There was a time when it was signed by the moderator who accepted it. I don't know why they removed that.

I got a similar massage a couple of weeks ago. Obviously they read what we write. It's only once in a while, but sometimes they answer to our requests.

Thumbs up for the owl

Someone was probably going through submitted reports today. I also got 2 emails about suggestions being accepted, including the same sentence you reported as well. My accepted suggestion was basically the same thing as yours, but with the contraction. "It's not yet your turn."

I was also happy to see that they finally accept "The sky is falling." for "Der Himmel fällt.", as they used to require "The sky is falling down."

Whoever went through the suggestions lately, thank you.

Hallo slamRN,

Ja, diese Erfahrung habe ich auch schon gemacht.

Wenn ich etwas weiß, dann schreibe ich einen Report (leider passiert es mir auch manchmal, dass mir sofort beim Abschicken klar wird, dass ich doch nicht recht habe ... blush). Na, wir tun unser Bestes!

@SlamRN

Quote: Duo does listen to us!

This would imply that the staff (at the HQ) of DuoLingo listens to us.

Your above "accepted sentence example" only says, that a volunteer course contributor / moderator accepted your sentence translation (Incubator), not offical staff!!

However, this does NOT necessarily mean, that staff like "business developers", backend and frontend programmers and quality assurance people necessarily follow some advise or (some / important) suggestions from their userbase - incl. change- and bug requests.

Honestly, I sometimes do not have the impression, that they do for most of the threads and requests which have been made (e.g crown update vs delayed (put back) rollout, crown as opt-in A/B test vs forced rollout, missing features, bugs, etc.).

Often I get the personal feeling, that they are not even reading the threads or bug reports and suggestions especially with no available Open Source public tracking system (or their team simply is a bit too small to handle the millions of user database).
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Ich würde Deine obige Pauschalaussage deshalb so generell nicht für jegliche Belange - insbesondere für die DuoLingo Mitarbeiter vom HQ in den USA - unterschreiben wollen. Sorry.

Only sadly, this is not an answer from Duolingo but from one of the course contributors = volunteers. It's cool to know that someone is listening though, I know :-)

Congratulations on your two golden owls. I'm not even half way through the German tree yet. Someday I hope to have them too!

Over the years I have received quite a number of messages of this kind. Sometimes it seems to take a long time. With millions of users, I've wondered if there isn't some automation involved. I could imagine that if only one occurrence of a contested translation is in the system, nothing happens. And that it gets sent to a person who makes the final decision only if there are multiple requests for the same things . All this is just speculation, of course.

I have never gotten an email from Duolingo before, and I gave them my email. :/