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I mean, a lot of these sound entirely reasonable. No way to report or block Micro.blog comments, the Sign In With Apple button didn't work, no way to delete an

I mean, a lot of these sound entirely reasonable. No way to report or block Micro.blog comments, the Sign In With Apple button didn't work, no way to delete an account you create. The way the author is trying to minimize these seems disingenuous. These seem like things I'm happy Apple is enforcing. The trademark one sounds like the main problem. Obviously, for example, Apple won't let you register an app called "GarageBand". In this case, "Inkwell" seems like a dead Apple trademark but that is still listed. But I do see that there are two iPhone apps simply called "Inkwell" and at least six more that start with "Inkwell", e.g. "Inkwell: Private Micro Journal". [1] The reviewer is probably just trying to follow policy, when other reviewers have made exceptions. Hopefully there's a way to point to the many exceptions and get it approved after all? Is there a way to escalate/appeal to get a different reviewer? [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/search?term=inkwell https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/search?term=inkwell

rtpg 5mo ago
> no way to delete an account you create In here it sounds like this is a client to a third party service. Mail.app and Thunderbird don't have buttons to delete my Gmail account I do agree all of this seems basically like "sure, fine". Just seems rough to get pinged with all of these in a slow stream, and having wall clock time go waaaaaay up for it.
- crazygringo 5mo ago
  The author says "so almost everyone is going to have an existing Micro.blog account that they can delete from the web". The key word seems to be "almost". So it sounds like the app let you create accounts but not delete accounts. That's why I'm saying that it seems disingenuous of the author to be complaining. If you don't allow for account creation, then you don't need to allow for deletion. But if you have a creation flow in-app, you need a deletion flow in-app. You don't get to hide around assumptions around "almost".
  - rtpg 5mo ago
    Makes sense, yeah.
- danpalmer 5mo ago
  > In here it sounds like this is a client to a third party service. It's not, Micro.blog is a service made and run by the author.

rtpg 5mo ago

> no way to delete an account you create In here it sounds like this is a client to a third party service. Mail.app and Thunderbird don't have buttons to delete my Gmail account I do agree all of this seems basically like "sure, fine". Just seems rough to get pinged with all of these in a slow stream, and having wall clock time go waaaaaay up for it.

crazygringo 5mo ago
The author says "so almost everyone is going to have an existing Micro.blog account that they can delete from the web". The key word seems to be "almost". So it sounds like the app let you create accounts but not delete accounts. That's why I'm saying that it seems disingenuous of the author to be complaining. If you don't allow for account creation, then you don't need to allow for deletion. But if you have a creation flow in-app, you need a deletion flow in-app. You don't get to hide around assumptions around "almost".
- rtpg 5mo ago
  Makes sense, yeah.
danpalmer 5mo ago
> In here it sounds like this is a client to a third party service. It's not, Micro.blog is a service made and run by the author.