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> she'd at some point begun maintaining a streak just for the sake of maintaining a streak A friend of mine said the exact same thing. And then a YouTube creat
by busymom0 1y ago
> she'd at some point begun maintaining a streak just for the sake of maintaining a streak
A friend of mine said the exact same thing. And then a YouTube creator I follow recently made a video where he said the exact same thing too about cancelling Duolingo because he had become more addicted to maintaining the streak than learning.
- gre 1y agoA streak where you actually learn every day makes sense to me. Missing a day and then paying money to maintain your streak doesn't. I know I missed a day, and if the streak isn't for me, then who is it for?
- latentsea 1y agoThe thing is... when you're actually learning, the learning itself provides the dopamine hits generating a positive feedback loop to keep coming back and doing more learning. Gamification of the streak itself means its wholly unnecessary for the app to facilitate learning to produce engagement. Duolingo is the junk food of language learning. Always has been.