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Oct 5, 2024 | 5:05 am

#121

Annalisa12

FlyerTalk Evangelist

Join Date: May 2012

Location: Sydney Australia

Programs: No programs & No Points!!!

Posts: 14,389

Oooh what does mine say. How does it know the countries?

Oct 5, 2024 | 7:23 am

#122

Daremo999

Join Date: Dec 2021

Location: Rhode Island

Programs: JB Mosaic 4, DL Diamond, Marriot Gold, National Executive Elite

Posts: 229

Quote:

Originally Posted by father_ted

Interesting idea. I'd suggest that you may need to add higher options for the countries visited badge, I am far from the most widely travelled Flyertalker and have hit the badge limit at 50.

You could put the ultimate one for countries visited as "All"...

Oct 5, 2024 | 7:39 am

#123

serpens

Join Date: Sep 2015

Location: flyover country

Posts: 2,854

Quote:

Originally Posted by Misco60

[...] I'm never going to select badges to appear in my profile, [...]

How does one deselect displaying number of years on FlyerTalk? I don't see that at the Badges page.

Oct 5, 2024 | 7:49 am

#124

funnyfarm299

Join Date: Jun 2014

Location: SAV/HHH

Posts: 632

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBJoel

How many free nights you earned this year. I will admit that this was the most difficult badge to gauge. No shade to our anonymous research group, but I would have liked more input on this category specifically. I saw a record of 200 nights earned in a year, which I found pretty insane, so I halved it.

It would probably be beneficial to put an explainer on the badge page about this. At first glance I was under the impression it was counting the number of nights in hotel beds per year.

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Oct 5, 2024 | 7:54 am

#125

steviebas

Join Date: May 2008

Location: ICT

Programs: UA GS

Posts: 133

How does Flyer talk know the number of countries visited????

And where did those badges appear from? How does Flyer talk know the number of countries visited????

Oct 5, 2024 | 8:13 am

#126

notquiteaff

FlyerTalk Evangelist

Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: Pacific Northwest

Programs: UA Gold 1MM, AS Plat, AA EP, Bonvoy Plat, Hilton Dia, Hyatt Glob, IHG Plat, ...

Posts: 21,464

Quote:

Originally Posted by funnyfarm299

At first glance I was under the impression it was counting the number of nights in hotel beds per year.

That’s actually what I used initially to select my badge since “free” nights made no sense to me as a metric. After the discussion here I opted to remove that particular badge entirely because it’s confusing and useless (IMHO).

As for explainer, a badge that needs an explained isn’t terribly helpful. How are newbies (the target audience for seeing the badges) going to know what they mean?

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Oct 5, 2024 | 8:41 am

#127

rajuabju

Join Date: Dec 2009

Location: Los Angeles

Programs: You Know Me... I Do Everything.

Posts: 1,482

This is cool, but would be nice if the text for everything was a bit more clear / easier to read. Esp. in dark mode, reading "countries" "nights" "airline miles" is just about impossible.

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Oct 5, 2024 | 8:59 am

#128

davistev

Join Date: Apr 1999

Location: Seattle, Cagayan de Oro

Programs: CebGo 5J, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Alaska Titanium

Posts: 4,778

I just want to see what my badges look like - hehehe!

Oct 5, 2024 | 10:06 am

#129

serpens

Join Date: Sep 2015

Location: flyover country

Posts: 2,854

Quote:

Originally Posted by serpens

How does one deselect displaying number of years on FlyerTalk? I don't see that at the Badges page.

Got it. Scroll to the bottom; the X at the top does not do anything.

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Oct 5, 2024 | 10:46 am

#130

T8191

FlyerTalk Evangelist

Join Date: Mar 2010

Location: JER

Programs: BA Silver again, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!

Posts: 32,493

I am unmoved one way or another. The discussions and information are what keep me here daily.

I would just like my 0.5m airline miles to register!

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Oct 5, 2024 | 11:40 am

#131

iskingolf

Join Date: Sep 2007

Programs: AA, Marriott, UA, SWA, Hilton, IHG

Posts: 30

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPN Lifer

Some FlyerTalkers are displaying 10, 20, 30 & 40 countries visited.

Once the 100 countries badge is available, perhaps that series of badges should be reprogrammed so that only the highest selected is displayed?

Perhaps this was intentionally done as a workaround to the lack of badges for more nights; e.g. a person selects 40 and 30 and 10 as a way to denote 80.

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Oct 5, 2024 | 11:54 am

#132

Fredd

Join Date: Nov 2002

Location: SEA/YVR/BLI

Programs: UA "Lifetime" Gold, AS Titanium, OW Emerald, HH Lifetime Diamond, IC Plat, Marriott Gold, Hertz Gold

Posts: 9,583

Quote:

Originally Posted by funnyfarm299

It would probably be beneficial to put an explainer on the badge page about this. At first glance I was under the impression it was counting the number of nights in hotel beds per year.

Quote:

Originally Posted by notquiteaff

I agree. I'm still trying hard to think of a hotel statistic that would be as meaningful to me as the listing of hotel programs that some of us include in our bios. On a side note, I tried to look up something in the glossary and got a 404 error. A member has posted about it here. Is that a glitch or a change?

Oct 5, 2024 | 3:26 pm

#133

squeakr

Moderator: Hilton Honors, Practical Travel Safety Issues, Information Desk & San Francisco

Join Date: Jan 2001

Location: San Francisco CA

Programs: UA, Hilton, Priceline, AirBnB

Posts: 11,319

Agreed!

Quote:

Originally Posted by father_ted

Interesting idea. I'd suggest that you may need to add higher options for the countries visited badge, I am far from the most widely travelled Flyertalker and have hit the badge limit at 50.

Oct 5, 2024 | 4:39 pm

#134

golfmad

Moderator: The British Airways Club

Join Date: Nov 2010

Location: TPA/ABZ

Programs: British Airways Gold Guest List for Life

Posts: 14,248

It doesn't. I suggest you have a look at this thread:

FlyerTalk Badges Launch

Oct 5, 2024 | 5:00 pm

#135

zebranz

Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: LAS, ZQN

Programs: UA PP (2MM), BA Silver (Soft landing), AS Titantium

Posts: 2,638

Its how many countries in the last year?
Reward nights per year- keeping track of me using my points? I do not even show my hotel programs. Hmmm
Is there a reason for these things? Some intern having fun?

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