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Feedback for the new features

Hey there,

first of all sorry for the downtime in the past few days, something unexpectedly changed on Reddit side and everything stopped working without raising any error on my side.

I have introduced some new features to the bot, mainly if you request just one app, you will get a detailed description of the app, including number of downloads and the name of the developer. If you request more than one app then everything will be the same as before.

I am not sure if you will like this new feature so I decided to create this thread to get some feedback on it. Let me know what you think of it in the comments.

Also if you see the bot reporting a wrong app please downvote it, so the comment will get autodeleted after a while (I added this feature a few months ago but never really explained it).

If you are a developer you can find the source code of the bot here, right now I am planning to rewrite the whole, because the original code is many years old.

If you have any other feature request feel free to post them here.

Thanks for reading and have a good day!

^Also ^if ^you ^find ^the ^bot ^useful ^please ^consider ^donating ^here ^to ^support ^the ^development.

Posted Oct 28, 2017, 6:41 PM UTC

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cris9696OPDeveloper•

Just to show you what it is like

linkme: Sync for reddit

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Sync for reddit by Red Apps LTD | Free with IAP

Description: A beautiful reddit app for browsing reddit on the go!

Average rating of 91/100 | 500,000 - 1,000,000 downloads.

Search for 'Sync for reddit' on the Play Store

^Feedback ^on ^the ^new ^features ^here ^| ^Source ^Code ^| ^Bot ^by ^/u/cris9696

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oroboros74•

I find there's too much text for my taste and it's hard to scan.

Some suggestions for you to play with:

  • Remove "Description" and just use quotes or citation block.
  • Remove "Average rating of" and just use "Rating:"
  • Change large numbers with too many zeros to things like 100K-500K
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cris9696OPDeveloper•

linkme: Youtube, Reddit

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YouTube - Free - Rating: 85/100 - Search for 'Youtube' on the Play Store

Reddit: Top Trending Content - Free - Rating: 91/100 - Search for 'Reddit' on the Play Store

^Feedback ^on ^the ^new ^features ^here ^| ^Source ^Code ^| ^Bot ^by ^/u/cris9696

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SoundOfTomorrow•

Awesome!

It looks like it doesn't ignore quoted text when called as seen here. I know it's probably a very low chance of a situation for this.

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cris9696OPDeveloper•

Good idea, adding to the todo list.

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abs159•

Does this bot also search Microsoft and Apple's stores?

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cris9696OPDeveloper•

Only android for now. If there is some interest I could expand

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ladfrombrad•

Seems there's a bit a faux pas here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/799khd/saturday_appreciation_oct_28_2017_your_weekly_app/dp0qyax?context=1

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Luckzzz•

Please add the capability to add 100 or more apps :)

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alienccccombobreaker•

Can add total reviews? Can put near rating in brackets e.g. (99,745)

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wardrich•

Does the bot scrape all of reddit, or is it just listening to specific subs?

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cris9696OPDeveloper•

It is listening only on specific subs, mostly android related. If you would like to see the bot running on a specific subreddit let me know, as long as the mods are ok with it I will let it run there too.

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wardrich•

Sure - could you have it snoop on r/wardrich?

Somestimes r/androidgaming has some decent threads worth compiling into a table, but the only way to do it is to spam a bunch of linkbot links... I'd like to keep the spam down a bit and just trash my own sandbox sub... if that's cool

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cris9696OPDeveloper•

It should be working now, ejoy. It will work only on new comments.

Please don't flood the bot with requests, requesting 10 apps together every once in a while is ok, requesting 40 apps in different sequential comments for the sake of compiling a big list of apps is not recommended since it will put a heavy load on my bot and will block requests by other users until your request is complete.

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wardrich•

Deal. Thanks!

You have the code up on Github, so maybe when I get a few minutes I'll see if I can figure out how to get a local instance of it running for my own doing.

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Aan2007•

look at boost for Reddit

now what happens with my fat fingers it's when i try to tap app name i tap on user, would it be possible to put at beginning of post one blank line and/or bigger font for link to play store?

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cris9696OPDeveloper•

I can't put a new line at the beginning of the file I think. This is an issue that has to be solved by the developer of the app, either by adding more padding there or disabling clicking on the username (maybe behind an option)

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cris9696OPDeveloper•

linkme: facebook

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cris9696OPDeveloper•

linkme: twitter

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