Remove the spam watch faces from Connect IQ

Serval 1 month ago

I realize others have said this too. But it’s super annoying that there are so many low quality (and repetitive !) watch faces (examples include Ioface and Timeface faces) in IQ. If it’s not possible to take those out (ban them), we should at least be able to filter and remove them that way.

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510118 1 month ago +2

Why did this thread devolve? I too want to be able to reliably search and be presented with high quality faces. I want to be able to search selectively/exclusively for things like:

My watch, a Fenix 8…
FlowState 1 month ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

jim_m_58 said:
Two clicks is too hard for you? How many years have you been complaining about this? 4? 5?

It's not too hard for me, I do it all the time.

How many years have you been failing at reading…
FlowState 1 month ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

jim_m_58 said:
It's not that me that didn't understand this thread as it progressed

?

I understand the thread, let me recap it for you:

- Serval (OP) complained about spam watchfaces

- eau_de_vie…

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eau_de_vie 1 month ago

I posted the same as a bug report not a week ago - https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/the-store-is-being-decimated-by-a-handful-of-developers-spamming-low-effort-apps

Garmin's rep said that they would start looking into that.

The post still went straight into "Completed" state, preventing it from getting more upvotes and removing it from the default subforum view, so I'm not sure what and if being actually done about this problem.

Serval 1 month ago in reply to eau_de_vie

I’m glad you reported it as well. I noticed in the archives here that it’s been reported a number of times. It does not seem like Garmin is doing anything about it (yet?).

tnasaelpm 1 month ago

I'm not a developer but I am a user who shares your frustration. It's like a bunch of shysters at the mall selling worthless costume jewelry out of the trunks of their cars. You have to get past them in order to get inside where the real stuff is.

andyj713 1 month ago in reply to tnasaelpm

Maybe this is a dumb question, but don't the apps have to be approved, presumably by a human, to get into the store? Who is green-lighting them, or has Garmin outsourced this to AI?

Serval 1 month ago in reply to andyj713

Yes, they have to be approved. You may be correct that it’s been outsourced to AI, which is a shame. I wish Garmin would weigh in.

jim_m_58 1 month ago in reply to Serval

There is a wiki that defines why apps wont be approved, and I've seen apps getting rejected

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/w/wiki/10/app-approval-exceptions

What would you suggest to be added as a new rule?

Serval 1 month ago in reply to jim_m_58

First, I think approval should involve a human, not just AI. Maybe the basics can be covered by AI, but we need a person to look at a developer’s faces to see if they’re submitting a lot (more than 10?) that look extremely similar with minor changes in data displayed (ex. Ioface and TimeFace watch faces).

FlowState 1 month ago in reply to eau_de_vie

eau_de_vie said:
removing it from the default subforum view

The default view is fairly useless imo, since it's sorted by votes - all but one of the bugs on the first page are from 2019-2022 and the other bug is from 2023. (Hmmm almost a funny parallel with the app store here huh)

As soon as your bug isn't the latest open bug posted (so it appears as the most recent post link in the subforum list view), the chances of anyone looking at it go down by a lot imo.

inb4 "it's very easy to sort by date!!!1!!" - guy who has facile answer for everything

jim_m_58 1 month ago in reply to FlowState

It would be nice if the default order would be by date, but it's pretty easy to change it. Only 2 clicks.

Serval 1 month ago in reply to FlowState

Right. I do not see a way to sort by date. Plus, the watch faces I’d want to filter out were recently “updated” to have a September 2024 date. Garmin could allow us to filter certain developers out. Right now, you can search and I usually do that by title, but that means one has to know what one is/ looking for.