👩‍🚀 Profile – August 2025 Check-in

[mecodeatlas]

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Your GitHub profile isn’t just a page - it’s your dev story in pixels. 📊 This month, the community has been buzzing with questions about contribution streaks, commit emails, and missing contributions. Whether you’re trying to keep your graph green or figuring out why some activity isn’t showing up, there’s plenty to unpack.

Let’s dive into the latest highlights from Profile discussions and see what the community has been uncovering. ✨

👉 Missed July’s check-in? Catch up here!

✨ Community Highlights

• Automating commits to keep my contribution graph green - Opened by @giromo and answered in detail by @Argh94, this thread lays out a full GitHub Actions workflow to keep your graph streaks alive without lifting a finger.

• If I remove the GitHub email tied to my commits will it remove the commits from my contributions profile? - A thoughtful question from @shriyanyamali, with @kamranikramofficial delivering a clear explanation on how commit emails affect your profile and how to safely make changes.

• The problem with statistics - @progaVolt shared an issue with contributions not appearing correctly in stats - and then returned to confirm the fix. A reminder that sometimes branch assignment makes all the difference.

🆘 Discussions That Could Use Your Help

A few open questions are still looking for insights. If you’ve run into similar issues, consider sharing your experience:

• Not all my commits are considered as contributions - @guyco-redis switched emails and now some commits don’t show up in the graph. Anyone experienced this before?

• My contributions are not linking to my profile. - @shriyanyamali re-added an email, but the commits still aren’t being recognized.

• The custom pinned list is not my project - @yancheny1027 is seeing unexpected repositories appear in their custom pinned list.

• How can I change the commit email for every commit I ever made? - @shriyanyamali wants to update the email on all past commits at once.

📚 Rousing Reads → Contribution Graph & Badges

Still scratching your head about contribution graphs or badges? These resources and answered discussions might help clear things up:

Official resources

• Viewing contributions on your profile
• Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
• Managing your profile README
• Showing an overview of your activity on your profile

Answered discussions

• Getting the Star Achievement - Tips on unlocking and tracking this badge.
• Galaxy Brain Badge Not Received - Why badges might be delayed and how to troubleshoot.
• I can't see contributions in my profile for organizations I have left - How contributions behave when you’re no longer in an org.
• Contribution Graph - Deep dive into why your graph may look different than expected.

📘 New resource: The GitHub Discussions Master Guide

This month we’ve launched something big: the GitHub Discussions Master Guide - a complete, living reference to help you get the most out of Discussions.

It brings together everything published so far - from managing notifications to moderation best practices - in one central hub. Whether you’re a Pages builder, project maintainer, or just curious about collaboration on GitHub, this guide is for you.

New sections are being released weekly, so subscribe to the thread and stay up to date as fresh best practices drop.

🔍 Behind the Graph: Your contribution story

Every green square tells a story of bugs fixed, features built, or experiments that didn’t pan out (but taught you something).

What’s one commit streak or contribution on your graph that has a story behind it? Share it in the comments - we’d love to see the human side of those little green squares. 💚

[victormoni]

Awesome 😎👌

[giromo]

Ok😍