There's an update out for the new Steam Chat system for everyone along with changes only available for those in the Steam Client Beta.

One niggle I saw a few people unhappy with in our comments, was the removal of the fully offline mode for the friends system. In the Steam Client Beta this has been restored. In addition, Valve has added a 'Do Not Disturb' mode to get no notifications from friends or groups which includes not opening windows or playing sounds for new messages.

To make it even better, they added the option to not sign into the friends system when the Steam Client loads up. Along with fixing an issue with the friends list opening by itself on startup.

As for what everyone gets in the stable client: Clicking your avatar on the friends lists will take you to your profile, they fixed not being able to close friends windows when in a disconnected state, added a "/quote" formatting option, embedded videos and images are smaller, fixed some weird spacing issues in the UI and more.

It's fantastic to see them act on feedback, hopefully this will improve the experience for everyone. It certainly sounds like they're taking feedback on board.

Full changelog can be found here.

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