Gamify
The Gamify plugin turns reading into a quest. Earn XP for every page and issue, level up through comic-flavoured titles, keep a daily streak alive, chase achievements, and clear a weekly quest board generated from your own library. Households get a monthly co-op quest and a leaderboard.
Reading history comes from the Reader plugin — install that too (it's what records what you read).
Playing
Quests in the sidebar opens the board:
- Level & XP — issues and pages read become XP; levels carry titles from Newsstand Browser up to Legend.
- Streaks — read every day to build a streak. Freeze tokens auto-cover a missed day: you earn one at every seventh day of a streak and one on each level-up, hold two at most, and one is spent for yesterday, on your behalf, the moment a live streak would otherwise break.
- Yearly goal — set an issues-per-year target and watch the bar fill.
- Weekly quests — auto-generated missions, three rerolls a week.
- Achievements — a medal wall for milestones.
- Household — a monthly co-op quest everyone contributes to, plus a per-month leaderboard, with a per-user opt-out on the Household tab.
Your profile page shows the level card at a glance, and completions, unlocks and level-ups land in the notification bell (and any Notifications Hub channels). The board recalculates when you open it, and hourly on its own so notifications fire even when nobody is looking.
Earning XP
| What | XP |
|---|---|
| Finishing an issue in the reader | 50 |
| Each page turned in the reader | 1 |
| Unlocking an achievement | 50–1,500, per the table below |
| Clearing a weekly quest | Scales with the quest: 60 XP per issue for Finish what you started, 50 for Backlog slayer, 40 for Arc hunter, 30 for Keep the pace |
A typical 22-page issue read cover to cover is about 72 XP. The household co-op quest is the exception: clearing it announces itself, but pays no XP into anyone's personal total.
Levels
Each level costs more than the last: level L begins at 150 × L² XP.
| Level | Title | XP |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Newsstand Browser | 0 |
| 1 | Sidekick | 150 |
| 2 | Back-Issue Digger | 600 |
| 3 | Cape Chaser | 1,350 |
| 4 | Panel Hopper | 2,400 |
| 5 | Vigilante | 3,750 |
| 6 | Longbox Legend-in-Training | 5,400 |
| 7 | Crusader | 7,350 |
| 8 | Hero | 9,600 |
| 9 | Multiverse Wanderer | 12,150 |
| 10 | Keeper of the Vault | 15,000 |
| 11 | Legend | 18,150 |
Levels keep climbing past 11 — the title just stays Legend.
Weekly quests
The board draws from four flavours, at most one of each, so four is the ceiling. A quest you don't fancy can be rerolled for a different flavour, three times a week.
- Finish what you started — a series you've already read from with one to six owned-but-unread issues left.
- Arc hunter — a reading list of yours with a handful of unread items on it.
- Backlog slayer — your five oldest unread issues by cover date.
- Keep the pace — finish n issues this week, where n is half again your recent weekly average (from the last four weeks), between 3 and 15.
Achievements
| Achievement | How you earn it | XP |
|---|---|---|
| Origin Story | Finish your first issue | 50 |
| Pull List Regular | Finish 10 issues | 100 |
| Longbox Diver | Finish 50 issues | 250 |
| Century Club | Finish 100 issues | 500 |
| Omnibus Incarnate | Finish 500 issues | 1,500 |
| Completionist | Finish every issue of a series (6+ issues) | 300 |
| Arc Hunter | Finish every issue of a reading list (5+ issues) | 250 |
| Decade Traveler | Read comics from 5 different decades | 300 |
| Publisher Sampler | Read comics from 5 different publishers | 200 |
| Marathon | Read 100+ pages in a single day | 150 |
| Night Owl | Finish an issue in the small hours | 100 |
| Weekly Ritual | A 7-day reading streak | 200 |
| Iron Reader | A 30-day reading streak | 750 |
Fair play
Only reading done in the reader scores — "mark read" updates your library but earns nothing, and re-reads never double-count. Daily caps bound what a single day can earn toward XP, quests and the leaderboard: by default the first 20 issues and 500 pages of any one day count, so an evening of skimming scores like a very good day rather than a month. A streak day needs at least 3 pages actually turned (or a finished issue), so a one-page tap doesn't keep one alive. All three numbers are adjustable below.
On your own
Household features still work for one person: the leaderboard is a board of one (the podium needs three), and the monthly co-op quest asks for 20 issues — it grows by 15 per extra reader. If that's not the game you want, turn Household features off and the tab disappears.
Settings
Settings → Plugins → Gamify — everything here is on by default.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Gamify | Master switch. Off stops the hourly sweep and the board says why. |
| Household features | The monthly co-op quest and the leaderboard. Off = solo. |
| Notifications | Bell and Notifications Hub events. With this off, progress is still tracked — it just stays quiet. |
| Level-up celebration | The one-shot overlay when you level up. |
| Weekly quests | How many quests the board draws — default 3, range 1–4. |
| Issues/day that count | Fair-play cap — default 20, range 1–200. |
| Pages/day that count | Fair-play cap — default 500, range 50–5,000. |
| Min pages for a streak day | Fair-play floor — default 3, range 1–50. |