[ridgered4]

Is Steam UI terrible? It seems a little slower than I'd like, particularly initial load but otherwise it seems fine to me. And most software I use is so slow now it certainly doesn't stand out and has probably moved to the upper grade just by not getting worse over the years.

[aqme28]

Yes, it's absolutely horrible. It's just a browser and it's not well done. It takes seconds sometimes for clicks to register. Often I get blank screens and have to go back to reload the page I want. Everything about this browser-based UI is slow and cumbersome and brittle.

[thewebcount]

Yes, it is. It has all the problems of a web page plus all the problems of a native app. It's the worst of both worlds.

[yyyk]

It's a Web-based UI which doesn't allow font size control or zoom, which deserves an achievement or something since nearly all of them allow this rather easily (either in UI or by editing CSS). Maybe a magnifier glass to help with the tiny font size.

[mardifoufs]

What web engine is steam using? Has it always been a Web UI? I only started gaming on steam back in 2014, and it was a webui already back then so I'm curious!

[doublerabbit]

> What web engine is steam using?

Chrome, not quite an electron app but as sluggish as one. It's not always been however the installer has always been known to be notorious.

These gifs was well known during the golden days, classics. NSFW-ish

[1] https://i.imgur.com/0qtsE.gif

[2] https://i.imgur.com/QuJNQ4K.gif

[philistine]

It's a batty Mac citizen, with slow startup, weird fonts, the exact same UI as on Windows, and the shortcuts are all wrong. It's probably the same on Linux, where it's a Windows app on the OS as well.

Valve doesn't have enough taste to see a problem.