This was first posted on our Patreon.

Steam Deck

- If you missed it, Valve formally announced the Steam Deck. Powered by SteamOS 3.0, with a KDE Plasma desktop mode. This is exciting, very, and we're hoping to continue being at the front of all of it, especially for the Linux side of things because it ships with a new SteamOS based on Arch Linux. We've setup a new dedicated Steam Deck article tag and we have some thoughts.

There's a but coming...but this is completely uncharted territory for us which is both exciting and terrifying at the same time. Valve are now firmly and heavily leaning into Proton, telling developers basically "don't port to Linux". It puts us in a somewhat weird position. Still, silver lining is that it could also be a net benefit for us (with new readers) if we cover Steam Deck directly with games in addition to desktop Linux gaming - which we're hoping to do. However, it also means we will absolutely have to cover more games run through Proton, which we haven't really been doing. AA/AAA developers ignore us 99% of the time, so it could be costly and that's the most difficult thing, we've been blanked or simply told "nope" from most bigger teams and publishers.

Anyway, don't want to put a sour mood on it, we are genuinely excited. For me personally, I've wanted a device like this regardless. My office is often far too hot to sit in the evenings.

We've reached out to Valve. for a review unit, if not we'll place down a reservation anyway thanks to your help on funding GOL here on Patreon.

Let us know your feedback on how you (the people paying us!) would like us to evolve with all this. We are after all, here thanks to you!


Security

- As mentioned in the last monthly update, submitted articles had a potential for a XSS issue. Working with the CKEditor team we found the cause: the YouTube plugin. For some reason, the author of the plugin made it allow images and links with any tags inside, even though it doesn't ever use either *facepalm*. So I've manually removed those from the code and reported it to the plugin author.


Tag Feedback Needed

- We currently have a "Game Streaming" tag, but we're not sure if we should change it to "Cloud Gaming", which appears to be a more commonly used term. Let us know what you think about that. Should we change it?


Misc

- Somehow, a user ended up with no user groups attached to their account. We've made the GOL system more robust in case that ever happens to prevent the site just dying and spitting out SQL errors.

- For contributors, the article category tag box should no longer suggest what you already have listed when typing. Finally. Only took me like a year+ to implement.

- Turns out the links on users GOL profiles to their latest forum posts was always going to the last post in the topic, not the one from the user profile you're viewing and clicking on. Woops. Fixed.

- Marking all GOL notifications read is now smarter. It will mark those read that you've seen as of the time on that page load. That way, if a new one comes through and you're marking read, it won't mark it as read. No more missed notifications of quotes, likes and whatever.

- We added the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti as options for your PC Info. Also adjusted the "HD 8570D" to have "Radeon" in the name as it's supposed to. Be sure to keep your PC info up to date!

- In addition to our Steam Curator where you can see what we suggest, we also have a special page up on itch.io now too. We're now up to 100 games on our itch page!

- Remember you can refresh your Patreon status on GOL any time on this page. As it turns out, sometimes it wouldn't work. After some furious hair pulling, it turns out Patreon expire API keys for no apparent reason (*claps*) so it's now hooked up to pull in new keys when that happens.