[XB] Leaderboard: Member Rankings, Seasons & Rewards 1.0.0

Create member leaderboards, activity rankings, competitions, and seasonal challenges directly in XenForo.

Leaderboard highlights your community's most active and successful members across posts, threads, reactions, solutions, trophies, resources, and other activity. Track current and historical rankings, run custom seasons, notify members about position changes, and automatically reward top performers when a week, month, or season ends.

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Features:​

Member Leaderboards & Rankings​

• Top Member Podium: Highlight the three highest-ranked members at the top of the leaderboard.
• Full Member Rankings: Display positions, avatars, scores, and the latest leaderboard update time.
• My Position: Show the signed-in member's exact position even when they are outside the displayed top rankings, including the amount needed to overtake the next member.
• Ranking Changes: Show how member positions and results changed compared with the previous period.
• Leaderboard Switching: Quickly switch between available ranking types.
• Flexible Display Limits: Control how many ranked members appear on each leaderboard.
• Permission Control: Decide which members can access public leaderboards.

Available Leaderboards​

• Message Leaderboard: Rank members by the number of posts they create.
• Thread Leaderboard: Rank members by the number of threads they start.
• Reaction Score Leaderboard: Rank members by their XenForo reaction score.
• Reactions Received Leaderboard: Rank members by the number of reactions received on their content.
• Solution Leaderboard: Rank members by answers selected as solutions.
• Trophy Points Leaderboard: Rank members by earned XenForo trophy points.
• Resources Published: Rank members by resources published in XenForo Resource Manager.
• Resource Reviews Written: Rank members by resource reviews they submit.
• Resource Ratings Given: Rank members by ratings they give to resources.
• Resource Reviews Received: Rank resource authors by reviews received.
• Resource Ratings Received: Rank resource authors by ratings received.

Filtering & Custom Leaderboards​

• Forum Filtering: Build post and thread rankings for the entire community, selected forums, or all forums except selected areas.
• Resource Category Filtering: Limit Resource Manager leaderboards to selected categories or exclude selected categories.
• Leaderboard Management: Enable available ranking types, configure custom titles and descriptions, change their order, rebuild selected periods, and review update status from the ACP.
• Automatic Updates: Keep current leaderboard results updated automatically.

Historical Rankings​

• Weekly Leaderboards: Rank activity completed during individual calendar weeks.
• Monthly Leaderboards: Track member rankings independently for each month.
• Historical Leaderboards: Browse completed ranking periods and compare previous results.
• Member Ranking History: View a member's historical results across completed weeks, months, and seasons.
• Historical Position Changes: See how a member's ranking changed between saved periods.
• History Filters: Filter member ranking history by leaderboard type with paginated results.
• Personal History Access: Let signed-in members open their own ranking history directly from the Leaderboard navigation.

Seasons & Community Competitions​

• Custom Seasons: Create named competitions such as Autumn 2026, Support Challenge, or other community events with custom start and end dates.
• Selected Leaderboards: Limit a season to specific ranking types when needed.
• Active Season Summary: Highlight the current season, remaining time, progress, and leading score above the public leaderboard.
• Finalized Season Results: Lock results when a season ends and preserve them alongside weekly and monthly history.
• Season Winners: Track final positions for members who finish at the top of a completed season.

Alerts & Milestones​

• Position Change Alerts: Notify members when their leaderboard position changes within a configurable top-ranking range.
• First Place Alerts: Send a dedicated notification when a member reaches first place.
• Top Entry Alerts: Notify members when they enter the configured top ranking range.
• Season Finish Alerts: Notify members when they finish a season within the configured top positions.
• Member Opt-Out: Allow members to independently disable supported leaderboard and milestone notifications.
• Configurable Alert Range: Choose how many top-ranked members are eligible for position change notifications.

Leaderboard Rewards​

• Position Rewards: Automatically reward members who finish a completed week, month, or season within configured ranking positions.
• XenForo Trophies: Award trophies to leaderboard winners and top performers.
• User Group Rewards: Add members to configured secondary user groups.
• User Group Promotions: Apply XenForo user group promotions to qualifying winners.
• Direct Message Rewards: Send configurable direct messages to members who finish within rewarded positions.
• DBTech Credits: Award supported currencies when DragonByte Credits is installed.
• DBTech Shop Items: Give supported shop items to leaderboard winners.
• [XB] Badges: Award badges when the supported badge add-on is installed.
• [XB] User Title Unlock: Unlock configured user titles for qualifying members.
• Reward Delivery Log: Review delivered rewards and closing actions from the ACP.
• Reward Retry: Retry failed reward deliveries.
• Manual Confirmation: Review and confirm uncertain reward results when automatic delivery cannot determine the outcome safely.

Closing Actions​

• Winner Announcement Threads: Automatically create a new thread announcing final leaderboard or season results.
• Winner Announcement Replies: Post final results as a reply in an existing thread.
• Automatic Period Closing: Trigger configured rewards and announcements when a week, month, or season is finalized.

Display & Widgets​

• Leaderboard Widget: Display compact member rankings in standard XenForo widget positions.
• Per-Widget Configuration: Select the leaderboard, period, entry limit, position-change display, and empty-result behavior independently for each widget.
• Widget Positions: Place additional widgets above, below, or beside the main leaderboard.
• Advertising Positions: Add advertisements around leaderboard pages with the active leaderboard and period available as context.
• Multiple Display Styles: Choose between Compact Podium, Unified Ranking, Leader Spotlight, and Score Comparison layouts.

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Useful for:​

• Member Leaderboards: Highlight and rank the most active or successful members of your XenForo community.
• Member Recognition: Give visible recognition to top contributors, helpers, creators, and other active users.
• Forum Engagement: Encourage members to post, create threads, help others, and participate consistently.
• Community Gamification: Turn regular forum activity into rankings, competitions, milestones, and rewards.
• Seasonal Competitions: Run monthly challenges, support contests, posting competitions, and custom seasons.
• Leaderboard Rewards: Reward top members automatically with trophies, groups, promotions, credits, items, badges, or titles.
• Activity Rankings: Compare posts, threads, reactions, solutions, trophies, resources, reviews, and ratings.
• Historical Rankings: Track how member positions and scores change between weeks, months, and seasons.
• Resource Communities: Create contributor rankings based on XenForo Resource Manager activity.
• Member Retention: Give active members recurring goals and visible reasons to continue participating.

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FAQ:​

• What can members be ranked by?
  Built-in leaderboards cover posts, threads, reaction score, reactions received, solutions, and trophy points. XenForo Resource Manager adds rankings for resources, reviews, and ratings.
• Does the add-on keep previous leaderboard results?
  Yes. Completed weekly, monthly, and season results remain available as historical rankings.
• Can I create custom leaderboard seasons or competitions?
  Yes. Seasons have their own names, start and end dates and can optionally apply only to selected leaderboards.
• Can members see their position if they are outside the displayed top rankings?
  Yes. My Position shows the member's exact position, result, and the amount required to overtake the next position.
• Can post and thread rankings be limited to specific forums?
  Yes. A leaderboard can include selected forums, exclude selected forums, or cover the entire board.
• Can Resource Manager rankings be limited to specific categories?
  Yes. Resource leaderboards can include or exclude selected resource categories.
• Are members notified when their leaderboard position changes?
  Yes. Position change and milestone alerts can notify members within a configurable ranking range, with member-controlled opt-outs.
• Can leaderboard winners receive automatic rewards?
  Yes. Final positions in completed weeks, months, and seasons can trigger trophies, user groups, promotions, direct messages, and supported third-party rewards.
• Can winners be announced automatically?
  Yes. Completed periods and seasons can create a new announcement thread or post the results as a reply to an existing thread.
• Can members see their personal ranking history?
  Yes. Members can browse saved results across completed weeks, months, and seasons, including position changes.

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Screenshots:​

Public leaderboard​

Widgets and alerts​

Leaderboard management​

Rewards and appearance​