[XB] Rating Competition Threads 2.1.0

Better Competition Management, Voting & Results!​

This major update expands competitions with jury voting, flexible rating styles, automated milestones, result history, and new whitelist controls. It also introduces a guided setup experience, richer competition status information, moderation tools, notifications, and significant reliability and performance improvements.

Important: This version now requires XenForo 2.3.0 or later.

Breaking change: New permissions have been added for managing whitelisted posts and bypassing whitelist limits. Review your user group permissions after upgrading.

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New Features​

• Added jury voting with jury-only voting and configurable weighted jury votes.
• Added immutable competition result history, preserving results from closed competitions as revisions.
• Added moderator support for recording corrected results without overwriting previous result revisions.
• Added moderator thread tools to start, pause, resume, close, reopen, and rebuild competitions.
• Added automatic competition milestones based on reply counts, including starting or closing after a configured number of replies.
• Added an option to close a competition after its scheduled start date.
• Added an option to keep intermediate results hidden until voting closes.
• Added competition notifications for:
  • Competition start
  • Closing reminders
  • Competition completion
  • Winners
• Added configurable competition rating input styles:
  • Dropdown
  • Clickable 1-10 scale
  • Half-step stars
• Added four forum-configurable post rating display styles.
• Added Simple and Standard widgets for displaying active competitions.
• Added an option to limit the total number of whitelisted posts.
• Added automatic whitelisting for a configurable number of posts and thread starter posts.
• Added permissions to manage whitelisted posts and bypass whitelist limits.

Improvements​

• Reworked competition setup into a guided three-step form.
• Competition setup now displays jury and closing reminder settings only when applicable.
• Improved notification configuration by visually separating events and recipients.
• Competition thread lists now show the current phase, next milestone, and visual progress.
• Competition threads now show the current stage, next milestone, and live countdowns to scheduled voting events.
• Refined the competition status block for clearer phase, countdown, and milestone hierarchy across screen sizes.
• Added a style property for customizing the competition status block.
• Improved competition cache rebuild performance by avoiding repeated full-thread recalculations.

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed first-post editing failing while validating relative competition dates.
• Fixed competition creation permissions not being enforced in dedicated competition forums.
• Fixed moving replies between threads not updating competition results in both threads.
• Fixed simultaneous rating changes potentially creating duplicate votes or losing totals.
• Fixed the first rating submission potentially failing when no previous rating existed.
• Fixed winner counts becoming outdated after removing ratings, changing entry eligibility, or restoring replies.
• Fixed incorrect winner count display on the thread edit page when the maximum winner count was configured globally.
• Fixed remaining scores being displayed incorrectly after removing a rating.
• Fixed disabling the whitelist not including all eligible replies in competition results.
• Fixed competition winners not respecting the permission to view ratings.
• Fixed the opening post being able to receive ratings or become a competition winner.
• Fixed ratings and voter names not updating correctly when accounts are renamed, merged, or deleted.
• Fixed permanently deleting a thread not removing its post ratings.
• Fixed competition forms not correctly restoring defaults, disabled choices, and draft values.
• Fixed forum thread type filtering when Competition was the first thread type.
• Fixed the uninstall reverse alter referencing an incorrect post column.
• Fixed the forum API to accept both nested competition settings and dotted field names.
• Fixed authors being unable to update permitted competition settings through the API.
• Fixed API requests not respecting the configured fixed number of winners.

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Fix: Avoid DuplicateKeyException caused by race conditions in certain scenarios

Skip competition close date validation during automated thread updates
Fixed conflict with other add-ons when setting thread type_data during a pending save without forceSet