BadgeBase in August 2026: a level system for everything

In July the badge archive became a community site. August gives it something that ties it all together: a level that grows no matter what you do. Here is what the month brought.

🎖️ The BadgeBase Level

Every profile now shows a level, top-left. It climbs the more active you are around BadgeBase and adds up a lot of things: collecting badges, unlocking achievements, subscribing and gifting subs, donating, bringing friends via your referral link, logging in daily and commenting. Each tier costs more than the last, so the curve keeps getting steeper.

The tiers are 🌱 Rookie, 🎖️ Collector, 🛡️ Veteran, ⚔️ Elite, 👑 Master, 🏆 Grandmaster and 🌟 Legend. How you earn points is in the FAQ — the exact values I deliberately keep to myself so the level can't be farmed. You can watch your progress and latest activity in the login area.

🏆 The XP Leaderboard

Where there's a level, there should be a ranking: the XP Leaderboard ranks everyone by level. Unlike raw badge count, it rewards variety — collect, comment, support and bring friends, and you sit higher than someone who only does one of those.

👾 Discord: Chatter, Master and /badges

Link your Twitch account with Discord and you now earn two new achievements for being active in the server: Discord Chatter (level 5) and Discord Master (level 20). It syncs automatically.

And there's a real slash command: /badges shows a user's badge count and level right in Discord — yours or someone else's. It runs entirely on our own data.

🏅 Achievements: from 52 to 65

Thirteen new ones arrived, including the two Discord achievements above, and the whole wall was reordered: the level up front, then support, community and collection milestones in an order that reads top to bottom. The old "Early Adopter" is now 🦄 Unicorn with a real badge as its icon.

🕹️ Here and gone: the arcade

On August 1st a little arcade with mini-games and its own achievement went live. By August 4th it was gone: too many people gamed the leaderboards because the score could be faked client-side. It may return properly server-verified — but not like that.

💎 Pro, 👍 feature voting and more

Along the way: Pro Membership with its own settings, a 👍👎 on every changelog entry (so I know what lands), tidier leaderboard chips and a quieter notification bell.

📰 Two blog series

Two monthly series grow in the blog: the August 2026 badges (every global badge of the month) and the Twitch monthly recap.

What's next

The level is just the start. I'm still tuning the weights, sub loyalty counts monthly from September 1st, and a few achievements are still waiting for their trigger. Wishes and ideas in the Discord as always.