How badly they want to show me ads, it’s impressive
Why leave the app installed if you’re done using it?
Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄
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Swordinferno@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CelloMike@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Knowing how prone they are to this kind of crap, I wanted to wait and see what it’d say when my streak ran out, I wasn’t disappointed
Sneezydinosaur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you use the duolingo widget you can watch duo drop down a depressive spiral until they eventually die alone in the desert. It’s my favorite part of the app.
flango@lemmy.eco.br 21 hours ago
Duolingo is not about learning a language. It’s about giving you the illusion of learning a language.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
As long as I learn to ask where the bathroom is before I get there I’ll bet ok.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Duolingo is a toxic ex.
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 day ago
never used Duolingo, but i think incan relate now, i had a toxic girlfriend that would talk to me in Portuguese, i don’t speak that language
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
never used Duolingo
i don’t speak that language
I believe I may have a solution
peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Sounds like they’re threatening to steal your dog or something.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Come to think of it, an application threatening, shaming, and guilt tripping you into coming back might not be the healthiest thing ever.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
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. 😔
ndondo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah i uninstalled
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It could be aggressively persistent without sounding like a psycho, too, no? I mean, I have no frame of reference, but I sort of assume that constant reminders would work as well as constant belittling reminders. Maybe I’m wrong.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DuoLingo replicates all the same patterns as an abusive relationship.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 day ago
Kinda does wonders to develop habits when you have ADHD.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
that’s why i liked duolingo when it was a good leanguage learning helper app, it really did keep me thinking about my target langauge every day at least a little
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Streaks” are shitty dark patterns IMO.
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 day ago
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
Owlboi@lemm.ee 1 day ago
people calling every tactic to keep users more engaged a dark pattern these days is giving me teenagers using therapy speak in wrong ways vibes
ch00f@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wish the whole streak paradigm was time weighted. Like I got over a 1 year streak on my Apple watch over Covid. That’s basically never going to happen again. I wish there was some kind of “this is your longest streak in the past <time period>” or something. It all just feels so all or nothing.
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I believe you can get a users longest streak from the public API end point. IIRC it’s something like
duolingo.com/users/{username}but it’s been a few years
grandma@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah but at least the interests of the user and duolingo are somewhat aligned in this case
andrej@feddit.org 1 day ago
Soon you can switch to Lingonaut and take your duolingo streak with you: lingonaut.app
Sporkbomber@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Define soon. Their progress per language is around 10%, with the highest completion percentage being Czech at 20%.
ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
There’s no way it’ll have the language I’m learning any time soon lol. Duolingo is literally it besides traveling there and talking to locals
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Interesting. Is it going to work offline?
voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fuck. I dunno what to do with this
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
I think posting your high score might make people want to top you.
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s unfortunate they stopped subbing…
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 20 hours ago
But I am le tired
hark@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
that actually helped me remember that my target language exists, it was good for me to at least have a brush with some learning on the days that i just didn’t feel like doing much.
what was the final nail on the coffin for me was duolingo neutering the japanese course, they delayed introducing kanji so hard i was seeing the most basic basics like 母, 父, 語, even 何 in hiragana, which made the course deeply counterproductive as reading japanese in hiragana only, when you know the kanji already slows you down considerably. consider: ははははなをもっています vs 母は花を持っています, both mean “my mum has a flower” but one of them has a string of は you need to decipher the meaning of first before you can understand the sentence, the other’s meaning can be understood instantly
hark@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a shame. Duolingo was never great for learning kana, so I guess they thought to use it more in lessons, but they should’ve just improved the dedicated kana lessons instead. I had learned kana before using duolingo so it was a smooth transition to take on sentences introducing more and more kanji. It sucks that they’re just making things worse since there were some nice things about the app before.
ledge@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Same thing happened to me. Also when trying something new, failing took something like gems or hearts. That made it so I only grinded the very easy lessons to get the gems and never actually using them.
hark@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh yeah, that’s another thing! They made it tedious to make progress, probably in an attempt to squeeze out more money, but I ended up just losing motivation for actually learning because it became a drag.
quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
if a non shit app would add an “import streak” feature (just make me upload a screenshot or type in the number) id switch in a heart beat.
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
One notification like this and your app immediately gets notification permission revoked on my phone (if not uninstalled).
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I have notifications disabled by default, by that I mean the moment an app requests permission I deny it, unless it’s a messaging app or something I trust etc., and if it triggers more than three requests its off my phone.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I understand the logic of doing the streak system, keep you engaged by threatening to lose your streak if you don’t do it every day, but it’s a double edged sword.
If I’d lost my streak though… I should just go “oh well” and call it a day/quit.
I deleted the app when they said they were going to fire translators for AI. But I have adhd and forgot, several days, even with reminders, to do it some days… It never ended up mattering because they let me keep my streak anyway
Zetta@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Most users aren’t logical or sane like you, so this notification may actually catch their eye in their notification tray with 8k other notifications from cancer apps.
Etterra@discuss.online 14 hours ago
They’re pathetic but not in a way I like.
nexguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wife’s streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it’s like smoking at this point.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
What is the actual point of a streak?
A sense of pride and accomplishment?
kautau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern to get you to pay to keep that reward system going.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To make you addicted so you keep coming back
percent@infosec.pub 1 day ago
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.
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Gamification including social aspects if you’re a regular app user.
Abusive ex if you aren’t a regular user.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Sense of achievement mainly
kautau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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?
nexguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not at all
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
My friend learn japanese and able to speak fluently after using the app. Though she does have japanese customer from time to time that she can test it with some of them.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
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?
SirQuack@feddit.nl 22 hours ago
Duolingo isn’t in the business to teach you a a language, that would mean you won’t need the app anymore.
I’ve used Babbel, it seems more to learn a language, but it requires a paid plan to use. It does work more like an actual language course though, with more emphasis on longer sessions instead of 5 min per day.
Nelots@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
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.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 20 hours ago
I can ask for an apple in so many languages.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Same, it was sad but I’m not gonna use the all anymore due to that decision.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a great video from WSJ with their exec team that talks about how those notifications are hugely beneficial both to their users, and to their revenue. Even if you pay for the full thing like I do you still get those notifications. They aren’t “desperate” they’re targeted specifically to get people to come back and keep learning. They also don’t care about showing you ads as much since their majority of money comes from paying users. If anything the ads are to just get you to pay for the app.
GongFuFlashSteep@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Anyone have a good Duolingo alternative?
RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Quit your current life and move to a country where they speak the language you want to learn. Get a menial job in a small town, find new friends, and learn what love is. Then you’ll know what it truly means to speak a language.
xxd@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
This is the language equivalent of the “I have a small issue with this software.” - “Have you tried switching your OS to Linux?” conversation lol
Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Anyone know how to afford moving costs?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Mango Languages is available for free through many libraries and has an app.
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 day ago
At this point I’m thinking I’ll just take a trip to Tenerife to continue learning Spanish.
Other apps aren’t good at gamification I hear - and that was the only thing that kept me using it till a while ago. I have ADHD. The leveling up, streaks, etc, is what kept me going when the novelty of learning yet another foreign language wore off - I already had to learn two in school and I only ever really use one of them, you can guess which one.
Cossty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lingodeer for more languages Renshuu for Japanese
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Busuu is a lot like Duolingo but you also get to trade corrections with real people learning your native language
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes I love Busuu! I switched about a years ago and I feel like it’s actually been teaching me Dutch instead of just brute force vocabulary memorization.
My only complaint is that it’s really aggressive about asking for you to subscribe. I just close the popups and I haven’t ran into anything that I cant do.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Why the fuck is it still installed
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Exactly why I stopped so using it so quickly.
DogWater@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What is duo doing that’s bad with AI?
cathfish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Has anyone actually learned any language with duo lingo ?
Sho@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had a streak in the triple digits, just un-installed it. I’ll be damned if I’m going to use that AI slop anymore.
atlien51@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Stfu duolingo
Binturong@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Man I love to see that abusive Owl grovel. I also did this, good on you OP, may they see a consequence for threatening something good for the sake of greed. Eventually nothing is enough for the managers and they burn the whole thing down because of their personal addiction. This harms lives. We need to jail CEOs abusing power this way, that’s the actual remedy.
eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
6 lessons? ew.