Add-on Update Notifier 1.1.6

In this update we added support for XoN's special versioning format.

There was a small bug with this change so when he released a new version for an add-on that made the switch from the correct versioning format to his own, our system didn't map it correctly directly (it would've done it on the next release of the same add-on).

This has now been fixed and updates for XoN's add-ons should be sent correctly again

By default (since this update) the download button has been set to download directly from xenforo.com if possible. This release adds the option to prefer downloading from developer's own site if it exists.

Trending Xenforo Add-ons

Here is a list of the recently trending Xenforo add-ons by our users.

xf-addon-update-notifier.com

We added a new section to our site that highlights new/fresh and trending add-ons that might be of interest.

The existing "best Xenforo Add-ons" page only highlights the most used ones, which favors older add-ons that have been around a long time and therefore will likely have more installs.

This new section is more dynamic and will boost newer add-ons higher up to promote new and popular add-ons as well.

Currently, the formula is a quite basic number of installs / days since release, but it seems to be a quite good gague. We might tweak this formula later, but we want to keep it so that newer add-ons are boosted, while still striking a balance for how much in use they are..

If a download link allows direct downloading from the Xenforo resource page, send the browser there instead of the developer's resource page.

This is a UX improvement since most owners are likely already logged into XF, while on the developers own sites' they might not even have an account.

Thanks for the suggestion/report @Mr. Jinx

Don't show version/download/changelog info in the "Upgradeable" box.
(When FTP uploading zip archive with new version)

Since @Xon has started using a special versioning format to streamline their development, we needed to update our backend to be able to map their released version_string values to the actual version_id values used.

This is a backend change so there is no need for updating the add-on on your site, and you should start getting update notifications for Xon's add-ons correctly again.

Since it was requested by a few customers to allow more add-ons, we decided to add 2 new tiers..

If you currently have e.g. 60 extra add-ons and choose to upgrade to 120 extra, the remaining days on your current license will be prorated, e.g. 50 days remaining on license @ 60 extra add-ons becomes 25 days remainings @ 120 add-ons + 1 year from that date.

The previous version didn't check that the response was JSON and tried to decode it as such, which would raise an error in case the API request returned some funky data due to timeout or similar.

Some phrases had been added during development when we tested the 90-prefix in versioning.

This release resets them to be on version 1010391 rather than previous wrong value of 901000070

Some forum owners seem to have missed the detail about setting up an API key for the add-on to work, so we now also show a message at the top of the add-on page so they notice it at some point