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When a user uses duolingo on a series of consecutive days, this is called a streak. If users miss a day, they can pay to ‘repair’ it.

Author
Paras Chopra
Date
16 Aug 2022

“Wow, didn’t know you could pay to continue your broken streak on Duolingo. Not sure how I feel about this.”

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