Alert Improvements by Xon 2.10.10

• Fix incorrect phrase for default alert type in admincp
• Fix new alert types could be opted out by default instead of opt-in
• Fix user's alert preferences may not save with some configurations
• On alert opt-out list; only render "reset" checkbox for non-default values

• Fix setting "Alerts page skips summarizing" in "User Registration" to false wasn't applied to new accounts

• Fixes for grouped/summarized alerts
  • Group by newest alert not oldest when computing alert summary data
  • When gluing together per-content type reaction summary, use ", " not just whitespace.

• Fix unsetting "Pop-up auto-read" for some XF stock alerts would fail to be respected when those alerts are generated

• Fix "getSvAlertPref(): Return value must be of type array, null returned" when adding a user via the admincp
• Force a consistent mysql locking ordering of affected user records when a user receives a reaction

• Fix adding a user via the admincp could result in a php type error

• Fix alerts grouped by user could occur event if the alerts by a user was less than the configured threshold
• Fix new installs did not migrate alert preferences
• Fix migrating alert preferences would block the installer
• Fix alert preferences where not respected during alert migration from stock to add-on configuration
• Adjust text around the alert pop-up marking alerts as read behavior
• Use a separate css class for the recent alert marker
• Convert confusing named "Alerts pop-up does not mark alerts as read" checkbox to "Alert pop-up read behavior" with the options: "Always mark alerts as read"/"Never mark alerts as read"/"Use per-alert configuration"
• Add style properties "Show recent/unread alert icon on alert" and "Unread/Recent alert icon", disabled by default (previously was enabled)

Thanks to @NamePros for sponsoring this update.

• Work-around surprisingly expensive add-on live-ness join when fetching alerts and instead filter by content_type
• Fix some bad index selection for newer MariaDB/MySQL versions for various parts of the add-on
• Fix some bad performance when using the 'unsummarize' feature
• Fix bad links for profile-post summary alerts
• Fix formatting of alert summarization threshold option not being a numberbox
• Fix summary alerts could have a "G" as the user avatar for alerts which aren't attributed to a user
• Style compatibility fix where the day-selector on the alerts page could be forced onto a new line
• Rework alert summarization feature to be more performant and use less memory
• Rework alert preferences
  • Cleanup various phrasing and add more explainer text to hopefully be less confusing
  • Add "Alerting preference defaults" option
  • Add simplified interface for alert preferences (no alerts, use defaults, use custom).
  • Add per-alert "Alert bell read" option to alert preferences which allows setting if each individual alert is mark-as-read when viewed in the alerts pop-up
• Add support for summarizing XFMG reactions alerts
• Add support for summarizing post quotes alerts
• Add support for summarizing user followed alerts

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• Fix "Alerts pop-up skips mark read" and "Alerts page skips summarizing" user-options did not save as expected
• Fix "Alert resummarize flood check" global option didn't allow selecting 0 to disable it

• Fix regression in v2.9.0 where empty content summary alerts was being generated, and incorrectly preferring a per-user summary instead
• Fix that editing alert preferences when summarization is disabled, would disable some summarization options