Don’t want anyone browsing the Play Store to be misled!
Iphone users, I’m assuming your version of the play store is in similar need of some upkeep.
The review comment would be a good place to pitch the fediverse, too.
Remember to promote Lemmy in your reviews!
Rated worse than truth social lol
That’s actually not surprising. Truth Social is populated almost exclusively with, and rated almost exclusively by, neonazis. It’s their bigoted safe space - they put out 5-star ratings like their cult leader puts out dog whistles.
Remember to promote Lemmy in your reviews!
Now down to 2.9
Showing 3.2 for me right now, so someone must be deleting the bad reviews, or they’ve got an bot army giving it 5 stars.
I was reading some other comments on this thread and they suggested that the ratings might be different based on region and / or groups of similar devices so that could also be something to factor in
But I won’t discount the bot army or bad reviews being removed as possible theories
Sadly still 4.8 on App Store
According to this Reddit post, someone is spamming the Reddit app with fake 5-star reviews on the App Store.
Tf? It’s a horrible app. How tf did it get 4.8 stars?
App store rating (Rating: 4.8 - 2.66M votes): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reddit/id1064216828
Play store rating (Rating: 3.6 - 2.88M votes): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddit.frontpage&hl=en_US&gl=US
There are lots of negative reviews but have five stars attached. I don’t get it.
As someone else said, it smells bot-ty
I did that last month and also clicked ‘yes’ to “was this review helpful?” to all 1 and 2-starred reviews.
2.9 for me. Apparently the rating you see is based on ratings by people in your region using a similar device to you, which I guess explains why everyone’s is different.
There is no way my device have 8 million copies
4.4 on my store, regardless I give him 1 star, which they don’t even deserve.
Which region is that?
It’s PlayStore and how do I check my region?
Well you should know in which region you live right? At least if you are not using VPN or spoofed the Play Store in another way lol
I thought you could watch it somewhere, just to he sure I’m not using any other store (I use custom ROMs, that’s why I thought it could affect this).
I’m Mexican.
If you are using Aurora Store for example, you have the option to spoof your region. But probably you didn’t so Mexico is correct!
I would, but I gave it a 1 star review years ago.
Note that 2 stars at this point makes more impact than 1 star. A spike a one star tells people “some drama is going on that it getting the app review bombed. Probably doesn’t matter to me.” More 2 stars is better.
Wouldn’t most people just look at the rating average itself for the time being, rather than go through the individual reviews?
Though even if they do the latter, leaving a 1-star review with a well-written and concise explanation about why it scores so low would alleviate the issue of people dismissing it as meaningless drama.
People look at the graph at the top. They don’t read reviews, they see a natural and even distribution of 3s 4s and 5s, almost no 2s, and a suspicious spike of 1s.
I noticed the age rating on the app is wrong too - it’s set to Parental Guidance, when there are so many subs with profanity and worse not set to NSFW.
Definitely needs flagging.
Mine says mature 17+, that’s interesting.
Besides how dirty all of the other decisions made during this whole fiasco were… It’s bizarre they didn’t offer to buy Apollo or RIF. I feel like it’s well known that the Reddit app sucks ass. Pay someone who developed a good app and put ads on it. Then merge the apps.
But that would involve spez not being insanely stubborn.
Reddit is not interested in having a “good” app (as viewed from the perspective of the users). Reddit wants an app that collects as much data, and generates as much revenue, as possible. Those goals are sometimes contradictory to what normal users want.
They already did that with Alien blue, and you see how that went…
I disagree with that rating because it should be 5 stars. Thank you Reddit for making a very high quality app!
Are you seriously on a one man mission to try to convince people on Lemmy to come back to reddit? What a miserable endeavor. Just return to Spez’s sweet teet and stop trolling. You aren’t going to change minds here and these efforts will not bring you happiness. You are free to ignore me, but suggest you meditate on this choice at least.
No, but thanks for the new copypasta kind stranger!
