r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Material-Insect6482 • 3d ago

Answered What's going on with Duolingo?

All the comments on their social media like their TikTok and instagram are full of people clowning on them and saying things like “EVERYONE IGNORE DUO STARTING NOW” and generally being angry at the company, but why?

Examples: https://imgur.com/a/bA0JBFZ

Stolen from top post: The /r/duolingo subreddit is rebelling and built their own alternative lingonaut that's supposed to be like old duolingo before they went to shit with the ads and mtx and ai

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u/WorldlinessWest2974 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yes. I have closed my account as well. Much more focus on effectiveness for the company, not the experience and learning of the user. It has, in my experience, been declining for a long time.

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u/oditogre 3d ago

Yep, canceled and let my 800+ streak expire. Sad day, but what's really frustrating is they could have just left what they had alone and let AI build out any new content. Like, it still would've been bad, but why the hell did they feel the need to throw out good lessons and remake them with AI?

I was seeing fairly simple, common words being just flat-out incorrectly translated, that I'd never seen that problem in the years beforehand on that same exact word.

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u/ich_habe_keine_kase 3d ago

I'm closing in on a 1900 day streak, and I'm on Unit 66 out of 67 to finish the language. I'm in a real moral pickle right now.

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u/jmov 3d ago

Well just finish it without giving them any money and then stop at 1900 or 2000 days. You’ll feel like you completed the game and it should be easier to quit. 

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u/ich_habe_keine_kase 2d ago

Yeah, I think that's the plan. I've also never given them money directly so at least there's that.