Now in Beta: Plugin to see TL3 Progress for TL2 users

[NateDhaliwal]

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Nearly done with showing the stats if a TL3 is going to lose TL3 (with a minimum threshold setting to show a warning if a stat is below that value).

@EricGT

For example, if posts in a muted category still count toward the requirement, there could be enough eligible posts in muted categories to make the target difficult—or perhaps impossible—to reach without first unmuting those categories and reading the posts.

The plugin should therefore provide a category-by-category breakdown showing:

• how many posts in each category are included in the eligibility calculation; and
• how many of those eligible posts the user has read.

This would reveal whether muted categories are affecting the user’s progress and show what they need to do to meet the requirement—or, as some users might describe it, how to “game” the system.

The thing is that not even core has this kind of indication. The original idea is to bring the info that staff users can see to the users themselves. I think this may be too out of the plugin’s scope. But I would like to know more about this. Are you saying that the unmuted categories do not contain enough posts to hit the requirement, and that the remaining number can come from muted categories?

Plus, how would that work? Get every post created in the time frame, check the topic each belongs to, check the category id, compare that with the user’s muted categories, then add it to a counter? Or maybe some optimised SQL query…