Most of them will get removed due to ""hate spam"" anyways
Has already happened. Its on 3.9 again.
Might be location based. Central Canada and it's at 2.6
But they haven't removed the obvious 5 star spam?
2.6 Germany. The 1 star reviews surpass the 5 stars by a lot!
2.6 in Australia
2.9 in australia
oh damn u seem to be in a reddit app country. So far the highest rating in any location
3.0 in the US, just checked right now.
Total of 2,875,719 reviews.
3.5, Malaysia.
any evidence for your claims? Certainly I woikd assume it can happen that reviews get removed it you actually just write slurs in the comment but that's just stupid. Other than that I highly doubt google ever removes legit reviews
By definition, iPhone owners don't mind paying ridiculous prices for things they can get for free.
I mind a lot, personally.
ok
The iPhone hate is hilarious to me. I used androids for years. Galaxies and Pixels. Without fail before two years old they were slow hot pieces of shit with terrible battery degradation
I decided to try iPhones. On a 12 pro since release. It just fucking works and battery has remained great. Sure it’s dropped to 80% capacity compared to release. But guess what. When it hits 79 apple will warranty it for me
I’ve spent less on phones since switching to iPhone than I ever did when using android
(And they hold their resale value really well. And the support windows are insane by comparison. I'm just saying 🤷♀️)
My Pixel 3 XL is still going strong after 5 years. It helps to be careful what apps get installed.
This is also a separate issue.
Sometimes they do last long like your phone. But despite it working still your phone hasn’t gotten a security update in over a year and isn’t going to again. Length of support on Android is not great.
I don't hate the iPhone. I hate Apple for taking advantage of people who don't know any better.
At this point they have a captive audience of computer-illiterate users who are trapped in the Apple ecosystem, forced to pay obscene amounts of money when their flimsy chargers die, because they literally cannot fathom how to use any UI more complicated than pressing a single button over and over again until their device does what they want.
What a weird 2015 take
"The new app is broken and frustrating" But they gave it five stars...
Sounds like laptop review I've seen yesterday.
"Random restarts"
"Battery doesn't charge"
5 stars
If you are on an iOS device, be sure to rate the lower starred reviews as “helpful”.
find the app in the App Store
tap show all reviews
sort by most critical, or most recent
long press on a review to select helpful/not helpful
On Play Store there's a Yes or No "Was this review helpful?" question below each review.
How does this affect the overall rating?
Despite the API protests, the Official Reddit app sucks anyways. It uses a ton more data and battery than third party apps, so I'd never use it again. The app also has a bunch of tracking built in.
It also stutters like mad even on high end phones. I almost feel like making it work well would have required less effort. No idea why dozens of indie developers all did far better jobs.
Ok, so what's everyone's honest opinion about the app? I've used it once or twice before switching to rif and never used anything else. My wife has been using the official app and says it's "fine". I switched to lemmy after the API fiasco, so I really have no idea how it functions these days. Is it really that dogshit or are people like me just mad?
Put it like this. I was so mad about losing Sync that I downloaded the reddit app just to give it a 1 star review and then delete it.
When I downloaded the official reddit app, I found that I had already given it a 1 star review a year or two before this whole situation.
The official app is and has always been garbage.
Drinking water is fine, just like the Reddit app is fine. Wait until you try coffee, mango lassi, milk and all the other beverages available.
Actually no, the Reddit app is actively assaulting you with ads and BS notifications, so it’s more like dirty water and it certainly isn’t fine once you’ve tried clean water. However, I still really like mango lassi, but too bad Reddit chopped down all the mango trees.
I actually prefer water over any drink
Reddit’s official app is ocean water
I would say is more like waste water
Now with more bile!
The more I use Lemmy apps (favorite is Infinity), the more I realize what an awful experience the official Reddit app is. It's so sluggish in a subtle way, it makes me tired to scroll. Plus, there's tons of clutter, nothing is where it should be (e.g. r/all is at the very bottom of the left slider menu), and the app behaves in weird little ways (e.g. if you unmute a video, all your videos are now unmuted even if they're autoplaying in the feed).
Biggest offender is the ads. All over the feed and comments, created on purpose to blend in so you don't immediately realize you're being advertised to. But other than that, the official Reddit app is enshittification by a thousand little shitty design decisions.
The video player rarely works properly, ads are pretty egregious, it's hard to navigate with so much stuff bloating the UX, there are literal NFTs, and the app is generally much slower in general. And that's just the app itself.
I patched it using revanced manager to remove ads. But it's a buggy mess. The only good "feature" is inline image comments.
I guess your wife is also using Windows and a web browser without ad blocker. People get used to having ads and messages thrown in their face constantly.
But once you try Lemmy, you see how nice things can be.
It's funny how if you browse lemmy, you might be under the impression that Linux is some huge portion of the market share of OS's.
You know, rather than the reality which is less than 3% of users due to most people just wanting an OS that works without having to have a CS degree.
Since when do you need CS degree to use Linux? Oh that's right, you don't. You just have to actually give a shit about what you personally want, and not what big corporations want you to think.
You just have to actually give a shit about what you personally want, and not what big corporations want you to think.
Cool, you won't convince anyone like that.
There's no need to convince anyone. Anyone who wants to be there is there.
If you have to convince them to come in then you end up getting stuck with supporting them.
It's like the Reddit to Lemmy conversion. If people are going to consider the unknown and impassable barrier entry, they're probably better off where they were at.
I get it, but then the other dude is just being an asshole, belittling people that find hard the transition.
Either they suck at presenting a good argument about their platform or they are just an asshole that belittles other who find it hard to use their platform. I prefer to think the first one although I know that chances of the second are higher.
It's their loss.
Someone that misrepresents a topic with such confidence when they quite obviously have no idea what they are talking about doesn't really deserve a better response in my opinion. My tech illiterate wife uses Linux, and so does my 80+ year old grandma. It doesn't require a CS degree, anyone can use it.
Linux is great for very average users that do everything in the web browser and use a few basic applications. It is also great for advanced users that actually know how a computer operates. The problem comes from Windows power users that like to think of themselves as computer experts, but then realize that they are actually just Windows power users. Then they get butthurt and insecure and lash out at Linux when the problem is actually between the chair and keyboard.
Fine is a good description of it. I used to use it and it was fine, not excellent not horrible, just fine. Then after quite some time I looked into 3th party apps, mostly because I got tiered of how all ads became more and more disguised as normal posts.
I liked Infinity so I stuck with that for some time. Then I switched back to the official one as reading posts on the browser from mobil got worse and worse and I couldn't open the links in Infinity. The official app was ones again fine, a lot worse then Infinity but it was fine.
Then I figured out that you can make Infinity open reddit links and I switched back to Infinity again.
Then Reddit did what it did and now I use RedReader to read some communities that didn't move.
I think it’s a huge battery drain compared to all the alternatives, liftoff for example with Lemmy despite using it just as much as I did the official app in testing consumed less than half the battery life. Apollo also consumed about half of the official Reddit app while using Reddit so I dunno.
Also the constant promoted posts are just horrible to deal with.
For me the worse thing is that you are browsing your front page and they add posts from other subs, ads, etc, so at the end it feels you are browsing all. Maybe for some that is not a big deal, but for me it is.
It sucks to use for one reason. The comment chains are difficult to look at since they're not colored (I used Reddit's app months ago so it might have changed).
It's much slower. And the small font makes it a pain to read long posts and comments.
Oh god does it not even have adjustable font??
I was fine with the official app until my main feed got filled with junk from places I didn't want follow or want to follow. Once I switched to a third party app I saw how cluttered the offical app looked and never wanted to switch back.
por que no los dos?
It was dogshit since release yes
For some reason, it was using all the data I had when browsing
I swear I checked last monday and it was 2.6. Damn looks like lot of bots are at work.
I think the results are regional.
Yea this should be the case because it has well over 3 rating in my region.
Agreed. 2.6 in my location. PNW
Literally where it shows the rating and downloads numbers there is a small "i" for "information", not that difficult to find
Regional and based on your device
This is on the UK Play store.
Reddit app is steaming pile of shit that doesn't get better with time, which is fascinating.
I still use (paid version of) Joey and it still works. The moment it stops working I am ditching Reddit and using Lemmy completely.
Why wait, tho.
A lot more content on Reddit and more diverse population.
Life is more than what you can consume on a daily basis
I spoke with a kestrel once (a type of bird) and they asked what people consume in general to be able to have this notion
I was using RIF is fun until today. this morning it just stopped loading anything...so here I am 🤷
Central Europe
And many of the 1 star reviews are really well put with good constructive feedback. So no reason to delete them. Riiight?
The reviews are fun. The top keywords or phrases have "absolute garbage" which means that collectively, people have assigned the reddit app to absolute garbage. Not garbage, not bad, but "absolute garbage". Fantastic.
That's the words I used too lol.
Showing 4.8 for me, southern US. I did do my part though!
Edit: if you look at the version history, up until 2 months ago they would describe what each update did. The last 13 updates all say the same thing (iOS):
Thank you for updating the Reddit app! We’ve updated our iOS app with bug fixes and changes to improve your overall experience.
The only difference is that sometimes there’s a bullet point dot at the very beginning depending on how it was copy/pasted that day lol…just awful every which way with no redeeming qualities.
I hate how they try to force you into the app from the mobile website now.
No I don't want to use your shitty app. I won't even download it to leave a bad rating.
In my experience, haven't they always done that?
I did my part just now
In Chile it still shows up with 4 stars 😬🇨🇱
Canada
We did it reddit lemmy!
I love democracy
Not in my store.
Idk why they are different for everyone...
Apparently based on region and device.
Kinda idiotic tbh.
Also, what is "region"? Country? City?
The area where milfs are in according to pornsites...
by "device" they mean phone, tv, or tablet.
Yup. I've seen a few of these threads, and our Australian store always looks almost identical to the German one.
I'm starting to wonder if Google is confusing us with Austria.
Filtered by language
Especially when the total number of reviews is always the same.
It's different depending on your device + location
What it is amusing to me is that I read reviews like "perfect UI" LMAO.
I was surprised by the people commenting the official app is just great when the Reddit protests began. But it's hard to know if they're genuine comments or propaganda bots or whatever...
Anyways, it's been a lot of fun to experiment with the many Lemmy apps showing up recently. I'm enjoying Lemmy way more than I did Reddit. Never coming back.
This served as a good reminder for me to check my review and update it.
Nature is healing
I'm doing my part!
I don't think the official app is awful - yet. But It was clear when they jacked up API prices it was about making better software than theirs disappear so they could fill their own with ads, more ads, popups, notifications, privacy infringement and all the rest.
I just deleted it. If I need to access Reddit from a phone, I use an webapp link on the launcher which shows their site through Firefox. Strips out all the ads out too while its at it. I also do the same for Twitter.
I'm not sure if it's just my phone. But I get scroll lag on the official reddit app. It's a total downgrade to the other ones that I used before it!
Most of them will get removed due to ""hate spam"" anyways
Has already happened. Its on 3.9 again.
Might be location based. Central Canada and it's at 2.6
But they haven't removed the obvious 5 star spam?
2.6 Germany. The 1 star reviews surpass the 5 stars by a lot!
2.6 in Australia
2.9 in australia
oh damn u seem to be in a reddit app country. So far the highest rating in any location
3.0 in the US, just checked right now.
Total of 2,875,719 reviews.
3.5, Malaysia.
any evidence for your claims? Certainly I woikd assume it can happen that reviews get removed it you actually just write slurs in the comment but that's just stupid. Other than that I highly doubt google ever removes legit reviews
4.8/5 on the apple store, Lol.
Most likely paid for those reviews lol
By definition, iPhone owners don't mind paying ridiculous prices for things they can get for free.
I mind a lot, personally.
ok
The iPhone hate is hilarious to me. I used androids for years. Galaxies and Pixels. Without fail before two years old they were slow hot pieces of shit with terrible battery degradation
I decided to try iPhones. On a 12 pro since release. It just fucking works and battery has remained great. Sure it’s dropped to 80% capacity compared to release. But guess what. When it hits 79 apple will warranty it for me
I’ve spent less on phones since switching to iPhone than I ever did when using android
(And they hold their resale value really well. And the support windows are insane by comparison. I'm just saying 🤷♀️)
My Pixel 3 XL is still going strong after 5 years. It helps to be careful what apps get installed.
This is also a separate issue.
Sometimes they do last long like your phone. But despite it working still your phone hasn’t gotten a security update in over a year and isn’t going to again. Length of support on Android is not great.
I don't hate the iPhone. I hate Apple for taking advantage of people who don't know any better.
At this point they have a captive audience of computer-illiterate users who are trapped in the Apple ecosystem, forced to pay obscene amounts of money when their flimsy chargers die, because they literally cannot fathom how to use any UI more complicated than pressing a single button over and over again until their device does what they want.
What a weird 2015 take
"The new app is broken and frustrating" But they gave it five stars...
Sounds like laptop review I've seen yesterday.
"Random restarts"
"Battery doesn't charge"
5 stars
If you are on an iOS device, be sure to rate the lower starred reviews as “helpful”.
On Play Store there's a Yes or No "Was this review helpful?" question below each review.
How does this affect the overall rating?
Despite the API protests, the Official Reddit app sucks anyways. It uses a ton more data and battery than third party apps, so I'd never use it again. The app also has a bunch of tracking built in.
It also stutters like mad even on high end phones. I almost feel like making it work well would have required less effort. No idea why dozens of indie developers all did far better jobs.
Ok, so what's everyone's honest opinion about the app? I've used it once or twice before switching to rif and never used anything else. My wife has been using the official app and says it's "fine". I switched to lemmy after the API fiasco, so I really have no idea how it functions these days. Is it really that dogshit or are people like me just mad?
Put it like this. I was so mad about losing Sync that I downloaded the reddit app just to give it a 1 star review and then delete it.
When I downloaded the official reddit app, I found that I had already given it a 1 star review a year or two before this whole situation.
The official app is and has always been garbage.
Drinking water is fine, just like the Reddit app is fine. Wait until you try coffee, mango lassi, milk and all the other beverages available.
Actually no, the Reddit app is actively assaulting you with ads and BS notifications, so it’s more like dirty water and it certainly isn’t fine once you’ve tried clean water. However, I still really like mango lassi, but too bad Reddit chopped down all the mango trees.
I actually prefer water over any drink
Reddit’s official app is ocean water
I would say is more like waste water
Now with more bile!
The more I use Lemmy apps (favorite is Infinity), the more I realize what an awful experience the official Reddit app is. It's so sluggish in a subtle way, it makes me tired to scroll. Plus, there's tons of clutter, nothing is where it should be (e.g. r/all is at the very bottom of the left slider menu), and the app behaves in weird little ways (e.g. if you unmute a video, all your videos are now unmuted even if they're autoplaying in the feed).
Biggest offender is the ads. All over the feed and comments, created on purpose to blend in so you don't immediately realize you're being advertised to. But other than that, the official Reddit app is enshittification by a thousand little shitty design decisions.
The video player rarely works properly, ads are pretty egregious, it's hard to navigate with so much stuff bloating the UX, there are literal NFTs, and the app is generally much slower in general. And that's just the app itself.
I patched it using revanced manager to remove ads. But it's a buggy mess. The only good "feature" is inline image comments.
I guess your wife is also using Windows and a web browser without ad blocker. People get used to having ads and messages thrown in their face constantly.
But once you try Lemmy, you see how nice things can be.
It's funny how if you browse lemmy, you might be under the impression that Linux is some huge portion of the market share of OS's.
You know, rather than the reality which is less than 3% of users due to most people just wanting an OS that works without having to have a CS degree.
Since when do you need CS degree to use Linux? Oh that's right, you don't. You just have to actually give a shit about what you personally want, and not what big corporations want you to think.
Cool, you won't convince anyone like that.
There's no need to convince anyone. Anyone who wants to be there is there.
If you have to convince them to come in then you end up getting stuck with supporting them.
It's like the Reddit to Lemmy conversion. If people are going to consider the unknown and impassable barrier entry, they're probably better off where they were at.
I get it, but then the other dude is just being an asshole, belittling people that find hard the transition.
Either they suck at presenting a good argument about their platform or they are just an asshole that belittles other who find it hard to use their platform. I prefer to think the first one although I know that chances of the second are higher.
It's their loss.
Someone that misrepresents a topic with such confidence when they quite obviously have no idea what they are talking about doesn't really deserve a better response in my opinion. My tech illiterate wife uses Linux, and so does my 80+ year old grandma. It doesn't require a CS degree, anyone can use it.
Linux is great for very average users that do everything in the web browser and use a few basic applications. It is also great for advanced users that actually know how a computer operates. The problem comes from Windows power users that like to think of themselves as computer experts, but then realize that they are actually just Windows power users. Then they get butthurt and insecure and lash out at Linux when the problem is actually between the chair and keyboard.
Fine is a good description of it. I used to use it and it was fine, not excellent not horrible, just fine. Then after quite some time I looked into 3th party apps, mostly because I got tiered of how all ads became more and more disguised as normal posts.
I liked Infinity so I stuck with that for some time. Then I switched back to the official one as reading posts on the browser from mobil got worse and worse and I couldn't open the links in Infinity. The official app was ones again fine, a lot worse then Infinity but it was fine.
Then I figured out that you can make Infinity open reddit links and I switched back to Infinity again.
Then Reddit did what it did and now I use RedReader to read some communities that didn't move.
I think it’s a huge battery drain compared to all the alternatives, liftoff for example with Lemmy despite using it just as much as I did the official app in testing consumed less than half the battery life. Apollo also consumed about half of the official Reddit app while using Reddit so I dunno.
Also the constant promoted posts are just horrible to deal with.
For me the worse thing is that you are browsing your front page and they add posts from other subs, ads, etc, so at the end it feels you are browsing all. Maybe for some that is not a big deal, but for me it is.
It sucks to use for one reason. The comment chains are difficult to look at since they're not colored (I used Reddit's app months ago so it might have changed).
It's much slower. And the small font makes it a pain to read long posts and comments.
Oh god does it not even have adjustable font??
I was fine with the official app until my main feed got filled with junk from places I didn't want follow or want to follow. Once I switched to a third party app I saw how cluttered the offical app looked and never wanted to switch back.
por que no los dos?
It was dogshit since release yes
For some reason, it was using all the data I had when browsing
I swear I checked last monday and it was 2.6. Damn looks like lot of bots are at work.
I think the results are regional.
Yea this should be the case because it has well over 3 rating in my region.
Agreed. 2.6 in my location. PNW
Literally where it shows the rating and downloads numbers there is a small "i" for "information", not that difficult to find
Regional and based on your device
This is on the UK Play store.
Reddit app is steaming pile of shit that doesn't get better with time, which is fascinating.
I still use (paid version of) Joey and it still works. The moment it stops working I am ditching Reddit and using Lemmy completely.
Why wait, tho.
A lot more content on Reddit and more diverse population.
Life is more than what you can consume on a daily basis
I spoke with a kestrel once (a type of bird) and they asked what people consume in general to be able to have this notion
I was using RIF is fun until today. this morning it just stopped loading anything...so here I am 🤷
Central Europe
And many of the 1 star reviews are really well put with good constructive feedback. So no reason to delete them. Riiight?
The reviews are fun. The top keywords or phrases have "absolute garbage" which means that collectively, people have assigned the reddit app to absolute garbage. Not garbage, not bad, but "absolute garbage". Fantastic.
That's the words I used too lol.
Showing 4.8 for me, southern US. I did do my part though!
Edit: if you look at the version history, up until 2 months ago they would describe what each update did. The last 13 updates all say the same thing (iOS):
The only difference is that sometimes there’s a bullet point dot at the very beginning depending on how it was copy/pasted that day lol…just awful every which way with no redeeming qualities.
I hate how they try to force you into the app from the mobile website now.
No I don't want to use your shitty app. I won't even download it to leave a bad rating.
In my experience, haven't they always done that?
I did my part just now
In Chile it still shows up with 4 stars 😬🇨🇱
Canada
We did it
redditlemmy!I love democracy
Not in my store.
Idk why they are different for everyone...
Apparently based on region and device.
Kinda idiotic tbh.
Also, what is "region"? Country? City?
The area where milfs are in according to pornsites...
by "device" they mean phone, tv, or tablet.
Yup. I've seen a few of these threads, and our Australian store always looks almost identical to the German one.
I'm starting to wonder if Google is confusing us with Austria.
Filtered by language
Especially when the total number of reviews is always the same.
It's different depending on your device + location
What it is amusing to me is that I read reviews like "perfect UI" LMAO.
I was surprised by the people commenting the official app is just great when the Reddit protests began. But it's hard to know if they're genuine comments or propaganda bots or whatever...
Anyways, it's been a lot of fun to experiment with the many Lemmy apps showing up recently. I'm enjoying Lemmy way more than I did Reddit. Never coming back.
This served as a good reminder for me to check my review and update it.
Nature is healing
I'm doing my part!
I don't think the official app is awful - yet. But It was clear when they jacked up API prices it was about making better software than theirs disappear so they could fill their own with ads, more ads, popups, notifications, privacy infringement and all the rest.
I just deleted it. If I need to access Reddit from a phone, I use an webapp link on the launcher which shows their site through Firefox. Strips out all the ads out too while its at it. I also do the same for Twitter.
I'm not sure if it's just my phone. But I get scroll lag on the official reddit app. It's a total downgrade to the other ones that I used before it!
The official app is very laggy
In France that different again
Showing 2.8 stars in my country rn.
3.7 in Italy
Jeff Randall, too hot to handle.
This is fair.
2.9 stars in Poland. Not bad :)
Fuck you SPEZ. Hope you get all types of cancer.