App Dev Here: These 1 Stars Hurt! Keep it up!
If you haven't left one already, go do it now! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddit.frontpage
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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
/s
My 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.
Sadly it’s 4.8 on iOS still.
I’ve tried multiple times to rate it on iOS and they aren’t registering it. I feel like they turned off reviews
Could be preventing brigading
It’s 4.6 for me.
Ah yes, the suspicious four point six rating.
4.7 for me
We did it reddit!
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.
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
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.
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!
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:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/contact/policy_violation_report
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.
You should charge your phone
And read that fucking Signal message.
And maybe re-enable mobile data.
This screenie tickles my OCD senses.
Maybe op has an automation to disable mobile data when on certain Wi-Fi. But the battery is unexcused 🤣
It literally does not. It just prefers the wifi connection.
Done.
Fuxk u/spez
I went to do this but I already gave them 1 star in 2017 lol
Redo it, it counts again
holy shit they're down to 2.8?
When They were at 3.9 at the beginning of July jfc
It shows as 3.1 for me. It's still gone .4 since last I looked a week ago lol.
Google has a history of undoing review bombing.
They've done it before.
They're probably both paying Google to remove bad reviews, and hiring review farms to leave positive reviews.
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!
I wish I could leave a review but I’m using iOS 17 beta and apple don’t let you leave App Store reviews while using the beta.
I will be leaving one when I’m not on the beta anymore.
I know it’s not the Play Store, but it’s still shown as being 4.7 stars on the iOS App Store
Not sure why tbh, I've given it one star there too for good measure though.
probably only showing you local reviews
Even though the recent reviews are filled with 1 stars the App Store rating hasn’t budged at all. Still at 4.8
When I opened it up to leave a review in the Play Store, it told me the rating was based on recent reviews in my region by users who use the same type of device I use
Mysteriously iOS rating hasn't budged this whole time, shocking!
It is 3.7 stars on Playstore, sadly.
Showing 2.8 in Canada for me.
I reinstalled the app so I could change my rating to 1 sar!
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.
It's 4.3 for me
3.1 for me. Apparently reviews are regional and per device type.
It's a little jarring to see a "Mature +17" rating from the ESRB like Reddit is a video game...
Do the 1 stars hurt when all the competing apps are shut down?
They do, because even sites like Reddit are constantly advertising and trying to bring new users in
There's still RedReader, so absolutely!
I'm actually using RedReader while logged in, but I can't get content from NSFW subs. I think it's usable since it's one of the allowed accessibility apps.
idea: if you can rate the reviews (5 stars) make sure the put that they don't help if they look spammy
For me it's 4.2, idk how it's different for everyone
As some other responses to this post have already pointed out, it depends on your location as well as phone model (and who knows what else)
That's how it is in mine. 3.6
They apparently base it on your location and device model (as in, it only shows reviews from devices that are similar in specs and compatibility to yours)
Charge your phone!
It was charged, then OP installed the reddit app!
It is 3.1 stars on the Play store with thousands of 1 star reviews. I don't understand how so many people could think it is a good enough app to warrant 3.1 stars. People seem to think there's only 2 ratings, 1 star or 5 stars.
theyre paying for the 5s, peopke only think it's 1 or 2
I'm seeing 4 stars.