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I'm a user with an almost 3000 day streak, but I mostly share your view in that I hate what it turned into - the constant dismissing of dialogs and the amount o
by gruturo 4y ago
I'm a user with an almost 3000 day streak, but I mostly share your view in that I hate what it turned into - the constant dismissing of dialogs and the amount of ads are horrible. I updated the iOS app by mistake a few months ago - I was still using a 2 year old client which had maybe 25% of the badness of the new one. The completely linear path was a big annoyance, many options are harder to access, horrible all around.
With that said.... They keep me using it daily for almost 3000 consecutive days so must be doing something right:
- Awful as it may be, it's the least bad option I found - although I haven't looked at alternatives too recently.
- The leagues system is actually fun and engaging, and it's having me rack up easily 400-500 points per week to avoid dropping in a lower league (or 600-800 if I end up in a very competitive group of people). Before that, I'd rarely go over 100.
I found the push notifications extremely irritating, especially the inability to deselect all of them except for the daily lesson reminder, there are quite a few nags always active - by design I'm sure. So my only alternative was to take away its notification permissions entirely from the iOS privacy settings, now I have to endure further in-app prompts inviting to enable them back. I think this will be what finally pushes me to leave the app entirely, especially if my search is fruitful - or maybe I'll revert to an old/cracked app given that most of the crap is local as I've read in the thread.
- helsinkiandrew 4y agoIs that 3000 days on a single language, or multiple? How good at the language/languages have you become?
- gruturo 4y ago90% on a single language (German), and I'm comfortably beyond the "pizza order level" level of fluency, but probably still below a B1. Trouble is, I meanwhile live in Germany and wouldn't be able to assign an exact figure to how much of my fluency is thanks to Duolingo, and how much is due to being exposed to the language in my daily life (comparatively little actually, as my job is in English, but far from zero).
- helsinkiandrew 4y agoIf you are spending 5 minutes a day on DuoLingo - then you've spent 250hours on it, which I think might be tight to get to B1 standard anyway (but might be possible) - but you're probably spending those 5 minutes whilst you wouldn't be doing other language learning.