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Reddit plagued with 1-star App Store reviews over API debacle as users search for 0-star button (9to5mac.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 58 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Looks like they’re paying for fake reviews.

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    • [–] 53 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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 3 years ago

    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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    • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    This is the way

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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 3 years ago

    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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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Good Riddance.

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    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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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    After seeing this post, I went to the play store to give my 1 star review. Then I saw that I already put 1 star back in 2017 stating that the app is crap xD

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    The last major time something like this happened was with the Robinhood trading app. Not sure about iOS, but Google very helpfully declared that negative reviews made during a major scandal are illegitimate and removed them all, artifically bringing the app ratings back up. So keep an eye out for if Reddit's ratings suddenly recovers on Google.

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