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Daily.dev has introduced a new Reading Streaks system to simplify the learning habit process. It tracks the user's current streak, longest streak, and total reading days. Unlike the previous Weekly Goal system, Reading Streaks allow users to continuously build on their accomplishments without the pressure of starting over each week. The system also includes a weekend freeze feature where the streak pauses over the weekend. Historical activities are retroactively counted towards the new streaks. Daily.dev plans to enhance the Reading Streaks system with features like leaderboards and badges based on user feedback.

New Reading Streaks System (beta)

I hope a little bragging is in order 😎
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Would love to see the streak leaderboard :)

I joined daily.dev in March 2022 and at the time I didn’t have any long-term habits and I didn’t know much about consistency. Later in 2022, I met Chris Bongers (<a href="https://app.daily.dev/dailydevtips" data-mention-id="JUNiIGCV-" data-mention-username="dailydevtips">@dailydevtips</a>), and he became an example of consistency for me. I don’t remember how long his streak was when we met, but eventually, he crossed the 1000 articles written in 1008 days mark (<a href="https://daily-dev-tips.com/posts/i-wrote-1000-articles-whats-next/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">link</a>). Since then, I learned a lot about consistency and developed my own set of habits and rituals.
Of course, I wanted to hit one year reading articles on daily.dev every day, but there were several times when I accidentally missed a day, for example, due to a busy day at work.
But recently, I crossed two years of using daily.dev and in 2024 I also reached the year of reading articles daily milestone! 🥳 And almost immediately I lost the streak due to a busy day, when I completely forgot about daily.dev… 😭 But what I’ve learned about consistency in the last two years is that it’s not about not missing streaks, it’s about being able to recover quickly and keep going. That’s what I’m going to do and the introduction of the reading streak is just in time!
I don’t remember the exact day when I joined daily.dev, so I took it as 365 + 366 + 24 = 755 days of using daily.dev and according to the new feature, I have 746 total reading days with the longest streak being 376 days! 🤯
Thank you, daily.dev, for making me a better engineer and a better person! 🙏

Instead of pausing the weekend days, I would actually prefer it if it just counted 5 days out of 7 instead. That way, if a day is missed during the week due to some long work day or event, you can still make it up during the weekend.
Similarly, not everyone works only during the week, so they might take their weekend say on Monday and Tuesday and take their right to disconnect on those days, but still allow a full 5 days of streak to happen during the rest of the week if they so wish.
I feel like this shouldn’t change too much compared to now, since there would still be 5 out of 7 days the streak counts, but they don’t need to be consecutive within those 7 days.

The Steak icon is great but it seems like Tinder Steaks also 🤣