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For the badge: Badges for badges' sake

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When I was a child I enjoyed looking at the back cover of video games and seeing the informative info-icons at the back of the game that showed whether it was 1 player or 2 player.

https://hafskjold.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/redalert2_0...

Here is the back cover of Red Alert, a PC game. I like the badges for game specifications.

I think some people really enjoy the stamp collecting activity of collecting badges or features on lists, it's incredibly satisfying and feels valuable. It could just be nostalgia but displaying valuable facts in one place is kind of pleasurable.

I notice a lot of GitHub projects have badges for build status, Go code quality report, and documentation icons. Some projects even have a "spin up on Heroku" or "DigitalOcean" one click deployment button.

I had similar feelings of going through an Argos catalogue and looking at computer specs in 1999-2001

I don't play video games anymore but I wonder if there's a value in establishing industry wide specification icons for enterprise features, such as OAuth 2 or security standards for credit card processing. So you can easily pick interoperable software that meets criteria.

An endless string of badges really needs the occasional mushroom or snake to keep it interesting.

Here you go https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI

*mushoom

Well this is a vivid 20-ish-year(?!) flashback I did not expect to have today, thanks!

We don't need no stinking badgers! :)

Til the very next day ...

As a matter of interest, how does this service differ from existing services? The only thing I can see is some nice options and SVG output looks good.

It would be nice if you could create the SVG directly from the query parameters of the url to allow fully dynamic badges like some of the other services.

For example: https://badgen.net/badge/color/pink/pink

I think For The Badge is less of a service and more of a social commentary and/or shitpost.

When I first found out about it I found this style quite refreshing (still do!), and suggested it to shields.io. Now you can use it for your real badges: https://shields.io/badge/status-works_on_my_machine-green?st...

On the basis of your first sentence, it deserves the 'Minimally Useful' badge.

Oh I already have a line "Proudly runs on electricity " in my website footer [1]. Guess it is the time to replace it with a badge :D

1 - https://arunmani.in/

aww they got rid of “MOM MADE”/“PIZZA ROLLS”

I don’t get it. What is the purpose of this page? Is it just some kind of social commentary?

Yes. An art piece, perhaps. I personally love it.

There is an "About" link at the top which may shed some light:

> "For the Badge is [...] a complete joke."

For when you need to advertise that your open source project is, in fact, gluten free. Obviously.

It's a social commentary on how some projects really overdo it with badges.

Live laugh love hnarn,

Perhaps you need a badge like this in your life to bring you joy on your repos

If you enable javascript and click About it says:

> For the Badge is a

Then crossed out:

> ~Grassroots Movement~

> ~Scientific Endeavor~

> ~Humanitarian Society~

> ~Literary Masterpiece~

> ~Knitting Club~

Then normal font:

> Complete Joke.

> We don’t develop for the money, power, fame, or codebabes. We do it For the Badge. It all started because of an obsession with two words: “build passing”. It all ended with this: badges, for badges’ sake.

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