[XB] Game Threads: Video Game Database & Gaming Discussion 2.3.0

Track, Play & Explore Games in More Detail!​

This update significantly expands game tracking with Playing, Completed, and Backlog collections, introduces deeper Steam integration and detailed release information, and refreshes game threads with improved navigation, search visibility, and responsive layouts.

New Features​

• Added Playing and Completed game shelves with dedicated account pages and per-game community totals.
• Changed Played into cumulative play history that is automatically recorded from Playing and Completed activity.
• Added personal Game Backlogs with game thread controls and a dedicated account page.
• Added Steam integration with reviews, current player counts, player history charts, and scheduled synchronization.
• Added a Steam tab to game threads and an action to refresh game data from IGDB.
• Added full IGDB release dates grouped by region and platform, with manual release date entry for game editors.
• Added Details and Release Dates tabs to game threads.
• Added game covers and metadata to standard XenForo thread and tag search results.
• Expanded game thread filters with release, metadata, rating, co-op, and played-state criteria.
• Added an option to lazy-load YouTube trailers, loading the embedded player only when playback is requested.
• Added an option to force new game thread comments into a separate second post.
• Added type-data editor support when converting existing threads to game threads.
• Added editable official website links, allowing Steam data to be connected manually.
• Added an action to delete the currently manually managed game cover.

Improvements​

• Separated collection and progress actions into responsive button groups.
• Improved the game information block layout and mobile presentation.
• Updated game thread interaction buttons to match the Movie Threads interface.

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed Schema.org VideoGame structured data for game threads.
• Fixed responsive item settings not being applied to poster sliders.

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• Added an option to replace the pinned first post with the game information block
• Added a rebuild tool for TGDB/IGDB game information
• Defaulted game creation requests without a source to IGDB when configured
• Fixed oversized IGDB platform, publisher, and developer lists exceeding database limits
• Fixed IGDB game summaries losing paragraph breaks

• Added missing snog_igdb_error_not_found phrase for invalid IGDB URLs or slugs
• Fixed N+1 query behavior on forum thread list page
• Fixed IGDB trailer URLs to use a valid YouTube watch format before media-site normalization
• Fixed IGDB cover import storing only the first character of the cover URL
• Fixed game platform rendering when the cached platform map does not contain the current value
• Fixed game preview tooltips passing an array instead of the real first-post entity to the core preview template
• Fixed cached genre/platform sorting methods throwing warnings when the cache has not been initialized yet
• Fixed the TGDB cron updater marking caches as fresh before any successful data refresh completed
• Fixed favorite, owned, and played actions allowing guest-triggered counter changes when forum permissions were granted to visitors
• Fixed existing-game auto-replies checking attachment upload permission against the source forum instead of the target thread forum
• Fixed the game forum node-edit cache refresh crashing when the TGDB API call failed instead of falling back to the cached values
• Fixed game deletion leaving orphaned rows in the ratings table
• Fixed game thread attribution rendering
• Fixed forum permission checks for fan art and screenshot uploads to respect the current node permissions
• Fixed screenshot upload permission using the wrong permission ID
• Fixed owned/played confirmation dialogs showing the wrong action state

Added thread list grid display mode with toggle buttons

Fix: Hide IGDB link input when API key is not specified

• Fixed incorrect parsing of game trailer data
• Fixed incorrect parsing of multiplayer information when using an IGDB link

• Added IGDB API support (See the FAQ section for setup instructions.)
• Added IGDB API URL autocomplete feature: users can search and select game with real-time suggestions when entering game title
• Added an option to use your own TGDB API key. (See the FAQ section for setup instructions.)
• Fixed error handling to display the correct message when the API request fails.

This is a beta release, take a full backup before installing on a production site.

• General code refactor
• Minimal XF version changed to 2.2
• XF 2.3 support
• Removed XenPorta support
• [BREAKING] Add-on was integrated with ForumType and ThreadType system (XF2.2+).
• "TGDb thread forums" add-on option was removed (all previously selected forums in this option will be automatically converted to "Game forum" type).
• "Allow mixed content" option was deleted (now can be used "General discussion" forum type with "Game threads" type)
• DB tables prefix was changed from "xf_snog_tgdb" to "xf_snog_games"
• [BREAKING] Image file storage folder was changed to "data/game-threads" and the structure was changed to allow uploading of custom images
• [BREAKING] The output of raw HTML game overviews has been replaced by BB codes

New features:​

• Added permission to rate games
• Added ability to quickly rate games (can be disabled in options)
• Added ability to add custom games that are not present on TGDb

Fixes:​

• Fixed missing unique index in game ratings table which could allow multiple ratings of the same game by a single user
• Fixed box art, screenshot and fan art images not opening in lightbox

Thanks to @gemma for sponsoring this update

An update to the Game Thread Starter for XenForo 2.x has been released. Those that have purchased this add-on, please log into your account on my site to download this update.

• Fix - Rating stars not showing in thread list with UiX 2.1.0.1 style

WARNING: DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPDATE ON XENFORO 2.0.x. XenForo 2.0.x is no longer supported with this update.

An update to the Game Thread Starter for XenForo 2.x has been released. Those that have purchased this add-on, please log into your account on my site to download this update.

• Fix - Some games not being deleted when thread is deleted
• Fix - Misc. display issues with XF 2.1
• Add - Upload boxart/screenshot/fanart
• Add - Permissions to upload boxart/screenshot/fanart