Feature Request: Allow Pro Lab Progress to Count Toward XP Streaks

Summary

I’d like to suggest that meaningful progress in Pro Labs should count toward XP streaks, either through XP itself or through a separate mechanism that recognizes Pro Lab activity as a valid training day.

The Problem

Pro Labs are some of the most substantial and time-intensive training environments available on HTB. They require sustained effort, often over many hours or days, and are designed to develop skills through realistic, interconnected environments rather than isolated challenges.

However, Pro Lab activity currently does not contribute to XP.

This creates an unfortunate conflict with the XP streak system.

If I spend several hours working through a Pro Lab, I may make significant progress and learn considerably more than I would from completing a small standalone XP-earning task. Yet, because that Pro Lab activity doesn't generate XP, I can still lose my XP streak unless I stop what I'm doing and complete something else that awards XP.

In other words, the current system can create an incentive to interrupt meaningful training in order to perform a smaller activity solely for the purpose of maintaining a streak.

That seems counterproductive.

Why This Matters

The purpose of an XP streak, presumably, is to encourage consistent engagement with HTB and continued learning.

Pro Lab work is clearly consistent engagement and learning.

The current implementation therefore creates a disconnect between the behavior the streak is intended to encourage and the behavior it actually measures.

For example:

«A user spends six hours actively working through a Pro Lab, compromises several systems, discovers new attack paths, and makes substantial progress — but receives no XP that day and risks losing their streak.»

That same user could instead spend a few minutes completing an XP-earning activity and preserve the streak.

The latter behavior shouldn't be more strongly incentivized by the platform.

Possible Solutions

I don't think Pro Labs necessarily need to award XP at the same rate as individual Machines or Challenges. There are several ways this could be addressed:

- Give XP for meaningful objectives or milestones within a Pro Lab.

- Larger bonuses could be awarded at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% completion.

- A user who makes meaningful progress in a Pro Lab that day could have their streak preserved even without earning conventional XP.

- Completing a qualifying Pro Lab activity could count as a training day without necessarily adding a large amount of XP.

- This could be intentionally modest so that Pro Labs don't become an XP-mining strategy while still recognizing the user's activity.

Of these, I think milestone-based XP or a Pro Lab activity/streak credit would provide the best balance.

The Principle

The key point isn't that Pro Labs should provide "free XP."

It's that the streak system should recognize meaningful learning activity regardless of which HTB content type the user chooses.

Pro Labs arguably represent some of the deepest and most sustained engagement a user can have with the platform. It seems counterintuitive for the streak system to treat several hours of that activity as equivalent to zero activity.

I'd encourage HTB to consider whether the current XP/streak design unintentionally creates an incentive to leave Pro Labs and complete unrelated content simply to keep a streak alive.

A system that recognizes Pro Lab progress would better align the XP streak with its apparent goal: encouraging users to keep learning and engaging with HTB consistently.