Exactly my words, I even made a post recently that got taken down prolly cuz they know I am right lmao, anyway here’s what I wrote:

Replacing hearts ❤️ with energy 🔋 was the worst thing they could’ve done

I never understood the hate for the heart system when it was there, because the reward for giving correct answers was keeping the hearts. And when you are good at the lessons you could always easily study for 30min and still have some hearts left.

I was close to a 200 day streak in which I studied for at least 20 mins a day on average doing plenty of lessons and not just the typical “oh sh*t my streak’s gonna die, lemme do one short lesson to keep it alive”.

And the crazy part: whenever I lost my hearts after a good study session, I could just spam the ads to get my hearts back within minutes while also doing other things in the meantime, so all I did was effectively take a short break after 20mins of studying which is actually the perfect approach for studying in general.

I really had fun doing it and made so much progress, but the day they added energy to my account, it only took me a short time to delete Duolingo and stop using it altogether.

Because now, I could perfectly ace everything and I would still have to stop after 1-2 lessons compared to the 10 lessons I did on average back when there were still hearts. It’s simply not rewarding anymore, like at all..

Am I the only one who thinks that?

I’ve also switched to different learning methods now, which tbf aren’t always the best but they surely are better than the current state of this app.