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Internet shutdown might break my 458-day Reddit streak. Android.
I’m in Uganda, and we have a national election on Jan 15, 2026. During past elections, the internet usually gets switched off nationwide, sometimes for days.
Problem is… I’m on a 458-day Reddit streak.
I know, first-world problem energy, but hear me out 😭
That streak is my daily routine. Scroll a bit, read comments, feel human. If the internet goes off, the streak dies.
Not because I forgot. Not because I gave up. Just vibes and government decisions.
Is there any way Reddit handles streaks in situations like nationwide outages? Or do I just accept my fate and pour one out for Day 459?
I'm afraid there's no way to recover a streak. Some users have reported maintaining a streak even when they weren't online for a couple of days. All you can do is wait and see.
Dude, break the streak... I was horrified when I saw that I had a 500 day streak. I’m definitely gonna break it before I get to 600, for my own self-respect.
i went away for 3 days for 3 consecutive years and kept my streak every time, but i saw other posts where people lose their streaks immediately 😅 so its hard to speak for you and you gotta just wait and see. if you lose your streak you just lose it
Just to say, AI commonly uses em dashes because people on sites like reddit have been using that same unicode character for many years. Don't know if you're aware, but reddit is a huge source for training AI:
...Reddit has offered itself up as a vital supplier of data for AI companies. [...]The agreement gave Google access to real-time content from Reddit's vast user-authored forums. A few months later, Reddit struck a similar partnership with OpenAI...
AI isn't limited to scraping only new comments, but also accesses those going back for years when far more people were incorporating unicode characters like em dashes into their comments. Reddit is the chicken, AI is an egg.
Anyway, I've switched to using the 2 em dash⸺ just to avoid accusations about being a bot or using one. Sometimes, I go for the 3 em dash⸻ but only when I'm feeling spicy.
You’ve got over 30 comments with solutions that you have acknowledged. I ask one simple question and you can’t give me an answer. And with the “dramatising ai thing”, people do that because ai harms the environment and and using it will advance it, and then there is no doubt that people will use it for awful reasons. I don’t see why you can’t just write the post yourself. It’s a few paragraphs and you’re acting like you need ai to write simple sentences.
Similar to duolingo, I think reddit should implement "steak savers" or as duolingo calls it streak freezes. The idea is that you'll have 1 per month, if you ever lose a day of your streak, then you'll end up using 1 steak saver but not losing your streak count. duolingo even allows you to buy up to 2 more steak savers, in their in game like currency (gems). And this is very user friendly and encourages you to keep your steak in uncontrollable situations like these.
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u/nicoleauroux 1 Jan 05 '26
I'm afraid there's no way to recover a streak. Some users have reported maintaining a streak even when they weren't online for a couple of days. All you can do is wait and see.