I hate how the edit trade button is now all the way at the bottom. This is highly inconvenient if you have long trades like I do.

I hate how the convenient top bar was moved to the left and does this ugly and annoying push over of the screen. Please put it back at the top.

I DO like that the trade offer button is now big and easy to see. Doesn't help me but will help new and inexperienced people.

Originally posted by best hopscotch player USA:

ten days after realese cuz item expiration xdxd

It only takes 7 days for the stuff to be tradable, making it today they should be added by your logic.

Pretty please add them?

Put any link to Outpost on your Steam profile, save, and look at it outside of the edit page and it should say "Link Removed". I wonder why Valve is doing this.

So how am I allowed to advertise my bot on my main account? Make a trade as usual and in the text list the prices and the words "don't add me, add my bot [bot's Steam profile link]"?

The first rule for bots is such: "Full ownership disclosure. You may only advertise your bots under your main account. If your main account hasn't logged into the website before then you may use a single bot's account and state your main account as the owner in your trade notes. There is currently no restriction on the number of bots that you may list under your main account, but relisting rules still apply — one trade for each service (key banking, hat banking, etc)."

For reference sake this is my bot: http://www.tf2outpost.com/user/427509

If I am to understand this correctly, and judging by all my bot's closed trades I am, because my main (this account posting) has logged into Outpost, I may not have any trades up whatsoever on any automated account? We already know the answer is yes, but what I don't understand is why.

The first sentence of the rule is "Full ownership disclosure." All right, I have absolutely no problem linking to my main under my bot's trades in any way Outpost sees fit. In fact, I always have and still do link to my main on my bot's profile. I also follow the other rules for bots, and always have. Such as blocking those marked on Steamrep, and other security features to prevent getting hijacked items. My bot has been doing this for over a year now, way before those rules came into place.

Forcing us to take our limited 5(10) trading pages on our statistically likely non-premium main and use it to advertise our bot could be interpreted as an attempt to get people to buy premium. I don't know if that's the case, but either way that doesn't make sense because I WAS much more likely to buy premium on my bot's account, and in the past I knew others who had premium on both their bot and their main. So if that was the intent I think it's only going to have the opposite effect. Regardless it's going to annoy a lot of people with trading bots who don't have space to advertise them effectively on their main.

But perhaps the purpose is to cut down on the truthfully immense number of trading bots? I suspect this is the real reason. Lots of people have complained about the key bots who do nothing but buy low and sell high, and many theorize they help contribute to the growing price of keys in ref. Or really any bot that buys AND sells gets bad comments from lots of people. But what about us bot owners whose bot only buys (or in some instances only sells)? My bot has only ever bought items, never sells, and he doesn't buy keys either. What's wrong with him?

I think in addition to having discounts for longer premium purchases there could also be different tiers of premium. Such as:

$1 = autobump every 2.5 hours plus 5 extra trades
$2 = autobump every 2 hours plus 10 extra trades
$3 = autobump every 1.5 hours plus 15 extra trades
$4 = autobump every 1 hour plus 20 extra trades
$5 = autobump every 0.5 hours plus 25 extra trades

Or perhaps go even further and sell autobump and extra trades separately. But the important thing is a nice discount for bulk buys of premium. I know I won't be buying premium until some changes are made, even though I can afford it.

Originally posted by Blue Screen of Dea†h:

The reason those "collector" trades remained open for so long was the lack of support for listing specific attributes in the wishlist, such as craft numbers, effects, etc. The "search" update added attributes support to wishlist items, so there is no reason to allow these trades to remain open anymore, considering the items are not for sale (against the rules) and clog search results. Therefore they will be closed if reported to us.

There is no "new" rule, just reinforcement of a previously neglected rule (for technical reasons).

Thanks for clearing that up. My trades now allow people to purchase these wonderful level 32 items from me.

To be specific, I'm referring to how nearly every collector puts up items on their side which they are using as an example of what they want, most commonly craft numbers. I collect craft #32 (as well as level 32) and always believed this methodology was within the rules, and I have never had any trouble with it until now.

Here is my trade that was recently closed (I'm not complaining about the closing, nor wanting it unclosed which isn't possible), I just want a clarification on the rules:
http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/18695782

Under the excuse this mod used to close my trade, does that not mean that mine and everyone else's trades which involve craft numbers should also be closed, like the following (now updated to allow people to purchase them):
http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/18695703

And I have several more collecting trades up on Outpost. What does this mean for the future of my trades, as well as all the others?

Aha, you guys got me. I forgot it was April fools and this was subtle enough of a change it didn't set off my "so stupid a change they're obviously joking" radar. Nice one.