no friends on friends list

**Sajora** · 02-23-2010

well noone knows if thats the problem. but it has to be somewhere. some guys started saying it works again but it went off again so i guess they are on a good way. hopefully.

**Seraphim** · 02-23-2010

*forwarded from DH*

As most of you probably know by now, Steam Friends is fail. Steam has somehow managed to wipe 99% (or seemingly so) of Steam users' Friends Lists- only a rare handful (most of whom were offline during the update, but some were online) managed to escape unscathed.

What you can do in the meantime:

* Your groups should be untouched. If you are part of any groups, you can re-add your friends through there. Both Deserted Haven's and N/U's groups were unaffected, so if your friends joined us, you can re-add them there.
* Some people, such as myself, have re-added friends manually. Look at a friend's page, and see what friends they have (if any), and add through there. Hopefully you may find a friend or two who haven't been affected.
* Reconnect through forums, (be it community forums (such as this one), via Steampowered's forums), or in-game.
* Be patient. Steam said that "they're working on it"... Hopefully that means "some time soon".

**myst** · 02-23-2010

Originally Posted by Seraphim

*forwarded from DH*

As most of you probably know by now, Steam Friends is fail.

Rofl,well said!!

**DoT** · 02-23-2010

My steam is in my sig for anyone that needs to re-add me.

I luckily was unnaffected (Even after applying the update.)

**NoogyMan** · 02-23-2010

Mine was empty for a while.

But it came back and is full again.

-Noogyman

**vince21** · 02-23-2010

Originally Posted by NoogyMan

Mine was empty for a while.

But it came back and is full again.

-Noogyman

interesting...has anyone else got their lists back after they were emptied? i was lucky enough to not have my list deleted. if you don't have me as a friend though, add me through here, in-game or on n/u community group in steam

**Sajora** · 02-24-2010

well they fixed it kinda. ppl got their friends back BUT just those they didnt invite again while it was off. the ones you send an invitation to will see you on their list still but they will be on your invitation list and they cant add you. if you have the chance to talk to them you can just tell them to delete you and readd you. that works. otherwise you can just wait for steam to fix this problem too. but it might take time:

I've got a fix I'll try to put forward tomorrow that will help reset the mismatched invitations. That will make it a little easier for users to manually reset the relationships that have been left hanging. I'll also work on some code that will cruise the database and find mismatched relationships which aren't already fixed and reset them proactively.