Solved badges are now enabled by default for new communities

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The Solved plugin, which powers support categories, includes a number of badges that are awarded to members who answer someone else’s questions in your community and act as a form of recognition and encouragement for their helpfulness.

We’re enabling these badges by default going forward so that communities can benefit from the badges without needing to find and enable them one-by-one in site settings.

:microscope: What’s changed

In new communities, the four Solved badges will be enabled by default (but can still be disabled if desired).

For existing communities, you can turn on the upcoming change to enable these badges, or opt-out of the change if you do not want to use these badges.

The four Discourse Solved badges, awarded to members who post replies that are marked as the solution to another member's question.
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:gear: Turning on Solved badges in your community

For now, this is considered an experimental change! We’re welcoming your feedback, which will help us make improvements and roll this out further.

To turn this on, head to the Upcoming changes page in your admin area (/admin/config/upcoming-changes) and find the Enable solved badges item. Update the Enabled for… field to opt your site in to this new design:

Enabled solved badges in Upcoming Changes
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:mega: What do you think?

Over to you: we’d love to hear what you think of this new feature. What do you like and dislike; what is working well, and what could be improved?

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Topic Voting improvements: New badges to celebrate members with great ideas
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Do already marked as solved count, or only new solutions going forward?

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I came here to ask this. Will badges for existing solutions be back-filled?

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To be sure, if the plugin is disabled in the first place, even if this is opted in, the change will not add the badges?

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Yes, there is a backfill badge job that runs daily (here). So within 24 hours of enabling the upcoming change those badges should be awarded.

The Solved plugin is preinstalled so the badges should already exist but be disabled by default. The plugin needs to be enabled and then opt-in to this (or via promotion of the upcoming change for sites that don’t opt-out).

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