"Community rating" should display how many stars from how many reviews

[Fred-Zweig]

Change the way the app store displays community ratings. It should show the average number of stars given so far and specify the total number of reviews.

Currently, the display is accurate only after more than five reviews are submitted. For example, an app with four reviews of 5 stars each shows only three stars, which does not reflect reality.

Update of Daphne 2 Jan: this enhancement request was discussed with the maintainers and we would review a PR for this swiftly.

[alexanderdd]

One problem with this is that users don't rate the app with stars, but with bad/ok/good.

Also, I feel like the design you describe is a little overkill at this point, we are not talking about thousands of reviews (yet). But I think it is a good idea to show the number of reviews, for example a average three-star rating from twelve reviewers could be shown like this:

***_ _ (12)

What do you think?

[Fred-Zweig]

@alexanderdd I've just checked and found that the current rating system shows a number of stars for each app, but the rating options that you see once you log in are still the old ones: Good, OK, Bad. This 3-option rating system should be changed to the 5-star system, so that the user can give any number of stars, from 1 to 5, like on any other classic rating system (Wordpress plugins, Amazon, eBay, etc.). Indeed, the number of reviews on the app store is still small, compared with Amazon, eBay, etc. Yet, this doesn't mean that the app store cannot or should not use the same rating system.

[Fred-Zweig]

It can be as simple as this:

With blue stars instead of yellow.

[DaphneMuller]

Hi, thank you for the suggestion. Showing the number of reviews indeed makes it more transparent what the quality of the rating is. We would welcome a PR for this feature and we would review it swiftly.

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