Most of them will get removed due to ““hate spam”” anyways
Has already happened. Its on 3.9 again.
Might be location based. Central Canada and it’s at 2.6
But they haven’t removed the obvious 5 star spam?
2.6 Germany. The 1 star reviews surpass the 5 stars by a lot!
2.6 in Australia
2.9 in australia
oh damn u seem to be in a reddit app country. So far the highest rating in any location
3.5, Malaysia.
3.0 in the US, just checked right now.
Total of 2,875,719 reviews.
any evidence for your claims? Certainly I woikd assume it can happen that reviews get removed it you actually just write slurs in the comment but that’s just stupid. Other than that I highly doubt google ever removes legit reviews
4.8/5 on the apple store, Lol.
“The new app is broken and frustrating” But they gave it five stars…
Sounds like laptop review I’ve seen yesterday.
“Random restarts”
“Battery doesn’t charge”
5 stars
Most likely paid for those reviews lol
By definition, iPhone owners don’t mind paying ridiculous prices for things they can get for free.
I mind a lot, personally.
ok
The iPhone hate is hilarious to me. I used androids for years. Galaxies and Pixels. Without fail before two years old they were slow hot pieces of shit with terrible battery degradation
I decided to try iPhones. On a 12 pro since release. It just fucking works and battery has remained great. Sure it’s dropped to 80% capacity compared to release. But guess what. When it hits 79 apple will warranty it for me
I’ve spent less on phones since switching to iPhone than I ever did when using android
(And they hold their resale value really well. And the support windows are insane by comparison. I’m just saying 🤷♀️)
My Pixel 3 XL is still going strong after 5 years. It helps to be careful what apps get installed.
This is also a separate issue.
Sometimes they do last long like your phone. But despite it working still your phone hasn’t gotten a security update in over a year and isn’t going to again. Length of support on Android is not great.
I don’t hate the iPhone. I hate Apple for taking advantage of people who don’t know any better.
At this point they have a captive audience of computer-illiterate users who are trapped in the Apple ecosystem, forced to pay obscene amounts of money when their flimsy chargers die, because they literally cannot fathom how to use any UI more complicated than pressing a single button over and over again until their device does what they want.
What a weird 2015 take
If you are on an iOS device, be sure to rate the lower starred reviews as “helpful”.
- find the app in the App Store
- tap show all reviews
- sort by most critical, or most recent
- long press on a review to select helpful/not helpful
On Play Store there’s a Yes or No “Was this review helpful?” question below each review.
How does this affect the overall rating?
Despite the API protests, the Official Reddit app sucks anyways. It uses a ton more data and battery than third party apps, so I’d never use it again. The app also has a bunch of tracking built in.
It also stutters like mad even on high end phones. I almost feel like making it work well would have required less effort. No idea why dozens of indie developers all did far better jobs.
I swear I checked last monday and it was 2.6. Damn looks like lot of bots are at work.
I think the results are regional.
Yea this should be the case because it has well over 3 rating in my region.
Agreed. 2.6 in my location. PNW
Literally where it shows the rating and downloads numbers there is a small “i” for “information”, not that difficult to find
Regional and based on your device
This is on the UK Play store.
Reddit app is steaming pile of shit that doesn’t get better with time, which is fascinating.
I still use (paid version of) Joey and it still works. The moment it stops working I am ditching Reddit and using Lemmy completely.Why wait, tho.
A lot more content on Reddit and more diverse population.
Life is more than what you can consume on a daily basis
I spoke with a kestrel once (a type of bird) and they asked what people consume in general to be able to have this notion
I was using RIF is fun until today. this morning it just stopped loading anything…so here I am 🤷
Central Europe
And many of the 1 star reviews are really well put with good constructive feedback. So no reason to delete them. Riiight?
Showing 4.8 for me, southern US. I did do my part though!
Edit: if you look at the version history, up until 2 months ago they would describe what each update did. The last 13 updates all say the same thing (iOS):
Thank you for updating the Reddit app! We’ve updated our iOS app with bug fixes and changes to improve your overall experience.
The only difference is that sometimes there’s a bullet point dot at the very beginning depending on how it was copy/pasted that day lol…just awful every which way with no redeeming qualities.
The reviews are fun. The top keywords or phrases have “absolute garbage” which means that collectively, people have assigned the reddit app to absolute garbage. Not garbage, not bad, but “absolute garbage”. Fantastic.
That’s the words I used too lol.
I hate how they try to force you into the app from the mobile website now.
No I don’t want to use your shitty app. I won’t even download it to leave a bad rating.
In my experience, haven’t they always done that?
I did my part just now
In Chile it still shows up with 4 stars 😬🇨🇱
We did it
redditlemmy!
