Dear app developers,I have never had the desire to review an app.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@malwarejake Apps that persistently nudge me to leave a review get a one-star review: "nagware, forces you to leave a review, DO NOT USE".

[yadt@tech.lgbt]

@malwarejake

I simply take the easy path and leave a review when they prompt me. But not a good review.

[montef@mastodon.social]

@cstross @malwarejake @chetwisniewski I especially detest the apps that nag me for a review *as part of the initial installation*, before I have ever used the app!

Free PSA for App Developers:
If you ask me for a review of your app, before I have exited the App Store during the installation process; you WILL get a One Star review.
Your app may very well be the best app in the history of apps, but that kind of desperate begging for a rating and review; will absolutely backfire on you.

[zzt@mas.to]

@kajer @malwarejake or some PM decides whichever new feature you don’t care about is worth a forced new user flow aka an ad

sometimes when you start using the software for the first time it just dumps these on you for random features

[mattblaze@federate.social]

@drsbaitso @malwarejake I'm imaging how this would go in the pre-app era, when you had to call a human agent to track the package:

"Fedex, can I help you?"

"Yes, I'd like to track a package."

"OK, but first, I need you to tell me if you love me."

"What?"

"I can't do this anymore if I don't feel loved and appreciated."

"Um, I just want to track a package."

"Yes, yes. Of course you do, That's what I thought. I suppose I'm not worthy of love. I have to hang up now. I'll be thinking of you."

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze @malwarejake I leave a negative review every time this happens.

[drsbaitso@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze @malwarejake "Oh, I'll be thinking of you too. Not fondly."

[cibyr@omg.wtf.sh]

@mattblaze @malwarejake worse, most of them shouldn't even be apps to begin with! I just want to track my fucking package; that's a web page not a goddamn app!

[ujay68@mastodon.world]

@malwarejake Especially if you have the “Don’t asks for reviews” flag set.

[kishi@meow.social]

@jernej__s
This is the way
@mattblaze @malwarejake

[saucetweet@defcon.social]

@malwarejake I normally review apps that constantly nudge with a 1 star.

[mattblaze@federate.social]

@Kishi @jernej__s @malwarejake I wonder if it is, in a world where metrics of “engagement” are more valued than actual quality.

[kishi@meow.social]

@mattblaze @jernej__s @malwarejake

Yeah, there is that as well, but at that point, they might as well begin counting "tap away or close" as a positive engagement. Not sure if we're at that point, but right now, everything stupid seems plausible.

[malwarejake@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze Right?! There must be better ways to work the request into the application flow instead of it getting in the way of what you were doing.

[bob_zim@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze @malwarejake An authentication token I’m forced to use for work popped one of those review begs up for me recently *before it let me see the token code*. The best user opinion an application like that can ever hope for is “inoffensive”, and getting in my way makes it decidedly not inoffensive.

[phipe@diaspodon.fr]

@malwarejake @sebsauvage

Hoooooo yeeeesss !!!

And also docker is NOT an app/program ....

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@malwarejake Anything that ever asks me to review it gets 1 star.

[ronanmcd@mastodon.green]

@malwarejake I actually have sometimes wanted to review an. But only when it's a POS

[fisherpeter@mas.to]

@malwarejake Just give it one star and say you're doing it because the prompt to review is intrusive.

[sablebadger@dice.camp]

@malwarejake I've worked in mobile gaming for years. The reason they push so hard is because app store ranking has a DIRECT correlation to number of users coming into the app, and thus engagement and money.

The PM will push the prompt when they fix any issues that were dragging down metrics. New features can do that, but very often fixing a bug will do it too.

There is so much competition in app stores now-a-days, it's hard to break through.

As a user, I totally agree with you though. 100%