[XB] Game Threads: Video Game Database & Gaming Discussion Platform 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 TGDB API error occurring on fresh installs

• 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.

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.