Habits that nobody else ever sees

Training is mostly fine to share. Habits are not. Someone quitting smoking, drinking or gambling, or keeping a habit they’d rather not explain, is using PaceStreak because it’s private.

The rule

A habit’s name, amounts and slips never reach a feed, a profile, a group or a leaderboard. That’s written into the project’s own constraints, next to “no pricing claims” and “no third-party scripts”, because it’s the kind of rule that fails silently if someone forgets it.

What that means in practice

• Leaderboards rank attendance, never content. There’s a whole-life streak board: weeks with any training or habit. It shows that you turned up, never which habit or how much.
• Badges are named generically. “Held the line” rather than anything that names what you’re holding the line against.
• The feed has no habit events at all.
• Notes on a habit day are private, like the habit.

Breaking a habit is counted differently

For a habit you’re breaking, every day since you started is clean unless you log a slip. A slip is logged, not punished: the clean-day count restarts, but the weekly streak asks for most days, not perfect ones.

Checked in tests

The privacy rule has tests of its own: after a person logs habits, the feed, their public profile and the leaderboards are checked for any trace. A rule that matters this much gets checked, not trusted.