[update: yes! See comments]
These pop ups and the associated “motivation“ schemes (coins, daily goal) annoy me. The forced pop up notification literally gets in the way of studying. I can’t find a way to switch them off. Or disable the daily goal.
I agree, I’d love to get rid of all of the childish nonsense like that but I don’t think you can.
Interesting, i don’t have that as an option on my tablet or computer.
Yep, it is not on the pc. I would really like to switch this off or even replace it with a less intrusive signal, like changing the icon that shows progress for an empty circle to a circle containing “1x, 2x etc.”.
I agree that some people may wish to turn off this function but I think it’s a bit much to call it ‘childish nonsense’. My streak is 916 days and is one of the big motivators for me. If I miss a day I might as well miss a week, or a month - and as I’m learning Arabic from scratch the key is consistency and the daily pop up keeps me going one day at a time.
No one’s saying to remove the functionality but have the ability to turn it off for those that don’t need that motivation.
It’s not yet available on all platforms, but will be.
I like streaks and word count but not pop-ups. I’d like wordcounto to be a live always-displayed number. A bit of choosing what you see would be great.
Wouldn’t a non-intrusive icon lighting up somewhere on the screen when the goal is reached have served the same purpose?
For me, it’s absolutely crucial that I can just read without being bothered. This popup feels like I’m studying in a public library when the most annoying person I know comes up to me as soon as I’m getting into a state of flow, slams his hand on my book and tells me that I’ve been a good student.
Yes I find this constant reminder about streaks really annoying. It’s one of the things that drove me away from DuoLingo.
I’ve turned off notifications where I can but still get a couple of emails a day about streaks. They don’t even seem to be accurate. Some days it counts towards a streak and some days it doesn’t. I’ve no idea what’s going on and just want to turn it off.
Hey Zoran could you please fix my daily streak on my Polish language.
Much appreciated for all the work you do.
@MS101 Sure, I took care of it.
I have the setting in my iPad reader, and have turned it off, but STILL get the darn streak broken scolding if I miss a day. I would LOVE to turn that off!