If you haven’t left one already, go do it now! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddit.frontpage
Lol that app went from 4.8 to 2.8 in 3 weeks. Good job Reddit, you did it. You pissed off your user base. Now all you have left is a bunch of bots, clueless users and russian troll accounts doing astrosurfing.
Steve Huffman is an incredible businessman
/sMy favorite:
This feels really accurate, but it being an experiment would imply Steve Huffglue actually wants to learn something about anything that isn’t Elon-senpai’s life.
We did it reddit!
I’m sure they’re paying for reviews though. There are some really suspicious and recent 5 star reviews.
That is the fakest shit I’ve ever read
That’s hilarious!
Yesterday I patched the Reddit app with revanced, I figured that if I went there from time to time at least I’d avoid ads. Omfg that app is a bigger piece of shit that when I diched it a year and half ago, unintuitive mess, horrible UX and UI, slow AF, makes my phone hot as if I was playing a game wtf, even without the API protest that app deserves all the 1 starts it can get.
I didn’t think the UI was the worst thing in the world and I was gonna just grit my teeth and use it, but holy shit, the drain on my battery was insane. Even when I didn’t have the app open. My battery was only lasting a couple of hours on a full charge. I had to ditch it.
Mature 17+
Couldn’t we theoretically screw with this up, given that Reddit has porn subs, and force it to be rated Adult? I bet that this would leave plenty advertisers pissed.
You gotta look in the agb, i bet theres smth about that (the same how instagram is marked at 13 but you gotta be 16 to make a account)
Nah, they’d just do the same thing for Android that they already do on the Apple store.
Basically the app you download is locked into a SFW-only mode and then you have to log in to reddit via a web browser and flip a setting that then allows your app to show NSFW content.
Awww. Well, back to 1 star-bombing businesses then.
I’m seeing 2.8 stars on the Play Store. Keep going! Screw them.
In my area it’s 3.2, are they manipulating the stars?
Votes are tracked based on app version. EG rating for tablet may be different for phone and older android app rating might be different again.
I’m doing my part!
The rating is location based is why it shows different for some people –> https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/08/making-ratings-and-reviews-better-for.html
And if you’ve experienced the following description from their store page to be inaccurate, don’t forget to report it for violating the Developer Policy under Privacy Violations / Deception:
You can request that data be deleted The developer provides a way for you to request that your data be deleted
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/contact/policy_violation_report
Mysteriously iOS rating hasn’t budged this whole time, shocking!
I went to do this but I already gave them 1 star in 2017 lol
Redo it, it counts again
It’s still amazes me how little polish there is to the official Reddit app compared to other third party apps. I used Firefox browser until I adopted RIF. I tried to use the official app after the deadline came and the amount of ads that I was bombarded with just became unbearable. I understand they need to make money. I understand they do this by advertising. But when they start using deceptive practices like blending the ads into genuine post they cross the line. I was a heavy user I would say greater than 2 hours a day spent on Reddit. I didn’t go cold turkey but I’m down to checking top and top last hour once or twice a day now. I deleted my main account which made it very easy to stay away.
The “posts that look like ads” thing almost caused me to quit the site years ago.
It’s 4.3 for me
3.1 for me. Apparently reviews are regional and per device type.
Done.
Fuxk u/spez
3.1 on mine. Some of the reviews are really funny Its got almost an equal number of 5* and 1* reviews Screw reddit.
I guess we’re on the same app version, mine shows 3.1 as well. I just left a 1 star.
Screw Reddit.
idea: if you can rate the reviews (5 stars) make sure the put that they don’t help if they look spammy
It’s a little jarring to see a “Mature +17” rating from the ESRB like Reddit is a video game…
