Rising Star badge now live!

[#1]

We have not one but two new badges launching tomorrow! 🎉🥳

Firstly, the Rising Star badge. This is a badge that helps light your path to Community Leadershipyness. If you have provided answers, gotten some accepted, and earned your high-five along the way, keep going and you will become a Rising Star.

We encourage all Rising Stars to keep up the amazing work and consider applying for the Community Leader program in the future!

Note that this badge is retroactive, so all our existing Community Leaders will get it too, in commemoration of their Rising Star days. 🌟

Secondly, the Fri-yay! badge, featuring our community kitty who I’m sure is hanging out and playing with Taco wherever community mascots live.

This one encourages you to participate in at least 10 new Friday Fun threads. You can start with this week's double Friday fun from Jodi; this and all future Friday Fun threads will count towards the badge from now until forever!

There’s only one catch, which is that you will also have to earn the Friday Funmaker badge to collect the set, so sign up if you haven't already!  

Thanks, and happy badge-hunting!

[Brittany Wispell]

YAY! I love new badges! Taco needed a friend!

[DPKJ]

Rising Star Badge Yay!! I want one.

When will be they applied to profiles, and also my last month performance will taken in account or this is 1 September onward?

[Jodi LeBlanc]

Love these new badges so much!! :)

[Monique vdB]

@DPKJ  Fri-yay! will not be retroactive, but Rising Star will be retroactive so all your previous efforts will count.  😉

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Yeah - that's awesome - love the idea of the badges. 

[Ilya Turov]

Yay, feels good!

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Looking forward to these badges! 

[Pavel Junek]

Amazing, I have to have both badges too!

[Jimmy Seddon]

Amazing!  I need all the badges!

[Alice]

That's awesome! Looking forward to these badges :)

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

Let's collect a new badges :)

[Maciej Neumann]

Great idea for badges and nice graphics (especially "Fri-yay")!

I love how gamification has settled down in the online forums. Maybe, from the outside, it's just a badge, but it gives you a little boost, that motivates you to start to be even more active. 

[Deleted user]

Great idea for the Rising Star badge and who doesn't want something that cheers them on like YAY!

[Dharma Ramos]

Looks like no more Friday Funmaker spots available :(

[Moses Thomas]

Creative new badges :_)   i got one  on my profile , will keep pushing to be a  community leader

to all answerers  keep on the great work, and thanks to Atlassian  for the appreciation 

[Monique vdB]

@Dharma Ramos there are spots available! You can sign up here. 

[Jeff Tillett]

@Monique vdB , can I get that snazzy retroactive Rising Star badge? :)

[Monique vdB]

@Jeff Tillett it's automated, theoretically --  I'm not sure why it hasn't shown up since you meet all the qualifications! Have you tried unplugging it and then plugging it back in again? 🤷🏻‍♀️

For real though, I will dig into this.

[Jeff Tillett]

Thanks @Monique vdB !

[Mihai Muresan]

Awesome tips

[Frank Tanneberger]

Yeah - be on my way. Let's earning some ne badges 😄

[Jodi LeBlanc]

Hi @Monique vdB I completed the 10+ Fri-yay requirements for the community kitty badge :)

Sept 30 - beach reads and personality (double Friday)
Sept 6 - be when you grow up
Sept 13 - bring to moon
Sept 20- celebrate teams
Sept 27 - unique personality trait
Oct 4 - branding colour logo
Oct 11 - favourite folk fest
Oct 18 - favourite board game
Oct 25 - fitness mantra
Nov 1 - zombie apocalypse

I wasn't sure if it was automatic or if you needed us to keep track and let you know when we completed :)

[Jimmy Seddon]

@Jodi LeBlanc either your question prompted a look at a number of people's profiles or I simply got the badge automatically.  I can't believe it's been ~10 weeks since the badge was launched!

[Jodi LeBlanc]

Thanks @Jimmy Seddon I completely agree! I love participating in Friday-Fun, the adorable community cat badge was a nice bonus - a friend for Taco! :)

[Monique vdB]

@Jodi LeBlanc yes, it is automatic and it has been 10 weeks! So all our faithful Friday Funners should have theirs. Such a cute one.

I think you'll love the next one too....