Overview

Description

Quests — give your members something to chase

New members join, look around, and drift away because nothing tells them what to do next. Quests gives them a clear path: a set of goals, visible progress, and a reward when they finish.

Set up a quest once and it works retroactively — members who have been around for years see their real progress the moment you publish it.

How it works

Create a quest, then add the steps a member has to complete. A Getting Started quest might be: make 5 posts and upload a profile photo. A Community Regular quest might be: 100 posts, 5 topics started, 30 days as a member, and 10 reactions received.

Members see a board showing every quest, a progress bar, and a tick-list of the steps with their own numbers beside each one. There is nothing to claim and no button to press — progress updates as they take part, and rewards arrive on their own.

Eight goals to build from

• Posts made

• Topics started

• Reactions received

• Reactions given

• Days as a member

• Achievement points earned

• Followers gained

• Profile photo uploaded

Every one of these is read from activity your community already records. Nothing new is tracked, nothing needs backfilling, and switching the app on costs you no data.

Rewards that actually count

Finishing a quest awards your community's own achievement points and, if you like, an existing badge. Quest rewards flow straight into ranks, profiles and leaderboards — they are not a separate scoreboard sitting off to one side.

Each quest pays out exactly once. The completion is recorded before the reward is issued, so a member can never be paid twice.

What you control

• Title, description and icon for each quest

• Any number of steps, in the order you choose

• How many achievement points completing it is worth

• Which badge to award, if any

• Whether the board is visible to signed-out visitors

• Enable or disable a quest without deleting it

The admin screen shows how many members have finished each quest, so you can see which goals are landing and which are pitched too high.

Requirements

• Invision Community 5.0 or newer (self-hosted), with the Forums application

• Nothing else — no external service, no API key, no extra infrastructure

Built to stay out of the way

Progress is recalculated when a member posts, when they open the board, and by a nightly background task that catches time-based goals like "member for 30 days". Quest bookkeeping is wrapped so it can never interfere with someone posting.

It is upgrade-safe — it reads Invision Community's own data and never edits a single core file.