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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Come to think of it, an application threatening, shaming, and guilt tripping you into coming back might not be the healthiest thing ever.
The aggressive notifications to do a lesson are literally why I use it. I have ADHD. Without the owl threatening to kill me and everyone I know, I would forget about it and forget all that I've learned so far. π
The gamification is genuinely so helpful. You can get it through other apps like habitica with some setup. I have ADHD too but I found Duolingo good for habit building but jot the greatest for actual language learning
DuoLingo replicates all the same patterns as an abusive relationship.
Duolingo is not about learning a language. It's about giving you the illusion of learning a language.
Look fuck the company but Duolingo absolutely can help learn a language
Soon you can switch to Lingonaut and take your duolingo streak with you: https://lingonaut.app/
Define soon. Their progress per language is around 10%, with the highest completion percentage being Czech at 20%.
Fuck. I dunno what to do with this
Edit: just cancelled my subscription to super Duolingo. Fuck them
"Streaks" are shitty dark patterns IMO.
I liked it because it was a learning app and I have a tendency to fall off. But paying real money to restore my streak? Hell nah
people calling every engagement tactic a dark pattern these days is giving me teenagers using therapy speak in wrong ways vibes
I stopped using duolingo a couple years ago because I noticed I was just doing the bare minimum to maintain my streak instead of actually learning something new.
They're pathetic but not in a way I like.
Wife's streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it's like smoking at this point.
Does she actually speak the language she's learning?
Not even a little
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What is the actual point of a streak?
A sense of pride and accomplishment?
At one point it was gamification to tie the reward center of your brain into continuing to train using the app. Now it seems that it's half that or half https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern to get you to pay to keep that reward system going.
To make you addicted so you keep coming back
Personally, my interest in language learning comes and goes. Doing the minimum to maintain a streak prevents me from forgetting too much before my interest returns.
Having heard very mixed things about Duolingo's actual usefulness, does your wife speak or write well in any of the languages she's used the app to learn?
Duolingo is so stupidly annoying these days. It has gotten so much worse compared to a few years ago.
Constant bugging, too many popups that are almost as bad as Microsoft products. I want to learn a goddamn language not jump through a hundred hoops every single time.
Not to mention that it all boils down to a guessing game. Some questions have multiple answers and unless you choose that specific one that DuoLingo had in mind it counts as wrong. It also won't tell you why you guessed wrong.
Are there better apps these days?
6 lessons? ew.
I remember a while back, I was too busy for a little while to use Duo and came back to the widget trying to guilt trip me into using it. Because I missed like half a week. It's so toxic and honestly isn't even that useful for learning. So I uninstalled that shit immediately.
Same, it was sad but I'm not gonna use the all anymore due to that decision.