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

[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%

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@malwarejake
The only app I ever reviewed was the one that declared that it needed to take my contacts with its next update. I read that, did not do the update, left a review saying why I was deleting it, and then did so.

[atomicbird@mastodon.social]

@malwarejake @robpike I agree, from a phone user’s perspective. But having been on the dev side, this happens because people pay attention to ratings and reviews. People optimize for the thing they’re judged by, so app developers need to get people doing this as long as people keep judging them by the result.

[yugthebug@mastodon.social]

@malwarejake
Hmm, they usually dont ask again if you go into the reviews area and then click cancel, orrrr just give a 1 star review due to their review begging

[argentum@mas.to]

@Kishi @mattblaze @jernej__s @malwarejake that is if your review even stands! I’ve had a couple of reviews taken down for “Violation of Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions”. I think devs report bad reviews to avoid their rating from going down.