Just announced, Valve is rolling out a beta for the Steam Community. Included in this beta are three new features that users can test out right now.
First up is a new Community Home page. There is also an addition of artwork to the hubs, and changes to the main Steam navigation menu.
The announcement says that the changes can be viewed on the web right now and will be added to the Steam client "shortly."
First up is a new Community Home page. There is also an addition of artwork to the hubs, and changes to the main Steam navigation menu.
The new Community Home removes the extra step of selecting a hub to view and puts the best content across all game and software hubs in front of you on the front page. No more seeing an interesting image and then having to find it in the hub to learn more about it—now it’s just endless scrolling of the best rated news, screenshots, videos, discussions, ….and artwork.
Speaking of artwork, we’ve added a new tab to all Valve game hubs where anyone can share the game-related art they’ve created. This addition is based on feedback from the community on the need to share more types of images than just screenshots. There’s a ton of great game-related art being created by Steam users that we think has a rightful place on the hubs. We’re going to test this out with our own games first, then expand it out for other games in the future. To get things started we’ve seeded the Valve hubs with some concept and character art. Hope you enjoy it!
The third change is a new drop down navigation in the main Steam nav. With the Community features we’ve added over the last year the Community navigation has become lengthy. We’ve broken out all the links that relate to You from links that relate to the larger Steam Community, improving clarity and giving us more space (enough to bring Groups back!)
Speaking of artwork, we’ve added a new tab to all Valve game hubs where anyone can share the game-related art they’ve created. This addition is based on feedback from the community on the need to share more types of images than just screenshots. There’s a ton of great game-related art being created by Steam users that we think has a rightful place on the hubs. We’re going to test this out with our own games first, then expand it out for other games in the future. To get things started we’ve seeded the Valve hubs with some concept and character art. Hope you enjoy it!
The third change is a new drop down navigation in the main Steam nav. With the Community features we’ve added over the last year the Community navigation has become lengthy. We’ve broken out all the links that relate to You from links that relate to the larger Steam Community, improving clarity and giving us more space (enough to bring Groups back!)
The announcement says that the changes can be viewed on the web right now and will be added to the Steam client "shortly."
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