Changelog: advanced filtering for channels & leaderboards

TL;DR

• You can now filter leaderboard entries and game channels by their props.
• Talo can now automatically purge players who have not played your game in a while.
• Temporary channel memberships will remove players after their session ends.

May 2025 overview

Our focus for this month has been on filtering and making game channels even more flexible. We've made it easier to filter leaderboard entries and game channels by their props, making it simple to find what you're looking for without having to skip through irrelevant data.

We've also introduced temporary channel memberships, which will automatically remove players from a channel after their session ends. This is useful for channels that are only relevant for a specific session, such as match lobbies or temporary chat rooms. You can now also easily list all the members of a channel.

Finally, we've added a setting to automatically purge players who have not started a session recently. You can configure monthly purging for both dev build players and live players.

Dashboard updates

• Game settings: the new "Game settings" page allows you to configure the new player purge settings and add a website for your game (this makes it easier for us to feature your game on our showcase page or itch.io collection).
• Temporary channel membership: you can now toggle temporary channel membership for channels. This will automatically remove players from the channel after their session ends.

Platform updates

• Leaderboard entry prop filtering: you can now filter leaderboard entries by their props. You can filter by a specific prop key and/or value, so you can find entries that match specific criteria.

• Channel prop filtering: similar to leaderboard entries, game channels can be filtered by their props. You can also filter a player's subscribed channels by props.

• Player purge: enabling this will delete dev players who have not started a session in the last 60 days and live players who have not started a session in the last 90 days. These checks run monthly and will create a game activity highlighting how many players were purged.

• Channel members API: this new API will allow you to list all members of a channel.

• Temporary channel membership: you can now toggle temporary channel membership for channels. This will automatically remove players from the channel after their session ends.

Godot plugin updates

• Leaderboard entry prop filtering: this is now available when fetching leaderboard entries.

• Channel prop filtering: you can now filter channels by their props when fetching channels or a player's subscribed channels.

• Channel members API: you can now list all members of a channel using the new Talo.channels.get_members() function.

• Temporary channel membership: this can now be enabled when creating channels.

• Updated function signatures: we've updated the function signatures for creating channels, fetching channels and fetching leaderboard entries to be easier to use. These updated functions now take an options parameter, allowing you to easily customise the request without having to pass multiple parameters.

You can get the latest version of the Godot plugin on GitHub. Please make sure to give us a star ⭐️ if you've enjoyed using the plugin!

Unity package updates

• Leaderboard entry prop filtering: this is now available when fetching leaderboard entries.

• Channel prop filtering: you can now filter channels by their props when fetching channels or a player's subscribed channels.

• Channel members API: you can now list all members of a channel using the new Talo.Channels.GetMembers() function.

• Temporary channel membership: this can now be enabled when creating channels.

• Updated function signatures: we've updated the function signatures for creating channels, fetching channels and fetching leaderboard entries to be easier to use. These updated functions now take an options parameter, allowing you to easily customise the request without having to pass multiple parameters.

The latest version of the Unity package is available on GitHub. We'd love it if you could give us a star ⭐️ if you've found the package useful!

Coming up next

We're continuing to add more functionality to Talo Channels, including:

• Kicking and banning: channel owners will soon be able to kick and (optionally) ban players from their channels.
• Channel storage: players in channels will be able to read/write data to the channel, allowing for more complex interactions like collaborative features or shared game state.

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