Why in the hell would steam do this

[kimi wo omotte iru]

Friend lists now look like a mess with the whole "Steam now sort your friends by status alphabetically instead of levels."

[Crazy Tiger]

It's sorted on online status first (in-game -> online -> offline) and alphabet second. In that regard it is now in line with the chat and the friends page.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Guess that's what you get for basing your existence on a number that actually does nothing.

[Your Mom's Oshi]

It's great. Much easier to find people now. It should have been like this from the start. I really don't see where the crying people are coming from on this one.

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[Cathulhu]

Originally posted by Idontexist:

It's great. Much easier to find people now. It should have been like this from the start. I really don't see where the crying people are coming from on this one.

CHANGE BAD! EVERYTHING STAY!

STAGNATION BAD! CHANGE THINGS WITHOUT CHANGING!

You can't please everyone. Some of the whining is rather ridiculous though.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

You can't please everyone. Some of the whining is rather ridiculous though.

Like that dude complaining about all the money they spent to appear high on friend lists having gone to waste... I dont even know how to mock this, that's such a fine example of self-ridicule!

[kimi wo omotte iru]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Originally posted by Idontexist:

It's great. Much easier to find people now. It should have been like this from the start. I really don't see where the crying people are coming from on this one.

CHANGE BAD! EVERYTHING STAY!

STAGNATION BAD! CHANGE THINGS WITHOUT CHANGING!

You can't please everyone. Some of the whining is rather ridiculous though.

I mean, people don't seem to understand the concept of the "search friends" tab, the friend list on the "your profile" page just looks messy now 🤷‍♀️

[Mailer]

Well, this unprecedented change has at the very least been eye-opening in terms of showing the lengths people are willing to go to just to get featured on a profile page that isn't even theirs. Even though accruing steam levels has never really been that expensive, I'm pretty sure.

Personally I had just considered it a system for sharing the influence of higher leveled profiles, as a way to show just how interconnected the Steam Community really is (since they can in fact add more people to their lists than others), but I don't think alphabetical consistency is that bad of a change either.

[TheForestSpirit]

Oh no I'm not going to be at the top of a person's friend list anymore on their Profile that's terrible what will I do? it's the end of the world. I for one appreciate this, it's no longer a stupid competition and to be honest it blows my mind that people actually spend money on a number that does nothing.

[Crazy Tiger]

If it stays like this, invisible mode in the friends list now gets the extra perk that you don't quickly show up on that little list on the profile of people.

[Mailer]

Still, now that the ball has begun rolling, let's also try to imagine what the most "representative" sample of three featured friends would be for any given profile.

Personally I would make it so that the top and bottom-most friends are included, while the middle-slot could be assigned the friend that currently resides somewhere in the middle of the friends list.
That way you could also expect to see one friend that is in-game, online and offline respectively, in that order (if we assume that the sorting is perfectly consistent; right now there is just a miss-match with special characters).

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

If it stays like this, invisible mode in the friends list now gets the extra perk that you don't quickly show up on that little list on the profile of people.

This is a good point as well. Perhaps persistently offline friends don't want to participate on the front of mutual profiles anyway, so it makes more sense to prioritize those who are in-game instead.

[TheForestSpirit]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

If it stays like this, invisible mode in the friends list now gets the extra perk that you don't quickly show up on that little list on the profile of people.

I would welcome that with open arms.

[JamesF0790]

I like the new alphabetic order to be honest.

[[N]ebsun]

I love it, put repeated ¡ characters at the start of your name to get first place - it's awesome

[Maluno]

Originally posted by TheForestSpirit:

it's no longer a stupid competition and to be honest it blows my mind that people actually spend money on a number that does nothing.

As far as i know a higher level, up to level 100, increases the booster pack drop-rates for your account.