garyb wrote:Things I dislike:
- Gamification. The streak feature does motivate me to use it every day, but everything else (lingots, total XP, achievement badges, etc.) feels like pointless clutter.
I'd agree. I'm afraid Duolingo is an example of a product focusing more on the gamification than the content. The gamification needs to serve the purpose, and Kwiziq is a good example of that. Duolingo is in some way just empty gamification.
I love the crowns system, and I like the leaderboards on duome.eu. But I dislike the Lingots (they have completely emptied their meaning), the achievement badges (another half baked idea), the exp levels and "challenges" (50 points a day as the most serious challenge really pushes down people's expectations of what it means to be really working hard on a language, and the exp levels are good for nothing even after removal of the "fluency score"). The streak feature is very useful to many people, even though it demotivates me (like "what's the point of retrying, if I lose the streak after a few days anyways).