In the spirit of "gamification"
Thinking back to my history in gaming, I came up with a script that lets you track how many consecutive days a user has logged in. Basically this means that you can reward users (with a badge, ra...
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Awesome idea, but on the topic of games, I'm also reminded of achievement hunters that would try to game the game, so to speak. If you went further and wrapped that date statement in an Ajax call back to the server, I believe that would result in a more reliable time stamp since it doesn't rely on the client side time setting to self-report date and time.
Would result in more server requests though, so that's still not ideal.. but I love the idea of using gamification to encourage users to come back! :)
jkwok wrote:Awesome idea, but on the topic of games, I'm also reminded of achievement hunters that would try to game the game, so to speak. If you went further and wrapped that date statement in an Ajax call back to the server, I believe that would result in a more reliable time stamp since it doesn't rely on the client side time setting to self-report date and time.
Would result in more server requests though, so that's still not ideal.. but I love the idea of using gamification to encourage users to come back! :)
On that note :)
http://community.lithium.com/t5/Developers-Discussion/Badge-for-consecutive-daily-logins/td-p/207172
- Heh sorry to dig up such an old thread, but thanks for sharing the latest and greatest! :)
