Don’t know … it’s a motivation and nice gamification. But perhaps changing how it’s dispayed to avoid a complete reset to 0 …
Like for example a counter " full months completed". If we miss a day, well, we don’t have +1 this month, but it’s not reset … we will just have the +1 the next month
Or have bonus, like a one-day-skip-savior token every xx consecutive days
Thanks for the condolences everyone, I’m certainly not going to let this set me back. But it is a bummer knowing I won’t ever be able to have a streak the same age as my account now.
That’s actually a fun idea, have a place for people to go to to post about their streak losses.
I was pretty surprised when I first joined Bunpro and saw it was not only a thing, but a quite prominently displayed thing. I think that’s part of why it’s such a bummer, I’ve gotten so used to seeing my little number tick up every day.
That’s not a bad idea. KameSame has a system where you get a gold star if you’re able to complete at least 50 new lessons each week. Maybe you could apply that to Bunpro somehow. Like do at least 50 lessons a week to keep your streak going, rather than it being a day by day thing.
What about an ultra rare badge for loosing a 100+ streak.
Then people will have to decide if they want the badge or to continue the streak.
You monster! 
I personally like how kitsun does it which is a bit similar to this. It simply shows you the number of days studied, and if you miss one it just doesn’t go up on that day. It’s also a nice indicator of how much active time you’ve spent on the platform overall.
I’ve thought a bit about how I would prefer streaks to work on sites like this in an ideal world, and I think it would look something like… instead of a streak you get points if you study and lose them if you don’t, maybe faster if you don’t study multiple days in a row. The goal would be that if you occasionally miss a day, nothing bad happens, but if you start missing larger chunks your score goes down. Maybe something as simple as this: If you study on a day, you get 1 point. If you don’t study, you lose as many points as you had non-studying days in the past week. So missing a day will just get you 0. Missing another day in the following week would get you -1. Then -2… all the way to -7 per day if you just stop studying altogether.
Or a simpler alternative if you prefer resets to zero: have people say how often they are okay with missing a day (e.g. once a week). Gives some leeway for healthy pauses or routines that don’t use every day (e.g. I tend to do different things on the weekend than during the work week), but doesn’t allow for you to completely slack off.
If streaks really bother you then the only solution would be to install ublock origin (or something similar) and use the zap feature to remove the box entirely so they never see it again. No matter whatever replaced that box, whether it’s “Days Studied”, it would have the same effect on motivation to study IMO. Anki has a streak feature and I completely forget about it, even though I do my reps and new cards every single day because that’s just how I study the language.
Like @Stormblessed showed, maybe you have a setting to switch between this or streak, but it would depend on what the overall users wanted. Orrrrrrrrr maybe have a setting to just get rid of the streak box entirely? Having users get dejected over something is never optimal, there’s gotta be some ways to ease it.
There is rumor of a Bunpro streak necromancer that has, on occasion in the past, given mulligans to others who have lost their streak, bringing said streak back to life.
You just need to summon them through a ritualized séance where you speak aloud the streak amount three times in rapid succession while making a blood sacrifice to the Japanese grammar gods during a lunar eclipse…
Or if you let me know you want one, I can pass word along to him. 
I would legit probably cry if I lost my streak… 
I dare not deal with necromancers personally but I’d be happy for you to be an envoy for me if that’s a risk you’re willing to take.
I really like this idea!
Also, great user name! Love those books
Can confirm. I lost my soul but I got my streak back, so… 
Do what you gotta do!
You guys need to learn to move on
i recently lost my 500+ days streak and i couldnt care less. as long as the counter is growing it doesnt really matter if its 10 or 500 consecutive days.
to me it seems the whole “gamification” fad is rather toxic to healthy motivation in the long run. i do this because it became a habit and i love it - sometimes more and sometimes less. no number or badge required as proof.
bunpro is a supplement and tool not the maincourse.
do you want to learn japanese or pacman? 
May I bother the necromancer for some ritualistic help? I recently passed a year not too long ago (start of January I think?), was hoping to keep it going but forgot yesterday 
I was just informed that the relevant sacrifices were made!
Thanks 
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Here because i took a nap and accidentally overslept :’( I’ve been bouncing from app to app and all together, I’ve been doing a bit of Japanese every day for 942 days in total. Today was the first time I’ve ever missed a day, it’s pretty devastating all around.
Thank you, I needed this :’) i won’t give up here!!!
