Any way to clear chat history? (New chat ui update)

[Alucard †]

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I noticed i can scroll up through messages history to see way older messages than before dating very far back before this update was live.

Any way to clear chat history? Just in case it would be nice if there was an option for that..

[Levi]

No.

[Alucard †]

Great so now i can have chat flooded with pictures , gifs and enlarged video links and can't do anything about it ... GGWP valve

[Levi]

You can revert to the old chat UI.

GIFs and other links won't parse.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

You can revert to the old chat UI.

GIFs and other links won't parse.

:yinyangflip:

How? This isn't beta client its final client i'm using btw

[Levi]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

You can revert to the old chat UI.

GIFs and other links won't parse.

How?

Steam Shortcut > Properties > Target

Add...

-nofriendsui -nochatui

[Alucard †]

Thanks.. won't that corrupt my Steam client after a long run (recent updates and all)
But anyway i still rather just have the option to clear chat from images and posts...

Edit: option to disable chat image / video popups would also be nice and safe..

[Levi]

Originally posted by Simon:

This is honestly idiotic of Steam. The new UI is pretty bad and sluggish enough as it is. I'm on a Mac so the suggestion above isn't possible.

Reverting to the old client for now and if it doesn't improve I'll probably abandon Steam as chat service and use Discord instead. At least they know how to make a decent app.

It's not sluggish for me at all.

In-game performance was affected during the beta stage.

As of now, all seems fine.

The UI isn't as disorienting since I've gotten used to it.

Sorry to hear that the launch parameters don't work on MAC.

[Simon]

This is honestly idiotic of Steam. The new UI is pretty bad and sluggish enough as it is. I'm on a Mac so the suggestion above isn't possible.

Reverting to the old client for now and if it doesn't improve I'll probably switch to Discord for chat and social; their app is a joy to use by comparison. This update isn't ready for prime-time.

[Simon]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

It's not sluggish for me at all. In-game performance was affected during the beta stage. As of now, all seems fine.

The UI isn't as disorienting since I've gotten used to it. Sorry to hear that the launch parameters don't work on Mac.

Thanks for the reply and sorry I stuffed up the order by deleting and reposting (with edits). I'm on a pretty old Mac, but the former version worked well and this is quite bad. I don't need in-chat GIFs or file-sharing so I'm better off sticking to that.

I should note that Discord seems to have most if not all the features of Steam's Friends & Chat yet it performs flawlessly. I also much prefer the Discord model with both chat rooms and friendship lists. But yeah, not impressed by this latest update; and neither are some other people I chatted to it seems, so I think they've got some work to do.