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I don't think I've ever seen a badge in a GitHub README that was actually useful.
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Code coverage, build status, downloads stats and other related info are useless and noisy.
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Anecdote: I used to love "collecting" badges for my projects' READMEs for no actual reason. Also loved adding top level dot files which I now avoid like the plague.
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I think "latest version" and "GZIP size" are still useful. But I agree that all of these badges should ideally be designed away—replaced by GitHub making the feature first-class and with a better UX to boot.
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It would be nice if the “Releases” feature could show the latest release version as a tag on the repository’s home. And even nicer if the repository could display some sort of “artifact size”, and track it over time in the “Insights” tab.
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dotfile bloat
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They're the equivalent of laptop stickers.
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So all dotfiles are now in package.json?
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disagree on badge usefulness (at least build status, and coverage) agree on top level dot files!
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Go doc link on a Go project
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