On 08/03/2011 02:43 PM, TreKing wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Any news about this? > > > There are threads in the Market "support" forum about this. Apparently > Google has switched things up in the web and new Market client to > display what they perceived to be the "most relevant" reviews for a > given app. Presumably, these are ones that were marked "helpful" by others.
I'm not seeing any change in the Market client app, at least for my app: the most recent comments are still displayed first. It seems to work fine. Thanks for mentioning this "relevancy" thing. Indeed, I can now see that some more recent comments are shown below old comments on the web interface. > Of course, now this means that brand new reviews get pushed to the > bottom, where they won't be seen and can't be "up-voted", making it seem > like they don't appear when the user posts them. Meanwhile old, > out-dated comments from months ago that no longer apply (bugs that were > fixed, features that were added) can now show up first, giving a > completely invalid perception of the app. I completely agree with this, also because one important point about comments is to show that there is some activity going on, that the app is being downloaded and that people have something to say about it. On the app webpage, where you see very few comments, if the only visible ones are 6 months old, it just looks like some dead project. It's unacceptable. I want fresh information, even if that is 1-star comments. Less heuristics and more transparency please! -- Olivier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
