Update to Photos, private messages, and Adventures of Galacticat

Here's to more improvements for the site and announcing a fanart series.

Adventures of Galacticat

I have to lead with something my artist daughter, Nova, is very excited about: Adventures of Galacticat. I added the promo for it on the homepage and I've added a Fanart tag for photos.

The plan is to regularly post things like comic strips, memes, postcards, etc. as long as she wants to around characters that have inspired the plushies in the Starfield universe. We have some ideas around things to do with it, but we'd love to hear any ideas other fans of the game might have around them.

Photo Comments

I've moved the Photos link up to the main header and added support for comments on photos. This includes a comment feed where all the latest comments will be viewable as a feed.

Private Messages

I've added a Message button to every user's profile, so you can now reach out to me or other users privately. It will be an ongoing conversation like a private chat. For added safety, there's a block user option should that be needed. You'll receive notifications whenever you receive a new message.

Preferred Platform Setting + Filter

Now, on your Starfield profile section in your dashboard, you can set what platform(s) you prefer to play Starfield on: PC, Xbox or Playstation (hey, we're planning for the future here). I've added the option to filter by platform on mod search. If you pick just one platform for yourself, the mod filter will default to your selection. Of course, I still have it on my plate to figure out how to bring in Nexus Mods on the mod search.

Other Fixes / Enhancements

1. I noticed the mod search had some issues on mobile, so I've been working to clean up bugs there.
2. Updated URL formats to try and include slugs on them for better ranking on search engines (eg: /collections/7/best-quest-mods)
3. Increased max file upload for avatars to 20mb (matches game photo upload max)
4. Put in a fix for how every forum post seems to label itself as "(edited)" even when it hasn't been. I'm not sure that's fully fixed yet.
5. Adjusted the output on the homepage feed to reference last update date on things like collections (when a new mod is added to them)
6. Fix for linking mods to newly added videos. It's not perfect, so I'll continue to more finely tune it.
7. Fix for news monitor to see if we can get some decent news sources on the site. That is still a work-in-progress.
8. Added password recovery to the login page
9. Added avatars to the leaderboards + a longer leaderboard is available