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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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
"Streaks" are shitty dark patterns IMO.
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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.
Sounds like a good plan, I'd seriously consider a Canarian accent if I could pick mine!
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Sounds like a good plan, I'd seriously consider a Canarian accent if I could pick mine!
It's closer to me than Latin America and gets less hot than mainland Spain. That's why it sounds so awesome to me
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never used Duolingo, but i think i can relate now, i had a toxic girlfriend that would talk to me in Portuguese, i don't speak that language
never used Duolingo
i don’t speak that language
I believe I may have a solution
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"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
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"Streaks" are shitty dark patterns IMO.
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.
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never used Duolingo
i don’t speak that language
I believe I may have a solution
i am trying not to go back to abusive relationships
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Wife's streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it's like smoking at this point.
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Wife's streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it's like smoking at this point.
What is the actual point of a streak?
A sense of pride and accomplishment?
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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.
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Wife's streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it's like smoking at this point.
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?
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This is the language equivalent of the
"I have a small issue with this software." - "Have you tried switching your OS to Linux and using a FOSS alternative?" conversation lolLol it's almost even more extreme and has a common trope I love. "Hey I got this spam text..."
"Burn all your devices. Remove yourself from the grid. Scrub your identity. Purchase a single burner phone. Root it and install Graphene. Yes it's hard. Google it. Wait, don't google it. Search for it elsewhere. Amass money somehow without using technology. Cut off your family ties. You need to move to another country. You will need a work visa to move to most countries. But to get that you will need an accepted job in advance. And to have that you will probably need to access technology. Instead, buy a fake passport, because very few countries will just let you 'move somewhere' with a 'menial job.' Once you get there, develop passive income streams and quit your job. After you have been a landlord for two years you will finally know what it's like to claim that being a landlord is a real job because you need to talk to tenants and file paperwork natively for an hour or two a week."
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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.
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Come to think of it, an application threatening, shaming, and guilt tripping you into coming back might not be the healthiest thing ever.
DuoLingo replicates all the same patterns as an abusive relationship.
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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.
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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.
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 -
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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I uninstalled the app years ago and still see this in the play store.
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Busuu is a lot like Duolingo but you also get to trade corrections with real people learning your native language
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.
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What is the actual point of a streak?
A sense of pride and accomplishment?
Gamification including social aspects if you're a regular app user.
Abusive ex if you aren't a regular user.
The only way it could get worse is if they put a slot machine or roulette wheel in to give you prizes.
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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?
Not at all
