Brewerpablo wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 10:19 pm
1) how much Duo do you need in a day to maintain a streak? Will signing in, answering a question or two do it? One whole lesson? My "daily minimum"?
According to my experience, you always need Duolingo to increase your XP count to maintain your streak. That means finishing a whole lesson or a story, not just one or two question in it and quitting. Repairing broken hearts in payed version should do the job too, I guess, regardless how many/little they are. Achieving your "daily goal" is not necessary for keeping your streak, it is just an additional motivation to gain more XP's (you randomly get from zero to five lingots/gems for it).
Brewerpablo wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 10:19 pm
2) Our power went out today and that got me wondering... is there a way to ask Duolingo to reinstate a streak in case it's impossible to do lessons for more than the number of streak freezes we have? A really big winter storm could knock us out for more than two days! Thanks.
I recently noted some comments here about people being able to freeze their streaks for more than two days according the their streak lengts (something like 1 more day to freeze per each 100 days in the streak) after their Duolingo changed to the "snake". I cannot confirm that, because my streak is not that long yet. In the old discussions on Duolingo for English from Czech learners, some people wrote about being offered repairs of their lost streaks. They received an email from Duolingo, that after paying a certain amount of money their streaks would be restored. I would not count on that though.