So I have quite a few accepted PRs, but I’m not seeing how these are being assigned. I did verify that my email address here matches the one I use on GitHub. I’m wondering if I need to re-login using GitHub here on Meta to refresh some data. As I did recently alter one of my GitHub email addresses…

Did you use your current Discourse email address for all your commits? It doesn’t matter which email you use for authentication on Github. The only thing that matters is the email address that you include in your commits. When you commit as "Foo Bar <foo.bar@example.com>" then you need to use "foo.b…

Seems I did, but obviously it worked and now it is gone again…oh well, probably show how the same issue.

Yeah, all the badges were lost about two weeks ago and had to be granted again…

No, it definitely isn’t that… As I see many others with the badges, but it must something with the way the prior commits are. So there is likely nothing I can do about it now.

Well, they can certainly award it manually. :wink: But the plugin will need an update anyway since some of the pull requests are not recognized anymore. The “Merge pull request” commits are missing… Maybe it’s time to use the Github API. :slight_smile: Oh, and this simple script lists the number o…

lol, that is exactly what I was “recreating” locally right now. Fairly certain there isn’t much I can do. As the email address I started with (over a year ago), I won’t be re-enabling. Edit: Just confirmed that is what it is… oh well.

If anyone wants to improve this plugin, see also: [image] Badges based on GitHub contributions! Support Continuing the discussion from Badges feedback : Is it a plugin? I need it for my community! How can I add it to my installation? Does it work current…

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downey (Michael Downey) April 8, 2016, 8:05pm 8

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Github Badges via Discourse ID? Site feedback github , discourse-id	4	147	December 8, 2025
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Badges based on GitHub contributions! Support	7	2195	October 16, 2018
Discourse GitHub Badges Not Working As Expected Support	0	661	January 4, 2021
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