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/.
The "This is fine" achievement is funny but doesn't seem right. The top user ppdemo indeed has a repo where he apparently creates one issue every minute, but there's only a few open issues so he must be deleting them too:
Half of these "achievements" are simply highlighting spam/abuse on the platform which goes relatively unchecked since it still equates to usage & drives up metrics.
Someone makes a joke post with parody github achievements. Someone else then uses a public dataset to see how many people have these parody achievement.
Hacker News: "Gamifying everything is terrible"
I think getting angry about everything including parody github achievements is terrible.
Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media.
The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
Paging hugoblanc, who has a heroic 14334 +1 comments out there: what drives you?
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 ;)
Most of the toplists are just filled with spambots/automations/etc. Also, at least my pov, could this be a quite funny project if better measurements would have been taken. Autoscraping is always a good idea but why not turn it arround and call it a competition. Make people commit their info via a github app to place them in the different rankings and also a global one.
Alot of people always want to compete and present theirsel so it should drive itself if spread at the right places. Also you cann add monthyl rankings and stats with persisting medals to earn and keep on the profile page kinda linke a trophy shelf.
From here on you can just go the full gamification route with levelling etc.
glhf
I’m surprised by the low counts for Patient Skeleton. I would have thought stale PRs would be merged more frequently.
This is great! I wish there was a way to punch in my GitHub username and find out how I'm ranked :)
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
a few weeks ago someone merged a small PR i made in 2016. it was pretty surprising. i had not thought about it in years and had completely forgotten about it.
on one hand, this is kinda funny. on the other, it seems to be in a little bit poor taste to be highlighting random non-famous people's negative "accomplishments" on a leaderboard like this.
i'd hate to wake up one day and find that HN was directing thousands of people to my github profile because i had closed more issues as "wontfix" than any other person on github.
Arborist made me chuckle.
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.
just no
Having to scroll back to the top of the modals to close them is infuriating. Should just be able to click in the gray surrounding them to close them.