{"id":197,"date":"2024-04-05T22:49:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/?p=197"},"modified":"2024-04-05T22:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:50:53","slug":"i-see-what-you-did-there-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/2024\/04\/05\/i-see-what-you-did-there-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"I see what you did there, Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that if we do all or most of our daily quests, they get steadily harder. I am not sure how far Duo stretches that rubber band, because in the end I just don&#8217;t care that much about the imaginary characters and their bizarre projects. If I don&#8217;t have fun, why should they?<\/p>\n<p>Finnish is difficult, no doubt about that, and I realize I have to repeat a lot after I spent a week without my smartphone in January. (An accident landed me in hospital for some serious surgery, and it took some time before I could resume my language practice.) But I would bet good money that this stretching of the goals is a feature that is built into the system for all languages. Since most users pay by watching ads rather than a monthly subscription like I do, it makes sense to try to keep them clicking. Until they get fed up and leave, at least.<\/p>\n<p>We are paying for your boardroom furniture, don&#8217;t insult our intelligence if you want to continue to use that furniture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that if we do all or most of our daily quests, they get steadily harder. I am not sure how far Duo stretches that rubber band, because in the end I just don&#8217;t care that much about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/2024\/04\/05\/i-see-what-you-did-there-duo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}