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The huge amount of data steam used on the store that people are pointing out in the reddit comments makes me wonder if this is why I am having so many problems
by Fogest 1y ago
The huge amount of data steam used on the store that people are pointing out in the reddit comments makes me wonder if this is why I am having so many problems on their store. For the last half year or so I have found that Steam store pages load very slow for me. It feels like I am loading in their pages on dial-up. I have been suspecting it could be my ISP throttling the Steam connection, but no other download/streaming service or anything seems to have this same problem. And going on a VPN or different browser doesn't resolve the problem.
I wonder if the issue is simply that it is loading a ton of data and my connection just isn't fast enough. Time to monitor the network traffic while browsing Steam I guess.
- esseph 1y agoTry the steam website and see if you have the same problem?
- Fogest 1y agoThe funny thing is that it actually works fine for me on their mobile app, which is the same app this post talks about with the poor data usage. It just seems to be on my PC. It's only on the store. Even download speeds seem okay. But regardless of whether I use the client, Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, they all are slow for the store page. Even things like the community pages and workshop all load fine. It makes zero sense to me why things like pictures/videos in their store load insanely slow for me, yet the images in things like the workshop have zero problem. I've been trying to figure out what is wrong for quite some time and haven't figured out what could be causing it.
- esseph 1y agoHave you moved to a different locality since you've had a steam account? Steam -> Settings -> Download -> Region
- Fogest 1y agoNegative, and it's funny because my download speed seems fine in Steam. It's only the store specifically that is slow.
- homebrewer 1y agoI'm assuming you've already looked into F12 › Network tab? No requests getting stuck on DNS resolution of some weird CDN or anything like that?
- spondyl 1y agoNot to beat on frontend but I vaguely remember that the UI was rebuilt with React a couple of years back and the other day while browsing a sale, specifically hovering over Final Fantasy XIII would crash an entire sales widget, printing out a React error. I wonder if this is just a case of framework bloat getting out of hand (again)
- OsrsNeedsf2P 1y agoPeople give React far too much credit. Source: I've had the privilege to ask questions to some of the engineers on that team...
- Fogest 1y agoIt could be, or maybe poorly optimized assets? I always have such a problem loading the pictures and videos associated with each game. I've used other sites that are fully React based that run quite well and don't have these issues. So I can't imagine it is specifically the frameworks fault. But I do find if developers use these big frameworks and don't use them properly, the slowdowns can be much more pronounced.
- ASalazarMX 1y agoThe new Steam UI was incredibly bloated at the start, it was frequent (in my experience) for it to force close because it wouldn't fit in RAM along with the active game. It got better, but I'm still not loving it. Maybe I'm prejudiced to React and its variants, because I have never used a React app I liked, just React apps that are useful despite their shortcomings.
- dangus 1y agoReact is so wildly popular that you probably have a bunch of websites and apps you like that use it but because it’s so wildly popular there are also extensive examples of poorly made applications.
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoDing ding ding! It's possible (easy) to make terrible software in any framework/system. The popular systems are almost certainly going to have the most offenders, the worst offenses. (It makes me nuts but) I seriously think the web is basically the greatest. And we have some pretty good tools for doing pretty good, that we can use, if we try hard. But also, the whole middle-tier data-architecture is made up by almost everyone, with little guidance; there's incredibly little guidance & views of how we effectively get data to the client and cache & update it effectively. The tools and tech exist, but instead of clear industrial practices everyone's stringing shit together.
- benoau 1y agoI wonder wtf is in the 200+ megabyte installer that has to download every other day if not the data the store needs...
- Ekaros 1y agoDownloading the same browser engine that everyone else uses too time and time again as more bugs and security issues are found in it...
- Fogest 1y agoWait, when is this occuring? I don't recall any installer downloading every other day. Is this something from maybe being on the beta branch of Steam or something? Or am I just missing this?
- benoau 1y agoFeels like every time I open Steam I'm waiting for the latest version to unpack...
- Fogest 1y agoOh, that's odd. But I also have Steam launch at startup so maybe it's doing something in the background before I open it. I don't think I've really ever seen this unpacking thing unless I maybe am installing a Steam client update periodically
- chris92de 1y agoSounds like you're using the Steam Beta Client, which does update very often. Maybe switching back to the stable branch would be better suited for you.
- vel0city 1y agoI'm not on the beta client. It still gets updates every few days.
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