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I'm going to buck the comment trend thus far and state that I enjoy the gamified experience. Getting an achievement in recognition of the open source work that

I'm going to buck the comment trend thus far and state that I enjoy the gamified experience. Getting an achievement in recognition of the open source work that I've done feels great, and honestly it's more positive recognition then I would normally receive for that same effort. I also appreciate the activity chart and graph, since they double as a way to monitor my productivity and therefore my energy. If I've felt that I had a bad week and the charts contradict this, then it's easier to stop myself from feeling down on myself. I am just a social mammal, after all; and a life long gamer. This works for me, but maybe not everyone.

CapsAdmin 4y ago
I also enjoyed it, but I was only coding on my own stuff back then for fun to pass time without having or thinking about a job. I can't imagine doing this on non-solo projects with other people's opinions involved. At the same time I'm glad it's gone as it seemed to cause more harm than good for other developers.
ddxv 4y ago
As a very casual coder who wants 'in' to more coding, I really enjoy the gamification. I wish the mobile app had more of it, really has helped me progress and feel like I'm accomplishing something. I know they're just green dots but really helps me stay on track and keep practicing.
- lupire 4y ago
  This is going to hurt you in the long run when it's time to actually write software for more than your own learning.
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smcin 4y ago
The obvious concern is not that some existing legit users mightn't enjoy it; it's that the gamification will pollute the platform by incentivizing an influx of low-grade users, attention-seeking or annoying behavior, garbage commits, pointless chatter, non-issue issues, profiles stuffed with links to add SEO juice to low-grade profiles on social-media/LI/etc.; (the repo equivalent of "Follow, Like and Subscribe!"). How badly depends on how much github incentivize it. I guess we'll know if/when github has gone the way of FB/YT/IG is if/when people pay for fake/compensated followers to star a repo. I don't think we're there yet. Maybe a more constructive way to have this discussion is to subdivide github's social features into those that are good vs those that are open to be abused.
- lupire 4y ago
  Sadly incorrect. github24.com for example.
  - smcin 4y ago
    Good grief :( I guess, also users to agreeing to mutually star/follow each other would be a bad development.
- bombolo 4y ago
  I have received random pointless pull requests to add "arm" architecture on my CI… on a pure python project.

CapsAdmin 4y ago

I also enjoyed it, but I was only coding on my own stuff back then for fun to pass time without having or thinking about a job. I can't imagine doing this on non-solo projects with other people's opinions involved. At the same time I'm glad it's gone as it seemed to cause more harm than good for other developers.

ddxv 4y ago

As a very casual coder who wants 'in' to more coding, I really enjoy the gamification. I wish the mobile app had more of it, really has helped me progress and feel like I'm accomplishing something. I know they're just green dots but really helps me stay on track and keep practicing.

lupire 4y ago
This is going to hurt you in the long run when it's time to actually write software for more than your own learning.

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smcin 4y ago

The obvious concern is not that some existing legit users mightn't enjoy it; it's that the gamification will pollute the platform by incentivizing an influx of low-grade users, attention-seeking or annoying behavior, garbage commits, pointless chatter, non-issue issues, profiles stuffed with links to add SEO juice to low-grade profiles on social-media/LI/etc.; (the repo equivalent of "Follow, Like and Subscribe!"). How badly depends on how much github incentivize it. I guess we'll know if/when github has gone the way of FB/YT/IG is if/when people pay for fake/compensated followers to star a repo. I don't think we're there yet. Maybe a more constructive way to have this discussion is to subdivide github's social features into those that are good vs those that are open to be abused.

lupire 4y ago
Sadly incorrect. github24.com for example.
- smcin 4y ago
  Good grief :( I guess, also users to agreeing to mutually star/follow each other would be a bad development.
bombolo 4y ago
I have received random pointless pull requests to add "arm" architecture on my CI… on a pure python project.