Breaking: Browsing the Steam Workshop's 50 million mods just got better thanks to a redesign that loads faster and works better on mobile and Steam Deck
Breaking: Browsing the Steam Workshop's 50 million mods just got better thanks to a redesign that loads faster and works better on mobile and Steam Deck
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Subscribe to our newsletter Last week, Valve rolled out a refresh for the Steam storefront that made the whole thing look quite a bit nicer than it used to.
This week, the Steam Workshop is getting a similar treatment: An update to the UI designed to make browsing Workshop content quicker and easier."The Steam Workshop remains a heavily used part of the Steam Community: to date, there are over 3,000 games with Workshop enabled with a combined total of over 50 million items uploaded," Valve wrote, explaining what pushed it to make the changes.
"Millions of players regularly subscribe to and vote on items.
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While we've added features and updated the Workshop over the years, we felt it was time to make some bigger improvements to the overall user experience."The central issue, apparently, is that while "there are dozens of ways to interact with the user interface" while browsing Workshop content, most of them require a full page reload, which seriously slows things down
## Editor's Note
We'll have to wait and see how this plays out in the coming weeks.
Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/browsing-the-steam-workshops-50-million-mods-just-got-better-thanks-to-a-redesign-that-loads-faster-and-works-better-on-mobile-and-steam-deck/)