I believe the gamefication aspect of the site is what gives it the edge up on other sites.. I for one can’t stand the look of that graph on my dashboard dipping down, which motivates me to take courses, make exercises, do challenges and improve.. It gives you a challenge and a fixed point when you need to deliver it, I can’t count the times I bough courses on Udemy and then just stop quarter/halfway because it all lacked “purpose”, even if it’s something as silly as “xp”.. (it also is a way to follow how much you’ve improved, now from a lowly lvl1 to a lvl2 ^^, feels like I’m a char in my own rpg )
But in every challenge I would/will push myself, I’ve always been this way, not to “flex” as @theluthier would call it but to prove to myself I can do it, not just follow tutorials and then get stuck when I make something of my own.. Nobody should ever look at other peoples threads and be discouraged, just try, learn from your mistakes (and other people’s) and improve at your own pace
