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[–] SuperFola 4 points 1 month ago (3 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).

[–] RonSijm 1 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 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.

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