Steam's website is showing "too many requests" errors on a Thursday, outside of Valve's usual Tuesday maintenance. The issue affects web access while friends lists and matchmaking continue operating according to the status page.
PC Gamer updated at ~4:33pm PT July 9 that the 'too many requests' error has cleared for the Steam store (now loading for most users), though SteamStat.us still shows issues with website servers in Dubai.
The errors are occurring on a Thursday rather than the typical Tuesday maintenance window when Valve performs scheduled updates.
The outage leaves users unable to browse the store or community on the web while other platform elements stay online.
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