Re-add online player count for multiplayer games from Messaging Extension

[scratchusernamemrtbts]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

the cloud variable section in the old massaging extension has gone
did you forgot to add it back to the addon
Describe the solution you'd like

put that thing back
Describe alternatives you've considered

you can make it an optional setting by putting it in the setting menu
Additional context
put back these

[Hans5958]

Hmm, it seems that we overlooked this exact feature, and turns out people actually use it. Someone from here will take a look with it, because I never used this.

cc @griffpatch @WorldLanguages

[jeffalo]

i heard they were talking about it.

if i understood it might include some kind of favourites row, so you can add more than griffpatch's games.

[griffpatch]

Yes - I originally populated it with my most popular multilayer games, but i always intended that it might be customisable. It always did show the player count and list the players for the 'current project tab' and for all the popular games underneath. I wanted to add a bookmark button next to the top 'current' game so you could add it to the list (and then remove buttons for the other games would be cool). I used these a lot to keep track of what was being played and be able to jump into an active game. I know a lot of scratchers liked it because it was like a little hub for people who wanted to find other players.

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[WorldLanguages]

@Hans5958, lol you ninja'd me into adding this into the v1.0.1 milestone

[griffpatch]

Awesome :) One thing to consider is how we can add to the existing list when required - Sure we can pre-populate with a list of projects, but once a user starts to update their list, how do we manage when we want to add a 'new' project to our default list when a new multiplayer game is released that is worth including. Will we be able to auto add new ones to users lists even if they have customised it themselves?

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[WorldLanguages]

@griffpatch Hmm, we could split it into two lists: a curated list by us of popular multiplayer projects, which we can easily change with an update. As well as a list of projects selected by the user. If we split them up like that, it makes adding new projects to the list easier, since we don't have to deal with a single list which might (or might not) have been customized.

[jeffalo]

would the extension stores be ok with us getting the curated list of projects from a studio?

[WorldLanguages]

Huh nice idea. That would be perfectly fine.