App reviewing system

[avidseeker]

• Where are App reviews hosted?
• Do Discover and Gnome Software share the same reviewing system?
• Can reviews be viewed online?

It would be nice if there is something similar to ActivityPub for package reviews.

[johnandmegh]

I had done a little bit of searching into how Linux app store reviews work a little bit ago, and posted what I found here:

Link to Discover Reviews

Part of the challenge there is how reviews are actually handled - AFAIK (AFAICT from looking at Discover’s source code) it’s not a KDE service at all, but a GNOME service that is not able to be browsed or deep-linked to outside of how app stores currently communicate to it: https://www.rojtberg.net/2644/introducing-odrs-browser/ (This link is to an old scraping of that data, not current AFAIK, but explains some of the challenges)

Hope that’s helpful.

[rokejulianlockhart]

@avidseeker

It would be nice if there is something similar to ActivityPub for package reviews.

@avidseeker, precedent for that appears to now exist:

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