as much as i loathe astrology, im not sure why astrology would be blanket banned in the first place.

and i am surprised that apps like "Night Sky" (great app, no affiliation) made it past review if the app store reviewers are incapable of telling the difference.

https://darkhours.io/ does look really cool, i hope they get this sorted out.

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HeavenFox a day ago | parent | next [-]

This is likely an outlier. I submitted a new astronomy app (even with “Astro” in the name!) just a few months ago with no problem.

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darkhours a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://darkhours.app is very similar, with the same feature set.

And opensource, launched months ago. Full source and commit history here: https://github.com/mbeher2200/DarkHours

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ilikeitdark13 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wow, that is beautiful.

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quentindanjou 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The "Astrology" reason emphasized in the article isn't the main reason, they actually quickly talk about it:

> the App Review Board and the Review Board responded that they determined the original rejection was valid because, I shit you not, “We understand that the app includes a live tarot reading feature.”

So that's it, they need to remove the live tarot reading. Which to me while not being astrology, isn't much better.

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settsu 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds like you'd make a fantastic iOS App Store submission reviewer!

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postalcoder 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is no live tarot feature. Thats the point.

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john_strinlai 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i put tarot + astrology in the same bucket (and, it appears after some quick searches, so do astrologers and tarot-readers or however you call them)

>So that's it, they need to remove the live tarot reading.

dark hours doesnt have live tarot reading.

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Jtarii 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is impressive that you seemingly read the article and still don't know what it was about.

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burnte a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> So that's it, they need to remove the live tarot reading. Which to me while not being astrology, isn't much better.

Further down he states there was never any tarot reading function. So how can he remove a function the app never had and thus a function the reviewer never could have seen?

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Biganon a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Essaie de lire l'article en entier, Quentin.

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rcstank 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You missed the fact that the article also explained there is no feature like that in the app.

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smelendez a day ago | parent [-]

I actually thought the article could be more explicit about that, but in fairness I think the author figured readers were familiar with the app and that it would be obvious there’s no tarot functionality.

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thewakalix a day ago | parent [-]

What could be more explicit than this?

> It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, would associate with astrology.

	▲	ceejayoz a day ago \| parent [-]
		<marquee><blink><font size="72px" color="red">, I guess.

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robertjpayne 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Did you read the article the app contains no such thing anywhere it’s an astronomy app not astrology and is deeply rooted in real science