Improve the trophy system and gamification of Xenforo

Max Fridman

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Hello,

I have some suggestions for improving the Xenforo trophy system and generally increasing user interactions and forum activity, i included more improvements in the discussion because it is a 360-degree look at what should be done to the trophy system:
  • Allow categorization of trophies so that the trophy page is more ordinated
  • Show a progress bar for each trophy, so as to show how long until the next goal is reached
  • Show the % of users who have achieved that trophy compared to active users/registered users
  • Show the trophies achieved by the users we follow
  • Send a notification when a user we follow gets a trophy
  • Allow us to assign a rarity to trophies so they are more exclusive and allow us to show on the trophy page and in the postbit how many trophies you have of the various rarities
  • Allow us to make trophies temporary, if a user no longer has the necessary characteristics to have that trophy it will be removed from them
Some of these features are present in addons and other platforms; I don't understand why Xenforo's “off-the-shelf” system has to be so barebone. The engagement of a community is a key statistic in keeping a site active. So features that increase this metric should be as comprehensive as possible.

Thank you for the upvote and for further suggestions about it, if you are interested in other suggestion i proposed, here is the list:

Third party add-ons for a core functionality like this became a critical liability. Entire User Progression systems depends on Trophy Points and awards, and I think is unacceptable.

Gamification is the first free gratification you can grant to your users to engage with your community.

You can promote the well-being and the good behavior of users with a more complex Trophy System.

And this system is neglected since Xenforo 2.0. Is time to flesh out this core functionality.
 
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