Pull Shark and YOLO achievements not appearing after merged public PRs

[hawk-roy]

Hi,

Some GitHub achievements do not appear to be tracked correctly on my profile.

Pull Shark has not appeared even though I have pull requests merged into public repositories:

• refactor(author): count poems with left join and group by palemoky/chinese-poetry-api#66
• docs: clarify Go tool dependency options grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway#7042

Both pull requests were merged into main.

YOLO has also not appeared even though I merged a pull request in a public repository without any reviews:

• docs: mention JWT auth middleware hawk-roy/Night-Hawk#3

That pull request was merged into main, and the PR page shows “No reviews”.

I have already waited 4–5 days, so this does not seem to be a normal sync delay.

Has anyone seen this before? Is this a known issue with achievement tracking, or something GitHub needs to fix manually?

Thanks.

[Ketaki79]

Hi! I ran into something similar while working toward GitHub achievements.

From what I've seen, the first things to verify are:

• Make sure each pull request was merged (not just closed).
• Confirm they were merged into the repository's default branch.
• Ensure the repositories are still public.
• Wait at least a few days, since achievement processing isn't always immediate.

If all of those conditions are met and you've already waited 4–5 days, it may be worth contacting GitHub Support. Include links to the affected pull requests and mention which achievements (Pull Shark and YOLO) are missing. They can verify whether the pull requests qualified or whether there's an issue with achievement tracking.

Several users in the GitHub Community have reported delays or missing achievements from time to time, so you're not the only one experiencing this.

Hopefully Support can confirm what's happening.

[krithu2006]

Hi! It doesn't necessarily indicate a problem with your account.

The Pull Shark achievement can sometimes take a while to appear after a qualifying pull request is merged. Also, not every merged PR is guaranteed to qualify, as GitHub hasn't documented all of the eligibility criteria for achievements.

Since you've already received Quickdraw it looks like your achievements are being processed normally. I'd recommend waiting a few more days if the merges were recent. If the badge still hasn't appeared after a reasonable amount of time, it's worth contacting GitHub Support so they can check whether those merged PRs were eligible or if there's an issue with the achievement system.