Badges

[kentcdodds]

On the profile page, users should get badges for things they've done in the site. Ideas:

• various levels based on the articles they've read (taking into account the category etc)
• badges for listening to chats with Kent episodes
• badge for connecting to discord

More stuff like this would be fun I think.

[smeijer]

Few more ideas:

• thanked someone on discord (with levels)
• got thanked on discord (with levels)

The got thanked could even be related to channels, to earn some category "expert" badges. For example, after a number of ?thanks in typescript one could get an typescript expert badge, after a few in backend one gets backend expert, etc.

Or maybe support instead of expert, as being thanked doesn't necessarily say something about the level.

[kentcdodds]

I like that. I think I need to support some external APIs so the bot can POST and GET on the database (rather than using a GitHub gist as a db like the bot is now).

Some/All of this will probably have to come after the initial launch unfortunately. We've gotta ship someday 😅