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Sylvia

Okay, this is officially the dumbest reason anyone ever gave Catima a 1 star review.

Not being able to find a feature that already exists that I put a huge button for happens every now and then, but that's forgiveable, because I'm not an UX expert and I'm probably building my app flow in a slightly confusing way.

But using some permission viewer and screaming an app is insecure because it *exports a permission to ensure other apps need to ask permission to access your data* is just stupid.

A 1 star Catima review on Google Play.

The user wrote: DANGEROUS. Odczytaj swoje karty i ich szczegóły, włącznie z notatkami i obrazkami -.READ_CARDS. Niegrzeczna aplikacja.

This gets translated to: DANGEROUS. Read your cards and their details, including notes and pictures -.READ_CARDS. Naughty application.

Developer explanation: You're misunderstanding. The READ_CARDS permission is a permission created by Catima so you can choose if other apps can read your Catima cards. See Settings -> Privacy -> Allow other apps to access my data. It is currently used by Gadgetbridge to ask permission to show your cards on some Amazfit and Bangle.js devices. It gives you MORE privacy.
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Sylvia

I really really hate it when people use tools they don't understand and hastily come to completely wrong conclusions and then punish others for their lack of research.

I'm sure this person meant well but they're only causing damage like this.

And it happens so often that people who mean well cause damage by not knowing what they're doing.

It's frustrating.

Sylvia

Funnily enough, this is so far the only review mentioning the Gadgetbridge support (albeit indirectly). Yet another case where a feature being implemented gets me punished instead of rewarded.

App dev is great. I love getting accused of stealing data and being abusive for helping implement features people want.

Sylvia

At least this review got updated quickly after explaining to the user they misunderstood.

That's great! It's great when someone listens!

Sadly, people listening are the minority, most low ratings never get updated not even after their requested feature gets added and leave a stain on the app's reputation forever.

Hobbies aren't supposed to be this stressful :/

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