Despite site-stopping protests by mods and users, Reddit leadership chose to brute force its way through any reasonable way of continuing third-party app support. Instead, the company hopes its luxury-priced API will be its secret shortcut to an overvalued IPO. As a result, Reddit’s official iOS app is being torpedo’d in the App Store.
The final days of Apollo may be upon us, but the ramifications of Reddit’s disdain for its users are here to stay. Look no further than App Store reviews to see the results. As TechCrunch reports, data from Sensor Tower shows how Reddit is sealing its fate as a 1-star reviewed app.
The data shared with TechCrunch shows that nearly 91% of Reddit’s U.S. iOS reviews carried a 1-star rating during the initial phase of the protest between June 12–14, compared to about 53% in the previous two months until May.
There has been some ratings improvement lately as the 1-star reviews of the Reddit U.S. iOS app dropped to about 86% between June 15–26, Sensor Tower’s data shows.
That’s presumably because the App Store doesn’t offer 0-star ratings. It’s also telling that Reddit leadership thought nuking third-party apps made sense when its own app saw more than half of its reviews rank it as low as possible.
Reddit app reviews in the App Store have also become a place for users to voice their frustration with the self-sabotaging company.
The data shared by Sensor Tower also indicates the top three most mentioned terms in all of the Reddit U.S. iOS reviews included keywords “apollo”, “third party” and “3rd party,” suggesting users were bombing review ratings in light of the new API move.
Either users are pissed or they’re hosting a lot of birthday parties for the god of truth.
At any rate, there’s been virtually no good news on the Reddit front since the awesome Apollo client was forced to announce its end date. The best Reddit app is closing up shop on June 30 to avoid owing tens of millions of dollars to Reddit before ever seeing its own revenue.
Like I said in another thread, apple is removing poor reviews for them.
I think companies are so experienced with brigades like this (whether justified or not) when emotions are running high that we can always expect the mass low-star reviews to be removed. I think the 53% 1 star reviews in the two months prior is more telling for those who haven’t had the misfortune of installing the default app.
Many many months ago I downloaded it, and I couldn’t even get it to connect to reddits servers, so I uninstalled it moved on with my life, I should have reviewed it.
Now it’ll look like I’m jumping on the bandwagon, I don’t want that. I want it known that the app, independent of any decision management are taking, is ready really crap.
That true, but surely theres a way they could only target the most recent reviews? After all, you’d want to maintain the integrity of the original score prior to the brigade.
It looks as though they didn’t do that in this case. They removed nearly all the one star reviews. The score appears to be higher than before. That’s equally misleading.
Reduced to 1 star.
Went scrolling reading reviews… 1 and 2 star ratings forever. Still 3.3 rating overall.
Reddit on the Google Play Store still has 4.5 stars. We gotta fix that.
I did my part
I’m doing my part!
Did my part, it’s at 3.4 now
I did my part! 3.6 as of now.
3.6 stars now…
3.0 in europe. I did my part a week ago. Glad to see it working.
It’s 3.6 in the UK still.
Seems to have been stable at 3.6 for the past few hours. Have to remember to check back after July 1st to see how bad it gets (hopefully)
Quite a lot of people probably haven’t actually used it yet.
But after July 1st people may actually genuinely be reviewing it which will be a fun experience for them I’m sure.
It is somehow worse then new Reddit on the web.
Heading over there now.
That won’t do!
I went to do my part, but forgot I already gave the app a 1 star rating 5 years ago. It’s always been a piece of crap.
I’ve done my duty on the Play Store. Currently a 3.6 average.
I did just install it for a quick try and holy hell it’s a piece of shit. Begone.
Thank you for your service.
Its down to 3.2 now.
I see 3.4?
Gonna miss the platform, but not the devs.
The platform is nothing without it’s users, and those will migrate elsewhere
Left my own 1 star review. I didn’t even had to make up stuff, the app is garbage.
Did my part on the Play Store!
How’s this?
This app is malware. Full of tracking, violates your privacy. Spez nixed 3rd party apps to force you to use this. Why? Why is it so much laggier than Sync for Reddit? Why does it consume so much bandwidth? Why was Spez so adamant about forcing users to this trash fire? Hmmmm… Not a trustworthy app. If it’s on your device, your device is bugged. Remember, you are not Reddit’s customer. You’re the product.
Oh good reminder
Did my bit but still 3.6 in UK Play Store 🤨
Part = Done
I no longer post, comment or vote on Reddit. When RiF stops working I will no longer be reading Reddit on my mobile devices.
Me and Reddit are done. The API change specifically did not affect me, but it gave me an excuse to leave such a vindictive and lame community. Cheers to Lemmy and Kbin!
Never mind zero stars, the Reddit app (and new Reddit in general) deserves negative stars.
Thankfully there is plenty of innovation in the market for fediverse apps.
The first ➖⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review ever! You did it, Reddit!
We want them to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment!
@thehatfox I’d love to see a -1 star to signify willful ignorance, deliberate sabotage, complete dumbassery, or all of the above.
No wonder, Reddit sucks and the app is terrible.
Not wrong.
