Steam wont let me go online

[NickEver27]

Anyone else get stuck in offline mode for no reason, my network is fine, what can I do?!

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Restart The Steam

[NickEver27]

Originally posted by EasyAntiCheat:

Restart The Steam

Yeah and you think I haven't already tried that -_- what a basic answer.

[IFIYGD]

Not having any issues myself (US East), and https://steamstat.us/ isn't showing any major issues, and https://downdetector.com/status/steam/ is only showing a smattering of reports.

The only issue I am having right now is Notifications not loading- either the page takes forever to load or every one is showing a game icon with ".." where the title and lede text normally is. So I am guessing there are some random server issues going on right now. I am on Stable Client only (not logged in on an outside browser), so I can only relate what I am experiencing, and have no suggestions other than to wait and see (which sucks, I know,)

[NickEver27]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Not having any issues myself (US East), and https://steamstat.us/ isn't showing any major issues, and https://downdetector.com/status/steam/ is only showing a smattering of reports.

The only issue I am having right now is Notifications not loading- either the page takes forever to load or every one is showing a game icon with ".." where the title and lede text normally is. So I am guessing there are some random server issues going on right now. I am on Stable Client only (not logged in on an outside browser), so I can only relate what I am experiencing, and have no suggestions other than to wait and see (which sucks, I know,)

Its weird, I fixed it by disabling my public firewall

[Cray]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Not having any issues myself (US East), and https://steamstat.us/ isn't showing any major issues, and https://downdetector.com/status/steam/ is only showing a smattering of reports.

The only issue I am having right now is Notifications not loading- either the page takes forever to load or every one is showing a game icon with ".." where the title and lede text normally is. So I am guessing there are some random server issues going on right now. I am on Stable Client only (not logged in on an outside browser), so I can only relate what I am experiencing, and have no suggestions other than to wait and see (which sucks, I know,)

Notifications are completely broken, and have been for a long time on multiple platforms. Those for whom it still works are lucky.

[Cray]

Originally posted by NickEver27:

Its weird, I fixed it by disabling my public firewall

I'm pretty sure you can keep running with the firewall enabled by adding all the steam binaries to the list. I'm assuming steam either updated the exe/binaries so they no longer match the rules, or added new binaries that can't connect to steam because the firewall didn't register them.

Not your fault, of course. steam is a bug riddled, overcomplicated mess.

[NickEver27]

Originally posted by Cray:

Originally posted by NickEver27:

Its weird, I fixed it by disabling my public firewall

I'm pretty sure you can keep running with the firewall enabled by adding all the steam binaries to the list. I'm assuming steam either updated the exe/binaries so they no longer match the rules, or added new binaries that can't connect to steam because the firewall didn't register them.

Not your fault, of course. steam is a bug riddled, overcomplicated mess.

Oh right man, yeah that explains why a fresh reinstall kept temporarily fixing it