Happy little circles: a new hope (aka some community badge announcements)

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It’s the end of an era, as we are working to retire the “Community” section of our badge tab on your profile. These type of badges will now live in the Kudos program with their badge friends.

(No changes are planned to our Role badges or our various badge series, like the Accepted Solutions series. The only change to Levels for the time being is that we will be retiring Level 0.) 

Some of these badges (like Friend of Taco and Community Award Winner) will be transferred over to Kudos and retroactively awarded to everyone who has earned them. Others (like Group Hug and Fri-yay) already have equivalents in Kudos and will be retired. Others (like Team 2021 Bingo and Agile Corner) will be sent to live on a nice farm.

A commemorative badge plus ✨ 1000 ✨ Kudos points will be awarded to everyone who has earned at least 50 of our Khoros badges - congratulations to the 102 people who qualify!  (Note, this query counts “badge award” actions, so will not perfectly align with the number of badges listed on your profile. It also reflects all your badges earned, even long-retired ones and the ones that are not being impacted in this change.)

I never miss a chance to give a special shoutout to the very top of our leaderboard, some big names from the past, present, and future of our community:

• @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-  - 116

• @Jodi LeBlanc  - 115

• @Davin Studer - 110

• @Thomas Schlegel and @Ollie Guan  (tie) - 106

• @Jack Brickey and @Brant Schroeder (tie) - 104

• @Kat Warner   - 103

• @Fadoua - 102

• @Mirek - 96

• @Jimmy Seddon  - 94

And those who are at 70 or more: @Alexey Matveev , @Fabienne Gerhard , @Gonchik Tsymzhitov , @LarryBrock , @Max Foerster - K15t , @Mikael Sandberg , @Bastian Stehmann , @carolyn french , @Scott Theus , @John Funk , @Walter Buggenhout , @Andy Heinzer , @Bridget , @Erica Moss , @Meg Holbrook , @Daniel Ebers , @miikhy , @Fun Man Andy , @Hana Kučerová and @Rachel Wright .

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If you don't have a Kudos account yet and want to claim your badge, click Kudos at the top right of your screen and opt-in.  This offer never expires, so even if it's been a while, let us know you're back and where to send your fancy new badge! Any other questions, suggestions, and comments are welcome, as always, in the comments.

Thank you everyone for all the wonderful engagement and effort that all of these badges represent. We appreciate each and every one of you. 

[Munnir Abdulhamid]

Thanks for the update

[Dave Liao]

I sure hope I'm caught in this happy fun dragnet! 🙌

[Monique vdB]

@Dave Liao with 65 badge earns, yes you are! 

[Ollie Guan]

So happy to see my name ^_^ , thx @Monique vdB @tamanna @Darline 

[Andy Gladstone]

Feeling quite inadequate looking at the names mentioned in this article. But at the same time happy to see more badge alignment taking place. 

[Max Foerster - K15t]

Nice job. It feels like the right thing to do to move forward with this awesome community! 😄🤘🏼

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

I need to ramp up my badge game! 

[Summer Hogan]

Great update! Thanks for the info! I need to earn more badges, but I think it's a good move to move them all the Kudos so they are tracked in the same place! 

[carolyn french]

This is a much-needed update, but at the same time I'm feeling nostalgic for all the old badges. I love this 1000 point bump 🤩 Thank you for keeping us all organized and the program moving forward as the ultimate cat herder! @Monique vdB 

[Monique vdB]

@carolyn french the nostalgia is strong! Glad the 1000 points is making you happy. I think this is the first time we've done anything worth 1000 points but it felt like the right moment, given everything this represents.

Thanks for all the great feedback and support! We'll keep on improving how we recognize and reward you meaningfully. The future is bright. 😎

[Dave Liao]

@Monique vdB - As soon as I saw "a new hope", I started thinking of Star Wars. 🙃

Queen Mo, you're our only hope! 🙌

[Jimmy Seddon]

@Monique vdB It's sad to see the end of an era.  But, I couldn't be happier to have been a part of this history.

[Hana Kučerová]

Yay, this is nice, thank you.

[Mirek]

Quite a big change.. It was a long journey over all of those years to contribute and collect those badges! Nice to see that my name is on the top of the list. Thank you @Monique vdB ! And you know what? ... I addition to that since I have the ability to give 10x100 Kudos I decided in addition to share my 1000 limit with top contributors for going "above and beyond"!