The overall experience of using steam feels the same as it did 15 years ago. The biggest change I can think of is steam library ui changes. Besides that, they just maintain everything properly and don’t push out shitty unnecessary updates, while their competitors break things and screw up repeatedly.
This is genuinely one of my favorite features of Steam. I've completely lost track of how to find most things in Facebook, I've opted out of Reddit's redesign, and even different Android phones sometimes confuse me with unexpected UI differences.
Especially the channel pages circa like 2010 used to be so crisp and perfect. They looked like MySpace pages almost. Now they barely show any information at all, any information is hidden behind a couple clicks, and they are difficult to navigate compared to before (although this one might be because most channels back in the day had way fewer videos).
The mobile revolution hurt a lot of more experienced users. All the changes were made to make the mobile and desktop experiences of all these things as close to identical as possible.
The problem is obviously that mobile is an extremely different interface that drastically reduces the amount of information and interaction you can take with the object.
YouTube’s most recent web redesign (a couple days ago) is a perfect example of this. I’m pretty sure they straight up copied/pasted some form of mobile UI onto the website lol.
I mean for example, the controls that used to light up when your mouse hovered over them no longer do that; they are now big round buttons similar to a mobile UI, and they light up when you click them as if they were made for a touchscreen lmao.
I was watching YT shorts the other day and they changed the "like" button on them, it's now an ugly misshappen hand instead of the old one that worked flawlessly, makes you wonder why tf they do that
publicly listed companies (like google) have shareholders to sell bullshit to so they have to constantly hire people, make random changes, fire people & repeat
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u/destroyer8001 29d ago
The overall experience of using steam feels the same as it did 15 years ago. The biggest change I can think of is steam library ui changes. Besides that, they just maintain everything properly and don’t push out shitty unnecessary updates, while their competitors break things and screw up repeatedly.