View all users with given nickname?

[Laptop]

Hi all,

Trying to find an old friend from quite a while ago. He's changed his name and I can't exactly recall what his old one was anyway, but I do remember giving him a nickname because he kept changing his name.

Is there any way to view a list somewhere of all the users on Steam that I have ever assigned a nickname to? So ones that I do not know the name of, but have given a nickname to sometime in the past. I know if I went to their profile I would see the nickname, but first I need to find the profile!

Can anyone lend a hand?

[Satoru]

There isnt one really.

Nicknames are assigned via basicaly an xml tag similar to how you tag games with various custom things. But steam doesn't archive a history fo those tags. You can only view what nicknames a user has right now, not any historical tag assignments

[Laptop]

Originally posted by Satoru:

There isnt one really.

Nicknames are assigned via basicaly an xml tag similar to how you tag games with various custom things. But steam doesn't archive a history fo those tags. You can only view what nicknames a user has right now, not any historical tag assignments

Steam still retains a nick-name you have assigned a user even if they leave your friends list. So they're all still out there, just a matter of getting a list of them somehow.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Laptop65:

Originally posted by Satoru:

There isnt one really.

Nicknames are assigned via basicaly an xml tag similar to how you tag games with various custom things. But steam doesn't archive a history fo those tags. You can only view what nicknames a user has right now, not any historical tag assignments

Steam still retains a nick-name you have assigned a user even if they leave your friends list. So they're all still out there, just a matter of getting a list of them somehow.

They only store what you have currently. They don't have a historical list of what you want. Its not like how steam stores the last 10 names a user has changed their profile name to. the tags you apply are saved to teh cloud, but the history of that isn't saved. The only way steam could retreive that is to basically do a historical cloud restore of that specific part of the xml data in steam cloud. which steam isnt probaby going to bother to recover

[Laptop]

Originally posted by Satoru:

They only store what you have currently. They don't have a historical list of what you want.

Yup, so currently that nickname is still assigned to that user but they're not on my list and I have no way to find them aside from finding their profile.

So I'm asking if there's a list anywhere or anyway to view all the users you have a current nickname assigned to. It would still be assigned, but no way to actually find them without a link to the profile itself.

[Egossi]

Originally posted by Laptop:

Originally posted by Satoru:

They only store what you have currently. They don't have a historical list of what you want.

Yup, so currently that nickname is still assigned to that user but they're not on my list and I have no way to find them aside from finding their profile.

So I'm asking if there's a list anywhere or anyway to view all the users you have a current nickname assigned to. It would still be assigned, but no way to actually find them without a link to the profile itself.

Satoru already answered your question, in TL;DR: No, there is no list of all users you have assigned nicknames to.

[Laptop]

Originally posted by Egossi:

Satoru already answered your question, in TL;DR: No, there is no list of all users you have assigned nicknames to.

....gravedig much? Still looking for a resolution on this either way.