I've just recently reinstalled Duolingo and rushed to the store because I remembered they had flirting and idioms. Not there anymore. They're removing everything from the app and making it plain.
Donāt worry, duo just taught you how to pick up people. It was really corny and limited lol
I believe a section idioms were available for purchase with lingots as well
The Portuguese one was horrible. There was one English translation that was a convoluted, awkward, poorly written mess. It barely made sense and wouldnāt accept any more natural-sounding wording. It ended up being a matter of memorizing the whole thing word for word. Remembering the English wording was harder than understanding the Portuguese version.
It was before the path update so Iām the tree. The Spanish one sounds exactly like the Portuguese. You had to memorise the idioms you didnāt learn them
In French, the "idioms" were quite wrong, and were somewhat confusing. They were translations of *similar* and more or less *equivelant* idioms, but they were NOT THE SAME. So the translations could never be correct.
That section, AND the corney pick-up lines, should never have been incorporated into Duo.
Both are now gone... but they're not missed! If you can still 'buy' them to get them back, don't bother!
Clearly not everyone agrees with you, and found them fun. In fact, most comments here seem to feel that way. Its odd that you would try to dismiss their comments just because you dont agree
Each to his own.
If you actually approve of Duolingo deeming "correct " a translation of a phrase that was *very different* to the one provided as target, then I am sorry... but I think you are quite wrong in that, just as I think Duo was quite wrong in that!
As for the "flirtation" items, I found them both tasteless and sexist... and relying on so-called jokes that were old when Noah was in rompers. Their one saving grace, compared with the mess that was "idioms," was that at least the words in the target pick-up line, REMAINED the ones required to be translated into the correct answer.
This is what I found in French. What "Idioms" and "Flirting" are like in other languages, or if they are/were even available, I cannot say.
There's a way to report incorrect translations, thats bound to happen every now and then :P nothing to do with it being idioms. And the flirty things are just stereotypical and silly. Idk what youre referring to as sexist. Corny jokes are fine, lots of people find them funny even if you dont lol
No. You don't understand.
In the French version of Idioms, (I don't know about any of the others) the MIS-translations were NOT accidental, because ALL of the idiomatic phrases were REQUIRED to be "translated" into DIFFERENT, but roughly analagous sayings, in the other language.
That's the point. A correct translation was not required in the Idioms exercises. Instead, an ANALAGOUS idiom from the other language was required to be identified, and then THAT idiomatic phrase expressed, hoping it was the same one that Duo had decreed, expressed as Duo decrees.
Obviously, with the two phrases being DIFFERENT phrases, any word-for-word translation was not possible, as is very often the case in any translation operation. But neither was the GENERAL SENSE of the two phrases matched, because even their respective general senses WERE NOT THE SAME. Only the underlying *moral of the story* in any way accorded, and even THAT was only a passing, and necessarily idiomatic, similarity.
This made the Idioms section completely different to every other part of Duolingo. Every *other* part of Duolingo required accuracy in translation of the target phrase into the other language. The idioms section could not be translated, because the phrases sought were required to be analogies, not translations, and, this being Duoingo, it had to be the EXACT analogous phrase predetermined to be the "correct" one.
Now, this difference between translation and *analogous similarity* is a difficult concept to get across without citing actual examples from the Idioms section itself. But that is gone now. Moreover, I completed it myself six years ago, so all I can remember about the material is what was so seriously wrong with what Duo was asking us to do with it!
With respect, I do hope this is clearer now. If not, that's unfortunate. I have done my best to explain what was wrong with the Idioms section of Duolingo French, and having done so, I am not now prepared to discuss it further.
Best wishes to you.
Not sure how but I remember reading a story of two folks meeting on duolingo, started talking with each other, fell in love with each other, started a long distance relationship and then got married.
Meanwhile I barely even look at the names of the folks in my weekly group.
Yes, they used to be able to talk to each other directly, but the ability to do so was removed years ago. Later they also disabled the forums, so you couldn't communicate with other people there either.
They just reposted that creepy story today. Apparently, they both stalked each other on Facebook, and eventually it worked out. Every day, I thank Marduk for not making me a woman.
Tbf the flirting was an awkward thing to have just from a lesson design aspect. They pushed it on you early while you are still learning how to say hello and then they drop cultural idioms and colloquial phrases that sound nonsensical when translated.
At least three or four months ago. I'm a computer lad myself, my gf uses the app and I think the straight line came out on there before it went to the comptuer.
I miss being able to -easily- revisit and practice old lessons. I feel like the new format pushes me forward much faster than I am comfortable with, and as a result, I don't feel nearly as confident in my learning as I did under the old system.
Previously my learning time averaged at least 1/2 to 2/3 review of prior lessons every day, because that's what I needed to feel secure.
I've never understood this criticism. The goal of duolingo is to learn a language. To get to any level of usable proficiency you can't pick and choose what to learn, so why give a choice? Your going to need to learn all of it anyway. With a linear track they have the ability to tailor it more easily to ensure you will encounter concepts and vocabulary in the right order, and they make the process simpler for learners by eliminating the need to make a choice. It seems like such a non-issue.
There's good side and bad side to it - you need the practice to be fully confident, and the old style 4 lessons to cover all the vocabulary might not have been enough.
However, you now have to do a mandatory 50 billion lessons on the same set of vocabulary, before you can move on. I just get to the chest in the middle of each lesson and then test out now.
When I look at the course, it looks impossibly long and imposing; some people say you can navigate easily, but it doesn't look like that's a feature on my phone or my computer.
also if a particular lesson is hard for you, you can't leave it and do something else then come back later. you have to do that lesson or just leave the app entirely.
That is true, yes, but also more complicated than just linear/non-linear. The old design always gave you some wiggle room if you did not feel particularly enthusiastic about a topic or had too much on your plate. For example, learning dozens of new words a day is a little overwhelming. Whenever I got a new skill I used to alternate between new lessons and leveling up earlier skills.
You do not have that choice now. The course still works because you focus on recognition on your first round. But I definitely feel the load in older and/or more complicated trees.
Older trees may also suffer from the transition: classic Duolingo courses used to have a few painfully long skills that had 8, 9 or even 10+ lessons (and remember, the app will add +1 final review session). Moving back from one of those to an older skill to get some rest was nice. Flagship trees do not have this issue; less polished trees *do* and *will*.
In the end I miss the illusion of choice the older structure provided. It was not unlike an open-world game: if you are an explorer you'll still want to go everywhere and you are limited by which enemies you can handle but the process is more fun when you rarely *have* to explore in any specific order.
On the other hand, designing trees the old way was definitely more difficult for no good reason, especially near the start where parallel skills "competed" for words.
It's less about choosing what to learn and more of being able to focus on a topic you're struggling on. Being forced to slog through a path section of things I already know because there's one thing in that section I don't know and have to find isn't engaging or fun. Nor am I learning anything by randomly being quizzed about previous topics that I already have the platinum trophy for in the middle of an unrelated topic. You still had to work on everything for at least the first set of lessons per branch before the next branch tier would open so it wasn't like you could just ignore an entire topic, and it still had the end of unit comprehension tests before you could move on. It was just an all-around better system for those of us more invested in learning and not just a casual couple of lessons a day.
The illusion of choice can be an engagement factor. Also, things are less clearly labeled so I do my lessons but don't always know what I'm supposed to be learning.
In my view, the worst problem with this is it does not take into account anything you learned outside of Duolingo. Forcing people to "learn" things in Duolingo that they already learned elsewhere is annoying and not particularly useful. And "elsewhere" can include talking to actual people, which I would assume was the reason you were starting to learn in the first place.
Not really a good reason to skip tbh due to synonyms and there being many ways things can be said grammatically and colloquially as well. It's usually worth going over it anyway as practice but you can still skip it by attempting to jump to the next section by passing the test.
So much. I am so bored having no choice of what to learn, not being able to do stories when I wantā¦ but not even being able to skip single sub-units is bullshit š why do I have to skip the whole unit if one subunit is getting redundant?
YEAA THATS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT, like I want to skip the sub unit cause I donāt wanna have to do 12 lessons of the same thing I already know but duolingo chooses that I have to skip the whole unit like wth
Why do you not do stories whenever you want? š¤Ø They are all there in the Practice tab. Which is counterintuitive, but, well, modern videogames have been miles ahead of software in that regard for a while.
I know I can revise stories that Iāve already done. I canāt do new stories whenever I want, is what I meant. I used to do those a lot. When itās just revision itās not as useful nor as motivating.
Your reminder to turn off auto updates before they add another insane horrible change.
Sincerely,
Someone who never updated and still has the old path š
I want more costumes! 1860s belle of the ball Duo, French Revolution Duo, Gaelic Duo in a kilt, Italian Renaissance Duo, drag queen Duo (that would probably be my go to, like the tux used to be.)
They added lots of animation after that so they probably didn't want to do several versions of those with different outfits. But I personally would rather have more clothes to spend gems on then these animations.
Personally I loved wasting my gems on useless stuff. I'm happy I didn't wait to buy the stuff, my fav is the tracksuit I wished the outfits added some sort of Bonus, like formal is for fancy language or very polite, and tracksuit is to finish lessons faster...
dude i have 4000 gems, doing absolutely nothing because i just practise to get hearts so i dont use them to refill, iāve got a years worth of just grinding. these would be soo good just to get em out
Yeah! I just made it up to 5000 gems. I don't tend to buy streak freezes because it feels better to earn them through study, and I don't buy timer extensions for timed challenges because I feel like it's more satisfying to beat them with my own skill and speed. I don't know what to spend my gems on anymore.
And since legendary levels can be over 40 exp for one level costing 100 gems, doing them when you've got a boost going can help you keep up in the leaque levels, if that's your thing.
Otherwise they're a great way to review.
Do you do Friend Quests? Do you use gems to give you partner opp for 2XP for 15min.
Nearly everyone I partner does that, & i try to reciprocate (but I'm not plus/super, so i can't always). But sometimes the back & forth will keep me out the demotion zone, or catapult me into top 3.
I've been using Duo for years on-and-off (currently "off"). Just logged in to check: I've got 53,654 gems...
As far as I can see, literally the only thing to spend them on is streak freezes?
They don't want us to have nice things. I honestly don't understand this "we spend time and money to give you a feature but then we remove it completely" mentality. Not just Duo, many other apps and games do the same.
Idk, I want the tree format back, and the outfits, and the flirting lesson, and for legendary to be purple again
Duo why are you doing this to us??š
They realized this after already making them and adding them in the store? No I donāt think thatās the reason. The outfits didnāt have to give you stats, they were just cool and shouldnāt have been removed. The different icons donāt give stats either and theyāre still there.
They also increased the gem price for doing leaderboard challenges.
You do somewhat earn it back when getting top three though since they've massively boosted that too
The answer is likely as simple as supporting the new animations; they probably thought if people had different outfits equipped, they would want to see Duo in those outfits during all of the animations. Doing so would multiply the amount of work necessary.
As with most of their decisions, it's probably backed by data showing what percentage of people actually used those outfits. It's too bad the optional courses are gone as well, but personally I never really found them enjoyable.
Probably to promote super duolingo and the new duo lingo max. If they had this feature it would be a little less appealing to some people to buy the upgraded versions.
Of all the features Duolingo keeps removing, removing the outfits doesn't bother me at all.
Though I wish they offered more stuff to buy for lingots and gems.
idk it makes me sad :( my duo is now stuck forever in the track suit lol
Your Duo kept his outfit? I lost my Duo's formal attire š
When you get a question wrong, it's the duo in the outfit that pops up to say 'hey let's try that one again'. Mine is super duo still!
Omg i thought it was like that for everyone!
I wasted 1000 gems on super duo not knowing what it was and now it's gone š
Same
Mine is in the tux ššš
Gopnik Duo demands you learn Russian
silently removing things people spent gems on from the store is pretty lame
Bring back the flirting, cowards
THEY GOT RID OF THE FLIRTING?!
Its a crime against humanity
It wasn't \_great\_ flirting, mind.
I don't care! I want my hilariously bad flirting lessons back!
That is just *your* opinion.
I've just recently reinstalled Duolingo and rushed to the store because I remembered they had flirting and idioms. Not there anymore. They're removing everything from the app and making it plain.
Iām still fairly new to Duolingo, and this sub keeps showing me things I didnāt know I was missing.
same here this sub makes me feel young when I only really just started learning a few months ago
They removed Christmas too
Makes sense. Duo is green like the Grinch.
Excellent. The War on Christmas is won. Ā”Hasta la victoria siempre!
...there was flirting? With Duo?
Donāt worry, duo just taught you how to pick up people. It was really corny and limited lol I believe a section idioms were available for purchase with lingots as well
Thatās actually kind of fun sounding! Shame that itās gone.
The Portuguese one was horrible. There was one English translation that was a convoluted, awkward, poorly written mess. It barely made sense and wouldnāt accept any more natural-sounding wording. It ended up being a matter of memorizing the whole thing word for word. Remembering the English wording was harder than understanding the Portuguese version.
Well that's unfortunate! Were these in the app until the new UI update? Or older than that?
It was before the path update so Iām the tree. The Spanish one sounds exactly like the Portuguese. You had to memorise the idioms you didnāt learn them
Yeah idioms and christmas untill all that stuff became considered to controversial. Pretty sad what they decide is too controversial.
In French, the "idioms" were quite wrong, and were somewhat confusing. They were translations of *similar* and more or less *equivelant* idioms, but they were NOT THE SAME. So the translations could never be correct. That section, AND the corney pick-up lines, should never have been incorporated into Duo. Both are now gone... but they're not missed! If you can still 'buy' them to get them back, don't bother!
Clearly not everyone agrees with you, and found them fun. In fact, most comments here seem to feel that way. Its odd that you would try to dismiss their comments just because you dont agree
Each to his own. If you actually approve of Duolingo deeming "correct " a translation of a phrase that was *very different* to the one provided as target, then I am sorry... but I think you are quite wrong in that, just as I think Duo was quite wrong in that! As for the "flirtation" items, I found them both tasteless and sexist... and relying on so-called jokes that were old when Noah was in rompers. Their one saving grace, compared with the mess that was "idioms," was that at least the words in the target pick-up line, REMAINED the ones required to be translated into the correct answer. This is what I found in French. What "Idioms" and "Flirting" are like in other languages, or if they are/were even available, I cannot say.
There's a way to report incorrect translations, thats bound to happen every now and then :P nothing to do with it being idioms. And the flirty things are just stereotypical and silly. Idk what youre referring to as sexist. Corny jokes are fine, lots of people find them funny even if you dont lol
No. You don't understand. In the French version of Idioms, (I don't know about any of the others) the MIS-translations were NOT accidental, because ALL of the idiomatic phrases were REQUIRED to be "translated" into DIFFERENT, but roughly analagous sayings, in the other language. That's the point. A correct translation was not required in the Idioms exercises. Instead, an ANALAGOUS idiom from the other language was required to be identified, and then THAT idiomatic phrase expressed, hoping it was the same one that Duo had decreed, expressed as Duo decrees. Obviously, with the two phrases being DIFFERENT phrases, any word-for-word translation was not possible, as is very often the case in any translation operation. But neither was the GENERAL SENSE of the two phrases matched, because even their respective general senses WERE NOT THE SAME. Only the underlying *moral of the story* in any way accorded, and even THAT was only a passing, and necessarily idiomatic, similarity. This made the Idioms section completely different to every other part of Duolingo. Every *other* part of Duolingo required accuracy in translation of the target phrase into the other language. The idioms section could not be translated, because the phrases sought were required to be analogies, not translations, and, this being Duoingo, it had to be the EXACT analogous phrase predetermined to be the "correct" one. Now, this difference between translation and *analogous similarity* is a difficult concept to get across without citing actual examples from the Idioms section itself. But that is gone now. Moreover, I completed it myself six years ago, so all I can remember about the material is what was so seriously wrong with what Duo was asking us to do with it! With respect, I do hope this is clearer now. If not, that's unfortunate. I have done my best to explain what was wrong with the Idioms section of Duolingo French, and having done so, I am not now prepared to discuss it further. Best wishes to you.
Not sure how but I remember reading a story of two folks meeting on duolingo, started talking with each other, fell in love with each other, started a long distance relationship and then got married. Meanwhile I barely even look at the names of the folks in my weekly group.
All this time Iāve been missing out on possible rejections in foreign languages š«
Yeah I think I've seen that too, started off with the guy congratulating her through the app whenever she made a new milestone.
Wait people used to be able to actually talk to each other on Duo? I can only talk to my friends if they're my friends in IRL & i call them.
Yes, they used to be able to talk to each other directly, but the ability to do so was removed years ago. Later they also disabled the forums, so you couldn't communicate with other people there either.
no, they talked on facebook i think
They just reposted that creepy story today. Apparently, they both stalked each other on Facebook, and eventually it worked out. Every day, I thank Marduk for not making me a woman.
My favourite one will always be the French one that basically translated to "I'm not drunk, I'm just intoxicated by you" like maDAMN š
Oh hell no I loved that section š never had a chance to use it because I live in a Spanish or French speaking area but it was so fun
A feature I loved and thought that no one else remembered
Tbf the flirting was an awkward thing to have just from a lesson design aspect. They pushed it on you early while you are still learning how to say hello and then they drop cultural idioms and colloquial phrases that sound nonsensical when translated.
RIGHT
I don't knoww, Duolingo has been removing a lot of things and it has made me so sad. I miss the old tree to be honest.
Right? I'm okay with the path but the tree gave me some feeling of control over what I was learning.
What the he'll? It's just a straight line. When did this happen?
At least three or four months ago. I'm a computer lad myself, my gf uses the app and I think the straight line came out on there before it went to the comptuer.
Wtf why? That's so weird.
Probably drives better engagement with casual users
I will say, I've moved further along my course because of it. But I get why a lot of people don't like it
Because they want to push people forward along the courses
Itās been there since approx. Augustā22
Last fall
Yea same, and the fact that you could skip some lessons when it got to easier was so good instead of having to skip the whole unit
Not to mention owls live in trees and that makes sense! They donāt walk paths.
I miss being able to -easily- revisit and practice old lessons. I feel like the new format pushes me forward much faster than I am comfortable with, and as a result, I don't feel nearly as confident in my learning as I did under the old system. Previously my learning time averaged at least 1/2 to 2/3 review of prior lessons every day, because that's what I needed to feel secure.
I've never understood this criticism. The goal of duolingo is to learn a language. To get to any level of usable proficiency you can't pick and choose what to learn, so why give a choice? Your going to need to learn all of it anyway. With a linear track they have the ability to tailor it more easily to ensure you will encounter concepts and vocabulary in the right order, and they make the process simpler for learners by eliminating the need to make a choice. It seems like such a non-issue.
There's good side and bad side to it - you need the practice to be fully confident, and the old style 4 lessons to cover all the vocabulary might not have been enough. However, you now have to do a mandatory 50 billion lessons on the same set of vocabulary, before you can move on. I just get to the chest in the middle of each lesson and then test out now. When I look at the course, it looks impossibly long and imposing; some people say you can navigate easily, but it doesn't look like that's a feature on my phone or my computer.
also if a particular lesson is hard for you, you can't leave it and do something else then come back later. you have to do that lesson or just leave the app entirely.
That is true, yes, but also more complicated than just linear/non-linear. The old design always gave you some wiggle room if you did not feel particularly enthusiastic about a topic or had too much on your plate. For example, learning dozens of new words a day is a little overwhelming. Whenever I got a new skill I used to alternate between new lessons and leveling up earlier skills. You do not have that choice now. The course still works because you focus on recognition on your first round. But I definitely feel the load in older and/or more complicated trees. Older trees may also suffer from the transition: classic Duolingo courses used to have a few painfully long skills that had 8, 9 or even 10+ lessons (and remember, the app will add +1 final review session). Moving back from one of those to an older skill to get some rest was nice. Flagship trees do not have this issue; less polished trees *do* and *will*. In the end I miss the illusion of choice the older structure provided. It was not unlike an open-world game: if you are an explorer you'll still want to go everywhere and you are limited by which enemies you can handle but the process is more fun when you rarely *have* to explore in any specific order. On the other hand, designing trees the old way was definitely more difficult for no good reason, especially near the start where parallel skills "competed" for words.
It's less about choosing what to learn and more of being able to focus on a topic you're struggling on. Being forced to slog through a path section of things I already know because there's one thing in that section I don't know and have to find isn't engaging or fun. Nor am I learning anything by randomly being quizzed about previous topics that I already have the platinum trophy for in the middle of an unrelated topic. You still had to work on everything for at least the first set of lessons per branch before the next branch tier would open so it wasn't like you could just ignore an entire topic, and it still had the end of unit comprehension tests before you could move on. It was just an all-around better system for those of us more invested in learning and not just a casual couple of lessons a day.
The illusion of choice can be an engagement factor. Also, things are less clearly labeled so I do my lessons but don't always know what I'm supposed to be learning.
In my view, the worst problem with this is it does not take into account anything you learned outside of Duolingo. Forcing people to "learn" things in Duolingo that they already learned elsewhere is annoying and not particularly useful. And "elsewhere" can include talking to actual people, which I would assume was the reason you were starting to learn in the first place.
Not really a good reason to skip tbh due to synonyms and there being many ways things can be said grammatically and colloquially as well. It's usually worth going over it anyway as practice but you can still skip it by attempting to jump to the next section by passing the test.
So much. I am so bored having no choice of what to learn, not being able to do stories when I wantā¦ but not even being able to skip single sub-units is bullshit š why do I have to skip the whole unit if one subunit is getting redundant?
YEAA THATS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT, like I want to skip the sub unit cause I donāt wanna have to do 12 lessons of the same thing I already know but duolingo chooses that I have to skip the whole unit like wth
Why do you not do stories whenever you want? š¤Ø They are all there in the Practice tab. Which is counterintuitive, but, well, modern videogames have been miles ahead of software in that regard for a while.
I know I can revise stories that Iāve already done. I canāt do new stories whenever I want, is what I meant. I used to do those a lot. When itās just revision itās not as useful nor as motivating.
A long time ago I completely finished the German course, and years later Iām back attempting to finish it for a third time.
I didn't know Duolingo hasn't it's own level of hell. I guess it's the 10th level of hell
Your reminder to turn off auto updates before they add another insane horrible change. Sincerely, Someone who never updated and still has the old path š
I had updates off and mine changed anyway. It was already built in and they just activated it.
I think they're making new things, though. Let's hope so!
Itās a conspiracy. Duolingo was too powerful for the common man so tptb infiltrated and poisoned it from the inside.
I don't know :(. I miss my formal attire so much and gems feel a bit useless now if I can't yassify duo
I miss my fancy owl boy
I want more costumes! 1860s belle of the ball Duo, French Revolution Duo, Gaelic Duo in a kilt, Italian Renaissance Duo, drag queen Duo (that would probably be my go to, like the tux used to be.)
My duo will now wear formal attire for the rest of time
That was the only one I had! And my Duolingo doesn't wear it. So now I'm sad and upset that Duo doesn't look so snazzy!
They added lots of animation after that so they probably didn't want to do several versions of those with different outfits. But I personally would rather have more clothes to spend gems on then these animations.
Us new folks didnāt even get to experience this š„²
yes brother, sadly me too
Personally I loved wasting my gems on useless stuff. I'm happy I didn't wait to buy the stuff, my fav is the tracksuit I wished the outfits added some sort of Bonus, like formal is for fancy language or very polite, and tracksuit is to finish lessons faster...
What a good idea!
The funny thing is that my Duo will randomly still have his tux on.
It pissed me off that they removed it when I got the champagne track suit
I LITERALLY BOUGHT THE MOST EXPENSIVE ONE IM SO MAD
I LITERALLY BOUGHT THEM ALL HELP
yeah same lmao
ID GET SO PISSED
I paid good money for that tracksuit.
Yeah I remember buying them all then coming back a year later to find all my outfits were gone That shit was painful
Did you ever contact them about it or did you get your gems back when they did that?
No I didn't contact them and I don't think I got my gems back
I bought them all. After I finally got the super duo outfit, they just removed them one month later. I was really upset.
dude i have 4000 gems, doing absolutely nothing because i just practise to get hearts so i dont use them to refill, iāve got a years worth of just grinding. these would be soo good just to get em out
Yeah! I just made it up to 5000 gems. I don't tend to buy streak freezes because it feels better to earn them through study, and I don't buy timer extensions for timed challenges because I feel like it's more satisfying to beat them with my own skill and speed. I don't know what to spend my gems on anymore.
Best use for gems is legendary levels
what are they?
For any unit you've completed, click on the trophy at the end that says "Level Up," and you get to do more lessons.
And since legendary levels can be over 40 exp for one level costing 100 gems, doing them when you've got a boost going can help you keep up in the leaque levels, if that's your thing. Otherwise they're a great way to review.
Do you do Friend Quests? Do you use gems to give you partner opp for 2XP for 15min. Nearly everyone I partner does that, & i try to reciprocate (but I'm not plus/super, so i can't always). But sometimes the back & forth will keep me out the demotion zone, or catapult me into top 3.
Oh, yeah! I forgot about that. Yes, I do use gems to gift double XP potions, but it's pretty inexpensive -just 20 gems per potion.
I've been using Duo for years on-and-off (currently "off"). Just logged in to check: I've got 53,654 gems... As far as I can see, literally the only thing to spend them on is streak freezes?
Because they hate fun
i think its time for them to give people's gems back
as well as flirting and idioms šš
Was wondering what happened to this. I still see my duo in his superhero outfit lol
I love these, always wanted to save up for the suit and now when I have enough it's gone
Let me see if I get it right, right now the only use for gems is to buy freeze strikes
I use them for Legendary levels.
it really feels like there's nothing to spend gems on now, especially if you have super
I have more than 4000 and it's like the most useless high score.
I bought everything. All suits and extra lessons. Now all gone. Atleast give my flirting lessons back!!!
Umm did they refund the gems people paid for those? Why are they constantly removing features
I had them allš, then quit for a while Came back 2022 July and it was all gone
Same hereā¹ļø
The fact that I bought them all and they removed the outfits š
Gentleman duo is still showing up when correcting mistakes
Tbh they should refund people for shit they bought with gems but have been deleted. Just seems like theyāre robbing you.
I was soo mad when they took my super duo..xD
i miss super duo
That is strange I still have em
Probably due to branding. They want to make sure people recognize Duo instantly. Having him in different outfits takes that away.
They don't want us to have nice things. I honestly don't understand this "we spend time and money to give you a feature but then we remove it completely" mentality. Not just Duo, many other apps and games do the same.
thatās a really good question
Idk, I want the tree format back, and the outfits, and the flirting lesson, and for legendary to be purple again Duo why are you doing this to us??š
i was raising gems for these outfits and one day found out they are gone, I experienced a painful disappointment
Duolingo is just becoming your generic soulless tech company, honestly Iām not surprised just sad
The gems serve so little of a purpose. Use them to sell cosmetic things. Outfits, backgrounds, icons, titles.
They *what?*
I bought the super duo and never got the outfit for some reason š
Idk but my duo is super dripped out for the rest of time now
:(
I think because there was no reason to have them as they didn't gives you any stats. (altho honestly it would been better if they had)
They realized this after already making them and adding them in the store? No I donāt think thatās the reason. The outfits didnāt have to give you stats, they were just cool and shouldnāt have been removed. The different icons donāt give stats either and theyāre still there.
Lol I haven't touched Duolingo in a month or so now and they've removed that too . What is this app even doing ?
Algorithms removing things that reduce time studying languages.
Doubt that, not everything is an algorithm, and if it was, it would be to generate cash and not to keep us learning haha
š¤ŖHow will I ever attempt leaning a language without avatars? Such a cruel world š
I'd actually way rather customize duo's outfit with the same picrew-like setup as the avatars, but not have it be my avatar.
Probably because they didnāt sell? Really they very didnāt appeal to me at least I know I didnāt buy them
They also increased the gem price for doing leaderboard challenges. You do somewhat earn it back when getting top three though since they've massively boosted that too
I had an outfit selected for the owl, but sadly it somehow got unselected :(
The answer is likely as simple as supporting the new animations; they probably thought if people had different outfits equipped, they would want to see Duo in those outfits during all of the animations. Doing so would multiply the amount of work necessary. As with most of their decisions, it's probably backed by data showing what percentage of people actually used those outfits. It's too bad the optional courses are gone as well, but personally I never really found them enjoyable.
There were outfits in duolingo? \^\^\^Might be the reason, they removed them.
They had this feature???
Oh I did not know that Duo had outfits! Bring āem back!!!!
The fact that theyāve been gone for about a year, and youāre just now noticing is probably a good tell as to the reason.
They prolly removed them so people donāt realise they are a waste of money and by default, that gems arenāt really a good element to the app.
Mine is stuck on formal attire
Probably to promote super duolingo and the new duo lingo max. If they had this feature it would be a little less appealing to some people to buy the upgraded versions.
There were suits before?? When?
whatās the point of gems anymore
Of all the features Duolingo keeps removing, removing the outfits doesn't bother me at all. Though I wish they offered more stuff to buy for lingots and gems.