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How do I stop the duolingo icon from changing? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a 800+ streak, so my icon used to always be orange. It didn't even change when it "got sick" for everyone last year. Now they seem to have removed that feature and it "gets angry" if it's past 22.00 and I haven't done an exercise yet. Which is what I very often do.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After you uninstall the app, the icon will be entirely invisible.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will if I have to, but for now it's still a more productive use of my time than shitposting here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Le merde posting

[+] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have a similar gripe with Brilliant. “Do your exercises now in order to keep your streak and to defend your place in this stupid league that means nothing”.
And you get notifications of this every few hours in both your phone’s notifications as well as in your email. Stop bothering me!

I once did a streak based walking routine, it became so stressful that walking stopped being fun and became a chore to check off. At 1000 times I forced myself to quit that app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is frustrating to read. I used Duolingo over ten years ago, and was going to use it again to get back into some things, but now what? It seems that it is not what I remember it being. I only used it on a computer, and probably would now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My library offers free access to Mango. I recommend everyone check the services offered by their library.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could use a custom launcher to set it. Assuming you're on Android.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Funnily that doesn't work. It's still changing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Oh interesting, cause I know Nova launcher lets you replace app icons with custom ones. I am a bit surprised it's been overwritten.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Depends on the launcher.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'll never get how it's possible to fall for marketing so hard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Disable automatic updates in the play store. I have them dissbled for all my apps to have better control over what is pushed upon me. I noticed that also stops the Duo icon to change when I was slacking off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nice work. I also share this gripe, it seems the people at Duolingo are biased in thinking that getting started early is better, which is not true at all. I wish they removed the angry icons and replaced them with ones that weren't so biased.

Like this, but with the kinky green owl:

*I think there is a setting in the app that turns off changing icons entirely. Can't find it rn tho...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Don't open the app for three months and it calms down.