• Max-P
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    531 year ago

    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
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      71 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.

    • Gogo Sempai
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      51 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.

  • @laxe@lemmy.ml
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    221 year ago

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

    • @Goun@lemmy.ml
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      21 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
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    31 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.

  • Tiritibambix
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    21 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

  • @HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    The last major time something like this happened was with the Robinhood trading app. Not sure about iOS, but Google very helpfully declared that negative reviews made during a major scandal are illegitimate and removed them all, artifically bringing the app ratings back up. So keep an eye out for if Reddit’s ratings suddenly recovers on Google.

  • Arghblarg
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    1 year ago

    I installed the app tonight on my phone, just so I could leave a bad review and mention how they killed their own platform with insane API charges. Felt even better than uninstalling it just afterwards.

    Baconreader will be missed.