Honestly, I find myself significantly less likely to do another lesson after having to click through so much rubbish.

Edit to provide more context about what I'm complaining about:

To start with, I'm in favour of gamification. That's what duolingo has historically done really well. I think they are ruining the gamification by thoughtlessly piling on features, leading many users to cease to care about any of them. For instance, I now care less about badges because they are drowned out by a sea of other things.

As others have said in this thread, it feels like independent developers were tasked with building out features without ever thinking about what the experience would be like when they are combined.

Good gamification doesn't feel like never-ending screens. This just encourages the user to click through them as quickly as possible without reading them properly. A couple of screens are great and I think it's only gotten out of hand in the last months. Even if it was just capped at 4 or 5 screens that would be fine, showing different screens each day could also mix things up.

A skip button would also be great.

The rest of the information that wasn't presented in screens could just appear as notification bubbles or something to in the main UI. Many people would probably go check the notifications - but when there's even a small bit of actively looking for the information yourself it makes the experience quite different.

I always like seeing what lessons are coming up ahead…Sometimes I’ll even push myself a little bit on a given day to get to a story or the radio show because I really enjoy those lessons. I don’t understand the pedagogy behind this decision to hide upcoming lessons. I don’t see a value add here.

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seems like it started 5 minutes ago

is it just me or is duolingo doing sum maintenance on the app? it logged me out mid lesson...

I already reported this to the dev team. The latest update hides the upcoming activities on the path, and I really hate it.

Has anyone else gotten this update? What do you think about it?

Duolingo has been the most successful source for me for vocabulary memorization and, believe it or not, grammar tuning. Yes, it doesn’t teach grammar but it helps a lot if you’re using another source to study.

I see a lot of criticism like ‘oohhh, I have to click 3 times when I finish a lesson’, then when you check the thread you see that other apps are being promoted.

In my experience, Duolingo has improved so much and I appreciate the development work. There are some issues for sure and I do notice that their teams work to fix them.

The free version of Duolingo has a bad ads experience for sure. At the same time, there’s no completely free app that provides as much as Duolingo does. If you can’t afford the Super subscription, try to find a group and share the cost.

I’m not affiliated with Duolingo or any of their partners. Just noticed the amount of apps promoted under the guise of complaints and thought I’d share my 2 cents.

unfortunately for me, i haven’t been able to complete any other courses just yet. but i definitely did get satisfaction from completing this even though i’m a fluent English speaker.

edit: this is just the regular english course!

what courses have you completed?

Bruh

I'm so freaking ready

What useful changes should they introduce to make the learning experience more fun and effective?

I was planning on getting a family plan, got some people together, checked the prices on my desktop last night and it was 9.99/mo for family if you bought the full year, and 7.99 for individual. I know this because on my phone it was 13.99 and 9.99 respectively, and apple charges a big tax so there was a huge discount if I chose to buy on desktop. Now I check the pricing on desktop, and its 12.99/mo for family and 9.99/mo for individual, the individual now exactly the same as buying with the apple tax on my phone. I was dead set on getting this, and now this has significantly damaged my perception of the app. Are they using airline pricing? If I go through with this, now I would have to explain to everyone, "oh actually it's more expensive now?"

Is anybody else having issues with this?

I really like the idea of unit tests and I was very happy when they were introduced. However they are unreasonably tedious to do so. Because they are so tedious I end up spending much less time on the app.

What makes it bad is:

1. The typing is unreasonably strict. When I use another word with a similar meaning it is often graded as wrong. Also typo's are unreasonably often counted as wrong.

2. Its super slow. When you speak it takes a long time to register. When you find out you will not pass the unit and you just want to see the answers this takes 2min or so to do. I just want to see the answers to learn them!!!

Context: I'm level 100-110 in French and I have Pro.

Are you experiencing this as well?

For all the (honestly deserved) criticism Duolingo is getting for click-bloat, just wanted to point out a new feature I found.

You can now ask Duo questions related to grammar, have it provide vocab for topics you choose, or just explain miscellaneous things such as regional variations. If you ask it for new vocab, it can even dynamically drill you on it for xp.

THIS is a potentially great feature and an example of how AI can enhance learning rather than just increase enshitification. Haven’t played around it with it too much, but will follow up in the comments if I discover anything notably good or bad.

To access it , click the little chat bubble on the task bar.

Update: All slots are full

I’ve got 5 spots. DM me if you wanna be added (FREE) :D

(Click image to see progress bar and energy)

I did a radio show lesson and completed it using all of my energy… I clearly completed it and got to the end. But since I ran out of energy after I answered the last question, it won’t allow me to collect any XP and it won’t count the lesson as complete.

Can’t tell if this is intentional but it SHOULD allow users to complete lessons with the energy that is given. I can’t help but feel this is another way to push people into spending gems or buying subscriptions.

Feels wrong to lose a match just because they're having a maintenance break 😐

ive experience so many bugs in duolingo lately, is this just with me or a general thing?