Please make the look of Steam a little more modern

[TomerGamerTV]

The look of steam in the site, the program, and the phone app look super old. It's 2021 and almost 2022 and there are no updates to the UI, other than in the library in steam

Sorry for my English if it sounds bad

[nullable]

Well appearance is subjective. Lots of people are fine with the current appearance. What benefits does that make over actually get us?

[TomerGamerTV]

Originally posted by Snakub Plissken:

Well appearance is subjective. Lots of people are fine with the current appearance. What benefits does that make over actually get us?

1. It will look and feel much more simple and easy to use
2.they can just an option to go back to the old ui

[Edifier]

Originally posted by TomerGamerTV:

Originally posted by Snakub Plissken:

Well appearance is subjective. Lots of people are fine with the current appearance. What benefits does that make over actually get us?

1. It will look and feel much more simple and easy to use
2.they can just an option to go back to the old ui

1: It already is easy to use.
2: Valve have already shown that they do not wish to provide such feature.

Also what's more "Modern" for you? What client should they copy?

[Crazy Tiger]

They're slowly updating each part of the UI. Last summer the profile page got an update.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by TomerGamerTV:

.they can just an option to go back to the old ui

Valve does not go back to the old client/ui nor have an option to revert once a new version is released.

[Aachen]

What, exactly, do you want simplified?

[Gwarsbane]

You want simplified? Use small mode. It gives a super simple list of your games, nothing more.

And as others have asked, what do you mean by modern? Do want it to look like a smart phone or something? Because I sure know I don't.

I like how small modes looks, though there are things they could do to add to that, but the over all look for it does what it needs to do, gives you a list of games to click on and play.

[Mad Scientist]

Take a look at how everything looked from when steam came out to now, it's updated over time and clearly fits even thought its "2021 and almost 2022". It's modern.

It looks fine as-is, the 'but current year' is not a valid point.

[Mikoto]

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Take a look at how everything looked from when steam came out to now, it's updated over time and clearly fits even thought its "2021 and almost 2022". It's modern.

Oh god you just had to remind me of the sewage green everything had...

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Take a look at how everything looked from when steam came out to now, it's updated over time and clearly fits even thought its "2021 and almost 2022". It's modern.

Oh god you just had to remind me of the sewage green everything had...

I think you mean Steam Green. :D

OP: it's simple enough and clear enough, and modern enough. I'd much rather have it NOT change, than change any further.

[Bmx Bandit]

From my experience the UI/UX in site is quite practical unlike the goverment webpages that are horrible to navigate

[Mikoto]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by Kai:

Oh god you just had to remind me of the sewage green everything had...

I think you mean Steam Green. :D

OP: it's simple enough and clear enough, and modern enough. I'd much rather have it NOT change, than change any further.

Nope I know what I said. That was sewage green and it was not a good look. It was functional back then but man, that was not a good color scheme...

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by TomerGamerTV:

The look of steam in the site, the program, and the phone app look super old. It's 2021 and almost 2022 and there are no updates to the UI, other than in the library in steam

Sorry for my English if it sounds bad

There was a major update to the UI in October 2019.

Not sure what you mean by "modern", though I would like Steam to be more properly integrated into the OS's visual style of UI elements. I feel like this might be the opposite of what you're asking for, though...

Anyhow, in my opinion, the old UI worked better, since it was more responsive and lightweight, rather than pointlessly routing features through a browser-rendered interface, and in terms of its visual appearance it offered a spreadsheet-like option called List View which showed a lot more information at one time.

If you're good with skinning things, you might be able to make the UI do other things by editing the CSS, or simply by directly editing Steam's files (note that it might try to verify then overwrite your edits if you're not careful though). I remember seeing that someone had re-created the old UI's Detail View by editing the CSS. (Sadly, List View has not yet been re-created.)

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Take a look at how everything looked from when steam came out to now, it's updated over time and clearly fits even thought its "2021 and almost 2022". It's modern.

Oh god you just had to remind me of the sewage green everything had...

I actually would prefer that color since it's a lighter color than what we have now. Most of my applications are in light mode or various lighter colors.

Steam had a bunch of usable skins several years ago, in all sorts of different colors -- I remember getting red, orange, pink, aqua, white, blue, "sewage green", and other colors. None of them work anymore though. Heck, they stopped working on some core parts of Steam such as the library display even before the big update hit, from what I recall.

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by TomerGamerTV:

.they can just an option to go back to the old ui

Valve does not go back to the old client/ui nor have an option to revert once a new version is released.

And that is to its detriment.

[Mikoto]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Steam had a bunch of usable skins several years ago, in all sorts of different colors -- I remember getting red, orange, pink, aqua, white, blue, "sewage green", and other colors. None of them work anymore though. Heck, they stopped working on some core parts of Steam such as the library display even before the big update hit, from what I recall.

Honestly that is one thing I wish Steam would implement, a built in RGB system so you can change the color to be anything you want.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Steam had a bunch of usable skins several years ago, in all sorts of different colors -- I remember getting red, orange, pink, aqua, white, blue, "sewage green", and other colors. None of them work anymore though. Heck, they stopped working on some core parts of Steam such as the library display even before the big update hit, from what I recall.

Honestly that is one thing I wish Steam would implement, a built in RGB system so you can change the color to be anything you want.

Oh yes that would be lovely.