OSM Streak needs some serious improvements!

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Continuing the discussion from OSM Streak is RUINING my streak all the time! as no-one helped me there

I really want a better version of OSM Streak because:

  • The existing one keeps resetting my streak for no reason at all on random days!
    • This ruins the fun with OSM editing, drives me nuts :rage: (everyone should know that stress is bad for your health) and pushes me away from the OSM project to a degree!
  • It doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore since the developer didn’t reply to my GitHub issue.

@SomeoneElse humorously suggested to me that I should create that “better version of OSM Streak” myself, but:

  • I have trouble using Git on macOS Monterey (xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun).
  • Where should I host the service? On localhost? On a public server (with operating costs)?
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if you dislike existing OSM Streak then you can

  • create own one
  • pay someone to create it
  • use existing one
  • fix existing one
  • use other service
  • wait for someone to do one of above

Creating multiple threads complaining about lack of response on issue does not help with either.

both are an option, there may be also some form of free hosting (I seen people doing OSM stats with processing/hosting done via github actions)

But you should first be able to do much more basic things, like installing git.

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If it’s just you keeping track of what days you edit OSM and what days you don’t, you could start with something really simple - like a page from a paper calendar that you cross off the days on which you edit OSM manually :slight_smile:

Going up from there, you could create a “computerised solution” (that perhaps reads details of your edits at osm.org), but that doesn’t need to be developed on a hosting platform such as one using “git”; it could be just locally on your computer.

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The HDYC website keeps track of what mappers do but under the account you’ve posted here there’s nothing

Everybody’s streak got broken when OSM went down for 2 days. Some were over 1500 days of uninterrupted daily mapping.

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This is because my actual OSM.org username is keepright! ler with exclamation point and space; the Forum displays my username with an underscore instead.
Your link is supposed to be the following:
https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?keepright!%20ler

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Thanks for the reminder that I could just create my own HTML+CSS+JavaScript web app, which I already did for various other use cases (e.g. a 12-directional routing maneuvers icon generator, which I had used while doing OSM routing for fun).