掲示板 Forums - The streak quests are horrible.

Personally I ignore those correct answer streak challenges because, for me, it's too stressful, like unpleasantly どきどき, especially when I get very close to the target. (Probably because my Japanese at any level is still too imperfect.) I can see they would be a good motivator for certain people though. It might depend on your personality.

@NLLumi, I get you. I'm incapable of long streaks, and when I get one that's longer than usual I find myself stressing about breaking it, so it's almost a relief when I do.

Sorry if I'm getting all philosophical here, but this is very important for me, because maybe I used to be a little like you, and learned the hard way: Achievements, milestones, quests, whatever – they're just there. It's up to you if they matter to you or not. If you feel you need to get them just because you know they're there, you need to stop. I'm sorry, but I mean it. There's no end to that hole. Just because they're there, it doesn't mean you've failed if you haven't got them. Even when you do, there will always be another and another.

So, if you feel you can't ignore them and constantly check the achievements page: that's not where your progress is, and I guess you know already. "Don't tell me to hide them" is basically "I know they don't matter, but for some reason I feel as if they do and I'm not willing to adjust my way of thinking, it's reality that should adjust". I bet you already know that Renshuu, just like life in general, is about learning and growing, not about collecting achievements. They don't do anything, they're just there for people who enjoy seeing them. So it's OK to write an angry post and blow off steam, but get back to what actually matters.

No one is making you, telling you, or threatening you. YOU are. You can stop doing that to yourself.

Maybe what’s needed is a way to “restore” a broken streak. Not sure what that would look like, but it would take some of the stress away.

Although I do not have the time to do so (implement changes) in the near future, I would (as I mentioned in the other thread) be interested in a discussion on adjusting the streak mechanics (freeze, etc.), but the feature itself is going away. renshuu is fundamentally all about being as un-opinionated as possible - we try not to tell you that "this is the right way to learn, the other way is *wrong*", and that's why we both a)have this feature and b)make it extremely easy to hide this so that you will never see it outside of the "customize your quests" settings panel.

I have had many users over the years ask for a streaks feature (having not yet found the one that is present in renshuu), and I have no intention of saying "well, yes, we did have that. Many didn't like it, so we had a way to easily disable/hide it. However, some people felt that it should not be available to anyone.", I will always choose (when I am capable of implementing it) the "choose what works best for you" path.

Frankly, I've followed this belief to the extent that I have probably lost a significant amount of potential income because the amount of customization and personalization in renshuu turns off a significant number of users due to the complexity. I have no regrets, though, because I want to allow as much freedom to learners on renshuu as possible.

You can continue to rant against this point, but I will not be continuing with the conversation. If you (or anyone else) would like to discuss potential changes to the system to make it more useful to more people, then yes, I'd love to hear about it.

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That's exactly it. (And one of my favourite things about Renshuu). It's fine if you get the quests, it's fine if you don't. Which is also why the coin bonus doesn't scale up, I'd guess.

A supermarket has five different fruit on special offer, gaining you bonus points on their fidelity card – is it telling me to get them all, or I'm a bad customer? My local pool has a subscription for Mo-Fri and another for the weekend, each with their bonuses – is it bullying me into buying both, or I'm a lazy bum?

Here's a good one: a book is describing a team of outstanding people – a female doctor, a male educator, a little girl and a mute truck driver – saving the world. Is it telling me, in order to be a valuable person, I should be a male, a female, an adult, a child, able and unable to speak, as well as a professional in all three fields? Variety is there precisely so everyone feels included and picks what works for them, or none of the above. The mean, bullying voice saying "if you don't tick all of these, you haven't done enough" is in our heads, not out here. And it's wrong. So I tell it to shut up and I go out there and enjoy being allowed to make mistakes.

For the record, having all those customization options is one of the best things about this platforms. I wish more platforms learned from you.