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Reddit plagued with 1-star App Store reviews over API debacle as users search for 0-star button (9to5mac.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ardi60@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looks like they’re paying for fake reviews.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

How could you possibly doubt the word of uh... Jefferey Tromp and his good friend Romaine.

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 17 points 1 year ago

Those look so fake

[–] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev 4 points 1 year ago

that's really interesting.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The official app deserves 1-star regardless of the API shutdown. Even Jerboa and other Lemmy apps in their extremely buggy alpha state have a better user experience than the official Reddit app.

Thanks for reminding me to actually go give it its 1-star on Google Play!

Like honestly I wouldn't be too mad if the official app was actually good, but it's basically unusable.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

And thanks for reminding me to do the same! It's crazy how much worse the official app is - it should be the best Reddit app, not the worst.

[–] gogosempai@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly. For a multimillion dollar company, their app sure is shittier and buggier than 3rd party apps maintained by single devs. It lacks absolute basic features like text formatting shortcuts with Bold/Italics/Quote/List/etc options that should pop up over the keyboard while typing. Every 3rd party app I've used has had that.

[–] Nullify9964@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m glad to see this but app stores have anti review bomb measures so this might not make a difference

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, probably, but the message is what's important here. We need this happening, we need people talking about it as much as possible. We can't just stay quiet.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

I actually tried the official app and it just pissed me off.

Just a couple of more days now before they turn off access. Nice.

[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good Riddance.

[–] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

After seeing this post, I went to the play store to give my 1 star review. Then I saw that I already put 1 star back in 2017 stating that the app is crap xD

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