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Registration opened for Hacktoberfest 2024 (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The hacktoberfest used to be cool, people contributing meaningfully to projects.

Now it’s a rush to who will make the trashiest PR, adding a space here in a readme, adding an unrelated file to your repo…

Once again I won’t be participating, as a maintainer nor as a contributor (didn’t participate last year as I got more and more trashy pr until the 2022 edition when I decided it was enough).

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've not seen those kinds of issues. Apart from some dedicated pseudo-/farm-projects.

But still, it has entirely lost its appeal or even viability to me.

I participated many years, until - I presume - it got too big. I was not able to find good projects, the contributions I made most of the time were not reviewed nor labeled hacktoberfest-accepted. An an extrinsic motivator, it became more frustrating than motivating.

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea, I agree.

Also what's the point now? At least a couple years ago we got a pretty cool t-shirt. Now we're just getting a digital badge..?

[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

It feels like the original goal, celebrating open source and creating an environment to help newcomers getting started, was lost with the rewards.