Updates And Additions to Group Invites (No more invente spam, Join Requests)

let it be heard, Valve didn't fuck up for once

To address this, you can now only be invited into a group by your friends. This still maintains the common uses of forming a closed group to hang out with your friends, or creating a restricted group for people of similar interests or achievements.

Freaking yes! That's awesome!

Public group – Users can join on their own or via an invite from a friend.
Restricted group – Users can join by requesting membership. They can also receive an invite from a user that has permission to add members.
Closed group – This is the most restricted group. Users can only join via invites by members who have permission to send invites. Users cannot request to join these groups.

Good stuff. Doesn't make recruitment too complicated if need be...

Cool. Hopefully, the CSGO groups don't add me anymore.

But you still will get invites to friend-list from bots? 😱

only took them 7 years 👌

downside is now you need an admin in the group to be invited...

I stopped getting random group invites when I stopped joining random groups, but this is a nice change nonetheless.
Idk if it's just me, but it seems like Steam is rolling out changes a lot more quickly than in the past.

Finally. I keep getting so many group invites each day for scamming/referral groups, so this change is welcome. :P

Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?
I'm curious to see what could possibly go wrong... I mean, how will spammers try to work around this?

I've been getting bombarded by invites lately, this change solved it.

I can understand why it's bad for groups' owners, though. It's bad for growth.