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Duolingo(*) now shows like a million unskippable, pointless animations and stuff after each lesson. And I'm 99% sure that it's because some awful product manager figured out that this increases "time spent in app" - while of course minimizing actual time spent learning, but who cares for that…
(*) Yes, it's a horrible dumpster fire of a company and useless for anything but learning random vocab
@gedankenstuecke that's a good explanation of that. It's been getting worse and worse over the past 6 months. It's also explains the endless clicks after a session.
@mhaklay yes, also the combination of the animations and sounds feels a lot like a Las Vegas slot machine and I'm pretty sure that's an intentional design choice too.
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@gedankenstuecke I didn't know there still was "time spent learning" that could further be minimized. That thing is cartoons dressed up in a collection of games dressed up in a learning app.
But can you really fault them for maximizing retention? Isn't that what you want out of learning? 😜