Depressing news - pun intended. How’s it doing in yours?
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
Is the apple version that much better? The Android version lags horribly and the look is not very pleasing
3.2 stars after what seems obvious was a massive paid injection. Well under 3 before, just a few days prior.
United States.
2.7 stars in Australia!!
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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
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.
But that’s only in the Playstore. In the apple app store they have 4.6 in Germany
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 👍
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.
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?
It’s sitting at 2.8 here in Canada!
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.
Good, good
People don’t care. They just want access to their usual services at any cost.
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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.
4.7 *'s?!!?
#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.
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.
This too shall pass
Even worse (Netherlands)
Fucking Apple simps. 2,7 rating on Android.
