• Pierre-Yves Lapersonne
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    77 months ago

    I still don’t understand why Hacktoberfest get so much hype. I don’t even understand Hacktoberfest meanings. Is it to get shiny badges on GitHub accounts?

    • @ericjmorey
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      87 months ago

      It’s just gamification to try to get more people contributing. Badges and trinkets. Some companies gave out t-shirts and stickers.

      • Pierre-Yves Lapersonne
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        37 months ago

        So annoying. It is useless to bring gamification to open source projects. It won’t enhance quality nor bring reliable contributors. People should contribute to FLOSS projects without such things IMO.

        • @ericjmorey
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          47 months ago

          I’m not sure that’s true. It attracts attention and can induce momentum to get people familiar with a particular project or just open source contribution in general.

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          47 months ago

          Seems like an odd reaction. I like codberg and encourage it’s use, but I wouldn’t say non-participation hacktoberfest is a reason to use it instead of other options.

            • @ericjmorey
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              17 months ago

              This doesn’t seem like something that rizes to the level of a reason to recommend the use of codberg over other options on its own. I would certainly not recommend switching an existing project based on this alone.