What is this sorting alphabetically?

[YouTube/@Enivoke]

I spent all that money just for valve to decide eh... that let's just go alphabetically. I hope this is a bug and it gets sorted quickly or just refund all the money I spend on levels.

[rawWwRrr]

Sounds like you put value into a non-tangible thing and have expectations that exceeds the reality of that thing.

[.⋆´*✿ Lisa ✿*`⋆.]

I assume it is a bug, at least I hope so because it is annoying for people with higher levels

[Kargor]

Hm... I didn't notice any change; what exactly is being sorted now?

[.⋆´*✿ Lisa ✿*`⋆.]

If you look under friends on your profile you can see that it is sorted by name and not by level

[happy]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Hm... I didn't notice any change; what exactly is being sorted now?

Go to my Profile and look at the Friendslist, people are sorted by Alphabet, which makes it easy for people to force themselves to the top by using special characters, the same dumb sht like discord has going on.

[𝕙.𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕒𝕤]

Valve doesn't listen to user's wishes or works on something the community wants since years like displaying specific badges on your profile. Instead they change things nobody asked for.

[e]

This already happened once earlier and it was reverted pretty quickly. Its probably just a bug.

[happy]

Originally posted by e:

This already happened once earlier and it was reverted pretty quickly. Its probably just a bug.

Who knows, it happened multiple times before that planned changes where made public by accident.

[e]

Originally posted by koRRupted mInd:

Originally posted by e:

This already happened once earlier and it was reverted pretty quickly. Its probably just a bug.

Who knows, it happened multiple times before that planned changes where made public by accident.

Yeah that's definitely possible, but I believe its a bug because the change would make no sense at all.
It would be really stupid from Valve to remove one of the small "benefits" of leveling up. Surely they want to give users some incentive to level up since it makes Valve some extra cash, and doesn't cost them a dime.

[Pierce Dalton]

Refund?

Good luck with that.

[Kargor]

Well, sorting friends by level makes no sense; you are generally more likely to know your friends name as opposed to their level. Thus, if you have a large list, it's easier to find people.

The real question is whether they should be more focused on activities instead of static things. For example, maybe putting the last few interactions on the top, or taking online/offline into consideration. Basically, can Steam get to a state where opening the friend list gives you the one you're looking for in the top-5 in most cases, or something like that.

For people with smaller friend lists. alphabetic is probably the most appropriate. There's a reason why phonebooks are sorted alphabetically, not by age or something like that. However, there's also a reason why we've had "favorites" since forever...

[DC-GS]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Well, sorting friends by level makes no sense

That was my first though too, except the friend list were sorted by name for years already. So it got me confused, what the deal was. I looked / skipped over few thready until I found the answer here:

Originally posted by koRRupted mInd:

Originally posted by Kargor:

Hm... I didn't notice any change; what exactly is being sorted now?

Go to my Profile and look at the Friendslist, people are sorted by Alphabet

So it's not your own friendlist they are talkin, but the friendlist of other players, advertising how... uhm... "professional" friends are.

With this bit of information, I see how some people are unhappy with the changes. As the sidebar on the profile only provides space for few friends, you probably want to showcase the best of them?
Same way you probably want to show the rarest achievments, not sorted by name or date added.

Btw, if you check my profile, you will see how much I care for that feature. No at all - its a private profile.
So while I dont a give a crap about the sorting for profile showcase purpose, I can fully support the people who want it back.
For my purpose - finding friends on my own friendlist - it were sorted by name all the time. To faster find them, I had already tagged/categorized them into groups.

[vexviron]

Originally posted by Enivoke:

I spent all that money just for valve to decide eh... that let's just go alphabetically. I hope this is a bug and it gets sorted quickly or just refund all the money I spend on levels.

It not sorted alphabetically on mine. It's sorted by recent logins.

[Hapxier]

Any list that has the potential to be quite long needs to have multiple means of sorting it. Alphabetical, steam level, online status, and last seen date all ought to be sorting options, in both ascending and descending order. These are basic functions for searching through any potentially large listing, and it baffles me that they're not all available by default.

As for the profile page listing, you ought to be able to pin or hide anyone to it in any order you choose. Again, there is no reason to force only one type of sorting, or any type for that matter.

[YouTube/@Enivoke]

Originally posted by vexviron:

Originally posted by Enivoke:

I spent all that money just for valve to decide eh... that let's just go alphabetically. I hope this is a bug and it gets sorted quickly or just refund all the money I spend on levels.

It not sorted alphabetically on mine. It's sorted by recent logins.

It's sorted by In-game Alphabetically, and then online alphabetically.