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

    • 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.

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        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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        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.

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            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.