Original Canny votes: 5 | Status: Open
Add a streak freeze feature to LingQ, similar to Duolingo, that allows users to protect their daily learning streak when they miss a day. Users could earn or purchase streak freezes to maintain their motivation without losing their progress.
Original Canny post: Feature Requests | LingQ
The current streak repair works well, but it’d be nice to have an additional option to book a day off in advance, like the day before after reaching that day’s target. Then when you go online the day after your day off, it’s like you had never taken a day off.
Another option could be multi-day freezes so long as you have the coins balance. This would encourage me to work hard to build a stockpile of coins and then take a series of days off over a vacation. But I suppose this would be controversial and perhaps difficult to implement.
On another related note. Anki has feature (shown in screenshot below) which could be useful for LingQ,
In this way users won’t have to rush to preserve streak before midnight.
I’ve been told in another discussion that it will never happen here, but I’d rather keep track of the number of days that I have met my goals on LingQ, whether or not they were consecutive. This binary streak system - where you can drop to zero after years of effort by missing a couple of days, seems like it’s there to motivate people who lack self-motivation. Language study is already a well-established part of my daily routine, I’d just like to know how many days in total that I’ve met my goals.
That’s an interesting idea for sure. “Active days out of the last x”.
If you miss your Daily Goal one day, you can use 5,000 Coins to repair your Streak. Click here: How to earn Coins and what to do with them?
A good suggestion. For now, you could just change your time zone to 5 hours back.
