New screen shot uploader has ruined the experience

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Vash(88) 17 Jun, 2023 @ 8:42am

New screen shot uploader has ruined the experience

Seriously. Which of the dev's 5 year olds designed this?

I have 3000+ screen shots over 100s of games. The new manager:

- Displays ALL games that I have ever uploaded a screen shot for in a drop down!
- Lacks a SEARCH BAR?!?!
- Jumbles photos taken with photos uploaded chronologically in the same list (so stupid)
- The photos shift around the first time you click on one after opening the manager
- The photos move when uploaded
- When deleting a screen shot from the list, it sends you to the top instead of keeping your place on the list
- If you change the size of the manager, it will re shuffle, thus putting you to the top of the list once again the next time you click a photo
- You changed default to PRIVATE after years of uploading with it defaulted to public
- if you accidently upload a shot as private then change it to public via the MANAGER, it changes it to UNLISTED
- There is ZERO indication which games have unuploaded screenshots out of an alphabetical list 100s of games long <----- Did I mention the lack of a SEARCH FUNCTION?!?!

This is painfully bad. I can't imagine which intern worked on this garbage

If i wanted access to ALL of my damn screenshots, I would go to my profile where I am actually uploading them to. Even the ancient screenshot viewing tab from my profile has a SEARCH BAR to filter my games.. The screenshot manager is to MANAGE un uploaded screenshots. You have done nothing to improve the system and everything to make it worse. Fix this crap. I expect better out of Steam

List of ways to fix this:

1. Add a filter option that allows for me to see cloud saves on the manager or not. (how hard is that?)

2. Keep the cloud files on the manager, but have them separated from the unuploaded screenshots in a different tab

3. Don't move the user's position in the list of screenshots when a picture is deleted. LIKE IT USED TO BE

4. Give us options in the settings for defaulting the pictures to public/private. The fact that I have to change this EVERY TIME is bananas

5. Give some sort of indication which games have un uploaded screen shots. You removed this by sticking EVERY GAME i have screen shots for in the drop down, then added nothing back to replace it

6. ADD A SEARCH FUNCTION

I compiled this list at 0730 on a Sunday morning while drinking my first cup of coffee. You failed on this in every way you could have

Last edited by Vash(88); 20 Jun, 2023 @ 12:26pm

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ZeroSorrow™ 3 Aug, 2023 @ 11:13am

you have nowhere else to go and valve knows it
the new ui "updates" are something that nobody wanted and nobody asked for but they can and will get away with it no matter what unfortunately

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Zefar 3 Aug, 2023 @ 11:29am

Originally posted by ZeroSorrow™:
you have nowhere else to go and valve knows it
the new ui "updates" are something that nobody wanted and nobody asked for but they can and will get away with it no matter what unfortunately

People been asking for UI updates since the last UI update. You know, the one you want to go back too.

#32

FF.Lightning 4 Aug, 2023 @ 1:39pm

new screenshot manager is a mess!
until now ....nothing!!

#33

Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂ 4 Aug, 2023 @ 2:27pm

Is struggling so bad after the old interface trick has been nerfed and now eveytime I go to screenshot manager I can't roll to the bottom because is freezing and:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3014973090&fileuploadsuccess=1

#34

J4MESOX4D 8 Aug, 2023 @ 7:19am

I hate it that you upload your selected all screenshots and it publishes them in reverse order on your screenshots page. It's just astonishing that such basic functionality has been borked to the extent, you have to upload them one by one just to have them in order.

#35

Lar Dass 8 Aug, 2023 @ 1:49pm

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:
I hate it that you upload your selected all screenshots and it publishes them in reverse order on your screenshots page. It's just astonishing that such basic functionality has been borked to the extent, you have to upload them one by one just to have them in order.

yup its because it now uploads the pictures based on time uploaded, not time taken, which means you can have 2 screenshots one from chapter 1 and one from chapter 5 and they will both say time: 11:23 as the time even if they were actually taken hours ago

#36

J4MESOX4D 9 Aug, 2023 @ 1:18am

Originally posted by Lar Dass:
Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:
I hate it that you upload your selected all screenshots and it publishes them in reverse order on your screenshots page. It's just astonishing that such basic functionality has been borked to the extent, you have to upload them one by one just to have them in order.
yup its because it now uploads the pictures based on time uploaded, not time taken, which means you can have 2 screenshots one from chapter 1 and one from chapter 5 and they will both say time: 11:23 as the time even if they were actually taken hours ago

So users now have to remember to upload them one by one and in reverse if they want them to appear in order as they did in the old uploader. This is a staggeringly silly oversight - one of many with this new client update.

#37

Anto:-. 16 Sep, 2023 @ 3:52am

it's amazing that this big problem still not be fixed even it just in the event of anniversary

#38

Lar Dass 16 Sep, 2023 @ 4:51am

Originally posted by Anto:-:
it's amazing that this big problem still not be fixed even it just in the event of anniversary

3 month anniversary of this thread being made too....

#39

Louis 16 Sep, 2023 @ 3:26pm

Another issue:
When you delete more than 1 screenshot in the list. It always need to wait some time. This period of time, the controller cannot function.

#40

LeoRgz 16 Sep, 2023 @ 3:30pm

Now after you upload the screenshot to the cloud, you can't delete it from the HD trough the manager. You need to open the file and delete it manually.

#41

VinTJ 16 Sep, 2023 @ 5:49pm

Originally posted by LeoRgz:
Now after you upload the screenshot to the cloud, you can't delete it from the HD through the manager. You need to open the file and delete it manually. :BL3Shrug:

not just that bud. on my end, when I select multiple screenshots and then delete it all at once (having never publicly uploaded them), the screenshot manager now bugs out according to that many screenshots, saying those few screenshots can't be found.

I open my screenshot folder and voila, they're still there. so even the deletion doesn't work, but the manager likes to think it does, but the manager shows those blank spaces anyway.

#42

SSSariel 17 Sep, 2023 @ 6:39pm

The new uploading logic sucks - ruins everything showing up in gallery.

At least, please provide an option to sort screenshots by shot-taking time as opposed of upload time - who cares about when this screenshot is uploaded, it can be impacted by too many factors like networking!

That should be a simple enough solution to fix this for existing users who has been impacted (screenshot uploaded).

#43