The new UI is terrible.

[Mr Blah]

Open letter to Valve; I'm impressed that you somehow made a UI that's *worse* than the previous one. Was the idiot who spawned this worthless UI told to intentionally make this new UI horrible or are they genuinely so completely incompetent that this is the best they can do?

[Wolfsun]

...and here I was thinking I was the only one that thought the new UI sucked.

[z3razerviper]

Small mode does not stick it keeps switch to the version with whats new. Really pissing me off

[cale$tic]

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[Jade]

Originally posted by Wolfsun:

...and here I was thinking I was the only one that thought the new UI sucked.

Same. This thing is terrible. I sincerely hope they revert it.

[OftheTarRealm]

I click to view a game and it just goes back to the lists. I don't like it neither.

[Frank ツ]

Can you explain why it is so terrible? cause to me its more like a facelift then a completly new UI.

Explain what is so terrible about it

[Ed]

2 issues so far, first i have 2 displays when i change from the big one to the small doesn't resize so don't fit, second there's no menu when right click in the icon from hide bar in order to close steam, its so anoying for me.

[ColossalAsh3028]

It's intrusive. The user experience is not improved by making the 'Store', 'Library' titles larger. Nothing is improved by making the notification button bigger. Adding startup sequences is a useless gimmick. Having a Steam starting splash screen just adds bulk to the software. Users want to get to the game they want to play faster. Adding more features and bloat will not improve the gaming experience.

[z3razerviper]

Originally posted by TCC Frank ツ:

Can you explain why it is so terrible? cause to me its more like a facelift then a completly new UI.

Explain what is so terrible about it

1. Refuses stay in the mode i put it in (Small Mode)
2. The massive font size change
3. The 10 to 20 second blank window when it switches from small mode to what ever mode it wants to autoswitch too
4 Sluggish response and slow scrolling

And I have 64GB of ram :(

[Brawndo]

Originally posted by z3razerviper:

Small mode does not stick it keeps switch to the version with whats new. Really pissing me off

I agree - it's way too big. Why are all interfaces everywhere getting supersized?

[Quoridor]

it also takes longer to login, shutdown, and cloudsync. All are now slower, when just recently they were making changes to the standard ui to be faster, more responsive, guess that was all for nothing.

[Max]

Originally posted by Tents McGee:

Originally posted by z3razerviper:

Small mode does not stick it keeps switch to the version with whats new. Really pissing me off

I agree - it's way too big. Why are all interfaces everywhere getting supersized?

mobile UI inflation + controller and touch input friendly

[DoktorFar]

Im not seeing the same slow downs that others are reporting. Actually think it works pretty quick and not sluggish. But did so too before, I honestly see no difference in performance.

My gripe is with the design and functionality change. So here's one stupid annoying thing we now probably have to live with from now on:

Notification icon is green like before when there's new notifications, but unfortunately now it does not anymore show how many new unread notifications there are. I now have to click the button to check it, previously I could just look at the button. How is that an improvement? It's a step back.

But it gets worse even. Because once you clicked the button it wont be green anymore because it must be assuming that just by clikcing the button I was done reviewing all unread notifications, which I obviously won't be in very many cases, especially if there are many new comments in different threads im subscribing too. The button turns grey as if I had already read the those comments and events... but I just clicked the notification button, I didn't actually clicked or entered any of them.

Whoever is responsible for this change must have zero experience with actually using their system.

And another unnecessary change (though of less import than the one mentioned above): The context menu from right clicking steam icon in taskbar is now super large and intrusive. The previous one was fine, small and unintrusive and worked just fine. If it works: don't fix it. But you know what? It would be fine if only I could choose to keep the old one, but no, of course they have to force it for everyone.

[ONLY BELIEVE]

They also shot skinning right in the head. It was hard, but you could at least keep porting your skins to newer versions of the UI. Now they just removed the feature outright.

[NiuHello]

I agree, the new UI is bad but the award of the worst of this update goes to Steam Overlay in my opinion. My cursor literally starts drifting when opening the new Steam Overlay and sometimes it doesn't even open, smh