Depressing news - pun intended. How’s it doing in yours?
Ugh, makes me ashamed of my countrymen…
With a 4.7 rating? Really, you guys? What’s going on there?
Dunno, we have a lot of idiots here, I guess? 🤷
I just hope this craziness is a blip rather than actually representative of the taste and savviness of my compatriots
This must have something to do with how App Store calculates the score. I heard that if there are a huge number of 1 stars in a short period of time, they are not included. Not sure if that’s true though
Apple users will put up with and defend to the death for a long time bad design or lacking features. That isn’t a total dig against Apple though. They do hardware wise tend to put out some pretty solid kit. And despite all the software bull shittery. They still managed to put out some okay software too. If only it wasn’t all locked down and proprietary. And with that said it kind of illustrates perfectly why a lot of Apple/redit users would have less issue with many of the things that Reddit is currently doing. Apple was throttling and discriminating against third parties long before Reddit started. Green bubble solidarity.
Have you considered that maybe it’s not that bad? In the last month, I have tried to find out what it is that people hate about it so strongly. But all they say is immature things like “it’s cancer”, “it’s literally cancer”, “it’s shit”.
It might not have the features that people who joined reddit in 2017 care about, but most people dgaf.
I tried it for a long time and it’s just clunky, advertisements are hidden everywhere between the posts and in the comments section, the general overview is cluttered and illogic, and it stutters while scrolling.
Dang. I forgot about the stutters. It felt… Bloated somehow? Idk how to describe it. Joey, on the other hand, felt pretty “light” to me. Easier to navigate and you can personlize it, too.
I use it since they cripple the NSFW access for 3rd party apps, and most of my front page are videos, it loads so… slooww… and tapping one video will bring you to this tiktok-like interface where if you swipe up it’ll load the next video in that subreddit instead of the next post in my front page.
comparing that to Sync for Reddit that doesn’t experience any stutter and loads the video blazing fast, the experience really feels like a downgrade…
there are also the little stuffs like less customizability for color schemes, hiding awards, comment padding, font sizes, font styles, etc.
Oh, it absolutely is that bad. I gave it a generous chance, I started using it since I signed up on Reddit and kept using it for a few months.
The sheer amount of inserted unwanted content, including but not limited to ads, and the fact that at the time I was using it, it lagged massively on phones that were not bleeding edge new, did it for me. I eventually switched to Sync and then Boost and it was a huge qol improvement.
Btw, this comment kinda feels like it’s from a bot. I’m not accusing you of being a bot, but the “No one can tell why the app is so bad” part is sus, it was repeated by a lot of bots on Reddit, and it’s certainly pretty easy to find people elaborating on the exact, specific details on why the official app sucks so hard.
Look, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with liking an app that many others don’t. But it is a bit naïve to think you’re not going to get a lot of people disliking your comment, also because of the way you phrased it. Many of us used third-party apps, and we’re not used to being bombarded with ads, we knew exactly which subs we liked and didn’t and really don’t appreciate getting five suggestions every day for some random subreddit, claiming we would love it. Then there is the use of personal data and the weird decisions with taking away chat histories and awards that people. I guess if most of us really liked the Reddit app, we wouldn’t be spending so much time here. At least for me, leaving reddit was not a decision I took on a whim, and I think many other lemmings will agree.
TLDR: the Reddit app really does suck. Glad to be here.
I tried it less than an hour ago (apologies to my fellow countrymen for adding another download to the statistic!) because they wouldn’t let me open a video in my browser.
It was every bit as awful as people are saying. Just a mess of ads and unwanted functionality with desirable functionality missing or hard to find. Uninstalled and gave it 1 star.
Honestly? Yes. I’ve tried to make it work twice, both times because of the chat feature. Couldn’t stand it. Playing videos is 50/50, threw a few errors at me that I never experienced with TPAs, it’s highly unintuitive specially with those huge ads taking up most of the space.
Yes. It’s awful. It was so bad I stuck with a TPA and just used chat (if I had to) on browser on my pc.
You must be living under a rock
Do you have anything concrete to say, or are you just trying to shame me for not being on your tantrum bandwagon?
The fact that you write, I’ve been trying to figure out why people dislike the platform, kind of says it all. If you’re not aware of what has happened lately and why people are hating Reddit for what it has become even after doing your ‘‘research’’ then… yes you must living under a rock.
I am very well aware of what has been happening lately. However, a lot of the arguments by reddit mods and regular users uses “the official app is literally cancer” as an axiom, rather than something that might be worth discussing. This is what I am questioning, not that reddit management has (yet again) proven themselves to be absolute pieces of shit.
Not exactly what your original statement suggests…
But it’s not exactly difficult to find out why people are disliking the app itself either.
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It is that bad.
It’s cluttered with ads, stutters, lags, is buggy, etc.
It’s a mediocre user interface centered around showing ads to the user, with some content in between to justify it.
Lmao
Very mature. Perhaps you have some real arguments?
Huh. He’s only one you responded to? Imagine that…
Edit: OK, not the only one. But why don’t you respond to everyone that is providing an argument?
Lighten up, buddy.
Check the data permissions
I used it back a while ago. For me it was alright, except I couldn’t filter out keywords and phrases and subreddits. That was unacceptable.
I went looking for an app that would let me do that. Suddenly no more rage bait. I never looked back after Apollo. I wonder if the app has that basic function yet. I have no intention of finding out.
I saw how ad ridden it is. I could do a few ads but from what I’ve seen there are just too too many.
I used the Reddit official app and it wasn’t that bad for me. The problem is when the CEO doesn’t respect the community. Reddit is great because of the community. But recently, CEO is trying to go for business first, making many community feel largely ignored. I saw it as long as long as the business get in the community way, there wouldn’t be that many engagement and good experience. I joined Lemmy because I was hoping they are kind to the community. It is my opinion and many others would have different view, this is my perspective and reason to join Lemmy. Reddit app is not bad but the community is not doing well.
the impact on battery life relative to other apps out of the box is pretty atrocious. Reddit was always the app draining the most or near the most battery regardless of whether I was using it a lot cause it phones home constantly. That is already enough of a problem but then add in the fact that you had sponsored posts ( Adverts ) made to look like real posts that were 1 in every 5 it kind of grates on you.
Then there are the issues around the inbuilt video player that was barely functional at times on mobile for the longest time, it seems to be better now but it used to bug out and not play items properly and constant buffer issues regardless of internet connection speed.
Those were my biggest gripes and using Lemmy with Liftoff it’s very noticeable how much battery life I’m saving daily and no I don’t have an old phone an iPhone 14 pro
How is their rating this high? Even before the API-BS their rating on the german playstore was somewhere around 3.6, now its at 2.8 lmao
Can confirm: 2.8 stars with 2.856.093 reviews in the German playstore at 10:58 15.07.2023
Paid or bot accounts is my guess. Just the typical buffoonery they’ve shown in the past.
Apple seems to have different weighting rules than Android. I’d be interested to see what their regional Play Store looks like.
Also, 2.7 on Australian play store 👍
But that’s only in the Playstore. In the apple app store they have 4.6 in Germany
No idea, but I refuse to use it on principle. They are still some small communities in Reddit that I stay part of, but I come to Lemmy first.
#2 in Italy, 4.8 stars.
Honestly the reviews are a mix of 5 stars from 4 years ago and a 1 star from last year that seems to like the app but not the people… there’s a virtually uninterrupted 1 star streak for the last year, but those 5 stars are the “most helpful” and show up at the top.
Same picture here. The latest 53 reviews since April are 1 x ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, 1 x ⭐️⭐️ and 51 ⭐️’s. Before that picture is muddier.
That’s why I like Google store on Android. It gives you universal rating for apps, not local crap. Reddit is 2.8* which frankly is about 1.5* to high
The play store reviews are actually localised, if you check the further info under the overall review score there’s a message box which pops up to explain this.
Is the apple version that much better? The Android version lags horribly and the look is not very pleasing
This too shall pass
It’s sitting at 2.8 here in Canada!
Good, good
Just google using some good old bias selection to boost app ratings. Their ratings are about as reliable as Amazon’s.
I mean how do you know that they are boosting them ? We don’t even know what criteria they are using for the rankings. I am happy to call them out but just from the screenshot there is no indicator to me they are biased towards specifically Reddit app.
2.8 is super low for ratings. So if that is a boosted one it is a really bad effort.
Selection bias in app store. This is done by obscuring older reviews under the excuse of the app being a different version. You’re then creating a selection of what gets through, and this happens to usually work in favour of the apps. And it’s particularly true for Reddit app. In the past a lot of people tried it, found a clusterfuck, rated it badly and moved to other apps, never looking back. And those are the types of reviews that got buried.
It wouldn’t surprise me if reddit apps got below 2.8. That’s just their quality level. I have used other apps for a long time, the reddit app itself (and website) are a subpar experience.
I think 2.8 is already a super shitty rating. I doubt I would ever use an app that low.
How star reviews, especially on PlayStore, is not what most people think. Reviews are given weight so that one star means almost nothing, unless there’s no other ratings. Remember that app stores have interest in apps staying highly rated to attract users. Nobody want to see an app store with mostly below average ratings.
This also applies to any rating system where the service has interest in keeping them high, such as Amazon shopping. The way I combat this to use 2 stars to make my impact on the rating much higher.
I know they weight the ratings, but is there any data to support the idea of 2 stars having more impact than 1?
People don’t care. They just want access to their usual services at any cost.
Look like spez ideal to kill 3rd party app work.
3.2 stars after what seems obvious was a massive paid injection. Well under 3 before, just a few days prior.
United States.
I just joined from reddit cause i used Apollo, kept hearing about lemmy but i tried it before and it looked confusing cause I’m pretty stupid when it comes to tech, i saw wefewef.app while browsing on safari and pressed it to find something of an app that looked like Apollo which is fkn terrific, the login process was kinda hard cause i kept making the account in a different place and tried to login to a different place, but once i figured it out everything is starting to feel familiar, long story short if people wanting to migrate find the new one daunting/confusing they would stick with the familiar and easy, wefwef.app is a game changer
Apple Store ratings are like Amazon reviews. 98% fake and unreliable.
It’s really weird to me people pay that much attention to something so obviously manipulated, this is what advertising looks like today, y’all.
It’s #2 in Latvia, with 2.8k reviews which is a lot here.
I have both Android and IOS phones. In Australia it is rated as 4.7 on the Apple app store and 2.7 on the Google Play store.
Interestingly on the Play store, I scrolled through the top news apps and the top social apps all the way past number 150 and the Reddit app doesn’t even make the list. Yet other Reddit apps like Boost are still on that list.
But yes, it’s listed as one of the top news apps on the app store. It’s also listed as an app I “might be interested in” 😆
