Depressing news - pun intended. How’s it doing in yours?
Ugh, makes me ashamed of my countrymen…
With a 4.7 rating? Really, you guys? What’s going on there?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You must be living under a rock
Do you have anything concrete to say, or are you just trying to shame me for not being on your tantrum bandwagon?
The fact that you write, I’ve been trying to figure out why people dislike the platform, kind of says it all. If you’re not aware of what has happened lately and why people are hating Reddit for what it has become even after doing your ‘‘research’’ then… yes you must living under a rock.
I am very well aware of what has been happening lately. However, a lot of the arguments by reddit mods and regular users uses “the official app is literally cancer” as an axiom, rather than something that might be worth discussing. This is what I am questioning, not that reddit management has (yet again) proven themselves to be absolute pieces of shit.
Not exactly what your original statement suggests…
But it’s not exactly difficult to find out why people are disliking the app itself either.
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Lmao
Very mature. Perhaps you have some real arguments?
Huh. He’s only one you responded to? Imagine that…
Edit: OK, not the only one. But why don’t you respond to everyone that is providing an argument?
Lighten up, buddy.
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.
Check the data permissions
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.
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I used the Reddit official app and it wasn’t that bad for me. The problem is when the CEO doesn’t respect the community. Reddit is great because of the community. But recently, CEO is trying to go for business first, making many community feel largely ignored. I saw it as long as long as the business get in the community way, there wouldn’t be that many engagement and good experience. I joined Lemmy because I was hoping they are kind to the community. It is my opinion and many others would have different view, this is my perspective and reason to join Lemmy. Reddit app is not bad but the community is not doing well.
the impact on battery life relative to other apps out of the box is pretty atrocious. Reddit was always the app draining the most or near the most battery regardless of whether I was using it a lot cause it phones home constantly. That is already enough of a problem but then add in the fact that you had sponsored posts ( Adverts ) made to look like real posts that were 1 in every 5 it kind of grates on you.
Then there are the issues around the inbuilt video player that was barely functional at times on mobile for the longest time, it seems to be better now but it used to bug out and not play items properly and constant buffer issues regardless of internet connection speed.
Those were my biggest gripes and using Lemmy with Liftoff it’s very noticeable how much battery life I’m saving daily and no I don’t have an old phone an iPhone 14 pro
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
Paid or bot accounts is my guess. Just the typical buffoonery they’ve shown in the past.
Can confirm: 2.8 stars with 2.856.093 reviews in the German playstore at 10:58 15.07.2023
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 👍
But that’s only in the Playstore. In the apple app store they have 4.6 in Germany
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.
#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.
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
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.
Is the apple version that much better? The Android version lags horribly and the look is not very pleasing
This too shall pass
People don’t care. They just want access to their usual services at any cost.
3.2 stars after what seems obvious was a massive paid injection. Well under 3 before, just a few days prior.
United States.
It’s #2 in Latvia, with 2.8k reviews which is a lot here.
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.
It’s the pornography, isn’t it?
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” 😆
Even worse (Netherlands)
Fucking Apple simps. 2,7 rating on Android.
Yes, my first Apple insult! Thx!😍
You’re welcome! Gotta recreate that real Reddit experience, right? 😂
It is bound to happen - but the stats we should be watching out for is how long will it stay that way.
4.7 *'s?!!?
