For me, the gameification of Duolingo pushed me away. The fact that if I fail 3 times I had to wait to generate more “chances” is absurd when it comes to learning a new language; especially if that new language is a whole new character set, like Mandarin or any Cyrillic language.
I just realized that the shitty software on the other side of the divide is casting
null
to ”null", which absolutely explains that issue. What a cluster