The official reddit app now has more 1 star reviews than 5 star (edit: on the Play store)

Most of them will get removed due to ""hate spam"" anyways

4.8/5 on the apple store, Lol.

If you are on an iOS device, be sure to rate the lower starred reviews as “helpful”.

• find the app in the App Store
• tap show all reviews
• sort by most critical, or most recent
• long press on a review to select helpful/not helpful

Despite the API protests, the Official Reddit app sucks anyways. It uses a ton more data and battery than third party apps, so I'd never use it again. The app also has a bunch of tracking built in.

Ok, so what's everyone's honest opinion about the app? I've used it once or twice before switching to rif and never used anything else. My wife has been using the official app and says it's "fine". I switched to lemmy after the API fiasco, so I really have no idea how it functions these days. Is it really that dogshit or are people like me just mad?

I swear I checked last monday and it was 2.6. Damn looks like lot of bots are at work.

This is on the UK Play store.

Reddit app is steaming pile of shit that doesn't get better with time, which is fascinating.
I still use (paid version of) Joey and it still works. The moment it stops working I am ditching Reddit and using Lemmy completely.

Central Europe

And many of the 1 star reviews are really well put with good constructive feedback. So no reason to delete them. Riiight?

Showing 4.8 for me, southern US. I did do my part though!

Edit: if you look at the version history, up until 2 months ago they would describe what each update did. The last 13 updates all say the same thing (iOS):

Thank you for updating the Reddit app! We’ve updated our iOS app with bug fixes and changes to improve your overall experience.

The only difference is that sometimes there’s a bullet point dot at the very beginning depending on how it was copy/pasted that day lol…just awful every which way with no redeeming qualities.

The reviews are fun. The top keywords or phrases have "absolute garbage" which means that collectively, people have assigned the reddit app to absolute garbage. Not garbage, not bad, but "absolute garbage". Fantastic.

I hate how they try to force you into the app from the mobile website now.

No I don't want to use your shitty app. I won't even download it to leave a bad rating.

I did my part just now

Permanently Deleted

In Chile it still shows up with 4 stars 😬🇨🇱

Permanently Deleted

We did it reddit lemmy!

I love democracy

Canada

Not in my store.

This served as a good reminder for me to check my review and update it.

Nature is healing

I'm doing my part!

I don't think the official app is awful - yet. But It was clear when they jacked up API prices it was about making better software than theirs disappear so they could fill their own with ads, more ads, popups, notifications, privacy infringement and all the rest.

I just deleted it. If I need to access Reddit from a phone, I use an webapp link on the launcher which shows their site through Firefox. Strips out all the ads out too while its at it. I also do the same for Twitter.

I'm not sure if it's just my phone. But I get scroll lag on the official reddit app. It's a total downgrade to the other ones that I used before it!

Showing 2.8 stars in my country rn.

In France that different again

Jeff Randall, too hot to handle.

2.9 stars in Poland. Not bad :)

This is fair.

3.7 in Italy

Fuck you SPEZ. Hope you get all types of cancer.