24 points

The official app deserves 1-star regardless of the API shutdown. Even Jerboa and other Lemmy apps in their extremely buggy alpha state have a better user experience than the official Reddit app.

Thanks for reminding me to actually go give it its 1-star on Google Play!

Like honestly I wouldn’t be too mad if the official app was actually good, but it’s basically unusable.

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6 points

Exactly. For a multimillion dollar company, their app sure is shittier and buggier than 3rd party apps maintained by single devs. It lacks absolute basic features like text formatting shortcuts with Bold/Italics/Quote/List/etc options that should pop up over the keyboard while typing. Every 3rd party app I’ve used has had that.

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4 points

And thanks for reminding me to do the same! It’s crazy how much worse the official app is - it should be the best Reddit app, not the worst.

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16 points

Looks like they’re paying for fake reviews.

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10 points

100% fake. I reported them as spam personally

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7 points

I’m interested in the second one shown. It’s 5 stars but they’re sorry it doesn’t work…?

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7 points

Those look so fake

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6 points

How could you possibly doubt the word of uh… Jefferey Tromp and his good friend Romaine.

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11 points

I’m glad to see this but app stores have anti review bomb measures so this might not make a difference

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2 points

Yeah, probably, but the message is what’s important here. We need this happening, we need people talking about it as much as possible. We can’t just stay quiet.

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3 points

I actually tried the official app and it just pissed me off.

Just a couple of more days now before they turn off access. Nice.

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Good Riddance.

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