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.
2.9 stars on Play Store for my demographics!
Sadly still 4.8 on App Store
There are lots of negative reviews but have five stars attached. I don’t get it.
As someone else said, it smells bot-ty
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
TikTok and Instagram are just as highly rated despite both having quite user hostile UX.
These companies probably do something to skew reviews, like showing the rating dialog only to very active users.
How would a revanced app affect the rating? Would it read differently?
I just went through the reviews it showed me since Saturday, and most of those are one and two stars. I saw a five star one that said ‘ouch my penis hurts’ and another that said ‘koolaid is good, I like the purple’. Both of those got reported.
It doesn’t show recent ratings though, but it has gone down to a 4.7 since you posted this.
4.8 out of 10, right? Right?
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.
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.
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.
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:
It doesn’t deserve 1 let alone 2 stars, drama or otherwise.
It’s on 4.2 for me
Report the scam/ fake reviews. There’s plenty of nonsense 5 star reviews that they are botting/ pushing.
Varies by region
It’s 4.9 for me…
Play Store? On the iOS AppStore it has insanely good ratings for some reason. Like way better than they should be even without the API drama.
App store, maybe because of the country
@Pechente To be fair iOS users are more accustomed to being held “hostage” in their platform of choice.
I have 3.5
It’s 3.0 ⭐ for me.
3 is still too high imho. I’d rate the Reddit app as a 2/5. Usable if you have to but not a particularly great experience.
I gave it a 2 simply for the content that’s already there but a scathing, lengthy review for being a shit app. I actually needed more characters to say everything I had in mind.
Simply put, the app is so shit I can’t believe Google doesn’t take it down and off of the play store. I only have it installed with revanced applied now and for very specific niche health related subs that still haven’t migrated (found a surprisingly active forum for it, so now I don’t even really need reddit).
Thanks for the heads up. Gave it one star to bring that average down on the iOS App Store.
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.
they will make an offer after it is fully dead as it is worthless at that point
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…
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!
Hell yeah. It was somewhere in the 4’s a month ago
Looks like we got a death hug on the ratings.
It was 2.2, but it looks like they either bought reviews, or the Play Store mitigates brigade reviews.
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.
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
Just had a look,shows as 2.9 for me too.
