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I use it. I find that it doesn't motivate me too much to do things unless they're dailies or I treat them as such; for example, I've had "compliment someone" as a habit for months, but I don't think it's actually made me compliment people more except maybe a small burst when I added it. But I find it more rewarding (not necessarily more effective) than beeminder for dailies; I don't care about the yellow brick road, but I enjoy getting XP and gold and pets.
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I haven't tried beeminder, I'm glad to see some anecdata that habitrpg is better.
I wouldn't say either is better. HRPG doesn't easily let you say "I want to do this X times a week" for values of X other than 7, unless you want to specify the days in advance. I also think (with not especially high confidence) that "I'm about to fail at beeminder" is more motivating than "I'm about to lose health in HRPG" even if I don't have a pledge; but if I'm ahead, HRPG is better at motivating me to keep going. My HRPG has only occasionally got to the point where I was worried about dying, and then fear of failure was more motivating than normal, but usually I can coast.