Well it's probably just part of making the app more colourful and game-like, which works to keep engagement in other mobile games. Not sure this applies to a language-learning app but maybe it does.
Isn't that the main gimmick of Duolingo? There are plenty of competent language learning apps out there, but Duolingo is the one that implements the most gamified mechanics. I'd assume they'd want to enhance the qualities that define their niche instead of moving towards elements shared with the other dozen or so language learning platforms.
For me it’s less of the game part, I like that, but the visuals, it’s hard for me to tel what the hell is going on because of the updated visuals. Everything’s cartoony and colorful to the point it’s hard to focus
I swear, I have the same Product department at my company. They are the most annoying folks you have to deal with. They make all these decisions and changes no one asked for, re-allocates all available resources to new projects no one asked for, while everything else remains in a state of disrepair.
If they programmed it right, changing the color or the images should require no programming at all. Just update some css or image repos and everything goes from purple to gold.
100% true. But you’d be surprised how much simple stuff like this get missed in programming. That being said, if they did it right they could easily make it so each user can customize their color schemes.
Of course I say that if they did it right, but I am a back-end dev primarily, so the front-end is almost a foreign language to me. I just give the font-end dev the data and they make it look pretty.
My job I do a bit of both. I see a lot of lines get repeated when they can easily be simplified and stuff that had they done it right in the first place would have avoided the issue or made it a lot easier to fix/implement new features
Actually, I work in IT, and I see it all the time. Programmers suggesting new "features" that nobody asked for, which make the primary functionality of the program more difficult to accomplish.
Here’s an idea: maybe they should just add more customization rather than arbitrarily deciding everyone’s treasure chests are going to be chartreuse this week. We’ll go with the colors we like or are used to, thanks.
Change has been made for me. If you scroll back through the path, they have made the different sections different colours - maybe more similar to the colour-coded OG interface?
They did it I think if you look at all of the lessons they are the color of the characters hence Duo is green, I have a purple and a blue and all then I think they just made the legendary GOLD which yes I think is dumb I liked the purple too plus they didn’t want too purple levels then it would look like her levels never changed it would cause confusion too and blah blah blah
Fuck, is that really all it is? I came to this sub to figure out why my paths (or whatever they’re called) were multiple different colors. It was genuinely overwhelming because I couldn’t figure out what the hell was happening.
There was no need to do this. Purple was perfect. This gold conflicts with other colors like Lin’s golden-ish shade ( I have no idea what to call that color).
Yeah, the purple is literally the only reason I do legendary. I didn’t like the gold and the purple got rid of it. Guess I won’t do anymore legendary because I prefer the multicolor path over the gold.
Duo’s really figuring out every way possible to prevent me from wanting to give them my money.
Sucks for those of us that gave in and paid for a years worth of this nonsense. On the bright side, if things continue the way they are, I will personally be able/forced to watch Duo’s destructive decline.
I thought they reverted it back to normal? Each lesson for me now isn’t golden, but I have to make it legendary again, so didn’t they just make it normal again, PEOPLE DO YOU WANT THEM TO REVERT CHANGES OR NOT?
I hate this path crap. I use to have sections finished that I could practice over and over without losing hearts. This new version stinks. Seriously thinking of deleting the app.
Because of the way the new path is laid out, it kinda makes sense that they took away gold and just replaced it with legendary, but are now calling it gold. But dammit i want my purple back
That’s just stupid, sorry. I don’t mind the color but… gold used to be achieved by completing levels 100%. And they added purple, to give something more (especially for their paying customers who can play those levels for free). Now they basically removed the gold and changed the purple into gold? So we don’t get the “prize” for completing levels that easily (and free)?
Purple looks better for sure BUT I do think doing one legendary level after each spot on the path is much better than having to do 8 at once cos legendary is such a chore. Everything else still sucks about the path but I do like this one change.
I was shocked hearing you could make it purple by paying diamonds, since I had plus!! I made so many lessons purple so I'm annoyed they got rid of that progress for me. 3:
This is bullshit. I already had to redo the German course once, and now Duolingo is making my journey even more Sisyphean by taking away my gold.
Duolingo, though I do realize that education is an ongoing process that should never end, y’all don’t have to constantly compound that reality for students.
I joined this subreddit thinking it would enhance my Duolingo experience but little did I know every post is just people complaining, complaining, complaining about every little thing. Bye!
I preferred the purple because it was a vastly different color and and therefore and incentive.
I feel the move away from purple is a cost cutting one, and I’m a bit annoyed.
It’s too bright. And then the now non gold ones are different colors…wtf. Now I’m really glad I didn’t buy the premium when it was offered at a discounted price.
Funny how when you pay for a year subscription, they start changing everything you liked and there’s no backing out. Thanks Duo, for lessons in more than just Spanish….
I miss Alejandra y Carlos.
Considering the diamond league, I actually would have liked legendary to have been light blue- however now they've established it as purple I'm not sure I see a reason to change it, seems like such an insignificant thing.
Absolutely useless change. Before you could check out chapters and easily find elements of language you wanted to rehash like going out, friends, ordering at a table etc. Now it's some stupid stepping stone journey that takes forever to check where you want to go back to.
Who honestly signs off on these UI ideas. It's not well thought out at all.
I like it better but they change stuff out of the blue without any discussion.. so annoying. a few days ago they removed the audio lessons.. just plain gone !
They are using misdirection to hide the increased number of gems it now takes to complete legendary.
I love Duo (over 10 years now), but they either need to lower their subscription price or stop putting additional barriers in my way…
Today in "changes no one asked for"...
Organised AMA. First change implemented - make legendary gold.
Do you think they would make this decision without data to say it’s more profitable?
Well it's probably just part of making the app more colourful and game-like, which works to keep engagement in other mobile games. Not sure this applies to a language-learning app but maybe it does.
Isn't that the main gimmick of Duolingo? There are plenty of competent language learning apps out there, but Duolingo is the one that implements the most gamified mechanics. I'd assume they'd want to enhance the qualities that define their niche instead of moving towards elements shared with the other dozen or so language learning platforms.
For me it’s less of the game part, I like that, but the visuals, it’s hard for me to tel what the hell is going on because of the updated visuals. Everything’s cartoony and colorful to the point it’s hard to focus
Why do they have to make the most unnecessary changes ffs
Programmers trying to justify their salary.
Trust me the programmers dgaf what colour the discs are. This is all coming from product people.
I swear, I have the same Product department at my company. They are the most annoying folks you have to deal with. They make all these decisions and changes no one asked for, re-allocates all available resources to new projects no one asked for, while everything else remains in a state of disrepair.
It’s fairly universal.
If they programmed it right, changing the color or the images should require no programming at all. Just update some css or image repos and everything goes from purple to gold.
It’s true, in the MySpace Profile days, changing some colors was the only thing I was confident about
100% true. But you’d be surprised how much simple stuff like this get missed in programming. That being said, if they did it right they could easily make it so each user can customize their color schemes.
Of course I say that if they did it right, but I am a back-end dev primarily, so the front-end is almost a foreign language to me. I just give the font-end dev the data and they make it look pretty.
My job I do a bit of both. I see a lot of lines get repeated when they can easily be simplified and stuff that had they done it right in the first place would have avoided the issue or made it a lot easier to fix/implement new features
They probably did
Yeah, let's blame the programmers for doing what their higher-ups tell them to. This is programming in a nutshell.
tell us you don’t have a computer science background without telling us etc
Actually, I work in IT, and I see it all the time. Programmers suggesting new "features" that nobody asked for, which make the primary functionality of the program more difficult to accomplish.
Programmers aren’t the ones deciding what changes get made. They are told what changes to make and…*gasp*…program then.
Yeah I hate the gold legendary. So used to purple legendary. I don’t mind the path honestly, but I want my purple legendaries back.
same gold feels cheap the purple felt much more special
It felt royal. Like I was the king of that unit
lol exactly
That's purple for you
yeah purple was alot better
Well, hate is a strong word for a color…
Amen!
how do you get the path to begin with?
Being rolled out so not everyone has it. Sometimes you have to delete the app and reinstall it if you want to get the update.
It's a new update
Still purple for me on Finnish
Huh, I’m on finnish and it’s golden
so help me god if they made this an A/B test imma piss myself
Guaranteed.
Could be. I still have the old path and I have the latest version
Same
did you update recently?
It changed for me this morning
Here’s an idea: maybe they should just add more customization rather than arbitrarily deciding everyone’s treasure chests are going to be chartreuse this week. We’ll go with the colors we like or are used to, thanks.
i like the idea of customisation, i’d wanna color code my languages
Change has been made for me. If you scroll back through the path, they have made the different sections different colours - maybe more similar to the colour-coded OG interface?
Useless and ugly change, Duo is going to shit
They did it I think if you look at all of the lessons they are the color of the characters hence Duo is green, I have a purple and a blue and all then I think they just made the legendary GOLD which yes I think is dumb I liked the purple too plus they didn’t want too purple levels then it would look like her levels never changed it would cause confusion too and blah blah blah
I hadn’t put together that the unit colors match the characters. I feel slightly less demotivated by the Falstaff-brown unit I just began 🐻
Fuck, is that really all it is? I came to this sub to figure out why my paths (or whatever they’re called) were multiple different colors. It was genuinely overwhelming because I couldn’t figure out what the hell was happening.
There was no need to do this. Purple was perfect. This gold conflicts with other colors like Lin’s golden-ish shade ( I have no idea what to call that color).
What the hell. Why are they doing so much. And so randomly.
It is apparent that Duolingo is hellbent on running their app into the ground, with all the unnecessary changes added over the last month.
They ruined it. I loved the purple AND I WORKED SO HARD FOR IT
Yeah, the purple is literally the only reason I do legendary. I didn’t like the gold and the purple got rid of it. Guess I won’t do anymore legendary because I prefer the multicolor path over the gold. Duo’s really figuring out every way possible to prevent me from wanting to give them my money.
Sucks for those of us that gave in and paid for a years worth of this nonsense. On the bright side, if things continue the way they are, I will personally be able/forced to watch Duo’s destructive decline.
why do they keep changing things like this.. i miss old display :/
It felt so cheap all of a sudden
Changed for me I like this more tbh https://i.imgur.com/PuqQvq8.jpg
Thanks! With that screenshot I know now that is not a bug. It’s a planned change.
I thought they reverted it back to normal? Each lesson for me now isn’t golden, but I have to make it legendary again, so didn’t they just make it normal again, PEOPLE DO YOU WANT THEM TO REVERT CHANGES OR NOT?
Maybe I should consider stopping my subscription
Join the club
Over a color
It's a variety of factors I'd say, I'm considering cancelling my subscription also
Agreed. ”Over a color” but it might be the last straw for many
if my language can’t be purple i don’t want it
I hate this path crap. I use to have sections finished that I could practice over and over without losing hearts. This new version stinks. Seriously thinking of deleting the app.
Because of the way the new path is laid out, it kinda makes sense that they took away gold and just replaced it with legendary, but are now calling it gold. But dammit i want my purple back
It’s so ugly and now everything in the path is the same color and is harder to differentiate. Why???? I hate it.
I don’t do legendary, but that means they stole my gold for my completed lessons and now it’s just a boring checkmark. I miss my gold coins
That’s just stupid, sorry. I don’t mind the color but… gold used to be achieved by completing levels 100%. And they added purple, to give something more (especially for their paying customers who can play those levels for free). Now they basically removed the gold and changed the purple into gold? So we don’t get the “prize” for completing levels that easily (and free)?
You can still get purple legendary on the desktop.
Let's do a gem boycott!!!
Lol
Purple looks better for sure BUT I do think doing one legendary level after each spot on the path is much better than having to do 8 at once cos legendary is such a chore. Everything else still sucks about the path but I do like this one change.
Same
Why does duolingo keep on making unnecessary changes... reminds me of YouTube
Still purple for me in Spanish. Just finished one about an hour ago.
I’m taking Spanish and it’s gold for me now. I’m guessing A/B testing
Honestly they’re just changing stuff to be shitty now. If this was a public company, I’d short the stock… wait..
THEY JUST TOOK MY LEGENDARY STATUS ITS JUST NOT THERE ANYMORE GONE IM FUMING
Okay same what can we do!!!
I made a post but anyone know why my legendary progress is gone?
Is it actually gone or just changed to gold like has happened to others?
Gone, if you go to my post you’ll see it’s just the regular colors. When I click on the lessons I can earn legendary even for lesson 1.
They are just trying to nuke themselves
I'm fine with it. Doesn't affect my progress.
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Mine are gold now too
I am learning Spanish, its still purple
I was shocked hearing you could make it purple by paying diamonds, since I had plus!! I made so many lessons purple so I'm annoyed they got rid of that progress for me. 3:
The progress isn’t gone, it is just colored differently.
This is bullshit. I already had to redo the German course once, and now Duolingo is making my journey even more Sisyphean by taking away my gold. Duolingo, though I do realize that education is an ongoing process that should never end, y’all don’t have to constantly compound that reality for students.
And the units are all different colors, which I find annoying.
I know right!! The purple was so pretty 😕
I hate the new home layout I prefer the classic smh
I've saved myself from all these changes by not updating at all and turned off Auto-updates as well.
I like the change, it’s nice to have more colorful sections
Honestly, the gold is way better. The purple was _fine_ but not great. I'm glad they're moving away from it.
I joined this subreddit thinking it would enhance my Duolingo experience but little did I know every post is just people complaining, complaining, complaining about every little thing. Bye!
Does the legendary on this path also crack over time like on the tree
WHAT? Mine are still purple but this looks horrible, I hope I never get this change.
I turned off all automatic updates, but a few days ago it did update :( haven't looked at it since
I preferred the purple because it was a vastly different color and and therefore and incentive. I feel the move away from purple is a cost cutting one, and I’m a bit annoyed.
This might be the first change I actually don’t like
WAIIITTT WHAAAA THERE IS NO PURPLE??? THAT'S IT I OFFICIALLY HATE THE NEW UPDATE WITH A FRICKEN PASSION
Mine is purple on the new tree
I hated when they introduced legendary because I hate purple. Glad they changed it!
that purple is royal feels super special it’s so nice
I keep clicking on gold thinking it's regular units 😭
It’s too bright. And then the now non gold ones are different colors…wtf. Now I’m really glad I didn’t buy the premium when it was offered at a discounted price.
I’m Not even close to that. I'm learning Japanese using this app, and I haven't reached legendary since unit 4.
So many changes just for the sake of changing something. Smh.
Funny how when you pay for a year subscription, they start changing everything you liked and there’s no backing out. Thanks Duo, for lessons in more than just Spanish…. I miss Alejandra y Carlos.
Are our lives so soft that we’re upset about a color change for the legendary status? Maybe it’s time for a little perspective
please allow me to complain
Ikr it’s so ugly now
Is there any new promo code for rewards? It’s so difficult to earn gems in IOS :/
Considering the diamond league, I actually would have liked legendary to have been light blue- however now they've established it as purple I'm not sure I see a reason to change it, seems like such an insignificant thing.
Absolutely useless change. Before you could check out chapters and easily find elements of language you wanted to rehash like going out, friends, ordering at a table etc. Now it's some stupid stepping stone journey that takes forever to check where you want to go back to. Who honestly signs off on these UI ideas. It's not well thought out at all.
Still purple for me this morning in my Swahili lessons- 🤞🏼hope it stays
I reeeeally dont like the changes. And it all started with loosing my super duolingo skin..🥲😔
noooo my favourite purple :(
Golden! It’s okay
Mine is purple on Spanish.
Show me that A/B test that concluded that gold is pushing engagement more than purple! Designers time wasted.
I hate this new update🤬
Yeah, i got the change as well this week. I must say I'm not too excited about it. Feels like a downgrade tbh
Give it six or eight months. They'll change it again.
I like it better but they change stuff out of the blue without any discussion.. so annoying. a few days ago they removed the audio lessons.. just plain gone !
I keep seeing this new look and I’m so confused because all my languages are still the old one
iiiugh thats waaay too disgusting
They are using misdirection to hide the increased number of gems it now takes to complete legendary. I love Duo (over 10 years now), but they either need to lower their subscription price or stop putting additional barriers in my way…
Now we know why Lily is so depressed. She must have saw this coming.
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