Hey all! We're over halfway into the challenge! Did anyone get outside and see some bees this week, given Monday was World Bee Day? Before we get on with the challenge progress update, here's some bee content!
Pollinator on rose, Silicon Valley. Circa 6th World Bee Day, 7 years after Retool was founded, 5 years after Retool Community Forum was founded.
Fun fact - the timeline for the inaugural World Bee Day happens to be a similar timeline to Retool's beginnings as a company!
2017 – UN General Assembly unanimously proclaimed 20 May as World Bee Day.
June 2017 - Retool was founded by David Hsu and Anthony Guo.
20 May 2018 – First Observance of World Bee Day.
June 2018 - Retool reaches its first year as a company
May 2019 – The Retool Community Forum is created. Also, the world celebrates the second World Bee Day.
Now you know!
Moving on...
Here are our current top 10 on the leaderboard since May 6th!
As a refresher, here's how the system works and what earns points!
Biggest ToolTip Leap (aka Buzz Lightyear)
@trz-justin-dev holds onto the lead for this badge, followed by @MiguelOrtiz and @jg80! @pyrrho and @bobthebear are solidly in the top five and could be contenders for the top buzz lightyear spot with 9 days left in the challenge!
Top Ten ToolTips Earners In 4 weeks May 6-31 (aka Forager Bees)
Congrats to the above named folks plus @Thore @Milan_Kalem @abusedmedia @MikeCB @Steven_W for making the top 10 on the forum participation leaderboard based on weeks 1-2 of this challenge! You're all in the running for this badge
Top 3 ToolTips Earners of all Time (aka Queen Bees)
@ScottR @bradlymathews @AnsonHwang remain the top 3 on our global leaderboard for all time
Most Solutions Shared (aka Hive Mind)
For this badge, right now we have @pyrrho in the lead with 17 solutions marked and the following folks with 2 or more solutions each @MiguelOrtiz@jg80 @trz-justin-dev @abusedmedia @MikeCB @bobthebear @Milan_Kalem @kschirrmacher @brocantcode @ScottR @matthewej @Thore @jonas_09 @avr @Nicholas_Canfield @benvalerian-- thank you all for generously sharing knowledge back with the community!
Most Likes Received (aka The Bee’s Knees)
- @jg80's comment facilitating learning how to build a specific use case in Retool remains at the top with 6 likes: Creating a 9 box in retool .
We've seen two other comments crop up with 5 likes each:
- @bobthebear with a popular (based on the likes!) feature request: Add 'Referenced In' Property
- @Bongi_Fleischer helped the community by reporting an issue, consolidating customers' reports and allowing a centralized place for Retool to also share updates in a searchable place for anyone experiencing the same thing.
I really like how these three top-liked comments so far showcase 3 different kinds of community engagement which are each important! One was about learning/knowledge-sharing and collaborating amongst folks with different Retool familiarity levels, one was a feature request to improve the experience of building/maintaining Retool apps, and the third surfaced an unexpected change that impacted multiple users for consolidated information sharing about its impact and path to resolution. Ideally the third doesn't need to happen often, but when it does we appreciate everyone's dedication to sharing information toward resolution.
Thank you all for your part in contributing to these types of collaboration here!
Most Liked Community Show + Tell Post (aka Architect Bee)
Keep your use case show-and-tell posts coming in the Community Show & Tell category! The field is still open for this badge. Looking forward to reading and learning!