this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Who knew the app was so bad?

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[–] handhookcardoor 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And how long until they start being deleted?

[–] hikarulsi 14 points 1 year ago

Reddit is deleting itself, CEO never learns

[–] berkeleyblue 26 points 1 year ago

Same for the App Store for the last 3 weeks or so.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit is 100% already crying to Google about "review brigading" and will get almost every 1star review since the API changes removed. Money looks out for money.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a post about the large number of recent one-word five-star reviews recently. I suspect they don't want Google looking too closely at the legitimacy of their reviews.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just flagged it as inappropriate - other and stated that such a garbage app should not be an "editor's choice" app.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Mobile dev here - I gave it half a dozen one stars on both Google Play and iOS

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Wondering if dowloading it just to give 1 star review does more harm than good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Most people who've used the app know it's technically challenged. One star is more than it deserves in my opinion.

[–] eric5949 8 points 1 year ago

I can't review it for some reason lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Didn't think about that! Thank you! Review left.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The official reddit app is a piece of shit spyware. Just watch all the metrics that fly back to home base when your using it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh. Hey, thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten to place a review for this product, but I feel it's the responsible thing to do.

[–] ToNIX 5 points 1 year ago

It definitely deserves a 1 star rating and I encourage everyone to do the same.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I, too, am one of the many people who were just reminded to leave a review

[–] whitehatbofh 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, I left a one star review as soon as I learned about this crap. I started how I'd always used third party apps and all quitting reddit because of their bullshit. As a final touch, I left a few links to some sites for the fediverse and said that is migrated there instead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I had iOS I liked the app and didn't see the need to use a third party one.

Now I'm on Android and the official app is a stuttery mess, so I moved to a third party one and left a bad review mentioning the performance.