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I am letting my 2325 day Duolingo streak die. Duolingo quickly turned out to be not that educational to me. I just kept on the streak because it's the sort of thing my brain keeps forcing me to do. But at this point, the amount of streak freezes that I use is just rediculous and the whole thing is entirely pointless. Not to mention the fact that Duolingo has become complete enshittified as Cory Doctorow would put it.
1 year ago · 👍 jo, tm85, cobradile94, eaplmx, anthrax, satch
Congrats for that streak! I find hard to follow streaks. But as a designer I understand how emotional they get to feel enganged and connected to a cause.
Currently I have more like a 'weekly streak' of doing exercise or learning X times a week, but doing it EVERY day is tiresome for me.
BTW, I'm not using Duolingo anymore, and switched to Memrise, Pimsleur, Drops and DuoCards. · 1 year ago
Impressive Streak! That’s like, what? 5 years?
Anyway, yeah, Duolingo has really gone down the shitter in recent years. I stopped using it recently for the same reason. · 1 year ago
impressive streak though! i always found duolingo doesn't help me. i need to learn the grammar of a language before filling in more vocabulary and duolingo is just not like that · 1 year ago
Maybe it's just my brain but I never found it all that helpful. The only use I got out of it was exposing myself to new vocab and there are probably better tools for that. · 1 year ago
I started using it before the whole social thing and it was much better. Now people are just competing and I don't think they learn as much. It's sad how everything has to be social and gamified now. · 1 year ago
i found duolingo more addictive than educational. somehow the concept doesn’t seem to work for me. i, too, did let my streak die. · 1 year ago
Wow that's quite a streak though! · 1 year ago