Added showing patch notes to the main menu

[hhyyrylainen]

Brief Description of What This PR Does

Added displaying patch notes to the main menu on update and added a button in options to view patch notes anytime. There's an option to disable the feature. Also contains small tweaks (and one fix) for the thrive news feed.

Related Issues

closes #3868
closes #3880

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[Gameboy555r]

i took a look into this and, i dunno if its just for me but i works fine.

[84634E1A607A]

Many patch note links lost its left parenthesis

APPEND: When it exists in the json file.

[84634E1A607A]

So I found a few bugs. Other than that (and the UI) I have nothing to comment on. I'm not a steam user so I'm not sure what it looks like when using steam and a packaged built.

Also I wonder if it is preferable to move all those news conversions to our web server, and make the generation script to parse all those notes to its final bbcode state. It's no point to download a number of web pages and spend time parsing them.

[hhyyrylainen]

Many patch note links lost its left parenthesis

Ah, I'm accidentally losing one character in the regex replace call, I'll fix that to include the character that was accidentally removed.

Also I wonder if it is preferable to move all those news conversions to our web server, and make the generation script to parse all those notes to its final bbcode state. It's no point to download a number of web pages and spend time parsing them.

I guess that is possible. Most people use web browsers that try to understand html to display it. The launcher does the exact same thing, it parses HTML. If this was changed in a sensible way, then there'd need to be multiple variants of the data for Thrive and launcher separately. Also going that far, the markdown to bbcode conversion could also be done ahead of time.

That is possible but adds the problem that the link clickable colour will be set by the server so if someone wants to change the link colour in Thrive they need to also modify the server software and re-process all the already generated patch notes data.

[84634E1A607A]

Link-clickable color can be set as a placeholder (For example #LINK_COLOR) and use string replacement which is faster. And I'm actually saying that a script can be added at the server side to calculate and cache feeds data, which will reduce overall calc time, reduce calc duplication and reduce network packet length.

[hhyyrylainen]

Opened follow up issues: #4113
and #4114

For good measure I also opened an issue for the launcher: Revolutionary-Games/Thrive-Launcher#259