this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
283 points (99.6% liked)

Reddit

17686 readers
26 users here now

News and Discussions about Reddit

Welcome to !reddit. This is a community for all news and discussions about Reddit.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules


Rule 1- No brigading.

**You may not encourage brigading any communities or subreddits in any way. **

YSKs are about self-improvement on how to do things.



Rule 2- No illegal or NSFW or gore content.

**No illegal or NSFW or gore content. **



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-Reddit posts using the [META] tag on your post title.



Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



:::spoiler Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Depressing news - pun intended. How’s it doing in yours?

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh, makes me ashamed of my countrymen..

[–] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] JustSomePerson@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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.

[–] Kainsmasquerade@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] 0uterzenith@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] kplaceholder@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You must be living under a rock

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Have you considered that maybe it's not that bad?

It is, but I really don't care to convince you.

but most people dgaf.

Most people are also dumb as fuck though.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Check the data permissions

[–] Konlanx@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Lakija@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] jiayux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] artifice@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

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 👍

[–] denhil@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.fmhy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Amilo159@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] TheMightyBlu@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Stampela@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

#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.

[–] cbeams@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] C4d@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This too shall pass

[–] tou@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's sitting at 2.8 here in Canada!

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] elouboub@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

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

United States.

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.

[–] Democles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

i think that's just paid reviews

[–] narnach@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fucking Apple simps. 2,7 rating on Android.

[–] 30isthenew29@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, my first Apple insult! Thx!😍

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Dardlem@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It's the pornography, isn't it?

[–] MusketeerX@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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" 😆

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

4.7 *'s?!!?

[–] eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

load more comments
view more: next ›