Don’t want anyone browsing the Play Store to be misled!
Iphone users, I’m assuming your version of the play store is in similar need of some upkeep.
The review comment would be a good place to pitch the fediverse, too.
Note that 2 stars at this point makes more impact than 1 star. A spike a one star tells people “some drama is going on that it getting the app review bombed. Probably doesn’t matter to me.” More 2 stars is better.
Wouldn’t most people just look at the rating average itself for the time being, rather than go through the individual reviews?
Though even if they do the latter, leaving a 1-star review with a well-written and concise explanation about why it scores so low would alleviate the issue of people dismissing it as meaningless drama.
People look at the graph at the top. They don’t read reviews, they see a natural and even distribution of 3s 4s and 5s, almost no 2s, and a suspicious spike of 1s.
From what I’ve seen, a spike at 1 and 5 star reviews isn’t all that suspicious. A lot of people treat the star rating system as a like/dislike system, where 5 is a like, and 1 is a dislike. Of course, there’s the variation in between, but the majority of reviews fall under the extremes, for any app.
Like for example, this is the google play store rating for facebook and instagram respectively. They spike at 1-star and 5-star, and it’s not out of the ordinary:
That’s what I did but it’s hard to even justify 2 stars. I’ll give them a slight notch for three content they do have at the moment/ for the interim.
At least I’m running it with revanced and only dir super specific niche subreddits that haven’t transferred over - I’m no longer commenting or providing content.
2.9 for me. Apparently the rating you see is based on ratings by people in your region using a similar device to you, which I guess explains why everyone’s is different.
Besides how dirty all of the other decisions made during this whole fiasco were… It’s bizarre they didn’t offer to buy Apollo or RIF. I feel like it’s well known that the Reddit app sucks ass. Pay someone who developed a good app and put ads on it. Then merge the apps.
But that would involve spez not being insanely stubborn.
I noticed the age rating on the app is wrong too - it’s set to Parental Guidance, when there are so many subs with profanity and worse not set to NSFW.
Definitely needs flagging.
Sadly still 4.8 on App Store
According to this Reddit post, someone is spamming the Reddit app with fake 5-star reviews on the App Store.
Tf? It’s a horrible app. How tf did it get 4.8 stars?
App store rating (Rating: 4.8 - 2.66M votes): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reddit/id1064216828
Play store rating (Rating: 3.6 - 2.88M votes): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddit.frontpage&hl=en_US&gl=US
TikTok and Instagram are just as highly rated despite both having quite user hostile UX.
These companies probably do something to skew reviews, like showing the rating dialog only to very active users.
I just went through the reviews it showed me since Saturday, and most of those are one and two stars. I saw a five star one that said ‘ouch my penis hurts’ and another that said ‘koolaid is good, I like the purple’. Both of those got reported.
It doesn’t show recent ratings though, but it has gone down to a 4.7 since you posted this.
There are lots of negative reviews but have five stars attached. I don’t get it.
