Personally, I think streak freezes like Duolingo are essential. Habit trackers have the potential to be just as destructive as they are constructive. If you hav

Personally, I think streak freezes like Duolingo are essential. Habit trackers have the potential to be just as destructive as they are constructive. If you have a streak in the hundreds and then lose it inadvertently for whatever reason it can be crushing. Similarly, if you’re trying to get a streak off the ground and you keep failing it can be equally disheartening. I think Duolingo really have nailed the underlying purpose of the habit tracker which is to get you to continue doing the activity you want to do rather than to just show you a precise breakdown of your activities. Duolingo implementation of this is if you miss a day then the streak doesn’t increase but it’s also not lost either. If you go through all your streak freezes then eventually it is lost but it is quite hard to do this; most people have two and if you pay for Duolingo you normally get an extra one. Subsequently my streak on Duolingo is 846. My current streak on Brilliant which doesn’t implement streak freezes is 0 and my longest streak is 45. I am far, far more motivated to use Duolingo than I am Brilliant and the streak implementation plays a big part in this. If anyone knows any of the Brilliant devs, please send this comment to them. They seem to be making the app more like Duolingo with leagues and XP but, in my opinion, the streak implementation could be vastly improved.