Reddit is removing the Direct Message feature, and all active conversations will be archived so you won’t be able to continue ongoing conversations. Reddit also deleted all bad reviews for their app awhile ago. Its rating went from 3.4 to 4.5 stars overnight.

  • Tag365@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Wait, how did they delete bad reviews for their app? That doesn’t even seem like it should be possible or allowed.

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      5 months ago

      My guess is that Google recently devalued the negative reviews from the API fiasco because enough time has passed. The reviews are (probably) still there, but those 1 star ratings are no longer in the “average” shown to users.

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        10 days ago

        The equivalent of this in politics would be grabbing all votes not for your party, and shredding them.

        Should be illegal and the CEO should be fined billions for it.

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    5 months ago

    How is the Reddit app at a 4.7 on Google’s Play store, but all of the relevant reviews that pop up are 1’s and 2’s?

    Google must be ignoring some reviews to calculate the average score.