Friends in Diamond league group Topic is solved

[Murt_O_Se]

This is the 4th week running that my diamond league group has contained at least one of my Duolingo "friends" (mutual followers). I only have 37 of them. One of them appeared in the same group (of 20) two weeks in succession. In one week there were 2 friends. The statistical odds against this must be huge. And in all my years it never happened before. So is it part of the algorithm now? Has anyone else seen this?

[SweNedGuy]

For this to occur your friends need to be

• located in the same time zone (or an adjacent one starting the league at the same moment.);

• Next, your friend needs to operate on the same platform as you: DL app or DL website;

• Next your friend and you need to have a comparable score in the previous league;

• Finally, your friend and you need to start the new league around the same hour of the day on Monday.

If you both use a streak freeze on Monday, the odds are higher because less users start on Tuesday. Hence leagues fill more slowly and the time window for entering the same league is wider.

[MoniqueMaRie]

I also recently had it several times in a row and immediately assumed that it was a new algorithm.

At the moment any other new features stay unnoticed by me because I'm in "private mode".

[Lulu25512]

That's normal. It's happened to me, too. Duolingo doesn't just mix and match. Imagine you earned 700 XP in one week and your friend earned 670 XP, then you have a higher chance of getting into a league than another friend who earned 10,000 XP in a week. Duolingo keeps track of your progress. It is not uncommon that you get into a league with friends.

[SweNedGuy]

And as a footnote: though many of my 'Duolingo friends' are in a diamond league, the few real-life friends among them usually aren't. They might have quit the app alltogether. However, if they are in diamond, they mostly use a different platform (I use the DL website). Hence I might find a 'DL friend' in my league, but never a real-life friend.