What's new — version 1.6.0
Last updated: September 9, 2026
The Steam Profile Checker is versioned so you can tell an app change from a change in your profile. The product version below moves when we add or fix something you can see. The method versions move only when the way we read or score a profile changes — and when that happens, your older scans are re-read with the new method before any comparison, so "before and after" keeps describing you, not us.
How to read version numbers
- Major (1.0.0 → 2.0.0): the scoring method changed. Scans from before and after are not directly comparable; the report says so.
- New (1.0.0 → 1.1.0): a new card, signal or feature in the report or the program.
- Fix (1.0.0 → 1.0.1): wording and corrections. Nothing that changes a number.
Current method versions
- Scoring: credibility_v1, weights 2026-08-20
- Profile parser: scan_v1.0
- Ban label definition: label_v1
- Study release: study_2026-09
Every scan stores the versions it was made with. The Evidence Receipt of a program lists them per scan.
1.6.0 · Four more myths, and one of them Valve answered itself New
September 9, 2026
- Myth check grew from four entries to eight. The new ones cover buying an aged account, the "spend $350 and your standing flips" threshold, the Looking to Play counter read as a tier meter, and the idea that reporting people drags you down.
- One of them is not our measurement but Valve's own words: it has said that an acquired account carries whatever standing it already had, and that acquired accounts commonly sit very low. That is the opposite of what the aged-account sellers tell you.
- The reset-clock entry now says plainly that the counter-claim is no better evidenced than the myth. Nobody outside Valve has shown that waiting works, and nobody has shown that it cannot. We would rather say that than pick the convenient side.
- No signal weights changed, so a scan taken today still compares to one taken before this release.
1.5.0 · Pool growth is now a week, not a day New
September 9, 2026
- The growth figure beside the update date now covers roughly the last seven days instead of the previous export alone: "+4,319,883 accounts in the last 6 days" rather than "+598,527 since 7 September". Same pool, same arithmetic, a window wide enough to show a trend rather than a rounding error.
- The number of days in that sentence is measured, not assumed. Exports do not always land exactly a day apart, so a window that actually covered six days says six. It will never claim seven days it did not cover.
- Growth is still counted inside our pool, which is what every percentage on the page describes. It is not a count of new accounts on Steam.
1.4.0 · You can see how fresh the pool is New
September 7, 2026
- The study pool now carries its measurement date wherever its numbers appear: next to the pool panel on the tool page, above the pool grid, under the tiles on your result, and on the home page. It reads like "Updated 7 September 2026", and the date comes from the exported study file, so it can never drift away from the numbers beside it.
- Alongside it, how much the pool grew since the previous export, in the shape of "+265,776 accounts since 6 September". The pool is re-exported daily, and now you can tell that from the page instead of taking our word for it.
- Growth is counted inside our pool, which is what every percentage on the page describes. It is not a count of new accounts on Steam.
1.3.0 · Share your result New
September 5, 2026
- A "Share this result" button on every scan with a verdict. It copies a link to a page with a 1200×630 card: the dial, score and ceiling, the four axes, account age against the study pool, and the scan date. Discord and Steam chat unfold it as a preview.
- The card shows the free layer only — the same numbers anyone gets by pasting the profile link. No fixes, no locked signals, no friend names.
- Shared pages are kept out of search engines on purpose: a scan is a reading of somebody's account, and a link you choose to post is not a public catalogue.
1.2.0 · Friends on the record New
September 5, 2026
- Every scan now reads the public ban records of the profile's friend list (up to the first 500 friends) and shows how many carry a VAC or game ban. The count is free; who they are, with ban type and date, is part of the full report — the line the landing page has promised since day one now has data behind it.
- This does not change the score. Banned friends are a pattern in our study pool, not a validated signal yet, so the section sits next to the ban records as a fact and stays out of the number until the prospective cohort settles it.
- New pass perk, every tier: while your pass runs we re-read the friend list of your verified Steam account daily and mail you when a friend picks up a new ban. The first read is a baseline — old bans do not trigger a mail.
- Friend lists we cannot read (private, or Steam not answering) get no section rather than a zero.
1.1.0 · Your account age against the study pool New
September 5, 2026
- New tile in the report header: the share of accounts in our study pool that were created after yours, next to your account's creation year. Counted over the accounts in the pool whose creation date is public; the number is read from the same study file that feeds the landing page, so it moves when the pool does.
- This is the only ranking we publish for now. A ranking of the score itself would need our full 74-signal reading for millions of accounts, and the study pool holds far less about each account than a scan does — so we do not fake one.
- Profiles that hide their creation date get no tile rather than a made-up zero.
1.0.0 · First public version Major
September 5, 2026
- Free scan of any public Steam profile: 74 public signals scored 1 to 100 across four axes, with a coverage figure that says how much of the profile we could actually read.
- Two free fixes under "Start here", ordered by how much they move the number; the full report with every remaining fix is paid once per profile from your Imbaboost balance.
- Sign in through Steam to prove the profile is yours. Steam confirms the sign-in; we never see your password.
- 15-day program: pick the changes, make them on Steam, and we re-read the profile field by field on day 15. A person on our side confirms anything the parser cannot.
- Evidence Receipt for every program: which pages we read, when, with which parser and method versions, and what was verified — with a SHA-256 you can compare between downloads.
- Scan history and the day-15 comparison separate what you changed from what we changed: when our method moves, the old scan is re-read with today's method first.
- "Worth knowing" and "Myth check" sections drawn from our study pool, with the study's own numbers next to them.
- Research notice: what the study reads from public profiles, why, and how to ask us to remove your SteamID.