When did Steam stop posting non-steam game screenshots to the activity feed?

[Sham]

I mean I noticed it months ago, but it never really bothered me until I started using my Capture Card with Persona 5. The capture card is cheap and finicky as is, so I was proud to get any screenshots to show friends. The feed made it good and easy to show them what was up.

That seems to be no longer the case, however. I wanna get the 5 W's on this.

[Xpliciit]

You can probably go to your screenshot in steam, copy the link and manually post it in activity feed.

[Ogami]

The function was removed in early January. Too many users used it too post crap like porn or ultra violent gore on the activity page. So Valve removed the function. Non Steam screenshots can still be displayed on your profile and looked at by other users that way but they will not appear in the activity feed.

[Sham]

Still, those posters were dealt with in a case by case before. This is about as lazy as the currency tied gift restriction system.

For one: My screenshots are completely unheard of now. There's no clear indication I ever played it in my activity feed, which makes the thing useless. If someone wants to know the game I'm looking at, or comment later on it, they need to put in the effort to check OR I need to go through just as many steps to even get the link because Steam conveniently craps itself on trying to highlight and grab the link.

Second: There's absolute craploads of gore and porn in the games as is. I nearly got banned for the Mafia II screenshots entirely because you found pinups and I posted those, figuring it was in the game, it should be okay. Skyrim, with any amount of mods, is probably porn. We have games about absolute genocide of entire planets, BUT IT'S OKAY GUYS, IT'S ON STEAM. What the absolute hell is with that logic? It sounds more like a ploy to buy whatever game I'm playing through steam, so it's arbitrary anti-competition nonsense.

It also doesn't address the artwork spam, because even with the red tape, that's not stopping anyone from taking stupid clips from Nichijou and slapping them into game communities outside of the hub moderators themselves, and even then, that's too much effort for most of the hubs unless you delegate. By then, the nichijou thing is a funny black twitter pseudomeme and has 300 people with thumbs up on it because it's SO ME LOL and it's like setting a jerrycan of oil on fire to remove it.

The chat system constantly ghosting, the extremely overzealous linkfilter and the half-baked ways of handling everything that breaks with more money-grubbing garbage leading to HEY LOOK WHAT IVAN DID TO POOR PEDRO'S ACCOUNT is why everyone is literally and completely abandoning Steam for discord

I may be livid right now.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Sham:

Still, those posters were dealt with in a case by case before. This is about as lazy as the currency tied gift restriction system.

Well, to be honest, its only speculations among the users that this is the reason WHY the function was removed. Like always there is nothing but silence from VALVE´s side.
Some users even asked Support and the only answer was " we are aware of it".
Which says nothing. In the end, Steam does what Steam wants to do, regardless of what the users would like. Has been always that way. That is the price if you use Steam which has a 90%+ monopoly on the pc market.

Another speculation is that its connected to the big UI/client update that will hit sometime this year that will change a lot of Steam functions and the whole look.
There are rumors about that for quite some time.
We will see.