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Graph is from Yahoo finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DUOL/?guccounter=1
Reuters news article: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/duolingo-prioritizes-user-growth-over-monetization-forecasts-softer-bookings-2026-02-26/
"The language-learning app has spent recent years fine-tuning monetization through more ads and subscription prompts, helping lift bookings per user. But that coincided with slower user growth." Yes Reuters, that's called enshittification.
Well sure that's how you can get maximum benefit but personally for me it would be a lot more ideal if there were a default pathway available, or perhaps clearly defined units to pick and choose from, somewhere out there on the internet, that wasn't just the entire dictionary of words I could possibly encounter at each level of a language. I thought Clozemaster did really well with choosing key words and phrases to practice, for example.
If my goal is just vocabulary, I don't really care about encountering it in media first. I just want to jump into studying. Then, at the point where I'd really need to study, it wouldn't be realistic to stop and start media that I'm only comprehending 50% of what's said to make a whole card about it (admittedly this is where my own ADHD comes into play as, if I just write it down, the likelihood of me remembering where it came from and circling back to enter it in the app is nil). I would also miss a lot of context and subtler parts of language doing this, further exacerbating the issue. At the point that I need less study, well, why the heck would I pick up the app to study a deck of the like 10-20 less common words or phrases that made it onto cards?
It was also recommended to find an accompanying picture for each card which was frustrating in its own right try to find a good visual representation for everything and doing all of that entry on a mobile device.
These are just the reasons it hasn't worked for me, as a person that lives in constant struggle with executive function and has learned to accept that I cannot rely on my brain to automate much of anything in the background so that I can do certain tasks. Like I said, it's a barrier to entry but by no means are these insurmountable issues to someone who is serious about learning a language.