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Re: GitHub profile achievements

#31

Post by jackson1442 » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 3:52 PM UTC

bawolff wrote: post #13

Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.

you can turn them off on your profile within settings if you dislike them that much.

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#32

Post by jackson1442 » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

treprinum wrote: post #10

Why does every little inconsequential thing have to be gamified to increase engagement? I couldn't care less about how many stars, arctic vault badges etc. do I get in a thing I use to hedge risk of losing my code and collaborate with others.

the website is very obviously a joke and is not affiliated with github.

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#33

Post by ugjka » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 3:59 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #22

mattwad wrote: post #15

Neat! People complaining about 'gamifying github' seem to be greatly over-estimating the author's goal here. Also neat to learn about the free dataset uploaded to https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ .

I strongly prefer an ungamified GitHub, but can appreciate the OP's work (a nice site and some interesting stats). The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.

I do like that I have a badge that I have some code in an Arctic vault on photo film

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#34

Post by fisian » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 3:59 PM UTC

While looking at some "top" users on the website, I found this repo that adds trophies to your github profile: https://github.com/ryo-ma/github-profile-trophy

Maybe these could also be added in a similar way to show your "worth" to the world even better ;)

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#35

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 4:01 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #22

mattwad wrote: post #15

Neat! People complaining about 'gamifying github' seem to be greatly over-estimating the author's goal here. Also neat to learn about the free dataset uploaded to https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ .

I strongly prefer an ungamified GitHub, but can appreciate the OP's work (a nice site and some interesting stats). The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.

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Re: GitHub profile achievements

#36

Post by mdaniel » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

if you didn't see it, there was recently a discussion on "rejected GitHub achievements" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607439 which I thought had some really good ones

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#37

Post by swozey » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 4:05 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #22

mattwad wrote: post #15

Neat! People complaining about 'gamifying github' seem to be greatly over-estimating the author's goal here. Also neat to learn about the free dataset uploaded to https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ .

I strongly prefer an ungamified GitHub, but can appreciate the OP's work (a nice site and some interesting stats). The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.

Not only can you turn the badges off in your profile but you are barely even encouraged to participate. I have absolutely no idea what badges I'm missing and I have never once done anything to achieve a badge that didn't come to me by naturally using github.

I really don't get why some of you think that github would be drastically different without badges.

edit: Here I took a screenshot of where to disable it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681101#36683016

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#38

Post by treprinum » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 4:07 PM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #18

treprinum wrote: post #10

Why does every little inconsequential thing have to be gamified to increase engagement? I couldn't care less about how many stars, arctic vault badges etc. do I get in a thing I use to hedge risk of losing my code and collaborate with others.

you're free to not care. most don't care. but achievements are not the goal, achievements are a fraction of a second of amusement or pride about a career of work. it's not for you, fine. why complain about it? let people enjoy something even though you see no point for crying out loud.

Somebody is trying to hack my brain to get more engagement from me and steal my "thinking" resources for themselves.

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#39

Post by swozey » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

treprinum wrote: post #38

naikrovek wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you're free to not care. most don't care. but achievements are not the goal, achievements are a fraction of a second of amusement or pride about a career of work. it's not for you, fine. why complain about it? let people enjoy something even though you see no point for crying out loud.

Somebody is trying to hack my brain to get more engagement from me and steal my "thinking" resources for themselves.

Here you go bud, https://i.imgur.com/2Bg5A4d.png

Let us have our fun. You can disable it :)

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#40

Post by sdesol » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 5:21 PM UTC

mattwad wrote: post #15

Neat! People complaining about 'gamifying github' seem to be greatly over-estimating the author's goal here. Also neat to learn about the free dataset uploaded to https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ .

> greatly over-estimating the author's goal here

Yeah it is clearly a showcase for ClickHouse which is worth bragging about since it is quite performant. And it has a very strong community as the following shows:

https://devboard.gitsense.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse

I am honestly not sure if my solution can handle HackerNews at this point since generating deep insights for ClickHouse (which has a lot of history) is very expensive.

For those curious, I'm running DevBoard on a single 128 GB machine with 6TB of SSD in RAID 0 (I'm willing to take the risk) and the Postgres database has over 1000 partitions (including sub-partitions) that are optimized for my queries. I'm pretty sure ClickHouse can be more performant and if the creator of https://ghe.clickhouse.tech is reading this, I'm open to seeing if I can't get my solution working on ClickHouse.