Central Europe

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

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.

Nature is healing

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.

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.

In France that different again

Showing 2.8 stars in my country rn.

I did my part just now

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.

I’m doing my part!

3.7 in Italy

2.9 stars in Poland. Not bad :)

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.