So you’re sunbathing in the French Riviera, or hiking an incredible Alp, when you suddenly realize that you’ve forgotten to read on daily.dev, and your reading streak is broken, and really, what’s the point of going on if you’re back to zero?! What’s the point in anything at all?
Introducing: Restore Streak, a chance to have a do-over. If only life had more of them.
<h2>How it works:</h2>
When you’re back from your holiday, or hospital stay, whatever your excuse is, you’ll get a message about your lost streak and an offer to restore it.
You can restore it by “paying” 25 reputation points (no, we don’t monetize this, it’s just a way to be fair). The first restore is on us.
What if I don’t have 25 points to restore? Tough cookie. Looks like you’re going to have to start over.
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<h2>Oh, and one more thing: You can now configure your weekend days, so that it’s easier to keep your streak: just go to reading streak setting on the top right to configure your reading streak settings.</h2>
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Introducing the Restore Streak feature, allowing users to recover their reading streak on daily.dev by spending 25 reputation points. The first restore is free. Additionally, users can now configure their weekend days to better maintain their streak.

Streak restore

This feature required lot of business logic, if interested there is a flowcharts that explain some check that is involved!
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can’t wait to see the daily.dev icon changes like duolingo when you’re about to miss a streak

Now we just need a way to earn reputation more easily for new users ^^. Lot of upvotes I get are from new accounts (less than 250pts) like me so nothing is added up to my reputation :(. I feel like the way is to help promote a regular use and more involvement into social.
25pts reputation is really a thing twice before use thing at this time. Hope there is plan on this side ^^.
Thanks for sharing, it’s great to see reputation starting to be kind of a participation coin, feels like serious game!

So I should start saving rep points. Contribute upvoting, lol thx :D
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I am sure glad that one can hide the streak in one’s settings. It’s not just a gamification annoyance. Such things add stress to your daily life. It’s addiction without any benefit.
I find it questionable for things like githubs contribution graph. But for a random news aggregator to feed into a dark psychological pattern like this… Please, stop. Focus on the reputation system / moderation, smooth UI / UX and quality content.