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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          From what I’ve seen, a spike at 1 and 5 star reviews isn’t all that suspicious. A lot of people treat the star rating system as a like/dislike system, where 5 is a like, and 1 is a dislike. Of course, there’s the variation in between, but the majority of reviews fall under the extremes, for any app.

          Like for example, this is the google play store rating for facebook and instagram respectively. They spike at 1-star and 5-star, and it’s not out of the ordinary:

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      That’s what I did but it’s hard to even justify 2 stars. I’ll give them a slight notch for three content they do have at the moment/ for the interim.

      At least I’m running it with revanced and only dir super specific niche subreddits that haven’t transferred over - I’m no longer commenting or providing content.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    3.0 for me, but one of the frequently referenced key phrases in the reviews (listed as “review topics” you can select) is the phrase “absolute garbage” and ngl I kinda love that

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    I did that last month and also clicked ‘yes’ to “was this review helpful?” to all 1 and 2-starred reviews.

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        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

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    Thanks for the heads up. Gave it one star to bring that average down on the iOS App Store.

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    It’s currently 2.9 stars on my Playstore. I’ve given it one star and a scathing review. Thanks for the heads-up. I hadn’t thought about changing my review when I uninstalled it a couple of weeks ago.