I recently created my account for the site, and over the course of the last week I’ve gotten a few badges without really thinking much about them. When I earned a badge for liking my first post today, I noticed that there was a category for all of the badges on the site that can be acquired. Being the type of person who always likes to do things to completion, this immediately grabbed my attention. While I was looking through the various different badges, the thing that jumped out at me the most was the number showing how many people had gotten each badge. There were plenty that made sense, like the “Basic” badge having nearly 6,000 members, but some of the more obscure badges had some tiny numbers, with a couple having never been acquired by anyone. For example, the badge for inviting someone to the site has only been gotten by a single person, and all of the tiers above it have never been acquired before. Only a single person has the “beta release” badge. Many of the badges that no one has gotten before make sense due to the difficulty, like the one that unlocks after receiving 5 likes on 300 different posts. There was one outlier, though, being that not a single person has ever replied to a post via email (lol).
I’d like to try to acquire as many badges as I reasonably can, but obviously some of them present quite a challenge. Winning a game jam (or even just guessing the theme) is a monumental task already, but there are also badges for getting 2nd and 3rd. Climbing up to a trust level of leader is an incredible feat, getting tons of likes on posts and replies wouldn’t be easy for all the various badges related to that, and visiting the site on 365 consecutive days demands dedication and patience. All this without even mentioning all of the badges related to releasing games, among many others that aren’t easy to obtain as well. (Also the “Beta Tester” badge is probably just impossible to get at this point)
There was one specific badge, though, that seemed to be the most urgent. “New User of the Month” is a badge that can seemingly only be acquired when one is new to the site, and then never again. This badge is my current top priority, and I wanted to try to figure out what the exact rules of it were. Can the badge only be earned in the month a user joins? Is there a grace period of a month or two where someone has the opportunity to earn it? I joined in very late April, so have I already lost my chance of earning the badge due to the timeframe in which I made my account? Receiving answers to these questions would really help me in my efforts of trying to earn the New User of the Month badge.
I know the badges on this site probably weren’t really made with the intention of having someone collect them all, but I still think it would be fun to try to collect as many as possible.