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.
Are you seriously on a one man mission to try to convince people on Lemmy to come back to reddit? What a miserable endeavor. Just return to Spez’s sweet teet and stop trolling. You aren’t going to change minds here and these efforts will not bring you happiness. You are free to ignore me, but suggest you meditate on this choice at least.
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.
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.
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:
Fkspz - bcs ds sck lk vwls
It’s 3.0 ⭐ for me.
3 is still too high imho. I’d rate the Reddit app as a 2/5. Usable if you have to but not a particularly great experience.
I gave it a 2 simply for the content that’s already there but a scathing, lengthy review for being a shit app. I actually needed more characters to say everything I had in mind.
Simply put, the app is so shit I can’t believe Google doesn’t take it down and off of the play store. I only have it installed with revanced applied now and for very specific niche health related subs that still haven’t migrated (found a surprisingly active forum for it, so now I don’t even really need reddit).
2.9 stars on Play Store for my demographics!
