Official reddit app is #1 news app in the Danish iOS app store

Ugh, makes me ashamed of my countrymen..

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With a 4.7 rating? Really, you guys? What's going on there?

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- 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
  
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- 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
  
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- 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.
  
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- 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.
  
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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

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Can confirm: 2.8 stars with 2.856.093 reviews in the German playstore at 10:58 15.07.2023

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Paid or bot accounts is my guess. Just the typical buffoonery they've shown in the past.

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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 👍

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But that's only in the Playstore. In the apple app store they have 4.6 in Germany

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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.

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#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.

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Same picture here. The latest 53 reviews since April are 1 x ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, 1 x ⭐️⭐️ and 51 ⭐️’s. Before that picture is muddier.

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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

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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.

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Is the apple version that much better? The Android version lags horribly and the look is not very pleasing

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This too shall pass

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It's sitting at 2.8 here in Canada!

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Good, good

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Just google using some good old bias selection to boost app ratings. Their ratings are about as reliable as Amazon's.

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- 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.
  
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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.

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I know they weight the ratings, but is there any data to support the idea of 2 stars having more impact than 1?

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Look like spez ideal to kill 3rd party app work.

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People don't care. They just want access to their usual services at any cost.

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3.2 stars after what seems obvious was a massive paid injection. Well under 3 before, just a few days prior.

United States.

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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

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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.

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It’s #2 in Latvia, with 2.8k reviews which is a lot here.

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It's the pornography, isn't it?

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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" 😆

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Even worse (Netherlands)

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Fucking Apple simps. 2,7 rating on Android.

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- Yes, my first Apple insult! Thx!😍
  
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It's #98 on Play Store for Denmark thought .. Not even listed under News & Magazines

I guess it's iOS that doesn't really know where to place reddit

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It's nowhere to be seen in the search result presentation of UK Play. The ranking and presentation is manipulated so Reddit may not be targeting my demographic, which is surprising since I was a Reddit user for 15 years. Perhaps they are targeting apple users, this demographic is surely susceptible to a bit of slick marketing.

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4.7 *'s?!!?

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It is bound to happen - but the stats we should be watching out for is how long will it stay that way.

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#4 in Social and 3.4 stars in Finland and the first reviews you see without tapping on anything are negative ones and they're actual reviews that list legitimate complaints.

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2.7 stars in Australia!!

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Image dosent work

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i think that's just paid reviews

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It’s a decent app, especially when you pay for Reddit premium and don’t see ads. Other apps may be better, but to me it was fine to use for years.

It’s just that the company running the platform seems to try to ruin the platform.

Last month I cancelled my subscription and left a 1 star review to protest the company’s actions, and I’m here now.

Maybe a lot of folks who left Reddit did not think to leave a review?

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