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we need to talk about these negative reviews in #gnome #software. they're absolutely useless?

I wonder if that's why #flathub and #bazaar don't show them?

even with a bad bug report I'm happy to help track down the problem. this however leaves me with nothing but a bad feeling.

perhaps we can ask to file a report when users select a 1 or 2 star review. the link is right there in the metainfo file...

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Michał Jonko 18h ago

@hbons I was thinking about this topic as I'm learning programming to be able to write app for reviews and my thinking was that it would be great to have multiple things to rate based on category. For example:
-Easy of use
-Features
Then include in metadata how much time pass from downloading and what version of the app. And for sure only include ratings from 1 year or some version. Because yeah, why to include old review if probably it's absolutely different app.
But.
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Michał Jonko 18h ago

@hbons I would never remove wroten reviews. Imagine that there are some shady apps like on android that will hide the fact that they are paywalled and you find out about this after completing thing you thougth was for free. The reviews are the best way to fight agains it imo

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Hylke Bons 🥜17h ago

@krzemyk on Android yes, but Flathub doesn’t have this problem.

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Michał Jonko

@hbons right now, but it will have, eventually. I mean if we want linux to become mainstream, then there will be a lot of apps like that and I don't think we should ban them, we should not recommend them, maybe forbid hidden cost, but you can't think pf every rule needed to be wrote. But I really hope something like this never happen

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Hylke Bons 🥜17h ago

@krzemyk I hope so too. but also I think Flathub should mark these kind of “vices” with icons once it becomes more of a problem. like the warnings you get now with proprietary apps or too many permissions.