Freelance Developer Fixes Steam Storefront Performance

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While Valve does have a solid track record for its work on Steam, it's still far from perfect, and the developer of the community tool SteamDB has just had to deploy a plugin-based performance fix for one of the marketplace's major features. First launched back in 2003, Steam has plenty of legacy code that holds it back in some respects, and which Valve doesn't seem to be in a rush to resolve.

Namely, Pavel Djundik just posted his new GitHub page titled «If Valve won't do it, I will,» which not only hosts his SteamDB browser plugin but now also massively increases the speed and reliability of the users' Steam Profile Games pages. The creator of SteamDB was frustrated with how long it took for this particular page to load for users with large game libraries and decided to take things into his own hands.

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A remarkably popular community resource, Djundik's SteamDB has been around for almost as long as Steam itself, and though some companies think SteamDB is a piracy website, this couldn't be further from the truth, as it's a simple information depository that anyone can freely reference. His development of SteamDB means that Djundik has a good sense of how Steam runs in general, and he was frustrated with hugely inflated loading times, specifically on the users' Profile Games page, which displays information about their playtime, achievements, and more. In what Djundik claims was a simple fix, he managed to reduce a 7-minute loading to a mere 10 seconds, which is a staggering improvement.

Having recently added a slew of substantial Steam shopping feature updates, Valve isn't overlooking the service by any stretch of the imagination, but Djundik's claims do suggest that there's much