Style and content of new achievement badges trivialise actual achievements #28161
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Hi @thclark, if you don't like the Achievements on your public profile, you can disable them in your settings at Hope that helps |
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yup, one valid request here is to select only the badges to be displayed, as of now, it's all or nothing as for being not too professional looking or other says "cartoonish" and "childish", well, we need to balance all of the users of GitHub, others are actually very proud of it, as we will differ on our opinion and view |
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I felt the exact same as @thclark was proud of my arctic code vault contributor badge and then felt patronised by the new badges - totally understand balancing all users of Github, this particular feature at the moment is not balanced. I would suggest that if someone has made 100s or 1000s of PRs that QUICKDRAW or PULL SHARK should not show on their badges. YOLO I am not even sure should exist but maybe thats personal opinion. |
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Yeah true.
If you have any other suggestions, additions, or deletions, add them in the comments here #28686 (comment). Let's make Github hear! |
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I was wondering the actual reason of achievement but may be it motivates to do more open source. Your information helped me figuring out the differences. |
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It was REALLY AWESOME to be made an arctic code vault contributor. Having that shield there under achievements on my profile was really a point of pride.
Recently, new achievements have been introduced, and I have a HUGE problem with both content and styling.
Styling
Remember, people's GitHub profiles form their CVs - they need to convey professionalism.
Mine is linked to from LinkedIn, and lots of other places - it's the first place people go to if they need to assess whether they're any good, but it currently looks like Candy Crush Saga.
These weird cartoon emoji are massive, and distract the eye from actual content, and hugely trivialise my profile.
Content
Achievement badges should represent an achievement. It should be possible to see someone's achievement badges and make some assessment of where they are as a contributor and developer.
Forced upon my profile I now have:
I acknowledge the need to have achievement badges to encourage beginners, but many fragmented ones diminish those that are meaningful... none of the above are appropriate for a 15-year career developer who spends an average of 3 hours a day on GitHub. A simpler system might be appropriate - "Getting Started" could be replaced with "Moving up", then with "Git Hero" etc, and we'll know where people are at a glance without that panel getting so busy it's meaningless.
That would also be actually helpful, because in reviewing developer's CVs (i.e. their GitHub profiles!) it's nice to be able to see at a glance what level they're at with git, especially when hiring at a junior level.
There's a new STARSTRUCK one, which is fairly nice as it marks that some of your repos are getting traction in the OSS community, but the styling is still trivialising it, sadly.
Suggested course of action
It would be good to keep achievements on my profile, rather than have to remove them entirely, because they have the potential to be (and indeed were) a great way of motivating myself and displaying credibility to the world.
For this not to be lost:
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