Activity feed no longer showing my game achievements

[MadBone12]

In the activity feed, I used to be able to see which achievements I had recently unlocked. Since I am not really an achievement hunter and seldom visit the achievements pages for specific games, it was a nice way to quickly hover over the icons and see what the achievement was for.

The problem is that for the past few weeks, my achievements don't appear. Friends' achievements do, but not mine. I know I can look at my profile to see recent ones but a) hovering over the icons tells me nothing and b) only a few are shown.

First question: is this a new Steam thing or is it a bug on my own feed only? If it's a bug, how do I fix it?

Second question: if I do now have to navigate to the achievements page for individual games, is there a way to reorder them so that I just see recent ones and not whatever order they appear in now (which seems random)?

My preference is to see them in my activity feed as it was a nice way to get a quick look at whatever I just unlocked without having to click through a different couple of pages to see a list of achievements in random order. Thanks.

[Jerry]

For some reason, this is related to the privacy setting to hide your gametime, possibly because some achievements are time-related. If you turn this one public, the achievements will show again.

[MadBone12]

@Jerry: Thanks that did it! Now that you mention it, I have some vague memory of changing that specific setting a while back but then promptly forgot, so I didn't make the connection. Thank you.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by MadBone12:

I have some vague memory of changing that specific setting a while back but then promptly forgot, so I didn't make the connection.

Nobody makes this connection, for two reasons:

a) it's random rubbish. This makes it a design bug.
b) privacy settings are supposed to hide information from others -- not yourself. This makes it an implementation bug.

[MadBone12]

Originally posted by Kargor:

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b) privacy settings are supposed to hide information from others -- not yourself. This makes it an implementation bug.

True. seems like a bit of a strange design choice.

[Jerry]

I would not have guessed it either, if I had not checked my activity feed briefly after trying that feature for the first time, when it was introduced. And you are far from the first one to ask. ;-)