> I second that. I have had my Series 4 for 514 days. I currently have a 514 day Move streak and 72 perfect weeks (All Activity).
I used to second that, until I got to 689 days and then the heart rate sensor stopped working on my watch.
I now have a longest move streak that is pretty hard to reach again, no way to reset it, and my motivation largely got destroyed after 2 weeks of no rings closed at all, due to Apple refusing to provide me with a proactive replacement for what was clearly a hardware defect. After nearly 2 perfect years.
A couple of months later, Covid happened, and I now have a pretty poor end result, as the rings no longer matter having lost the ability to continue streak tracking (the only way to see your streak is if you're setting a new record).
I think the lesson here is beware on relying too much on this crack for motivation. If you're not developing the appropriate discipline alongside it, and just relying on the crack, you may find you fail like I did when the crack disappears.
Streaks are such a useless all or nothing system that fail in ways like you describe. A better method would be a 4 week average or some other system that prioritizes consistency without letting tiny mess ups ruin everything.
I'd like to see them cut down the streak timeframe to a week, e.g. 'you've had 84 perfect weeks'.
This would allow a few slip ups, vacations, etc, and when looking back on your activity you wouldn't feel guilty or annoyed that you had missed that one day a year and a half ago, you'd just see the '84 perfect weeks' record and be content.
That's the reason I never liked the streak system to motivate me. I used to use it on Duolingo, and found it a rising source of stress when I got it going, and a strong demotivator when I lost one. In the end I wasn't using the app to learn but to not lose the streak.
It might work for others but I prefer to ignore streaks, and avoid apps that put them in your face.
I used to second that, until I got to 689 days and then the heart rate sensor stopped working on my watch.
I now have a longest move streak that is pretty hard to reach again, no way to reset it, and my motivation largely got destroyed after 2 weeks of no rings closed at all, due to Apple refusing to provide me with a proactive replacement for what was clearly a hardware defect. After nearly 2 perfect years.
A couple of months later, Covid happened, and I now have a pretty poor end result, as the rings no longer matter having lost the ability to continue streak tracking (the only way to see your streak is if you're setting a new record).
I think the lesson here is beware on relying too much on this crack for motivation. If you're not developing the appropriate discipline alongside it, and just relying on the crack, you may find you fail like I did when the crack disappears.