diff --git a/backend/README.md b/backend/README.md
index 2cf7fb34ac..f22f0ca827 100644
--- a/backend/README.md
+++ b/backend/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Next, to install all requirements, You can run
 1. `pip install -r requirements.txt` inside the `backend` folder; and
 2. `pip install -e .` inside the `oasst-shared` folder.
 3. `pip install -e .` inside the `oasst-data` folder.
-4. `./scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh` to run the backend. This will
+4. `../scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh` to run the backend. This will
    start the backend server at `http://localhost:8080`.
 
 ## REST Server Configuration
diff --git a/backend/main.py b/backend/main.py
index 168de5cbc1..8cef801bd7 100644
--- a/backend/main.py
+++ b/backend/main.py
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@
 from sqlmodel import Session
 from starlette.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
 
-# from worker.scheduled_tasks import create_task
-
 app = fastapi.FastAPI(title=settings.PROJECT_NAME, openapi_url=f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/openapi.json")
 startup_time: datetime = utcnow()
 
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/tasks.py b/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/tasks.py
index b2b5aff74f..6e4a6b630e 100644
--- a/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/tasks.py
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/tasks.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ async def interaction_tx(session: deps.Session):
         ur = UserRepository(session, api_client)
         task = await tm.handle_interaction(interaction)
         if type(task) is protocol_schema.TaskDone:
-            ur.update_user_last_activity(user=pr.user)
+            ur.update_user_last_activity(user=pr.user, update_streak=True)
         return task
 
     try:
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/celery_worker.py b/backend/oasst_backend/celery_worker.py
index fe99527b48..714772e443 100644
--- a/backend/oasst_backend/celery_worker.py
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/celery_worker.py
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
 
 # see https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/userguide/periodic-tasks.html
 app.conf.beat_schedule = {
-    "update-user-streak": {
-        "task": "update_user_streak",
-        "schedule": 60.0 * 60.0 * 4,  # seconds
+    "reset-user-streak": {
+        "task": "periodic_user_streak_reset",
+        "schedule": 60.0 * 60.0 * 4,  # in seconds, every 4h
     },
     "update-search-vectors": {
         "task": "update_search_vectors",
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/scheduled_tasks.py b/backend/oasst_backend/scheduled_tasks.py
index 407835c492..4ae1ea1264 100644
--- a/backend/oasst_backend/scheduled_tasks.py
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/scheduled_tasks.py
@@ -1,23 +1,20 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
 
-from datetime import datetime
+from datetime import timedelta
 from typing import Any, Dict, List
 
 from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync
 from celery import shared_task
 from loguru import logger
 from oasst_backend.celery_worker import app
-from oasst_backend.models import ApiClient, Message
+from oasst_backend.models import ApiClient, Message, User
 from oasst_backend.models.db_payload import MessagePayload
 from oasst_backend.prompt_repository import PromptRepository
-from oasst_backend.user_repository import User
 from oasst_backend.utils.database_utils import db_lang_to_postgres_ts_lang, default_session_factory
 from oasst_backend.utils.hugging_face import HfClassificationModel, HfEmbeddingModel, HfUrl, HuggingFaceAPI
-from oasst_shared.utils import utcnow
+from oasst_shared.utils import log_timing, utcnow
 from sqlalchemy import func
-from sqlmodel import select
-
-startup_time: datetime = utcnow()
+from sqlmodel import update
 
 
 async def useHFApi(text, url, model_name):
@@ -92,46 +89,19 @@ def update_search_vectors(batch_size: int) -> None:
         logger.error(f"update_search_vectors failed with error: {str(e)}")
 
 
-@shared_task(name="update_user_streak")
-def update_user_streak() -> None:
-    logger.info("update_user_streak start...")
+@shared_task(name="periodic_user_streak_reset")
+@log_timing(level="INFO")
+def periodic_user_streak_reset() -> None:
     try:
         with default_session_factory() as session:
-            current_time = utcnow()
-            timedelta = current_time - startup_time
-            if timedelta.days > 0:
-                # Update only greater than 24 hours . Do nothing
-                logger.info("Process timedelta greater than 24h")
-                statement = select(User)
-                result = session.exec(statement).all()
-                if result is not None:
-                    for user in result:
-                        last_activity_date = user.last_activity_date
-                        streak_last_day_date = user.streak_last_day_date
-                        # set NULL streak_days to 0
-                        if user.streak_days is None:
-                            user.streak_days = 0
-                        # if the user had completed a task
-                        if last_activity_date is not None:
-                            lastactitvitydelta = current_time - last_activity_date
-                            # if the user missed consecutive days of completing a task
-                            # reset the streak_days to 0 and set streak_last_day_date to the current_time
-                            if lastactitvitydelta.days > 1 or user.streak_days is None:
-                                user.streak_days = 0
-                                user.streak_last_day_date = current_time
-                        # streak_last_day_date has a current timestamp in DB. Ideally should not be NULL.
-                        if streak_last_day_date is not None:
-                            streak_delta = current_time - streak_last_day_date
-                            # if user completed tasks on consecutive days then increment the streak days
-                            # update the streak_last_day_date to current time for the next calculation
-                            if streak_delta.days > 0:
-                                user.streak_days += 1
-                                user.streak_last_day_date = current_time
-                        session.add(user)
-                        session.commit()
-
-            else:
-                logger.info("Not yet 24hours since the process started! ...")
-        logger.info("User streak end...")
-    except Exception as e:
-        logger.error(str(e))
+            # Reset streak_days to 0 for users with more than 1.5 days of inactivity
+            streak_timeout = utcnow() - timedelta(hours=36)
+            reset_query = (
+                update(User)
+                .filter(User.last_activity_date < streak_timeout, User.streak_last_day_date.is_not(None))
+                .values(streak_days=0, streak_last_day_date=None)
+            )
+            session.execute(reset_query)
+            session.commit()
+    except Exception:
+        logger.exception("Error during periodic user streak reset")
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/user_repository.py b/backend/oasst_backend/user_repository.py
index 13c84074a9..3c326afb4a 100644
--- a/backend/oasst_backend/user_repository.py
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/user_repository.py
@@ -332,6 +332,17 @@ def query_users_ordered_by_display_name(
         return qry.all()
 
     @managed_tx_method(CommitMode.FLUSH)
-    def update_user_last_activity(self, user: User) -> None:
-        user.last_activity_date = utcnow()
+    def update_user_last_activity(self, user: User, update_streak: bool = False) -> None:
+        current_time = utcnow()
+        user.last_activity_date = current_time
+
+        if update_streak:
+            if user.streak_last_day_date is None or user.streak_last_day_date > current_time:
+                # begin new streak
+                user.streak_last_day_date = current_time
+                user.streak_days = 0
+            else:
+                # update streak day count
+                user.streak_days = (current_time - user.streak_last_day_date).days
+
         self.db.add(user)