That's a really valid concern, although we were surprised by how many of our users specifically requested this feature set.

Well it looks like a cool concept, and all the best!

Certainly, thanks for checking it out. I hope it goes without saying, but if you find anything that's terribly, broken, or in need of improvement, shoot me a line at [email protected] and we'll get it resolved for you.

Measuring your skills against others and peers could be a great deterrent for impostor syndrome.

Actually, in my opinion, this could actually increase the feeling of impostor syndrome. Because no matter how good you are, there will be many people better than you. So any forum which puts your skills up against a random selection of others skilled in your craft will clearly show how far from the top you are. Unless, of course, you are consistently the best, but then it really stinks for everyone that you beat.

This reads like it has an assumption that people's programming ability is some hidden constant that gets compared. In reality it depends a lot on the task, motivation, current physical health, and mental exhaustion.

This will be a very interesting thing to study. Our leaderboard rankings tend to be extremely fluid, and I wonder what the net effect tends to be in terms of impostor syndrome.