- Compatible XF 2.x versions
- 2.3
- Additional requirements
- XenForo 2.3.0 or higher
PHP 8.0.0 or higher
MySQL 5.7 or higher
- License
- 1 licence = 1 site
- Updates duration
- 6 Months - US $60 / 1 Year - US $80
- Visible branding
- Yes, but removable with payment
[XTR] Community Stories is an advanced add-on that revitalizes your XenForo community with an Instagram-like modern story sharing experience. This add-on allows your users to share their daily moments, important announcements, and community interactions in a visually rich format.
Core Features and Benefits: Our add-on enables users to share images, videos, YouTube links, and text content in story format. By integrating Instagram's popular story feature into your XenForo platform, it increases your community's engagement rate and strengthens user loyalty.
Modern and User-Friendly Interface: The story viewer mimics Instagram's familiar interface, ensuring your users can easily adapt. It provides a professional experience with fullscreen viewing, automatic progress bars, touch device support, and keyboard shortcuts. Users can easily navigate between stories, control videos, and interact seamlessly.
Secure and Reliable File Management: The add-on uses a hash-based secure file access system. Uploaded files are stored securely and protected against unauthorized access. Full control is provided through file size limits, allowed file types, and whitelist system. This ensures server security while allowing users to share content safely.
Comprehensive Moderation Tools: Advanced moderation tools are provided for administrators. Content can be reviewed before publication through the approval queue system. Content management is simplified with soft and hard delete options, inline moderation tools, and automatic cleanup system. Deleted stories are archived and can be restored when needed.
Customizable Widget System: The add-on offers a customizable widget system tailored to your community's needs. Different display options are provided with main story widget, story information widget, story owner widget, and story viewers widget. Widgets can be placed in different positions and their appearance can be customized.
Responsive Design and Theme Compatibility: Provides responsive design compatible with all modern XenForo themes. Automatically adapts to different screen sizes and provides perfect appearance on mobile devices. Theme integration is facilitated with avatar sizes, color schemes, and layout options.
Detailed Statistics and Reporting: Comprehensive statistics system for administrators. Track community activity with daily story trends, most active users, most viewed stories, and general usage statistics. This data helps you develop your community strategies.
Performance Optimization: The add-on uses various optimization techniques to maintain server performance. Minimal performance impact is achieved through automatic story cleanup system, database optimization, caching support, and lazy loading. The system is regularly cleaned through hourly cron tasks.
XenForo Integration: Provides full integration with your existing XenForo system. Works compatibly with XenForo permission system, alert system, reaction system, and theme system. User profiles, member cards, and navigation menus are automatically updated.
Advanced Content Control: Provides advanced control system for story titles. Content quality is maintained through regex-based or banned character/word filtering options. Users must accept rules through the story sharing rules system.
Multi-Media Support: Supports images (PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, WebP), videos (MP4, MOV, AVI), and YouTube links. Users can share content from different sources with external image and video URLs. Provides optimized viewing experience for each media type.

- Instagram-like fullscreen story viewer
- Automatic progression with timed transitions
- Touch device support (swipe navigation)
- Keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys, space, F key, ESC)
- Video controls (pause/resume, mute/unmute, fullscreen)
- 10-second back/forward video control buttons
- Manual time control with video seek bar
- YouTube video integration and auto-play
- External image and video URL support
- Text-based story support

- Optimized appearance on mobile devices
- Special layouts for tablet and desktop
- Automatic adaptation to different screen sizes
- Wide screen: 2 stories/row view
- Medium screen: 1 story/row view
- Narrow screen: 1 story/row view
- Default: 4 stories/row view
- Avatar border radius customization (50% default - circular)
- Avatar border width adjustment (3px default)
- 5-color gradient avatar system
- Viewed story avatar effects

- Story duration control (adjustable 1-24 hours)
- Stories per page (5-100 range)
- Avatar size settings (small, medium, large, original)
- Story viewer maximum width (400px default)
- Story viewer maximum height (90vh default)
- Progress bar color customization
- Navigation button style customization
- Header and footer style customization
- File size limits (1MB-1024MB range)
- Allowed file type configuration
- External URL control with whitelist system

- Main story widget (1-50 story limit)
- Story information widget (detailed story information)
- Story owner widget (user information)
- Story viewers widget (1-100 viewer limit)
- Widget positions (above/below breadcrumb, sidebar)
- Widget header show/hide option
- Widget limit settings
- Widget customization options

- Hash-based secure file access
- Secure file upload system
- File size and type restrictions
- External URL control with whitelist system
- Automatic file cleanup system
- Secure file deletion operations
- File hash verification system

- Approval queue system
- Soft/Hard delete options
- Inline moderation tools
- Automatic cleanup system (hourly cron)
- Deleted story archiving
- Story title control system (regex/disallowed)
- Banned character/word filtering
- Story sharing rules system
- User permission system integration
- Moderation alert system

- General statistics (total stories, views, user count)
- Daily story trends (last 7 days)
- Most active users (top 5)
- Most viewed stories (top 5)
- User-based statistics
- Detailed reporting system
- Statistics graphs and tables

- Automatic story cleanup (hourly cron task)
- Database optimization
- Caching support
- Lazy loading system
- Minimal performance impact
- Optimized database queries
- File size optimization

- Full compatibility with XenForo 2.3.x
- Compatibility with existing theme system
- XenForo permission system integration
- XenForo alert system integration
- XenForo reaction system integration
- User profile integration
- Navigation menu integration
- Member card integration

- Story comments and replies
- XenForo reaction system integration
- View counter
- User following filtering
- Story search functionality
- User-based story listing
- Story sharing notifications
- Interaction statistics

- Image formats: PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, WebP
- Video formats: MP4, MOV, AVI
- YouTube video integration
- External image and video URLs
- Text-based stories
- Media optimization
- Automatic format conversion
- Media preview system