Experimenting with 'Featured' badge visibility

[bartv (Bart Veldhuizen)]

I found some performance issues with this theme component - it resulted in a LOT of server load as it was querying the badges for all users in topics. For larger topics this became problematic. I have disabled it for now and will track progress.

[BD3D (Dorian B.)]

"Add-on Developer" should have a quality standards!

thoses badges system are really amazing ! its a superb idea and its motivating everyone to be a better artist, better scripter, ect… but i think that the new “Add-on Developer” badges have some flaws. some peoples have the badge and they didnt actually make an addon. (like in this example i suppose, my apologies if the person actually deserve the badge, but the badge is linked to a thread with no add-ons he visibly made, only a thread talking about his favorites addons (i don’t criticise th…

i did a thread related to this new badge system but not for feature art so i split the topic

[BD3D (Dorian B.)]

speaking about the “reward” importance of badges in this topic,

@BD3D

if its too easy to obtain whats the point of it ?

if its too easy to be featured it will not have any importance for peoples, that’s what im afraid of, if badges are too easely given, nobody will be proud of having it, having it will be meaningless, and it will not actively drive the community of the site to be active, pro-creative and motivated.

rewarding people is really important, if you do it wrong the whole idea is useless

[bartv (Bart Veldhuizen)]

@bartv

I found some performance issues with this theme component - it resulted in a LOT of server load as it was querying the badges for all users in topics. For larger topics this became problematic. I have disabled it for now and will track progress.

This component has been fixed and I have resumed this test. The ‘Featured’ and ‘Add-on Developer’ badges are back!

[Gnrl_Azr (ム刀尺ﾚ_ﾑ乙尺)]

how if the new user will have this:

[bartv (Bart Veldhuizen)]

There is no ‘new user’ badge. However, higher level users will see a message when a new, or longtime inactive user posts a message.

[BD3D (Dorian B.)]

can i have an addon dev badge ?
i did thoses two :
https://blenderartists.org/t/back-me-up-the-ultimate-save-manager-released/1161114/33

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[bartv (Bart Veldhuizen)]

Ah! I forgot one critical component: a moderator or staff member has to ‘like’ your post (this acts as a confirmation that you are indeed an add-on developer). I just did that on your posts and ran the update (usually it runs only once every 24 hours).

@moderators can you help out by liking initial posts in the #coding:released-scripts-and-themes forum?

[RPaladin]

Sorry for the bump, but I wanted to double-check, are only, “best,” add-ons being chosen since the last post from above? I’ve respectfully noticed a large dip in new add-on developers not receiving a like or badge. Understandably this dip happened around the start of the pandemic, but it’s still happening currently, with the exception of a few who were given likes out of genuineness likeness and not for badge verification I think.

Also understandably, is that probably not all moderators are going to want to spend their time or like count just for the #coding:released-scripts-and-themes category. I’d propose implementing automatically being awarded the badge, but only after a certain amount of likes have been given to the OP. That way moderators can spend their time over more important matters.

[bartv (Bart Veldhuizen)]

I don’t think we have a very active policy on this. It would be nice to be more active yes, but perhaps we need someone on the team with a passion for add-ons?

[joseph]

Done, there should be 125 add-on badges getting sent out now

[bartv (Bart Veldhuizen)]

Great! Those badges should show up within 24 hours, let me know if they don’t.