Did GitHub give up on achievements?

[prooheckcp]

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Did GitHub just entirely ditch profile achievements? The last time we got an update about them was in January 2023 and simply because they've added support to see them on the mobile.

I was very excited when it came out and found it as a good motivator to work on my side-projects outside of work (we use BitBucket) but it seems like there won't be any follow-ups. I really wish they went back to it and added many more achievements but maybe I'm alone on this

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[spenserblack]

I'd also like to see a few more fun achievements. But I think a big challenge is making achievements that don't encourage achievement-hunters to make low-effort contributions to cheat the system. For example, they had to change the rules of the Galaxy Brain achievement so that Q&A in community discussions didn't count towards the achievement, because some users started spamming discussions by making questions with secondary accounts and answering with the main one, or using AI to answer.

[mecodeatlas]

Thanks so much for posting in our Community @prooheckcp. Because of an influx of users creating low quality, nonsensical or spam posts in the Community with the aim of earning certain Achievements, we’ve made the difficult decision to disable the ability to earn Achievements in our Community.

Note that this change does not affect your ability to earn badges in other projects and communities across GitHub. This change only applies to GitHub’s Community Discussions.

You can learn more about this decision in our announcement post here Achievements will no longer be available in the Community.

Let us know if you have any other questions 🚀