Leonem Jun 20, 2021 @ 9:05am
Sharing screenshot in Steam chat
How do we make sure that a screenshot link will show up as an image in the chat instead of just a link?

Sometimes the screenshot link will convert to a preview while other times it will only show a link. I think there's two different kind of links, one that works and the other that doesn't and I can't seem to figure out how to make sure my link will actually show up as a picture in the chat.



EDIT with exemple :

If I click on "View online library" while lookin at the screenshots of a specific game, it sends me here, which will show all the screenshots I've taken and not only from that specific game or that specific picture itself. :

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Leonem/screenshots/

While being there, if I click on the picture I specifically want, it opens a seperate window with this kind of link :

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2522263731

Otherwise, in the screenshot manager, if I select the specific image and click on "View online" instead of "View online library", it redirects me to the page of the screenshot in the launcher itself with the same link as before :

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2522263731

But then, if I click on that picture, it opens up a window with that kind of link :

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1710786701662418201/EDB13A2286E215C6B3A1F15D52D36156D00C3A47/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

And this is this link that will show up a preview of the screenshot in the Steam chat. Which is not so bad but since it's a more direct link, the user is not sent to the screenshot page when clicking on it, so the person can't comment or rate the screenshot without going into my screenshots manually from my profile.

This is a mess and could be so much more simple if the link with the id could show the screenshot in the chat and send the user to the page where we can rate and comment.


EDIT 2 :

As you can see, it works in the forum.

The link I'm saying doesn't work in the chat and only shows a link actually shows a preview when sending it in the forum...
Last edited by Leonem; Jun 20, 2021 @ 10:07am
Date Posted: Jun 20, 2021 @ 9:05am
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