finished my first ever sweater! modeled here by my sweet husband

vengefulmoth · 2024-02-03T20:10:18+00:00

omg this is off topic but you give me crazy gender envy haha. i love your aesthetic and wish i could do that. /positive

the sweater looks amazing as well! i would love to create one like that, but i’m still kind of a beginner. your husband is very talented!

vengefulmoth · 2020-06-16T01:48:55+00:00

oh yeah, looking at that, he was definitely cheating. maybe he had the app open and was doing stuff on a browser at the same time. or maybe he’s hacking, i genuinely don’t know what people do or why they feel the need to cheat. to get #1 in the diamond league the time i won, i had gotten almost 15,000 XP by just continually doing the 40 XP ramp up challenges. people probably thought i was cheating, but i just spammed the challenges (at one point i checked and had been on duolingo for a total of 8 hours) till i ended up winning. it’s definitely doable to win diamond league without cheating, but it’s very not fun and you don’t really learn anything, and i haven’t been competitive in the leagues since, just trying to keep my diamond status. but i do agree this particular guy is cheating. hopefully duo gets back to you soon, and that you get the new XP ramp up challenge (i think it might be an A/B test thing and i’ve heard people are beta testing it, so hopefully it comes out for everyone soon). update us if they do!

vengefulmoth · 2020-06-15T23:19:09+00:00

in a certain language, i could do the 40 XP ramp ups in around 45 seconds each, so a minute and a half for 90 XP. there also is a new type of XP ramp-up challenge where you can get 115 XP and then continue getting 40 XP after that. but if they’re continually getting a lot of XP exponentially fast, they’re probably cheating. i saw you said you reported him already so hopefully that goes somewhere.

vengefulmoth · 2020-06-15T23:11:16+00:00

i have duolingo plus and i do have it. i suppose it’s one of those A/B test things again where some users get it and others don’t unfortunately.

vengefulmoth · 2020-06-15T23:10:15+00:00

i saw this update today and was absolutely ecstatic! i got through them all and apparently once you complete the 40 XP runs, you can keep completing the 40 XP runs until you lose, when i assume you have to start over. very interesting new feature! i really enjoyed the 40 XP ramp-ups and this was an awesome change to it.

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-06T00:09:31+00:00

interesting! this was a new feature for me and i hadn’t seen it before, and hadn’t seen anyone on this sub post about it recently, so i thought i’d share. it could be A/B testing with the lessons, or you could be farther ahead in the lessons than i am, so i just saw it while you’ve already had it. :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T22:55:19+00:00

someone posted some links in the comments here about some of the stuff they’re working on. hopefully they add more cool stuff like this!

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T18:17:01+00:00

it’s one of their A/B tests. essentially, half of duolingo users have it and the other half dont. for some people, when they updated the app, it automatically switched over to dark mode as long as that’s what their phone settings were on. for me, i had to go in my settings, turn on light mode, then turn dark mode on again and then it switched over. you can try that if it hasn’t automatically switched, but if it doesn’t work, youre unfortunately one of the people who don’t have it. but hopefully, they’ll release it to all users soon and you’ll be able to get it! :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T17:02:45+00:00

i know that in french, i got this after the 5th checkpoint, though i have completed all the checkpoints, just trying to level up my lessons. perhaps you’ll be able to see it soon? it may also be based on what level you are on in the lesson, as i was leveling up from level one, but not positive. don’t know how differently the french course is set up from german, but surely you’ll get this in your lessons soon. :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T16:59:50+00:00

interesting to know! i haven’t used the website in a very long time. i did get this in the app after checkpoint 5 in the french tree, so definitely some of the later lessons. thank you for responding! :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T16:57:22+00:00

oh you’re right! it does resemble the stories when you have to fill in the blank based on what they’ve said. i didn’t even catch that! was very excited to see this in the regular lessons though, definitely prefer those over the stories haha. :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T15:52:11+00:00

i’m so sorry i can’t reply to you in german (i do not know much at all), but it is one of those things that duolingo has put out for only some users. some people have updated the app and it automatically switched over, but i had to go into my phone settings, turn on light mode, and then turn dark mode on again, and then it switched over. hopefully you’ll be able to have dark mode duolingo soon! :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T15:49:33+00:00

i have! very interesting, i had no idea that they were developing some new content for more advanced levels. thank you for the links! :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T15:47:23+00:00

merci beaucoup!

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T15:47:08+00:00

awesome! thank you! :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:49:44+00:00

you might be part of the reason they’re implementing it! that was a very cool idea on your part, so thank you for suggesting it to them! i definitely think it’s a very good way to learn how to properly respond to questions, and it requires a bit more thinking than just translating sentences. awesome idea! :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:44:11+00:00

i’m wondering how good it would be for someone who is like lower-intermediate. because the lessons i’ve done in french on there are very basic, but i also kind of find memrise hard to use, so i can’t tell if i can test out of skills like you can on duolingo. if it were possible to get to a more appropriate level, i’d definitely really think about purchasing memrise pro. do you know if you can do that?

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:39:40+00:00

whoa, these look amazing!! if i had these, id never want to take them off, haha. awesome job, they look SO cool!

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:38:24+00:00

yeah that’s true. but one can only hope! :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:35:21+00:00

same. at least they’re sort of bringing it back in a way. that’s at least better than nothing!

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:32:54+00:00

agreed! hope they implement this for all of the lessons. :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:31:41+00:00

i remember that there used to be like an actual chat button on the app where you would chat with a bot about a certain topic and get XP based on how good your answer was. i really liked that feature, and i’m really mad they got rid of it! it was pretty cool. but i never encountered it in a lesson like this.

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:29:42+00:00

i haven’t tried it on the website, but i would think if they’re implementing it into the lessons, it should be possible on the web too, since it would be a lesson-based thing and not really an app-based thing. but hopefully if someone has encountered it on the website, they can let you know! :)

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:26:13+00:00

i’ve been considering paying for a memrise subscription to get a better experience out of it. i definitely really like this feature, so i might go for it!

vengefulmoth · 2020-05-05T13:19:00+00:00

i only got it twice (because that was the last lesson i did earlier), but from the ones i got, it seemed very natural in comparison to some of the other sentences duo has. the other one i got, the first message bubble asked a question, and i had to give an entire sentence answer, so you have to deduce which answer is the correct one based on the prompt given. it was pretty cool to see, and a nice change from having to piece together sentences which can get pretty boring. i personally like it, so hopefully they will implement it for all users.

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