Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on maintenance and analysis since the sales started and made several changes to improve inventory refresh rates. These adjustments aim to prevent issues with inventories failing to update due to Steam’s strict polling limit policies.

To address this, I’ve purchased more IPs to increase the number of queries. However, some additional tweaks were necessary to avoid getting locked out.

Automatic refresh rates (publicly listed users)

• Regular users get automatically refreshed approximately every 8 hours
  
• Bots get automatically refreshed approximately every 90 minutes
  
• The STM bot is usually always up to date as it tracks its own inventory live

Manual refresh (done by clicking the cache button on the button)

• Baseline is still every 120 minutes
  
• NEW: Tier 2 supporters ($10+) can now refresh every 30 minutes
  
• As usual tier 3 supporters are able to refresh every 5 minutes

I hope this clears up any questions.

Enjoy the event!

Hi everyone,

After a few months in degraded mode, I’m excited to announce that the STM bot is back to full functionality! It now processes trade offers within a minute like it did before.

During the sales, I’ll be closely monitoring the website to ensure everything runs smoothly. I’ve already completed some maintenance tasks and I’m working on further improvements to enhance your experience.

Thank you for your patience and continued support. If you encounter any issues, feel free to let me know

Cheers

Hi everyone,

As you may be aware recent changes on Steam broke SteamTrade Matcher pretty badly.

Some crucial parts of the website needed a full rewrite and unfortunately I did not have any time to work on this lately.

I did manage to fix it which means the STM bot is now back online and inventories should now refresh properly again! Please allow a few hours for the system to catch up.

I would like to thank everyone who has supported me during the downtime and especially Archi (from ArchiSteamFarm[github.com]) who gave me precious tips to help me fix SteamTrade Matcher!

Cheers

Robin

Hi everyone,

Due to changes on Steam's side, many important functionalities of SteamTrade Matcher were broken since yesterday.

I have identified the cause of these issues and just released a fix.

Inventories should now refresh properly. Please wait a few hours for STM to update all the queued users.

Thank you for your support!

Hey,

As you may already know, Steam added severe restrictions on inventory queries, which means it is now much harder to keep STM users' inventories up to date. All the community services which rely on users Steam inventories are impacted by this.

SteamTrade Matcher has always used multiple IP addresses to make sure to have optimal uptime on inventory queries. However, the latest changes are so extreme that a lot more IPs would be needed to keep the same level of service as before, but that would mean a very high monthly cost to keep the service online.

I made several changes within the last few weeks to try to keep SteamTrade Matcher usable.

- Publicly listed users are now automatically refreshed every 12 hours. There was no defined timing before, but it used to be between 15 and 30 minutes. Unfortunately, the current limits make it very hard to refresh more often than 12 hours, especially with the current number of public users.

- Manual refreshing is now possible every 2 hours, up from 10 minutes. At the moment, I cannot guarantee that manually refreshing will work every time.

- Tier 3+ ($25) supporters can manually refresh their inventories every 5 minutes, up from 2 minutes.

- The STM bot is using specific IPs at the moment to be able to continue working.

- At the moment, tier 4 ($50) supporters are also using the same IPs as the STM bot, which means they are almost guaranteed to be able to refresh their inventory at any time. I plan to also include tier 3 supporters into this within short term.
*** I understand this might not be seen as a good thing by some of you, but getting more IPs is expensive and this is my way of thanking supporters who helped finance this. The ultimate goal is obviously to have a good quality of service even for non-supporter users. ***

I will keep you updated for future changes.

Thank you for your understanding, the changes made by Steam have been very stressful and I'm trying my best to keep SteamTrade Matcher alive.

Thanks!