Please can we buy streak freezes with our B points? i have been sick this week and tried to do one review a day to keep my streak but didn’t manage to do it yesterday and now back to zero. I know I should have put myself on vacation mode but I had one brain cell this week.
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you can manually set your streak. it’s under settings and then “reset”. quite hidden ^^
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I let mine die so I never have to think about it again. It’s can become a liability.
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That’s what I do with all my streaks the moment I start to notice that I stress about the number. I have my streak hidden, I care way more about my “days studied” counter. A number that can only go up 
But I totally get those streaks are highly motivating for a lot of people. So it’s a good thing you can manually set it. So even if you get sick or just plain forgot, you can just set it to the last number you remember without having to contact customer support or exchange hard earned buncoins for a streak freeze like you duolingo forces you.
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I lost my streak once when I was in hospital in ICU. I was so upset with myself afterwards that I didn’t study for 2 weeks and then I realized how dumb that was and just turned it off all together. I know it is motivating for a lot of people, but for me it had the opposite effect. I am glad I can hide it, because it is way too stressful when something out of the ordinary happens.
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You cant get achievements with this though.
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But would you get the achievement for 50 days (or whatever) if you set your streak to 49 and then do one more day? 
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good to know and sort of annoying considering I’m going to have a 22 hour flight in September.
Is there any way to work around it so I don’t lose my streak?
As far as I understood from a different thread, I’ll lose my streak even if I do the reviews on boarding + right on landing because I’m going through some timezones
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Is this true @admins ? I mean, I understand if people cheat to get an achievement badge, it would be problematic. But I thought if it’s for those sick/travel days, those one or 2-day grace periods won’t hurt
Would it be problematic, though? For whom? Maybe it’s just me doesn’t care too much about streaks and badges. But would it really be a problem if a few people would cheat themselves some high streak badges?
But a confirmation from the devs would be important either way. Folks who care about their streak number, probably care about their ability to get badges too and might be less likely to cheat fake numbers.
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To be honest, I’m not sure. Maybe for those who have an authentic streak, and strive to even do 1 review or lesson even on sick/travel days, perhaps. (Not me, I’ve used the grace-period method quite a few times myself).
Nonetheless, I agree with you. I like the sense of self-discipline and freedom given here on Bunpro.
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Thanks everyone, I think I am going to hide my streak as I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to study even when I wasn’t motivated or was unwell.
Its good to know there is the function to manually update your streak and I feel that people would be honest enough to do it in a way that couldn’t be classed as cheating.
I would love to collect the badges though and I think thats why I was hoping for a streak freeze, it wouldnt increase your streak run, just pause it for the day. I have recently obtained my 30 day badge and so when I lost my streak I was so disappointed lol!
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Good news: it’s not true
I adjusted my streak a few times (I did my reviews after midnight, which I consider the “same day”), and later on I still got the badges related to the streaks.
Use vacation mode (Settings → General → bottom of page).
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How?
When I first started Bunpro, I set my streak to my Anki streak (Which was at around 100 at the time) but didnt get any of the achievements.
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I guess you jumped from 0 to 100, skipping the 10, 20 etc. badges, that might have glitched out the system. It might be a good bug report.
Edit: Proof, look at the dates
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Turn your streak flame 
into ice 
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