[Entwickler]

While it's amazing they've got as big as they have, I have to say I'm utterly disappointed with the quality of the steam interface.

Trying to watch friend's streams breaks half the time, files often get corrupted for downloads, and feels like every other week they change the UI layout.

[Semaphor]

I don’t care about streaming, I never had a corrupted download and have been using steam pretty much since it existed, and the recent UI change (not a fan, though, it’s now slower than before) was the first big one in years.

[Entwickler]

You've never had to "verify the integrity of game cache" either? Wow, you must be lucky - 3-4 of the friends I play with have to do that quite often.

Funny enough, as we speak, I am downloading an update for a game. It failed for some unknown reason the first time and tried redownloading now. Time will tell if it will finally "just work" or if I'll have to redownload the entire game. Before you ask, yes I am on an SSD with plenty of space and I have a pretty decent fiber internet connection.

[Sander_Marechal]

Steam downloads are so terribly slow. I can suck down 100Gb during a cup of coffee using my browser, bittorrent or even the (yuck) Epic Game Store. But with Steam it takes multiple hours. I have tried to diagnose the problem but as far as I can tell it's because Steam uses really aggressive compression and they process each block as it is downloaded. This causes the download to stall and wait for the CPU to catch up.

[naavis]

Curious. I have been getting full download speeds from Steam with no issues.

[gwill]

strange, i was hitting ~20mbps when downloading armored core vi.

[muzani]

If anything, it looks pretty damn good for something 20 years old. Facebook, Reddit, and Google haven't aged well. HN isn't even 20 and feels much older.