Chat logs?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Is there a way to (automatically) log all of one's conversations with users and group chats?

If not, there should be.

[wuddih]

nice try, NSA.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Messaggio originale di ☔ wuddih SpNv ✔:

nice try, NSA.

Was this really necessary?

I just want an option to save chat logs to my own computer so I can look up which game it was that one of my friends mentioned to me when we talked several days ago. Or that youtube video another friend sent my way, which I didn't watch at that time because it's over an hour long.

Chat logging is a common feature for other text chat mediums, such as IRC.

[wuddih]

Messaggio originale di Quint S. Akemi:

Chat logging is a common feature for other text chat mediums, such as IRC.

as a script dev for mirc i can tell you, logging is by default disabled and most users don't even bother to enable it.

if valve wanted permanent client-side logs they would already have implemented them a long time ago since the latest chat is indeed saved and displayed to you. at least for userchat, groupchat is another thing.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I'm not saying Valve wants them.

I'm saying I want them, as a user.

I'm fine with the option being disabled by default. I just would like that option to exist, in a form that's more convenient than copy/pasting everything into a notepad file every single time.

[Silicon Vampire]

I've wanted real, local chat logs since chat was introduced on Steam and have continuously requested it. Those requests have fallen on deaf ears...

[аdvicebanana]

This works for 1 on 1 chats: http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=840880
(Last updated 2012, crashes every time you close Steam.)

[Chaser]

I would like it if you could change the sound effect when you get a steam message