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Explore Our World of Badges & Influence the Next Addition! πŸ…πŸŒŸ

Hey there, awesome DEV Community members!

Did you know we have an array of amazing badges that celebrate your achievements and contributions on DEV? Each badge tells a unique story and highlights your skills and passions.

From the prestigious "Top 7" and "One Year Club" badges, to the talent-driven "JavaScript," "Python," and "React" badges, our collection showcases the diverse skills and passions of our amazing members.

We're constantly retiring old badges and introducing new ones that reflect your interests and achievements.

Now, we want your input!

Which badge would you love to see next in our collection? It could be a badge that celebrates your favorite technology, highlights your proudest achievement on DEV, or represents a unique aspect of our community. Share your badge idea with us in the comments below. πŸ—£οΈπŸ’¬

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Rachel Fazio β€’

I'm quite excited for more moderator badges!

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adriens β€’

Good idea ;-p

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Michael Tharrington β€’

Ooo yeah!! Really looking forward to these.

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adriens β€’

Here are some ideas, badges for:

  • The one who made feature requests to DEV.to/forem GH repo
  • The best contrbutors on a specific badge (let' say opendata, or other thing that impacts wellbeing and commuity around the world)
  • For the one who used DEV.to to innovate... around DEV.to itself by using its API ... in toer words for people who use DEV.to as an innovation engine
  • For Followers milestones : 100, 1K, 2K, 5K,10K,...,
  • Followers scores : for the ones who gained : 1, 10, 100, 500 1K in a single month
  • AI related content

I'll keep thinking about what kind of new badges we could think about

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Chris Jarvis β€’

I don't know about a follower badge, A cool thing about DEV is follower count is not on the profile. So you're not comparing follower count to others. But maybe a Milestone of published articles over some minimum limit
Star Wars day badge was fun, how bout other geek holidays? Pi Day? Hobbit Day (Sept 22)? For an article related to the theme.

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Chris Jarvis β€’

"Sharing is Caring" badge for the article with the most shares to other sites.

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Michael Tharrington β€’

I'd like to see a badge for those folks that report vulnerabilities. Thinking about all those folks listed at the bottom of the Security page here.

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Godot β€’

I'd love to see more gamedev related badges. Such as Unity, Unreal, GameMaker, or Godot. 🐱

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Chantal β€’

You would not believe it if l tell you that l haven't received any badge.

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Chris Jarvis β€’

@chantal You should have gotten a notification as you earned those badges. Clicked the bell and scroll back.
Also many of the badges are from posting content. I lurked for a long time before I was comfortable enough to post content, The community was real welcoming when I finally did post.

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Chantal β€’

I have seen them @jarvisscript. Thank you!

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Vincent A. Cicirello β€’

Hi @chantal . I think you may just not have noticed where they show up. It looks like you have the 1, 2, and 4 week community wellness badges. You should see them on your profile page.

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Chantal β€’

You're right @cicirello! I didn't know where to find them. Thanks for telling me, l have seen them now.

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Vincent A. Cicirello β€’

You're welcome

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Erin A Olinick β€’

Hi, @chantal ! If you still don't see what you're looking for after following advice from @cicirello (thank you!), please drop a line here and the DEV Community Team will look into it right away!

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Chantal β€’

I have seen them @erinao. The thing is l didn't know where to look for them, so l thought l haven't received one. Otherwise, thank you.

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Arowolo Ebine β€’

Nice One

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Andy Delso β€’ β€’ Edited

Is there a good new or first blog post one (checked and didn't see)?

How about something OSS related?

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overFlow β€’ β€’ Edited

I do not have a big idea.
But I think having a badge for doing something tangible would be awesome. Not for passive things like having followers. That is so 1980's.
Maybe badges for solving problems of sorts. For providing sponsorship to the site and or users. For growth and development. For positive contributions.

Maybe yo'll can make code themed competitions. and give badges for the best solutions. For various languages and or various frameworks. Or what sponsors are willing to offer.
Best web pages, best web apps etc,
best games, best tiny games for juniors etc. maybe give badges and or prizes and or merch.