Per leaderboard scoring values

Falco · April 1, 2026, 10:15pm

I am investigating this, as it keeps coming up from many different customers.

First draft at it

github.com/discourse/discourse

FEATURE: Per-leaderboard scorable weights and category filters (#39062)

main ← feature/per-leaderboard-scoring

changes requested 08:25PM - 13 Apr 26 UTC

xfalcox

+1220 -506

## Summary - Moves scorable weight configuration and category filtering from gl…obal site settings to individual leaderboards - Each leaderboard can override any of the 15 score weight values and specify its own scorable categories - Score calculation now runs per leaderboard into a new `gamification_leaderboard_scores` table - Admin UI gains a "Scoring configuration" section on the leaderboard edit form ## Details Previously all leaderboards shared the same pre-calculated scores from global site settings. This made it impossible to have e.g. a "posts-only" leaderboard alongside a "likes-focused" one. Now each leaderboard can optionally override: - **Score weights**: Set per-action point values (empty = inherit global default, 0 = disabled) - **Scorable categories**: Restrict which categories count toward scoring (empty = inherit global setting) The old `gamification_scores` table is no longer written to — a post-deploy migration to drop it will follow separately. ## Test plan - [ ] Create a leaderboard with default scoring — scores match current behavior - [ ] Create a leaderboard with custom weights (e.g. `post_created` = 10, all others empty) — only overridden weights differ - [ ] Set a weight to 0 — that scorable is disabled for the leaderboard - [ ] Set per-leaderboard categories — only those categories count - [ ] Clear categories — inherits global `scorable_categories` setting - [ ] Existing leaderboards with no overrides behave identically after upgrade - [ ] Directory scores and user card scores work correctly (read from default leaderboard) - [ ] `bin/rspec plugins/discourse-gamification/spec/` — 120 examples, 0 failures

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Per leaderboard scoring values

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