[XB] Content Feeds: Customizable Feeds & Content Discovery 2.3.0

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Quick Composer, Mixed Feeds & Improved Navigation​

This major update introduces Quick Composer for posting directly from feeds, mixed publication feeds, and new loading and refresh options. It also includes XML import/export, improved content filtering, and numerous fixes for pagination, permissions, navigation, and third-party integrations.

Important: This version now requires [XB] Core Library.

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New Features:​

Quick Composer​

• Added optional Quick Composer for creating threads, status updates, resources, and media directly from feeds, with shared or tab-specific publishing actions
• Added native editors, draft protection, automatic feed updates after posting, and dedicated style properties
• Enabled by default on new installations; existing installations can enable it in the options

Mixed Feeds & Content Indexing​

• Added Mixed Publication Feeds combining threads, resources, and media, with sorting by last activity or publication date
• Added a Publication Index with an option to disable it and a rebuild tool in Rebuild caches

Feed Management & Display​

• Added optional Skeleton Loading for feed tabs, with reserved space, a subtle reveal effect, and an option to disable it
• Added an optional Floating New Entries Button to load newly available content, with draft protection and independent background checks
• Added XML Import & Export for feed tabs, including settings, appearance, and user criteria
• Added Feed Tab Copying in the ACP, with a prefilled form for reviewing the copied configuration before saving

New Content Types​

• Added course and lesson feeds for [XB] Courses
• Added book feeds for [XB] Book Database
• Added game feeds for [XB] Game Database
• Added album feeds for [XB] Music Database
• Added recipe feeds for [XB] Recipes

Improvements:​

• Improved activity feed performance when no thread filters are applied
• Improved automatic refresh behavior by pausing updates in background browser tabs and preserving pagination, filters, display styles, and unfinished posts
• Improved feed navigation by restoring the correct page when using browser Back and Forward buttons
• Improved Load More handling for repeated widgets, gallery feeds, and multiple feeds on the same page
• Improved content visibility handling across XenAddons integrations, including moderation states, category permissions, and native privacy restrictions
• Replaced the bundled Font Awesome icon picker with the shared [XB] Core Library implementation
• Improved feed layouts by correcting filter button alignment, nested spacing, and standalone section separation

Bug Fixes:​

• Fixed feed loading, pagination, automatic refresh, and AJAX navigation issues causing missing, duplicated, or incorrectly updated content
• Fixed feed tabs, display styles, browser navigation, and background refreshes interfering with user selections or unfinished content
• Fixed feed filtering, sorting, date ranges, forum selections, and administrator-configured settings producing incomplete or incorrect results
• Fixed content visibility and permission handling for private, moderated, deleted, unread, and featured content
• Fixed compatibility and filtering issues across Resource Manager, Media Gallery, Social Groups, Pickem, Resource Questions, and other content integrations
• Fixed forum list navigation, What's New redirects, live counters, and expanded thread card interactions
• Fixed ACP feed management, configuration validation, permissions, and counter rebuilding issues
• Fixed XenForo 2.2 and 2.3 compatibility issues, including PHP 7.2-7.4 support and feed rendering errors

Smarter content feeds with broader integration support!​

This update introduces live tab counters, personalized tab management, and support for many additional content types, along with important performance and reliability improvements.

New Features​

• Added live tab counters with a configurable background refresh interval (disabled by default).
• Added user tab sorting and hiding. Members with the appropriate permission can reorder tabs and hide unused ones from their account preferences.
• Added a Font Awesome icon picker for tabs.
• Added support for [XB] Quizzes.
• Added support for [XB] Donations donation campaigns.
• Added support for [XB] Toplists.
• Added support for [XB] Quote Book quotes.
• Added support for [XB] Movie & TV Database.
• Added support for [XenAddons/AMS] Articles.
• Added support for [XenAddons/CAS] Classified Ads.
• Added support for [XenAddons/IMS] Items.
• Added support for [XenAddons/LD] Link Directory Items.
• Added support for [XenAddons/RMS] Review Items.
• Added support for [XenAddons/UBS] Blog Entries.
• Added support for [XenAddons/Pickem] Pools.
• Added support for [XenAddons/Sportsbook] Events.

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed saved user filters not being reapplied on subsequent tab loads.
• Fixed Clear Filters not removing saved filters for registered members.
• Fixed guest tab counters showing a random member's totals instead of guest-visible values.
• Fixed excessive memory usage when loading unread threads for thread tabs using Show unread threads first.
• Fixed tabs whose IDs matched a content type being rendered with default options instead of their own configuration.
• Fixed the counter cron queuing rebuild jobs for manual execution instead of background processing.
• Fixed excessive memory usage in the counter cron on large forums.

Fixed template errors when viewing redirect threads in expanded mode

• Added style properties to define how near the autoload trigger must be to the screen edge before content loads on wide and narrow devices
• Fixed style selection buttons visibility when filters is not enabled
• Fixed "Load more button and pagination" option work
• Fixed incorrect default style button state for trending & featured content
• Fix: hide tooltips and overlays when auto-refreshing tabs to avoid them getting stuck on the screen
• Fix: properly activate tab container on display style change

Changes:​

• Addon was renamed from "Forum Content List Tabs" to "Content Feeds" to better reflect its functionality

New features:​

• Added ability to allow users to choose display style for Threads, Featured and Trending content tabs
• Added "Expanded" display style for Thread list tab
• Added style property to center "Load more" button
• Added style property to show tab contents as standalone blocks
• Added separate filter for watched forums in the Threads tab
• Added ability to display both navigation types: "Load more" and pagination
• Added widget positions to standalone tabs page (/forum-list-tabs)
• Added reply count & first post reaction count filters for threads tab
• Added option to redirect "What's new" page to content feeds page

Fixes:​

• Fixed tabs edge space removal on mobile device
• Fixed current filters not shown in the filters menu

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Fixed tab auto-update handling when auto-update is disabled or "Auto load more" is used

• Code refactor
• The filters menu was moved to a separate AJAX page to minimize extra DB queries.
• Added ajax page navigation
• Added participated & started threads filters
• Added featured content option to filter threads by forum
• Fixed dynamic filters applying on XF 2.2.x
• Fixed load_more_auto option not marked as checked

• Code refactor
• Added option to change the default "Forums" tab position
• Added filter support for the Latest Threads tab
• Added pagination support
• Added autoload option for "Load more" navigation
• Fixed menu not closing on click

• Added new tabs display type - menu button
• Added ability to use different display type on mobile and desktop
• Fix: avoid "getContent on null" error in TrendingContent tab
• Fixed not respecting "Tabs display style" style property in widget

Fix: missing sort options for featured content handler
Fix: avoid throwing "Class X not found" by XF 2.3 tabs on XF 2.2