Update #7 on the community kudos beta

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Hello and happy new year, friends!

Previous beta updates can be found here.

Reminder: For anyone who enjoys contests, we now have an Atlassian Community Contests group that's worth a join! 

Reminder: The “Pardon Our Dust” badge is still active as we are still having intermittent issues with registering actions on the platform. (Clearing your cache is a good first step.) We have a plan to make some back-end updates and I’ll keep you posted on our progress.

Updated: The kudos search has been updated. You can now search for names with spaces in them if you use the + sign in place of a space. For example, Monique+vdb will find me. Give it a try! Note: We are working on an update that will do this for you automatically when you enter a space. Stay tuned. 

Updated: Some of our actions have been updated on the back end, requiring manual changes to some of our challenges. Please let me know in the comments here if any of your challenges do not seem to be working the way they should be so we can troubleshoot any remaining issues. 

Coming soon: If you work for Atlassian, you may have seen a mysterious challenge in your kudos inbox. More information on that, and a real earnable challenge, is coming soon!  

New:

Sharing Is Caring is a new daily badge awarded for sharing community content on social media via our new Share feature. If you see something share-worthy, we’d love for you to pass it along to others.   

New:

Leader Approved is back and working correctly! If a Community Leader likes or upvotes one of your posts, you will get a 10-point bonus. This is repeatable up to 10 times per day and helps reward quality content.  Leaders, the community is counting on you: go forth and Like!

New:

Bitbucket badges! I’m excited to say we’ve released our first Bitbucket-specific challenges.  This series rewards users who get answers accepted in the Bitbucket collection.  You will also see the next badge in the series, which you unlock by completing the previous one. There are five badges total.

Here is a feed of unanswered Bitbucket questions. Note you need to get your answers accepted to earn these badges, so high-quality answers are encouraged!

Coming soon will be a similar series for another of our products. Any guesses? 

That's all the updates for today, I hope you enjoy the new badges. Oh, and if you can't see any of these? You can always request to join the kudos program and we'll make it happen!

[Dave Liao]

@Monique vdB - yes! Finally, I can find certain folks easier... of course, others like Jack will still be tough to find. 😉

[Monique vdB]

@Dave Liao he updated his name and we updated it in kudos too! 

[Dave Liao]

@Monique vdB - finally! 💥

[Alexander Pappert]

@Monique vdB 

- why do I have 2 scrollbars?

- how many challenges are now shown in the list?

if it doesn't show all available challenges, maybe it would be better if the 2nd level challenges (the 2 grey ones in the screen) wouldn't show up

- it it possible to sort them between normal and daily repeatable challenge instead of sory by name

[Vishwas]

This is great, now I'm able to search most of the community leaders  to award them kudos :)

[Josh Costella]

IMHO, JSM answered questions should count toward the Jira Teacher badge. :-)

[Taranjeet Singh]

Thanks for sharing these updates, @Monique vdB ! I am very happy to know and see the "Search" feature improvement in Kudos program.

[Vishwas]

@Monique vdB  I have one issue in search  not able to find Fabian Lim, I tried many ways but still not able to search him to give kudos :(

Can you please suggest

[Monique vdB]

@Vishwas thanks for the report! We'll look into that, I am seeing the same issue. In the meantime, here is the link to Fabian's profile where you can give kudos. 

[Vishwas]

Thanks @Monique vdB that link worked for me 

[Monique vdB]

@Josh Costella  I think you're gong to really like our upcoming update.....  😉

[Monique vdB]

Maybe I should change it to JSM Teacher to be less formal, wdyt @Josh Costella 

[Josh Costella]

I think JSM Teacher is better since you already have it spelled out with the description. :-)

[Monique vdB]

@Josh Costella I agree with you! And the badges are out now. :) 

[Marjorie]

@Monique vdB thanks for the help on searching for names!  Especially @Jack Brickey that was a hard one to find!

[Josh Costella]

@Monique vdB Hey-o. I published an article today but it doesn't look like I got the Article Author 250 kudos. :-)

Article: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Cloud-Admins-articles/Start-with-Why/ba-p/1936236#U1948542 

[Monique vdB]

@Josh Costella terrific article! It looks like the action didn't trigger for some reason; we're working on a fix to make action triggers more reliable. In the meantime I've awarded you the badge!

[Josh Costella]

@Monique vdB Woohoo! Thanks. I'm borderline unhealthily addicted to the kudo points LOL. 

[Karthick S]

Thanks for sharing this @Monique vdB