Congratulations to Duolingo, for being the first tech company to destroy itself in the Great AI Crash. I guess nobody wants to pay $30 per month to talk to an AI chat bot in their target language.

KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net · 16 days ago

Congratulations to Duolingo, for being the first tech company to destroy itself in the Great AI Crash. I guess nobody wants to pay $30 per month to talk to an AI chat bot in their target language.

joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net · 16 days ago

Duolingo has basically been a shitty mobile game since the forums were deleted and they really really enshittified even more in the last 2 years.

Wait, their forums were deleted? I remember doing their German course like a decade ago and my favorite aspect of it was always the discussion boards that went into more detail on the lesson topics. That’s insane!

jackmaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 16 days ago

That was the only good part about Duolingo. Volunteers spent thousands of hours explaining languages and grammar on the forums. Duolingo nuked all of that information.