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There's an update out for the new Steam Chat system for everyone along with changes only available for those in the Steam Client Beta.

One niggle I saw a few people unhappy with in our comments, was the removal of the fully offline mode for the friends system. In the Steam Client Beta this has been restored. In addition, Valve has added a 'Do Not Disturb' mode to get no notifications from friends or groups which includes not opening windows or playing sounds for new messages.

To make it even better, they added the option to not sign into the friends system when the Steam Client loads up. Along with fixing an issue with the friends list opening by itself on startup.

As for what everyone gets in the stable client: Clicking your avatar on the friends lists will take you to your profile, they fixed not being able to close friends windows when in a disconnected state, added a "/quote" formatting option, embedded videos and images are smaller, fixed some weird spacing issues in the UI and more.

It's fantastic to see them act on feedback, hopefully this will improve the experience for everyone. It certainly sounds like they're taking feedback on board.

Full changelog can be found here.

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Doc Angelo Jul 29, 2018
Quoting: Doc AngeloI really liked with the old friends system that I could put some people into a "GAME XY" category, and they would only turn up there, and not in the standard friends list. That was a nice way of putting people you only know through this particular game into a "folder" without them wasting space in the friends list.

I understand that "Favorites" is kinda the solution for that, but I'm not yet sure if I like that.

Answering to myself here: This is possible. The setting is called "Hide categorized friends in Online/Offline Friends".
Leopard Jul 29, 2018
Quoting: 1xokDo you think it will replace Discord?

I personally have never really used Discord, so I can't judge that.

No , since Discord literally replaced TeamSpeak for me most people firstly. These stuff are mostly secondary things for people.
drvictor666 Jul 30, 2018
For an anti-social person who only added some friends by accident and is now bothered with being notified about this and that, this is a welcome news! :D
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