can we have awards?

[fiivemacs@lemmy.ca]

Literally nothing...

[awesomelowlander@sh.itjust.works]

Think your link's broken, blaze.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

Emojis go in replies. But trophies go right next to your username!

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

Hmmh. I believe the main reason why we don't have them is that the main developers didn't like gamification. And they don't view this platform as a 1:1 clone of Reddit. And I mean ultimately all these awards and similar concepts on Discord etc are meant to make the users spend money. Other things are made to get people hooked, because they can brag with karma, awards etc and they'll spend more time on the platform. That's all good if you're trying to make lots of money, but not necessarily healthy for the users or the atmosphere on the platform. But it's complicated. Not everything is bad, either.

[indianajones@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I dont think it is, it works for me

[awesomelowlander@sh.itjust.works]

You ended up redirected back to the homepage. You'll notice there's nothing there about flairs. Pretty sure blaze wanted to link this post

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Please no

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

I think its fine if its based off server donations and not limited like discord, like you donate that month or whatever way for the awards and you using it substitiuges an upvote in that community or server, for platforms without awards or ppl who have it turned off they should just see it as an upvote.

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

the reddit way of buying awards and giving to comments alongside upvotes sucks imo, its just a fancier paid for upvote it should be shown like that, it doesnt mean anything more than a normal comment

[melonyellow@lemmy.ca]

I don't care for awards in general, but having one for donating to the instance would be a win win!

The one feature I'm missing that's not on Lemmy is flairs. They're particularly useful for sports communities or anything location/region based:)

[db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

blaze "lemmy-linked" to my blog, probably because the UI autofill suggested it and they didn't double check

[schemes@lemmy.world]

I would think it would have to be an update to the client (App/Webpage) and server (database) code so yes, update to the codebase.

For the client side, the app/webpage would need to be update to display awards in the UI. And the server would need to store the awards, content award is associated with, user info etc.

I was thinking of an idea similar to Reddit awards to help fund instances.

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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