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.
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.
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.
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.