I'm afraid this feature will lead to a proliferation of low quality contributions - just like Hacktoberfest.
It's saddening that GH is turning more and more into a gamified social network (the new "for you" feed).
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#12One of the achievements is 'YOLO': 'merged without a review'. We really shouldn't be encouraging this.
yeah this achievement is really immature, maybe same as the one who came up with this in GH :-P
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#13What a totally useless focus from GitHub.
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#15I don't mind this, in a sense its cool because some OSS projects can use this as a way to honor key contributors publicly in ways that are "obvious". I'm thinking also its a way to earn yourself some credibility on your resume beyond just showing your contribution graph in a way that is easily digested (re: quickly).
With that said, and I know GitHub is big and lots of people are working on lots of things, however I feel like whatever energy went into this could have possibly been spent on making the UI more responsive and less wonky. For instance, I still continue to run into issues when opening PR links from the Slack integration where it won't load the CI status correctly, I have to refresh the page every time.
I love GitHub, and I'm not someone who is trying to harsh anyone, and I think this is kind of cool for what it is, however there are many long standing UI / UX issues make this landing a little less exciting.
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#16One of the achievements is 'YOLO': 'merged without a review'. We really shouldn't be encouraging this.
More than likely, this is a red flag, not an achievement; or at least one would hope it is.
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#17Can we please stop turning everything into a social media experience? Why the constant need for personal validation / ego gratification? It seems like almost every tool or platform these days needs a friends feature, bragging badges or other form of social validation.
To be fair, GitHub's original slogan was "Social Coding".
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#18Can we please stop turning everything into a social media experience? Why the constant need for personal validation / ego gratification? It seems like almost every tool or platform these days needs a friends feature, bragging badges or other form of social validation.
Everything needs to be gamified now.
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#19There are so many other things they could invest time on and they decided to spend it profile badges...
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#20This is not stupid. It's not a waste of time. It doesn't matter if this leads to a proliferation of shit contributions. It doesn't matter if it encourages bad practices. It doesn't matter if you don't like it.
It's smart.
This is WHY Microsoft bought Github. Software is eating the world and Github is where most of the eating happens. There are many career paths that require you to live on Twitter or LinkedIn or whatever. If Github pulls off the bigger play here it won't matter what Gitlab or Bitbucket or anyone else ever tries because you will HAVE to be on Github.
This is how a trillion dollar company gets its return on GH.