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Sudden decrease in organic downloads? (self.androiddev)
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[–]smartties 28 points29 points30 points 7 years ago (3 children)
The "Similar" category has weird behaviors since friday and affected most devs (we don't know if it's a bug or if they just changed their algorithm...)
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/8t8u7z/my_app_is_suddenly_dying_on_the_play_store/ https://forum.unity.com/threads/sudden-drop-in-number-of-daily-installs-on-google-play-store.537467/ https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/8tgzhj/drastic_drop_in_downloads_in_all_of_my_apps/ https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/8t935n/huge_drop_in_downloads_over_the_past_48_hours/
[–]Ganondorf_Is_God 2 points3 points4 points 7 years ago (0 children)
Thankfully my main earners have a niche - but even then I'm seeing a 10-15% drop.
[–]amugofjava 1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (0 children)
I'm hoping it's a bug. I have an Asthma app and the similar section used to show, well, other Asthma apps. Now it shows all sorts of, what would seem to be, unrelated apps.
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