{"id":14505,"date":"2016-05-11T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14505"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:43:55","slug":"please-rate-my-app-dialogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/please-rate-my-app-dialogs\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Please Rate My App&rdquo; Dialogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amyworrall.com\/post\/143888553430\/please-rate-my-app\">Amy Worrall<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amyruthworrall\/status\/728185404797669381\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.amyworrall.com\/post\/143888553430\/please-rate-my-app\"><p>I used to really dislike the door-slam dialog boxes that many apps pop up when they&rsquo;re updated, saying &ldquo;Please rate my app&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>John Gruber <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2013\/12\/05\/eff-your-review\">encouraged his readers<\/a> to rate apps that asked for ratings with one star. Now that the App Store is so hard to make money in, I&rsquo;ve come up with an analogy for that:<\/p><p>Pressing &ldquo;No Thanks&rdquo; to the rating dialog is like refusing to give change to a beggar. Rating the app 1 star because of the dialog is like punching the beggar in the face to try and discourage people from begging. <\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I put a distinctive, attention-grabbing ratings prompt into the table view on the main screen of the app, three days after an update is installed. But it doesn&rsquo;t stop you using the app. You can navigate to other screens without issue, and still use all the features. The prompt stays there until you press one of the buttons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not sure the analogy holds, but I am much more sympathetic to ratings requests these days&mdash;if they&rsquo;re not modal dialogs.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2016-05-20): <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2016\/04\/blackbox-developer-on-getting-app-reviews\/\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2016\/04\/blackbox-developer-on-getting-app-reviews\/\"><p>Blackbox upends the usual iOS way of doing things in a number of ways, of which convincing users to rate the app is only just one. Ryan&rsquo;s post is well worth a read, especially for developers trying to figure out how to get those reviews without raising users&rsquo; hackles.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Worrall (tweet): I used to really dislike the door-slam dialog boxes that many apps pop up when they&rsquo;re updated, saying &ldquo;Please rate my app&rdquo;. [&#8230;] John Gruber encouraged his readers to rate apps that asked for ratings with one star. Now that the App Store is so hard to make money in, I&rsquo;ve come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,31,663],"class_list":["post-14505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-marketing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14589,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions\/14589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}