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Follow-up
By now I received ~100 reports but also a number of 'Steam ticket' errors. I have tried to fix this, but if this is still no good, I'll need to get in touch with Valve about it first.
Hey all,
This update will attempt to reduce the difficulty of browsing the Steam Workshop to find something you like. There is only one Workshop where everyone shares their creations, but with this many uploads, it becomes increasingly difficult to moderate using Steam's built-in tools and environment. Therefore I have built a new custom system to report and moderate the Workshop and a new filter system to handle suggestive content.
In-App Reports
Everybody can now easily report items for the wrong genre, wrong content rating, violation of the rules and more. These reports can be more easily accepted from my end, allowing me to fix the genre or maturity rating directly. And if this brings any improvements, I can also create a bot to automate the system. This is where you can find the report buttons:
These are the new report categories with specialized options:
Content Rating
The rating system will make it possible to tag suggestive uploads to ignore them. By default they are not shown in the browser unless you enable the option. Of course all existing suggestive uploads need to be reported first in retrospect and properly tagged. I have derived the ratings by looking at other products on Steam. It goes without saying that I have no interest in setting a precedent by being more lenient than other community hubs or more restrictive than it is necessary.
Tagging something as 'Mature' although it is actually harmless won't get you into trouble, but tagging something obscene as 'Everyone' will have consequences. Please respect that there are different audiences, some who do want to see these things and some who do not. There is also a new genre tag for 'Sports' and a few new genres that are meant to further help filtering suggestive uploads that have been submitted already, including 'Girls', 'Guys'.
Browser Improvements
The entire window can be turned transparent now:
You can directly load playlists or add wallpapers by drag & drop (although still only each wallpaper once for now):
When creating new wallpapers, they will automatically show up in the browser without re-opening the window. The editor also has an 'apply wallpaper' button now which will open/control the browser and select the wallpaper from the editor:
I created a rough roadmap for pending features here for anyone who is interested. If this new report system and filtering brings improvements to the current situation, I can hopefully focus more on the app itself again.
There was also a problem with the shake effect having black screen flashes on Intel GPUs, due to improper driver optimizations by Intel. The shader now avoids running into this, but it needs to be re-imported into wallpapers. Simply adding the effect somewhere and removing it again will import the new files automatically and fix all existing shake effects in the wallpaper.
Full changelog
Additions
- Added in-app report system.
- Added content rating filter system.
- Added tags: Sports, Girls, Guys.
- Made playlist menu always show up so you can load and add more easily, added drag & drop.
- Added apply wallpaper button to browser.
- Made browser dynamically detect newly created wallpapers and show them without restart.
- Added opacity setting to browser.
- Added Steam cleanup that deletes empty folders when the browser is opened, after Steam connected and only if there are no active downloads.
- Added filter count to browser if any filter is active to make it more obvious that a filter is active.
Fixes
- Disabled safe start when auto starting since Windows just doesn't shut the program down gently on some PCs which I should have expected because Windows.
- Fixed shake shader causing black flashes on Intel GPU because of bad Intel Math driver optimizations. (Wallpapers need to be updated with the shader though. Open it in the editor, add the shake effect somewhere, remove it again, publish.)
- Fixed scene properties loading after scheme color is read.
- Fixed editor stream window sometimes failing to allocate memory because the program renders too fast.
- Fixed maximized playback option being reverted.
- Potentially fixed wallpapers not closing/reloading properly when fullscreen 'stop' is used.
Misc
- Changed video pause fade to be shorter if the volume is higher. You can disable fade with 'video audio output' for now.