Timeline for Community Asks Sprint Announcement – January 2026: Custom site-specific badges!
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| Jan 26 at 14:55 | history | edited | SashaStaffMod |
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| Jan 26 at 0:59 | answer | added | curiousdannii | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 22 at 1:19 | answer | added | JBH | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 20 at 18:45 | answer | added | TylerH | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 19 at 0:03 | answer | added | Dev18 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 16 at 0:20 | answer | added | bad_coder | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 15 at 17:22 | answer | added | Sara Williams | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 12 at 16:35 | comment | added | DBS | This seems like a nice idea, but aren't there drastically more important quality-of-life requests that could be focused on instead? | |
| Jan 12 at 10:17 | answer | added | Themoonisacheese | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 11 at 4:24 | answer | added | Robotnik | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jan 8 at 10:48 | comment | added | Sayse | It feels a bit of poor timing of implementing a feature that asks moderators to do even more work at a time when they are begging you for tools to reduce their workload | |
| Jan 8 at 8:42 | comment | added | talex | @Spevacus also that post doesn't mentioned feature you going to implement. Only thing in common with your post and old one is mention of custom badges. You completely invented that feature on your own. | |
| Jan 8 at 8:32 | comment | added | talex | @Spevacus so why it is called community sprint if community have no way to decide what goes in it? I don't think that post from 14 years ago can count as community input. | |
| Jan 7 at 15:27 | comment | added | Spevacus StaffMod | @talex In the post, I linked to Is it possible to have site-specific badges?, which is an older but well-supported request for the idea. In these sprints, generally, the development team chooses a category to focus on and they collect a series of well-received requests or bug reports to work on. In this case, we're focusing on this idea and making it work as best as we can. | |
| Jan 7 at 15:16 | comment | added | Spevacus StaffMod | @MaxChernoff Thank you for the reminder, and apologies for the delay. I've enabled that feature on your site. | |
| Jan 7 at 14:05 | comment | added | FeliniusRex | I'm against this, because if you're ever on the outs with a mod, then you'll be shut out of getting these badges, and it'll become yet another way to demonstrate that unpopular opinions don't belong on that stack. The issues this would cause with fairness and clique-building outweigh its benefits. I think flair would be a better way to go. | |
| Jan 7 at 12:56 | answer | added | ColleenV | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 7 at 12:53 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | Aren't the reputation mechanism and the existing badges there to reward useful behavior with Shiny Magical Internet Points? What shortcomings do these have that motivates adding yet another mechanism, and one that is purposely engineered to work off the subjective impressions of mods? | |
| Jan 7 at 10:06 | answer | added | TinkeringbellMod | timeline score: 29 | |
| Jan 7 at 9:14 | comment | added | talex | Did I missed the post where community asked for this? And more generally: how do community decide what is in those sprints? I keep missing those discussions. Is thee specific tag I can follow? | |
| Jan 7 at 7:43 | answer | added | Rand al'Thor | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jan 7 at 2:38 | answer | added | Rebecca J. Stones | timeline score: 29 | |
| Jan 6 at 22:59 | comment | added | Max Chernoff | TeX.SE is still waiting for the previous “Community Asks Sprint” feature to be enabled on our site. | |
| Jan 6 at 21:38 | comment | added | zcoop98 | This seems really fun! As long as the badge definitions are clean-cut and the award process simple (e.g. no more effort than hosting an existing event already is), then I think the cost-benefit of sites getting a new fun toy at the cost of minimal moderator effort is super worthwhile. Future issues with bickering and fairness and criteria cost can be dealt with as they come up, and aren't inherent to custom badges as a whole. This will be a cool feature for sites that's just trivial and fun, and I like that. | |
| Jan 6 at 17:39 | comment | added | user400654 | iunno. this feels like it's just one or two steps beyond being someone just editing "I did a thing!" into their profile. But maybe this is just me not caring about badges/achievements in general. Usually when something is gamified, in a "earn a reward" way, the gamification is there to encourage you to earn all of the rewards or as many as you can, and when you realize there's rewards you'll never earn the gamification aspect tends to fall apart. Not necessarily a reason to not do this, but... more something i'd hope communities would keep in mind when deciding what badges to create. :shrug: | |
| Jan 6 at 17:16 | answer | added | TinkeringbellMod | timeline score: 56 | |
| Jan 6 at 15:51 | comment | added | GammaGames | This is cool, I could see it being a nice little award for screenshot of the week winners | |
| Jan 6 at 15:18 | history | asked | SpevacusStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |