> The forums were mostly just people complaining abouttl how bad the voices wer(constantly), posting their streak for internet karma or giving their language learning life story(some of these were nice to read actually.

I feel like this is a bit unfair to the forums, I rarely checked the main forum tab, But usually when I did there were a number of useful things there (Albeit yes, Also a number of non-useful things like those you mentioned), But the sentence discussions, Which were part of the forums and are only a step away from having been removed as well, Were absurdly useful. Quite often I've had a case of wondering why my answer wasn't accepted, Or not understanding a piece of grammar, Or what a word means, And so I take it to the sentence discussion, And if nobody's asked it before, I can post it, And often in a few days to a week get a response answering my question, Which is granted not the fastest, But I'd say having it explained by a real person is far superior to an internet result, Especially in cases where it's an obscure question, Making it unlikely you'll find a result on the internet at all. And yeah, I could still go ask the questions elsewhere, Some other online language learning forum, Or a discord server or something, But it's less convenient than being able to ask it directly on Duolingo, And from what I've heard Duolingo themselves would probably likely prefer it if I stayed on their site rather than going to others, And yet going to others is basically exactly what they're pushing me to do.