HAPPY Hump Day! 

A lot has gone down in the last week or two. In case you need a little refresher, we recently soft-launched Achievements. It'll be available for all in the coming weeks, but for now you can get a taste of it here in our own community. 

The response has been insanely epic 👏 

The feedback even more so 🤯 

I personally took notes of all the feedback provided. We've already started implementing some key changes (shout-out to our super talented development team!! Show them some love in the comments), including:

• Explanation for how you earned a badge
• Current position / max number of ranks shown so you know how far you have to go
• Added tooltips on rank badges
• Added lazy loading
• Optimized rebuild routine
• Fixed a bunch of bugs

I know that only scratches the surface, but keep in mind we'll continue better Achievements over time! 🤠

Lots to absorb here. Now that you've had some time to digest Achievements, how are you feeling about it? Sound off in the replies below! 🥳

PS - here's a short-list of some of the 4.6 fixes we worked on in the last week:

 

- Added a confirmation pop-up when mass approving account withdrawals.
- Added an option to limit Withdrawal requests to one per currency at any time. 
- Fixed an issue where the AdminCP livesearch results link to categories instead of blogs.
- Removed Aggregate rating from JSON-LD structured data
- Worked around a bug in MySQL when viewing statistics in the AdminCP.

 

Related:

 

I want to take the opportunity to thank the development team here at Invision.  I know bug fixing is not always exciting. But the actual test of any development team is taking the challenge head-on, striving to better a product before a release. Thank you for all the hard work you are putting in, and thank you for your time, consideration, and patience. 🤩

I also want to thank everyone here, yes, YOU too (reader), who helped test the latest release here on Invision's support site and submitted a detailed bug report.  You, too, are part of the process, and your diligence in paying close attention to detail while taking the time to point out what you noticed, really can and does make a difference.  Thank you for your time, consideration, and patience. 😎

I am excitingly looking forward to the first alpha or beta I can download, install, and test. 🙂

There is now a separate page to show rank progression and badges earned.

5 hours ago, Matt said:

You earn points for posting new topics and replies, reacting to content, following items/nodes/members and for visiting daily.

On our site we chose to rebuild all content, so it now acts as if we'd had achievements since the launch of this forum 20 years ago, so longer term members have accelerated through the ranks that would have taken months to earn.

If we did not rebuild content and started off with everyone on 0 points, then you would see rank progression for more than just having a lot of posts.

I'm not sure I was particularly clear in my question. What I mean is explain how to earn each rank. I don't mind hidden achievements where its a secret to get it, those are fun too but like rank 1 was it create at least one topic and post in ten others?

Something like what you see on any other achievement system:

3 hours ago, Matt said:

There is now a separate page to show rank progression and badges earned.

I love this by the way.

1 minute ago, CoffeeCake said:

I think the gist of the ask here is that administrators have the ability to write something in conjunction with the title of the achievement that is viewable by the member. A free text field. Maybe you need to "Loot all four houses of Hogwarts and find the hidden muggle" or "Demonstrate the ability to be an expert problem solver" or "Unlock four Schrute Nickels" or leave the description blank--what ever makes sense at the individual community and achievement level.

Badges already support this - when you create the rule that awards the badge, you can enter a member-facing summary of the rule, e.g. "You posted 50 replies!".

1 hour ago, Rikki said:

Badges already support this - when you create the rule that awards the badge, you can enter a member-facing summary of the rule, e.g. "You posted 50 replies!".

Can the rules be completely customisable?

Could I for example, have someone be awarded a badge for creating a topic in a certain category and then also be awarded based on their specific group?

Example:
User makes 10 posts, changes their user group *badge awarded*.
User requests to be put into a certain group after x amount of posts, and each group can award the user who joins *badge awarded to represent their group*.

While you currently show rank images, could we also have an option to display badges on the Authorpane in topic view?

 

Or to be able to make a rule where only certain badges can be shown in the topicview?

While we have user group icons, I'd like to show special badges as part of the user group.

Just a couple of suggestions I had rolling in the head... As it's something I've been trying to do, as at the moment Fosters app allows you to manually award someone.

3 hours ago, alexxis said:

If the developers do not consider the adding of a setting to disable this new feature,

It's not enabled, by default.

The amount of time since joining should show the actual amount of "Years In".  The system shows I've only been a member for one year when I have been a member for seventeen years.

Long-time members will be put off if the amount of time they have been members isn't accurate. If it isn't going to be accurate don't bother having such a badge.