It's a great idea, but I find it visually overwhelming. Wouldn't this be better suited for a mouseover?

Looks great!! Lots of bling is always a good incentive and helps bring out the inner child ;-)

Although, Aussies, Brits and Kiwis should be allowed to chose our own flags for English!!

Or better yet, you could have "I want to learn Aussie mate, I know American" lessons. That way you could get flags for both Australia and the USA. The animal section would be really good. For example, translate into American, "Struth, the bloody shiela boomer did me a bingle in me ute'! Correct answer: "Dang, that there big old lady kangaroo made me have a darn accident with my pick-up"!.

I like it, once you get used to it. It is certainly useful to know what language(s) someone is "proficient" in (at least according to DuoLingo's rating system) when weighing up alternative suggestions for translations.

Don't see any point in the "oil drop". Clearly someone is active, or they wouldn't be posting here.

However, I agree that it would be better to know someone's mother tongue(s) as well. You might look at mine and assume my French is better than my English (American?) - quite the reverse, I hope!

I love it, very neat. I personally don't find it overwhelming at all but I have to say I think the big 'M' for moderators may be a step down from their special green circles. That's all, though--love the flags and the streak, especially since I haven't gotten the profile streak update yet.

I think it looks great, even though slightly overwhelming at first. But I soon got used to it and the information is really helpful. It's quite motivating to see how others are doing.

I agree about distinguishing the native language in some way.

Lovely, but it's a bit busy. I'd prefer to see the icons under the profile picture instead. That way they wouldn't distract as much with what's written.

Personally not a big fan of it. The 'm' I like, but the rest I find misleading. Many people have a second native language and wont have the flag displayed just because they don't feel like going through the Douling course.. leading to their input being ignored. It's just not an accurate reflection on the users skill.

Other than that it clutters up Doulingo's tidy interface..

And the streak icon makes no sense to me at all. The reminder e-mail I find useful, but this just opens the door to having every stat displayed 'nr. friends', 'post made', 'posts edited', etc.. and I don't think this is the way this site should develop.

tdlr; keep dou minimalist. It's for learning languages, not networking.

One change I suggest is only show the flag and level related to the language discussion forum you're currently in. I only study Spanish and do not really need to know another users progress in other languages.

check out my 18 day streak flair.

This is good but there is still much more important things to do, like for instance the REPORT option on iOS.

I like it.

Any thought to adding (or substituting) a very tiny gold owl to a flag to indicate that the skill tree is complete? Also agree with those who think a poster's native language could be shown. I am so impressed by the number of countries and languages represented on Duolingo!

what´s a community moderator? and also question about you blue circle guys.. haha do you actually work for duolingo or could someone become a language advisor by just being really active and helpful on here in their native language? haha just curious thanks!

What are the little orange drops and what does the number next to it mean? Thanks!

I am not much of a streaker (lol) tho' it does encourage me. And I like the little flags, which work well for someone like me doing only 1 language, but for the multi-Duolinguists the flag conga gets a bit long hehe!

Also seeing the Star-spangled banner instead of the Union Jack for English was slightly confusing at first, but I guess it accurately reflects Duo's preferred spelling!

This is actually really nice.

¡A mi me gusta! ¡No lo cambies! ;-D

I find it very odd that the US flag is used to represent English. I have only ever seen the Union Jack used to represent English in such a fashion, and it makes much more sense; the English language originated in Britain.

I need a flag decoder.

For me, I like friending people who I know are active so I can keep track of things going on through my stream without a lot of work. Having the flair helps locate active members to help my learning experience.

cool

I think all this is a retrograde step, especially rmoving the green star. I liked the green stars for moderators. Can you put them back?

The green star, you see, marked the moderators as being similar to Duo employees and that was nice and appropriate because they really do make a great contribution. You have downgraded them, and that is bad.

It seems to me the Duo team - all very young as their Mexican photograph shows - are listening too much to their own ideas and not enough to what their users say.

By the way what is the little blob for?

I like it very much!! .. :-)

It might be possible to put the level numbers on top of the flags. Maybe use white lettering so it shows up on the German flag. Or maybe make a font with flag colors on it. Brazil might be tricky in that case.

I am sorry to say I was just about to email you to let you know that I find it very distracting. Before I could see the comment and nothing else, which is what I am interested in. If I want to know what other language(s) the other participants are learning I can always click on their names. I am not that nosy and I am in favor of a simple use of the real estate on websites and do not welcome too much distracting information. But I love the way you are always trying to improve things at Duolingo. Keep up the good work.

Very cool, I like it.

I like all the bling - let it hang out there! No its not confusing and no its not cluttered, but yes it is encouraging. Go for it the way it is - that's my five cent's worth!

I like the idea... but for people who accidently did a lesson in another language (I did this when Portugese was in beta) or people who started doing a language and no longer want to do it, this can be problematic. I am under the impression that people will be able to delete languages in the future, so hopefully this will be a non issue soon :)

Edit: When this post went up I noticed that I only see the DE flag here. Nice!

Thanks u!

Mouse-over needed, otherwise, hard to understand what the numbers stand for

I think a mouseover would be better. I find it distracting, and perhaps intimidating to be working with someone who may be doing several languages or have a very long streak in the language I'm trying to learn.

I, personally, like the flairs, but perhaps we could have the option to choose which we shared? For example if I were in the Spanish forum I could check a little box that said 'spanish' and then my french score would not show up because I didn't check the box because I felt that it was irrelevant, however, sometimes I would like it to show my french in the spanish forum because I am extrapolating from my french knowledge which is vaster than my spanish (not that it shows on duolingo yet haha).

I also like the option to be able to hover over the flairs and it will tell us what they mean, that way people would be less confused about the flames and the mods, or if they don't know a flag.

Also like the idea of having a native COUNTRY shown, especially for the spanish forum. I want to learn Castilian Spanish as best I can and to do that you have to rely on the forum a bit more.

I really do quite like them, though. :)

*Also, I dislike how the streak has to be in the same language. I had a much longer streak, but I did not realise that if I only practised spanish one day and then only french the next that my streak would reset. That seems odd to me.

I love the way it is now, don't change it : ) I'll actually add more medals, ribbons, achievement kudos and any kind of additional badge which will made people eager to earn :P I for first want a moderator M, all the flag possible and more near to me. Fry & Bender.

Mmm.. why my comment got lost : / ?

If I made a comment when I was at level 3 and now it says I'm at level 14, it gives my comment too much credit.

So I think it should show the level of the person when they made the comment, not currently.

Or better, both, like "3 (14)", with the level at the time of the comment being shown first, since that's the important one.

(I think it's fine to show the current streak since that has nothing to do with our ability.)