It’s so sad that this “Auth for Google authenticator” app whose logo definitely doesn’t try to impersonate google with a similar color scheme, with in-app purchases, is allowed to exist, while Lensflare’s JoyRant isn’t.

It’s a matter of luck getting the right reviewer on the first try.
And once a reviewer has criticized something, every subsequent reviewer will see what the previous one has criticized and will insist on that as well.

@Lensflare another important thing is in-app purchases: your app doesn’t have them. This authenticator does.

How does this platform still have developers

@lorentz market share

Weird. I'd think the app in question violates at least one of the rules mentioned in the Developer Policy Center:

https://play.google/developer-conte... .

@D-4got10-01 it's apple app store

@kiki Ah, yes it is. Thanks for the correction.

I should've noticed that Apple GUI.

Either way - yes, they also have such policy.

App Review Guidelines -> 4. Design -> 4.1 Copycats:

https://developer.apple.com/app-sto... .

Apple review process is *really* prone to how exploited the Indian reviewer feels that day.

Which of course means it's arbitrary at best. Retarded at worst.

@Lensflare Hmm maybe you can get permission to be the official molodetz rant app? @retoor @tamagochi

Oh woops @tamagotchi

@BordedDev maybe. But then nobody would be able to find it in the store when they look for a devRant ios app.

@Lensflare Couldn't add "Moldetz rant, (a devRant like ...)"?

@BordedDev I don’t think so.
I‘ve tried something similar already.
Basically anything that would allow others to find it when they are looking for a devRant app, will be used against me to argue that the app tries to disguise as the official devrant app and doesn’t have the permission to exist.

@BordedDev at this point I‘m glad that it can at least exist as a testflight app.

@Lensflare apple users are tend to be happy with less. But I can tell you, the app would've worked on my platform. My bots work too: https://rant.molodetz.nl. But there is one big chance comparing to the original api. All links staring with devrant are rant. Thinking hard to change it back. I think I will since it's just just the devrant protocol. No need to replace that. All the llm's also use the openai api without renaming it right?