why is discovery queue not working?

[fs7kills]

In the past few days every time I try to view my discovery queue I get an error message:

"Oops, sorry!
An error was encountered while processing your request:
Failed to load queue"

I have to try dozens of times until it finally loads and I can go through it and get the trading cards.
Anyone know why I keep getting errors every time I try to view my discovery queue?
I've had this error in Google Chrome in Windows 10 Pro, Google Chrome & Samsung internet for Android, and in the Steam client.

[The Right D]

everything is super fyked ... fyking everything

[StickyPawz]

The servers get hit hard when the new day starts. Happens every big sale.

[Valaith]

This has been happening to me for many months. It's much worse during the sale. I hope one day they will fix it.

[ExcretumNecris]

Can only agree. It's not just sales and it's getting worse continuously.

[fishhooks]

er...did anyone ever think that maybe...just maybe...after thousands of people view their queues 3 times a day for 10-12 days...it might take a bit of time for the system to identify more games of interest to all those thousands of participants?

I dunno...just a thought

[Valaith]

As I said, it's been happening to me for many months.

[NeXuS23]

I even get:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "https://store.steampowered.com" on this server.

almost everywhere, even in the activties that is displayed instead content.

And the Discovery queue cycles between:

"Oops, sorry!
An error was encountered while processing your request:
Failed to load queue"

and

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "https://store.steampowered.com/explore/" on this server.

[ExcretumNecris]

The store still operates as it should, the community pages still operate as they should, the steamworks game servers still operate as they should - Steam wants you to check out your list, so they sell more, they give you bonuses for it, so I see no fault with the customer to expect that the explore function should work, as it should.

I give no lenience to arch-capitalistic companies. You want my money, then have your ♥♥♥♥ work and stop stealing my time.

Steam had been a service that has had a very high customer satisfaction. They're not exactly doing their best right now, trying to keep that position and if someone with a little more dedication was to step forward, I'd not be surprised if Steam lost the position of #1 PC gaming platform in a rather short amount of time.

+ If they think they have to pry into my tendencies so much that it leads to their servers not being able to handle all the requests of creating a matching list for my interests, then they should either engage in a secondary means of creating those lists under high server workload (or create more in advance) or they should stop trying to pry into user preferences that much that it overloads their assigned servers or they should ready up more processing power for this feature.

It sickens me to have all those apologists for every failure of any BS capitalist company out there. I'm not a co-worker, I'm a customer.

[Lindentwig]

Doesn't matter if there's a sale or not, if Valve want to sell games from queue views, (as one would expect), they need to expand their server farms, at least under these sales.

[аdvicebanana]

Just wait a couple of hours. That's what I do.

[ExcretumNecris]

And that's why you're here in this thread now? Stop lying to yourself. You're not happy with this not working and so are we.

You may just want to give advice on how to cope with this, which is ok, but I don't think you should or should have to. I may not have the time to check back for this in a few hours, I want Steam to think that and I don't want to solve their problems.

[Danjuro]

Today is worst than other days... Well, let's wait then...

[fs7kills]

When discovery queue works I find it really odd that Steam keeps recommending me multiplayer-only games and vr-only games even though I always mark them as "not interested".

[Valaith]

Цитата допису fs7kills:

When discovery queue works I find it really odd that Steam keeps recommending me multiplayer-only games and vr-only games even though I always mark them as "not interested".

Yes, their algorithm is definitely broken.

[ExcretumNecris]

Still couldn't create my 2nd list for today.