****** UPDATE JULY 18, 2024 *******

After over a year, Steam has finally released to beta a new screenshot and game recording manager, and it's much much better. This post is now irrelevant. Cheers!

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Screenshot manager issues

1. Deletes take an extremely long time, even for one screenshot. Delete the screenshots in the background. I do not need a progress bar for deleting screenshots. Just delete them.

2. When screenshots are deleted DO NOT RELOAD THE ENTIRE THUMBNAIL LIST. This is the worst most inefficient possible thing you can do. Just remove the thumbnail and move the thumbnails below it up. Or just leave the thumbnail blank for that session, or replace it with a red x to show it was deleted. Reloading the entire thumbnail list is a complete waste of time, causes delay, and interferes with the flow of uploading screenshots. Plus it literally makes me not want to use the screenshot manager, which sucks because I enjoy uploading game screenshots so much.

3. Keep the same game selected every time I return to the screenshot manager. Currently it defaults to All Games every time you use the manager instead of remembering my preference.

4. When I change from "Most Recent" to a specific game (TF2 for example) the screenshot manager loses the cloud icon in the thumbnails so that I can no longer see which shots have been uploaded. This is just the worst.

5. The screenshot manager groups the "uploaded to cloud" icons at the top of the date range for the screenshots you take. This behavior is confusing and time wasting. Put the "uploaded to cloud" icon on the thumbnail it belongs on, and DO NOT REORDER THE SCREENSHOTS AT ALL. I cannot stress enough how terrible this behavior is. It means that if I have 10 similar screenshots, and I pick one to upload, it moves the thumbnail of the one I uploaded to the top of the entire list. So when I'm looking for shots to upload, I have no idea if I've uploaded one in a group of shots and I have to scroll up to verify.

6. Please try to test the screenshot manager on directories with over 1000 screenshots, it seems like it was only designed and tested with 10-20 screenshots in mind. It can't handle anything substantial. This is extremely important because the manager frequently CRASHES hard. For example, almost every time I start the screenshot manater, - OR - literally if I try to simply scroll down the screenshot thumbnail list, the screenshot manager will crash with the following error every single time:

Something went wrong while displaying this content. Refresh
Error Reference: Shared SteamUI_8226802_f385dbfebf120acd
Minified React error #185; visit https://reactjs.org/docs/error-decoder.html?invariant=185 for the full message or use the non-minified dev environment for full errors and additional helpful warnings.

The full text of the error from the react org is: Maximum update depth exceeded. This can happen when a component repeatedly calls setState inside componentWillUpdate or componentDidUpdate. React limits the number of nested updates to prevent infinite loops.

7. if you delete a screenshot manually from a game screenshot folder (without using the manager), then the Screenshot Manager displays a warning where that screenshot was. You cannot select or delete this warning, it's there permanently and if you hover the pointer over it, it says something like "there was a problem trying to load this screenshot". This error has been there since the first new look update on beta.
The previous screenshot manager simply understood that if there was no screenshot to load on the folder, then it was deleted and it didn't display that screenshot or a warning or anything. (thanks Raiden_chino)

8. say you have 1000 games with screenshots, the manager will list each and every one with no feature to skip to the desired game by hitting a key on the keyboard (for instance H or H and A for Half life). You have to scroll down for a long time if the game happens to be on the tail end of the list. This new screenshot manager and the new UI in general was made by monkeys. Give the option to revert back to the classic screenshot manager or finally fix it and make it serviceable. (thanks Malkavian 🌣)

9. when deleting a screenshot put the option to cancel, when selecting many screenshots if you select one accidentally and delete it, there is no option to cancel so it's goodbye screenshot (thanks No-Heart)

I like to post screenshots and this is completely ruining my experience.