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abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I am at a 970 day streak. I must continue to a 1000. But 30 days from now, I will completely delete that app from my phone and never look back.
I’d like to say it’s completely worthless, but that would be a lie. It’s a nice, easy introduction into language learning, but you’re not actually learning a lot.
The thing that bothers me most is their predatory attention seeking. Changing their app icon into annoying figures every day. Sending push notification where they literally beg you to practice your language. Pulling you in with stupid rewards and threatening you with deducting imaginary points.
It is so toxic that i’d rather watch casa de papel to learn spanish. I might actually still do that if I wasn’t learning spanish. It’s a good show.
It’s attention seeking is literally the point for me. Heavy problems with self-discipline, so this helps me return to learning daily. And it’s good to go from zero to a level where you can start learning by consuming content in the language you’re learning.
But yeah, energy can suck dick and I can see how what helps me may be irritating for folks who can manage their own time easier than I so.
If you quit now, BigBalls05 will take the Gold Medal for the day! Are you gonna just let that happen?
There was a visual bug where my streak changed to 5683 or some crazy number. Saved it of course.
I am glad I kept around my old pirated copies of Rosetta stone in various languages.
SushiSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
I recently let my nearly 1600 day streak die for the same reason. After like 5 years or whatever, the app was worse than it was when i started.
I think the thing that finally pushed me over was the new energy system. It felt like whenever i was feeling inspired to do more than the bare minimum it would stop me after only 2 lessons. And i found in the new content they’d just added to my course most of the hints were completely incorrect