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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/883364 > Despite site-stopping protests by mods and users, Reddit leadership chose to brute force its way through any reasonable way of continuing third-party app support. Instead, the company hopes its luxury-priced API will be its secret shortcut to an overvalued IPO. As a result, Reddit’s official iOS app is being torpedo’d in the App Store. > > The final days of Apollo may be upon us, but the ramifications of Reddit’s disdain for its users are here to stay. Look no further than App Store reviews to see the results. As TechCrunch reports, data from Sensor Tower shows how Reddit is sealing its fate as a 1-star reviewed app. > > >The data shared with TechCrunch shows that nearly 91% of Reddit’s U.S. iOS reviews carried a 1-star rating during the initial phase of the protest between June 12–14, compared to about 53% in the previous two months until May. > > >There has been some ratings improvement lately as the 1-star reviews of the Reddit U.S. iOS app dropped to about 86% between June 15–26, Sensor Tower’s data shows. > > That’s presumably because the App Store doesn’t offer 0-star ratings. It’s also telling that Reddit leadership thought nuking third-party apps made sense when its own app saw more than half of its reviews rank it as low as possible. > > Reddit app reviews in the App Store have also become a place for users to voice their frustration with the self-sabotaging company. > > >The data shared by Sensor Tower also indicates the top three most mentioned terms in all of the Reddit U.S. iOS reviews included keywords “apollo”, “third party” and “3rd party,” suggesting users were bombing review ratings in light of the new API move. > > Either users are pissed or they’re hosting a lot of birthday parties for the god of truth. > > At any rate, there’s been virtually no good news on the Reddit front since the awesome Apollo client was forced to announce its end date. The best Reddit app is closing up shop on June 30 to avoid owing tens of millions of dollars to Reddit before ever seeing its own revenue. >

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Despite site-stopping protests by mods and users, Reddit leadership chose to brute force its way through any reasonable way of continuing third-party app support. Instead, the company hopes its luxury-priced API will be its secret shortcut to an overvalued IPO. As a result, Reddit’s official iOS app is being torpedo’d in the App Store. The final days of Apollo may be upon us, but the ramifications of Reddit’s disdain for its users are here to stay. Look no further than App Store reviews to see the results. As TechCrunch reports, data from Sensor Tower shows how Reddit is sealing its fate as a 1-star reviewed app. >The data shared with TechCrunch shows that nearly 91% of Reddit’s U.S. iOS reviews carried a 1-star rating during the initial phase of the protest between June 12–14, compared to about 53% in the previous two months until May. >There has been some ratings improvement lately as the 1-star reviews of the Reddit U.S. iOS app dropped to about 86% between June 15–26, Sensor Tower’s data shows. That’s presumably because the App Store doesn’t offer 0-star ratings. It’s also telling that Reddit leadership thought nuking third-party apps made sense when its own app saw more than half of its reviews rank it as low as possible. Reddit app reviews in the App Store have also become a place for users to voice their frustration with the self-sabotaging company. >The data shared by Sensor Tower also indicates the top three most mentioned terms in all of the Reddit U.S. iOS reviews included keywords “apollo”, “third party” and “3rd party,” suggesting users were bombing review ratings in light of the new API move. Either users are pissed or they’re hosting a lot of birthday parties for the god of truth. At any rate, there’s been virtually no good news on the Reddit front since the awesome Apollo client was forced to announce its end date. The best Reddit app is closing up shop on June 30 to avoid owing tens of millions of dollars to Reddit before ever seeing its own revenue.

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St. Louis CITY SC Roman Bürki and Tim Parker Named to 2023 MLS All-Star Roster

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St. Louis CITY SC’s captain and goalkeeper Roman Bürki and vice-captain and center back Tim Parker have been named to the 2023 MLS All-Star Roster. Bürki and Parker and the rest of the MLS All-Stars will face off against Arsenal in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, July 19 at Audi Field. St. Louis CITY SC are one of seven teams in MLS that tallied two all-star selections. This is a first selection for both Bürki and Parker to an MLS All-Star game. Bürki, 32, has carried over his illustrious career at Dortmund into his inaugural season at St. Louis CITY SC in Major League Soccer. The Swiss goalkeeper leads the league in saves with 76 and carries a 1.26 goals-against average with four clean sheets. He also leads the league with a +5.8 PSxG (Post-Shot Expected Goals minus Goals Allowed), which is expected goals based on how likely the goalkeeper is to save the shot. Burki is one of four goalkeepers with at least 60 saves and a 75+ percent save percentage. Parker, 30, earned his first selection in his ninth MLS season. The Hicksville, New York, native has anchored a CITY SC backline to four clean sheets and 24 goals allowed. He tallied the team’s first-ever goal at Austin in a 3-2 victory. Parker has started in all 17 matches he has appeared in this season, missing just two matches. In his nine seasons in MLS, he has accrued 224 regular-season starts and 234 regular-season appearances out of a possible 280 regular-season matches since being drafted in 2015. Burki and Parker join the organization’s list of first all-stars alongside Fritz Volmar. Volmar was the organization’s first academy player to be named an all-star as he was selected to the 2022 MLS NEXT All-Star game.

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Cardinals: Nolan Arenado sounds like he’s lost all hope in team

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“I don’t know if you’d call it a stretch anymore. It’s just bad baseball,” Arenado said, via Bally Sports Midwest. “We have been playing bad baseball for awhile now. Do I think we can play better baseball with the players we have in here? Sure. But that remains to be seen.”

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Lionel Messi to join Inter Miami CF

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I know it's not midwest, but it's big for MLS.

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Sources: Darren Pang leaving Blues to join Blackhawks booth

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Sad day for Blues fans. Panger is a great broadcaster and his enthusiasm is infectious.

sixcolors.com

I really like Jason Snell's writing. He's level-headed and doesn't often jump on hype trains, so I trust his takes.

www.theverge.com

Glad to see so many popular subreddits hopping on board. I honestly don't know what kind of actual impact it will have.

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We need pitching

I know I’m stating the obvious, but we really need pitching. This is pathetic to watch.