The playstore is really poorly laid out. I dont know how to leave a review anymore. Every description has the same nonsense first instead of a description. Sometimes you can select the app developer to load their page with all their apps and sometimes you can’t. When did it get so bad?
I just wanted to flag an issue with an app and the review function isnt there.
They are hiding it deliberately if people are more likely to leave critical or negative reviews.
I can’t leave reviews through the Google maps app either, the function is gone. If I open the mobile website, it’s there again.
Fucking hypocrites.
The maps is annoying, look up hotels, they hide the website behind a drop down in the hopes you book through google…will I fuck.
If OSM had speed trap warnings I would be gone.
OSM does have speed trap warnings but someone would have had to add the speed trap for it to work. Organic Maps (or rather CoMaps, which I now use) shows me when there’s a spred trap.
What about herewego? I find it WAY better than comaps. But im in bumfuck US maybe thats why
Waze has speed trap warnings. They don’t have anything else (and were also bought out by Google), but for navigation, it rocks.
I like the more plain approach that Aurora Store is going for. It is an alternative Frontend to the Google Play API, but has just apps and nothing else. Posting reviews seems pretty straight forward although I never did it.
Thank you, I have seen it mentioned and nevwr pulled the trigger. Just installed and replaced default open links.
Hey thanks!
I guess I already had it installed on my phone. Maybe from a previous recommendation.
Will be using this more & more. Not sure when this change happened, but lately there’s always a sponsored link at the top of the search results in Play Store. No bueno
I avoid the play store as much as reasonably possible. F-Droid, Github/lab/etc, and FOSS alternatives are my first choices before venturing into that cesspit.
Yeah I have droidify on my phone but I had not installed a new app in a bit and my work profile blocked it. I deleted the work profile.
It was the mastodon app I wanted to review
I’m not usually in the habit of defending the google play store, but I just opened it to see if I could figure out how to leave a review and it’s right on the app’s page, with five huge stars waiting to be clicked and a button underneath that which says write a review. I honestly did not think that difficult to find, and I didn’t need to click into anything once on the app’s page, so I’d hardly call it hidden.
It happened slowly over time. 🥲
Ditto for YouTube. I always struggle to find my watch history and saved videos. And the fact search defaults to those stupid shorts.
I like to think it’s because YouTube are trying to force new content on me, but it’s probably partly just that I’m old.
