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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 89 of 766 10 May 2014 at 10:36am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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@surrealix, that is absolutely amazing!
Thank you so much for all you have done :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 90 of 766 10 May 2014 at 10:37am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hey, a Supper Challenge - I want one of those :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5241 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 91 of 766 10 May 2014 at 10:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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For some reason when I first looked (just after Surrealix posted) it looked really odd - basically the old version, but cramped. Looking again now though it displays correctly and I agree with every one else - it looks fantastic!
Thanks for all your hard work on this, Surrealix! Edited by Tamise on 10 May 2014 at 11:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 92 of 766 10 May 2014 at 11:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I love the new cleaner look. And I love the idea of additional incentives and rewards. So I fully support the idea of the weekly streak. However, I really don't like the idea of having a daily streak. As you said, a lot of us prefer to tweet when we complete a book. Others like to tweet every 50 pages. Either way makes for a nice clean looking list, which is also helpful for other Super Challengers to look at to get ideas. What a daily streak will encourage is a lot of bitty tweets. Of course, people who want to can do this anyway, but I think the daily streak will make it seem like daily tweets are the norm and expected. The Super Challenge is about larger accomplishments, and a weekly streak fits in well with that. In short, I think the daily sprint goes against the nature of the challenge, and will make people feel they *have* to tweet daily. In addition, the people who are tweeting daily (and I myself have a 7 day streak in French films) aren't the ones who need encouragement. They are already at the top of the leaderboard. We need something to encourage the people further down, and the weekly tweet streak is something they can feel is achievable. But seeing all those 7-day badges above them might also be discouraging: one more reason they aren't succeeding. I know you said we can just ignore these badges if we feel like it. But people who sign up for challenges are usually competitive people. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 93 of 766 10 May 2014 at 11:38am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The site looks awesome!
And I like the idea of a streak / sprint badge, but I agree with Jeffers that it might impact the readability of the lists. I like to look at what people are reading too, but if there are hundreds of five-page tweets it'll be rough. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 94 of 766 10 May 2014 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Is the streak thing supposed to be per language? :/
Also, does it count according to the bot's timezone? i don't mind it per se but it would be good to have an easy way to check how much time you have to report your progress. also i hope editing counts? With gigantic lists, I only have a rather time-consuming suggestion. completed stars could be just displayed as stars, and expanded/collapsed on click. So by default the list is only for the star in progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Suzie Diglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4227 days ago 155 posts - 226 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Dutch | Message 95 of 766 10 May 2014 at 1:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Oops :-) If a Supper Challenge, then not beyond a Super Supper Challenge... Ok, getting silly now.. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 96 of 766 10 May 2014 at 1:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think the streak idea is awesome, but I agree that it would be better to have only weekly streaks. I know
myself well enough to know that I would probably go read a 500 page French book, post it when I read it in the 6wc, but '"save them for a rainy day " when I could not see a film or complete 50 pages of Russian for the Super Challenge. Also everything Jeffers said. Weekly streaks however would be absolutely fantastic, because that would keep us on our toes, and foster consistency without us breaking our necks:-) I have also been thinking of having week long or day long "spurts", Or very short "competitions" (mainly with ourselves). We do not need them now, because lack of motivation does not seem to be an issue :-), but when some months have passed, and we are getting low on blood sugar and motivation, we could have mini challenges such as: - read as many pages in the TL as possible in one day/week - see how many words you can read in 10 minutes, and measure it again every second month to see progress - see how many unknown words you need to look up in one page - measure again after some time. - jot down at least 50 words from a film you watch - or any other proposal this very creative crowd can come up with :-) The Super Mini challenges - for reviving motivation :-) Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 10 May 2014 at 1:30pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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