# Discourse Upgrades

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/discourse-upgrades/383>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [December 8, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/discourse-upgrades/383 "2019-12-08T04:06:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![burrrata](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/burrrata/32/135_2.png) [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/discourse-upgrades/383/4 "2019-12-09T02:46:18Z")

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> [@decentralion](#):
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> In principle, cred for changes to the website get picked up too, both via GitHub cred measurements, and also by (future) initiatives describing the website.

Right, but websites are static, so unless we’re tracking page views and click through rates there’s no way to know if an addition or change to the website is helpful or not. [Supernodes](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/supernodes-moving-past-raw-activity/340) might help with this, but that’s still very subjective.

Also, the point I was trying to make here was that when people (users) view the website they don’t earn or share cred as they do. If people engage on the forum, however, they’re immediately playing the SourceCred game. Then they’re learning about SourceCred, but also playing SourceCred. It’s in interactive learning experience. Seems like a (potentially) much better onboarding experience than a static website (if we can optimize it).

> [@decentralion](#):
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> I do think our [current website](https://sourcecred.io/) does too little to guide visitors towards understanding what SourceCred is all about.

I would imagine that the main goal of the website is to A) provide high level information, B) help people deploy SourceCred (GitHub and docs), C) help people engage with the community (forum). Is that how you see it as well?

> [@decentralion](#):
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> Discourse does record the view counts. Currently it’s not used in cred at all. I worry that it would be way too easy to write bots that anonymously pump the view counts for an attacker’s threads, and I can’t think of any way to detect or mitigate against this attack. Therefore, I don’t think we should use the view counts.

Might be able to ban bots, scraper, and automated scripts, but generally agree that the risk outweighs the reward in this case. Good call.

> [@decentralion](#):
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> I like the idea of badges and achievements and such, but I’m not sure what kinds of badges we should have.

Same lol

Something fun would be ideal! Will keep brainstorming…

EDIT! Badge idea 🙂

> [@Please help us organize this Discourse](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/please-help-us-organize-this-discourse/378/13):
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> > the Champion badge.
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> Yes! That would be great 🙂 Then you could see who’s actively working on stuff. That would A) be fun, B) maybe incentivize people to champion more stuff to get the cool badge, and C) it would raise awareness of championing for new users

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