More or less everyone hates the heart program in Duolingo.

I currently learn Spanish, Hungarian, and Chinese. I have some beginner's knowledge of Spanish already because of us being taught it at school - but no knowledge in Hungarian and certainly none at all in Chinese, which to start off with makes these languages incredibly difficult. I was extremely stunned when I picked Hungarian, after a few days of doing Spanish, to find out that there was no heart system in Hungarian - I thought that it was an amazing feature! I guessed it would have been that because I had chose Spanish as a learning language or something, that I would have not had the hearts system - as I didn't have it when I started Chinese either.

When I started Russian, however, I was absolutely appalled to find out that I could hardly even advance past the beginner lessons because of the stupid heart feature. Cyrillic is tough to learn and is easiest to learn via immersion, but it's not even the start of the hardest part to learn about Russian.

You don't have to look far to see hate for the Duolingo heart system. Not only does it noticeably demotivate people to learn languages, especially difficult ones like Russian, but it's not even on all languages and platforms and for all users.

Removing hearts should be a very high priority for Duolingo right now, especially for all the languages it is currently in action for on iOS.

A simple Google search on the community's response to the hearts system shows nothing but hate for it and wishes to remove it.

Thank you Duolingo, we love your motivation and drive to help the world learn languages - but the heart system cannot continue to exist.