Need to be able to clear "My History" in Community Chambers

[snowhog]

Reference: https://steamcommunity.com/app/620/discussions/0/613938693217946637/

This is an old complaint, but one that is still very much valid and in need of being addressed. Like many, My History is large; not as large as many here, but large none the less. And because I have a large number of played chambers in My History, it takes a long time before any of the lists (Top Rated, Most Recent, Most Popular) will populate when chosen. This is a real drag. As My History is directly tied to my Steam account, there should be an option to delete said history "if I desire to do so". In order to retain Thumbs Up/Down stats on the played chambers, just change the ownership of the history entries to a reserved, only available to Steam, 'owner'. In this way the user's My History can be cleared, but the data recorded against the chambers is retained. Seems to me to be a rather simple approach to a problem that has been around for way to long.

[Maddie]

Hmm. Just discovered My History list is HUGE and maybe that's why it takes a while to load my Queue for unplayed games. Searching for a solution...

[vioray]

same issue, it's one of the reasons I don't play Portal much anymore despite it still being one of my favourite games. it's a lot of hassle to have to load the game up an hour before I want to play it just to let it load up my queue
why it even prioritises populating the history list before the queue in the first place is beyond me

[snowhog]

And yet, still, the owners of Steam seem to choose to ignore this issue. It's easily fixable IMO.

[vioray]

yep, the only reason that I have no criticism of Valve's customer support is that it's impossible to criticise what does not exist

[EnderCorePL]

It's an old topic, but I found it having the same problem, though, I think I found somehow good solution. You go to Steam\steamapps\common\Portal 2\portal2\maps\workshop and delete all the files there. The history will still load, but the files will only be a folder with code of the map and a miniature of it, which doesn't slow down the loading that much, and if you wonder, it won't unsub your maps.

[vioray]

will have to see if that helps, thanks. if nothing else, it frees up 9GB

[EnderCorePL]

Originally posted by vioray:

will have to see if that helps, thanks. if nothing else, it frees up 9GB

The maps itselves won't be re-downloaded unless you'll choose to play them, so it should save you a lot of SPAAAAAAACE ( Sorry, couldn't stop myself) GLaD I helped, though