candela97
commented
3 years ago Sounds good, and shouldn't be too hard to implement either since we can reuse Steam's methods, though by default only the first 5 tags are rendered. For the home page, we can also refresh the tags listed under the "Your Store" dropdown:
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GDynamicStore.s_rgRecommendedTagsto what the user prefers (A list of tag names and their corresponding tagids can be retrieved from:https://store.steampowered.com/tagdata/populartags/english) -
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// store navigation bar, refreshes the tags list under "Your Store" GDynamicStore.PopulateRecommendedTagList();
// left sidebar, appends new tags and skips those already in "Browse by genre"
GHomepage.RenderRecommendedTags();What's left to decide is where to put the setting?
a) new section under https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences?
b) "customize your tags" button somewhere on the home page with a popup?
Steam's autocomplete widget could also come in handy: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/blob/5f4c5c5a771d8c4f59f0d402c56adcdf60518597/store.steampowered.com/public/javascript/app_tagging.js#L1091
felixlang
MxtOUT
Current Behavior (if any)
There are two areas of Steam that contain a section titled "Your Tags." One is near the bottom of the left sidebar on the main page (here), and the other is a tab on Steam's dedicated tag page. The tags in the section on the main page are selected by Steam based on games you have recently played. The tags in the section on the dedicated tag page are based on tags you have applied to individual games on Steam, sorted by frequency of application.
Desired Behavior
Ideally both "Your Tags" sections could be directly populated and maintained by us, instead of by Steam. Primarily though, it is the section on the sidebar of the main page where this functionality would be most useful and appreciated, both because it is more easily accessible, and because the current way in which Steam selects those tags (recent playtime) is completely inane and useless.
Motivation / Use Case for Changing the Behavior
There are many different types of games I enjoy, but for two examples I'll use Metroidvanias and Souls-likes. Just as with all other global tags, these two types of games have dedicated pages on the Steam store (here and here). I like to frequently check these pages for new releases, as well as the pages for other categories of games I am interested in, especially during sales. However, Steam has no way to quickly navigate to them. Beyond saving each tag's dedicated page as a bookmark in my browser (which I am currently doing), there is no way to save our own preferred list of tags on Steam.
I was hopeful that the new Steam Labs browsing update would fix this problem, but even though there are more categories that are easily accessible now, Metroidvanias and Souls-likes (and many other types of games I like) are not among them, not even as a secondary option on the main categories' Steam pages (e.g. there is no Souls-like tag under the "Narrow by tag" sidebar.