I have a strange behavior on my forum. Basic badges (such as first like, first emoji etc.) that should be grated to users are not granted. Only admin users are granted these badges, while normal users are not. So for example, I can login as a normal user, and like as many posts as I want, and use …

[image] schungx: Thing is, there are certain early users that successfully got these badges. But recently all new users won’t get them. Sounds like sidekiq is not running on your Discourse, so the background daily / weekly tasks are not working?

I checked. Sidekiq is running and nothing queues. Emails are being sent… Must be something with the badge granting queries? Is there a place to check?

Well you can see people are getting First Like here on meta, so it’s not a bug, but some kind of configuration issue with your instance: https://meta.discourse.org/badges/11/first-like

Those categories are restricted to users of a certain group, but most of the users are members of that group, so they can see. @codinghorror I think it is a settings problem. Probably I set something on the way that blocks the badges from being handed out. Is there a log or somewhere that I can c…

[image] schungx: Those categories are restricted to users of a certain group, Badges are not allowed on security restricted categories.

Aha! That might be it. So nothing a user does on categories not open to Everyone will earn badges that are tied to posts in those categories?

That’s right. A community that I work with just moved a bunch of categories to be accessible only to some and all the badges went away, to the Dismay of many.

I think this reply here says basically the same thing: [image] Badges don't work in private / restricted topics support Well yeah, if any topic is in a restricted area it is no longer a candidate for badges. Category must be accessible by all users of the forum for it to …

It is lose-lose, if we granted them then people would complain :studio_microphone: “why does Jane have first like and not have link to the post in the badges page, is there a bug :bug:”

Badges not being granted for restricted categories

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 16, 2017, 11:34am 5

Are those categories read by everyone?

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