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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

There's pretty odd because it definitely punishes me for typos in french

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It was quite lenient with my error-prone French.

    That said, Duo is well known for A/B testing so no doubt we were just using different feature sets.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    In my experience the typo-tolerance is not very flexible. I write using Dvarok instead of QWERTY, so the typos I make don't always follow regular patterns. On my phone I use a swipe keyboard, so sometimes a typo comes out as a different word entirely. No matter what I don't want to be punished for my mistakes, even if they are real mistakes. I just want to keep on learning without the tool I'm using intentionally trying to make that harder for me.

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