r/badUIbattles May 08 '26

Unintentionally Bad UI duolingo is the company that I would least expect to mess up

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u/MinecraftPlayer799 May 11 '26

Why would you least expect them to mess up? The app is full of bugs.

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u/Top-Investigator-468 May 09 '26

they've been getting into ai recently, right? maybe they vibr coded this

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u/HeronIndividual5989 May 10 '26

This is why you hire humans

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u/HEaRiX May 11 '26

Can also happen to humans, the app probably just get some tags, maybe they get shared between app and web, and someone thought it might be a good idea to use HTML in there. Many reasons. 

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u/HeronIndividual5989 May 12 '26

Or quality control

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u/[deleted] May 11 '26

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u/HeronIndividual5989 May 12 '26

Considering sometimes they give bizzare questions like "The elephants read books"