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As of today we are rolling out four new custom badges for Challenges on Stack Overflow (made possible by the last Community Asks Sprint), three for challenge winners, and one for challenge authors.

The new badges are:

Entries which will count towards badge accrual are those that were submitted during the “open” challenge period and have been selected as a winning entry, or “passed” in the case of pass/fail challenges. We plan to continue adding more pass/fail type challenges as time goes on, which will give a larger number of users a chance to work towards earning these badges.

All users who author challenges, either because staff invited them to contribute one or because their idea was selected from the Challenges Sandbox, will be awarded the Silver Challenge Creator badge. Keep submitting creative and thought-provoking challenge ideas to the sandbox to have a shot at earning this badge.

Users who have already won or authored challenges will see these badges appear on their profile shortly.

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    Isn't this still an "experiment" or "beta" or something? If so, it feels premature to add badges. Commented Feb 6 at 8:58
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    @l4mpi wouldn't be the first badges that existed for experimental features Commented Feb 7 at 5:57
  • @l4mpi while Challenges is probably not in its final form yet, it is not formally under experimentation at this point. A few months back we made several improvements to the feature based on user feedback, after the initial Challenges experiment. Commented Feb 10 at 15:58
  • @Sasha if that is the case, then it should probably be moved from the "beta" url to one that sounds less experimental. Although IMO it could just be deleted entirely without losing anything of value, because compared to the coding challenge sites I frequented roughly 15 years ago while in university it is very lacking on several fronts. Commented Feb 10 at 16:12
  • @l4mpi if you have feedback on what would improve the challenges feature, you can share that on this post. Commented Feb 10 at 17:08
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    @Sasha to do so I would first need to take the feature seriously. SO "challenges" are infrequently added unrelated non-verifiable task descriptions, decided by popularity contest and (somewhat) time-limited. I would maybe call that "coding competition", coming from sites where "challenges" was used for well-designed sets of hundreds of verifiable tasks built up in a structured didactic manner, taking you on a journey from beginner tasks to writing quines in 2d esolangs or solving crypto puzzles etc. Relative to that, SO "challenges" look like a child's finger painting compared to a Monet. Commented Feb 11 at 10:24

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