Premier Addons DEBtech Portal AI Suite Pro 1.8.2

Next official release after 1.1.1

New

• AI News module significantly expanded:
  • News import from configurable sources.
  • AI-assisted article generation from imported news.
  • Status workflow for suggested, draft, approved, published, rejected and error.
  • Admin queue with preview, editing, approval, publishing and deletion.
  • New bulk selection in the AI News list: select current page, select all items in the current status and run bulk actions.
• Automatic image handling for AI News:
  • External images are downloaded and processed.
  • Image URL redirects are handled properly.
  • If a news item has no usable image, a natural-looking matching image can be generated.
• New AI feed widgets for personalized portal areas:
  • Matching posts from the user's own areas.
  • Hot topics.
  • Friends/interactions.
  • New potentially interesting topics.
  • Unanswered topics.
• Improved onboarding and interest selection:
  • German and English support.
  • Improved phase logic.
  • Restarting interest selection now starts onboarding directly.
• New admin area for interest categories.
• Automatic profile and interest processing for forum sections.
• Feed rotation and shuffle logic to make widgets feel more dynamic.
• Extended cache control for portal, widgets, XenForo bridge and AI content.
• Additional safeguards for fresh installs and add-on updates.
• Expanded German language file.

Improved

• AI News import now prioritizes higher-quality and more recent news more strongly.
• News without images no longer block publishing.
• Invalid external image URLs no longer result in broken news images.
• Portal feeds now better respect onboarding and user interests.
• Widget caching has been adjusted so the portal feels less static.
• Bulk actions in the News Queue are status-aware and protect published content from accidental mass deletion.
• Admin templates and phrases are now fully included in the build data.
• Add-on updates no longer overwrite existing settings unnecessarily.
• Fresh installations create required tables, columns and default data more reliably.

Fixed

• Fixed news image downloads with HTTP redirects.
• Fixed a warning in news image generation when image data was missing.
• Restarting interest selection did not immediately start onboarding.
• Hardcoded onboarding and phase texts were moved into phrases.
• Missing or incomplete DE/EN phrases were added.
• Widget function checks and renderer mappings were corrected.
• Fixed build/dev-mode issues where templates or phrases were not fully exported.
• AI News Queue had no visible option to select all items on a page or within a status.
• Image generation and image status tracking now store errors and retries more reliably.

Update Notes

• Existing settings are preserved during add-on updates.
• After uploading, update the add-on through XenForo as usual.
• If you use the German interface, import or update the included German language file.
• After updating, clearing the portal/admin cache is recommended.

New Features​

Reddit-Style Article Action Bar

• Vote (▲/▼) with green/red active colors on modern article cards
• Views, Replies, Reactions counters inline
• Share button opens XF share overlay (social links + embed code)
• Hide button removes article with fade animation (server + localStorage)
• Author overlay pill on article cover image (top-right, glassmorphism)
• Action bar always pinned to bottom of card via flex layout

Routing Queue Modernization

• Human-readable method labels: "AI Routing", "AI Error", "Fulltext", "Rule" (replaces raw OPENAI/OPENAI_ERROR/BM25/RULE)
• Dark mode support for routing queue page
• Redirect stays on current tab after thread assignment

• Layout Builder: Duplicate empty rows on upgrade — seedLayoutRows() now checks if rows already exist before inserting, preventing ghost rows on every addon rebuild/upgrade
• Vote button click not registering — Replaced XF.onDelegated with direct XF.on binding; added pointer-events:none on child icons so clicks always hit the button element
• XF Element handler initialization on lazy-loaded content — Custom handlers (vote/react/hide) now use XF.Element.initialize() instead of XF.activate() for proper init after AJAX widget load
• Article vote score out of range — Changed score column from unsigned TINYINT to signed TINYINT to support negative values
• Share button 404 — Corrected link from threads/share to posts/share
• Reactions overlay 404 — Replaced overlay approach with one-click POST via DEBPortalReact handler
• Route portal-interact not found — Ensured route registration and cache rebuild

• Compact action bar styling (11px font, 3px/6px padding) — fits all items in card width
• Share and Hide as inline icon buttons (no text) with auto-margin right alignment
• 5 new phrases: deb_portal_hide_article, deb_portal_vote_up, deb_portal_vote_down, deb_portal_replies, deb_portal_reactions
• Dark mode overrides for action bar, vote buttons, and score display
• LoadMore handler now properly initializes XF element handlers on appended cards

• New DB tables: xf_deb_portal_article_vote, xf_deb_portal_article_hide
• New entity classes: ArticleVote, ArticleHide
• New controller: Pub/Controller/ArticleInteraction (vote, hide, unhide endpoints)
• New repository: ArticleInteraction (batch vote scores, user votes, hidden thread IDs)
• Route: portal-interact (public)
• Upgrade steps: 1010070Step1 (signed TINYINT fix), 1010070Step2 (article_hide table)