button is only visible to logged in users) so to have a shorter navigation bar... ?
last but really not least, thank you!
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Oh I didn't even spot it clicking "discussions" a few times
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Please cg, make dark mode happen, the white background is really annoying on mobile.
Plus, could you give us a link to a GA as an example where the screenshot thing is already active, tried on a couple, but I couldn't see a difference :)
EDIT: Nevermind the 2nd part, found one, it looks really cool :D
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Hi, that’s a pretty awesome addition! Makes life way easier!
My slight problem with it is I actually first noticed and clicked on the new feature while trying to hide a NSFW game...
(And it’s quite hard to press the right button on mobile)
Is there perhaps a way to disable it for nsfw games? Or even be able to turn it on and off altogether?
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Yeah, can we get these 4 buttons bit separate? Big fingers and mobile makes it extra difficult;)
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It seems to work well, but I personally don't think I have a use for it because anytime I see a game that is new to me, the first thing I need to check is the tags to see what type of game it is and the review score. These 2 things give me about 90% of the info I need to know if I will have any interest in the game. Then if I am still interested, I will move on to skimming through the trailer to see gameplay and reading reviews.
Maybe others will find it useful though. The only thing I felt was missing is the ability to use the keyboard arrow keys to move through the screenshots, but that isn't a big deal.
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Can we make it optional? As in a toggle in the options.
I understand people are happy with it, but personally I don't need it and rather not see it so I can't click it by mistake either.
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Do you use an ad blocker? Add this to your custom filters and it should be gone. I use uBlock, but the same filter might work with Adblock Plus.
www.steamgifts.com##.fa-camera.fa.giveaway__icon
Edit: The above filter was leaving the icon on some pages, I think the new one below will remove it everywhere. There is an empty space left on some pages where the icon use to be and I'm not sure how to remove the space.
www.steamgifts.com##.fa-camera
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I also use Ublock and had to look for it since I never added a custom filter before but I think I did it because the camera is gone, thanks!
Don't know if you use ESGST, but when I do 'extract all giveaways' it still shows the camera on games and if I block 1, the rest keeps showing, is there a way to remove them there as well?
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I'm not sure, I don't use ESGST and I'm not an expert with ad blockers. I did just notice that it was still showing the icon on the actual giveaway pages if you click on a giveaway. If you use the new filter below instead of the first one, it removes the icon from both the giveaways list and the individual giveaway pages, it might fix it with ESGST too. The only issue is that there is an empty space left on the giveaway page where the icon was and I don't know how to remove the space.
www.steamgifts.com##.fa-camera
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You are amazing!!
That indeed removed it everywhere for me, thank you so much!!
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Glad it worked :)
You can use it to block all kinds of stuff, not just ads. The lightning bolt button will let you temporarily block things and they will come back when you reload the page. You can hold shift and click a bunch of stuff on the page to remove it all. The picker button next to it will let you select things and it will add them to your custom filters. It usually works pretty good, but sometimes the filter needs to be edited a little to get it to do what you want. When I originally selected this button, it only blocked the one icon just next to the specific giveaway I selected and all the others were still on the page, but it was pretty simple to remove the extra stuff from the filter and get it to block it everywhere.
I use it on a lot of sites to clean them up if they have stuff I don't like. One thing I like to block is the recommended videos that youtube started putting at the end of the video that overlay the video before it has even ended and some other junk they put on the screen. You can test blocking things and if it doesn't work, just go to the custom filter page and delete that filter or mess around with it to see if you can get it to do what you want.
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I added 1 camera to my filter but it turned out, all other pages still showed a camera which made it pointless, I actually block some part on websites but those are always ads and like I said, I never used the list before, this was my first entry, didn;t even know where to find it at first :P
I will take a better look at it, your explanation is pretty clear and sounds easy enough to do, I never knew you could use it on so much other stuff than just ads, so we learn! :)
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When uBlock creates the filter, this is what it creates:
www.steamgifts.com##div.giveaway__row-outer-wrap:nth-of-type(2) > .giveaway__row-inner-wrap > .giveaway__summary > .giveaway__heading > .fa-camera.fa-fw.fa.giveaway__iconAfter "www.steamgifts.com##" there is a bunch of info locating the individual button that I clicked on the page and ".fa-camera" is the object I want to block. I just removed all that location info so it will block any instance of ".fa-camera" that it finds. It was still showing on another page, so I removed "-fw.fa.giveaway__icon" from the end and that fixed it.
I don't what the .fa means, but there is another on the end that can be removed. The final filter that you end up with is:
www.steamgifts.com##.fa-camera
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fa stands for Font Awesome, it has a bunch of scalable customizable icons that can be used on websites :)
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At 1 hand that sounds so logical, at the other it sounds like you are practicing black magic or something XD
But thanks for trying to explain it to me :)
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An awesome feature, I like it ^^ Thanks for your work in developing the platform, CG!
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can you change placement of deals and discussions back to how they were please?
I guess I should say though, I like the screenshot thingy, it's nice!
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I hope you won't consider this advertisement, but I made a userscript for this.
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Mainly cos my main browser isn't Firefox/Chrome ;)
Had a quick look at your scripts though, seem cool. Good to have someone like you around to help us plebs.
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Well now I'm curious. From what I know there is no other modern browsers, it's either firefox and few derivatives, or chrome and A LOT of chromium-based ones. What are you using then?
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well, I use a Mac for most internet and email, so I've been using Safari for years. My PC is primarily just for gaming (I do use chrome on that)
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I see, haven't thought about mac. It also uses pretty much the same engine as chrome, but since it was created before chrome, it's different enough to not be compatible with chrome. I thought there are some native extensions on safari too, there isn't one for userscripts? Or you just don't want to use it?
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Plugins/Extensions get handled in a dumb way now, so you can't just install scripts.
I know I should/could probably use another browser, but habits... heh.
Chrome seems to work absolutely fine on Mac
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I see. I never used mac, so wasn't aware how things work for safari. Thank you for information, it's always good to learn something new.
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This is an awesome idea, but i think it could be better to use a random gameplay video (instead of steam videos) just like Enchanted Steam extension.
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Not sure how handy the screenshots are yet but they seem useful in some cases at first glance. It feels weird for deals to be on the left but I'm sure I'll get used to it instead of looking to the right column first thing atm, not a big deal. I actually used to wish it was on the left when I first used the site since that's what I look for first.
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I though only me left with that feeling it's totally useless feature.
Just to not make another post:
NOTE: All text below is my personal opionion, It's not a request nor demand.
IMHO @@sg you should try to add:
- dark mode
- bettter integration with steamdb (fetching region restiction for specific sub, instead picking 50 countries from small widget) [reason: just would be easier, most of people know sub of specific key]
- option to import/manually add hidden/removed/DLCs subs to your collection (even with extension), [if possible]
- reasoning why CV dropped (like message "game XXX you gave away in 2008 is now changed to no value) [reason: today night my Lvl dropped from 4.4 -> 4.36, when 3 my GAs ended, lol]
- Discussion link on navar could be configurable (or have more dropdown option: "View All New", "View All", "View Subscribed New", etc) [reason: less page changes, smaller bill xd)
- Automatize adding "store.steampowered.com/bundle/XXXX/" bundles (like recently Hitman(tm) or Bioshock Collections). ([reason: team could focus on more important tickets]
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Sometimes games without steam page are given away, if this feature works with them then that could be useful.
I'm 99% sure it simply fetches images / videos from steam store page api, so if there is no page, then there is no images
If Cg plans on allowing other than steam-only games to be given away here, then the feature it will become more useful.
I don't see option to add own images to this new slideshow gallery while you creating new GA, for reasoning see above,
Edit: even now some users don't follow rules, so when Cg will allow other-DRM GAs it will create more chaos!
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The goal is not to collect games.
An implementation that promotes encounters with interesting games and games you want to play.
I think it's very good.😊
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Hi SG,
You might have noticed a new icon beside giveaways shaped like a camera. If you click it, you'll see a pop-up with Steam screenshots for the corresponding game. When viewing the screenshots you'll also see an icon in the top right to switch to videos.
It's setup to be a lightweight and fast image viewer to help you explore new games you might not recognize when browsing our site.
Please note that the icon only appears next to a limited number of games at the moment. However, it'll appear next to more and more games throughout the next 48 hours as our site updates data from Steam.
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