Being a bit of a ‘shut-in’ at the moment (due to my medical condition) I am finding that I’m becoming ever increasingly aware of the achievements or badges offered by a number of forums - and to that end I was wondering if there was a way of seeing the granular progression towards the goals for any of the individual badges that we can earn here?
For example, I am working towards the ‘aficionado’ badge (where I would’ve visited 100 consecutive days) - to my knowledge I visited every day but I’m now at 113 days and do not have the badge so I have clearly missed one. It would be nice to see what my current tally is towards that goal.
These represent the standard set of badges we use here, plus one custom badge for Trusted Member.
For streak-style badges like Aficionado, the system handles those milestones automatically and awards them once the requirement is met.
A quick note on philosophy: Knockology isn’t meant to be a gamified community. Badges and trust levels are here to support healthy interaction and highlight constructive contributors, not to turn participation into a points-driven game. They’re helpful indicators, but not something we plan to expand into a full progression system.
If there’s a simple, clean way to give members more clarity in the future without changing the spirit of the community, I’m open to it.
Just to clarify the original question about seeing your current tally: the system doesn’t provide a member-visible counter or progress view for streak-based badges. It only shows the badge once the requirement is completed. There isn’t a page or setting that reveals the running total.
I know that’s not as granular as you were hoping for, but that’s simply how the badge system here works.
And I was in no way suggesting it was - or that I treat it that way - it’s just that (with time on hand and a mind like mine) I started to wonder about the underlying mechanisms.
