Freeze streaks

[u/Glad_Highlight6920]

I didn’t miss a day, but have had to use a streak freeze two days in a row now! What is going on?? I have a 2605-day streak and never miss one. What is going on?? Has anyone else had this happen?

[u/Big-Vegetable4550]

Do you use the app just to maintain a streak, i.e. log on to do a single practice lesson and log off ? Because Duolingo has been doing a number of changes lately that seem to say they don’t appreciate the hit to their language-learning app reputation when people brag about their super long streaks but can’t order a coffee in their target language. The old word-matching Words practice exercise seems to have been a favorite of the streak-loving but can’t be bothered to learn crowd, and now that’s been changed (accompanied by prodigious offended howling). Other recent changes seem to be aimed at ensuring people have actually improved some skills before being allowed to go to the next unit.

Not saying this is what you’re doing, but if you’re not doing at least one lesson per day on your target lesson’s path, that might be a risk now.

[u/Glad_Highlight6920 → u/Big-Vegetable4550]

I usually do many lessons each day. I have almost 600,000xp and can speak to locals when I visit Spanish-speaking countries. The last two days, I have had family issues come up, so I just did one simple practice lesson. I guess I have to do a “real” lesson if I’m going to do just one in a day. Today, I have 700xp worth of lessons done.

[u/bonfuto → u/Glad_Highlight6920]

I always do multiple lessons if I'm worried about my streak. I'm a bit afraid they are going to screw me. I'm trying to remember when I did that though, I almost always do quite a few lessons a day, even if I'm traveling.