RE: It's impossible to sign up for 99% of Chinese, dan and ned need to fix this ASAP
....is an amazing app used in China for messaging, payments, automation, dating, and I'm dead-certain that I'm missing more than a dozen things that this app is commonly used for each and every day.
Is its non-chinese equivalent where it is not integrated into the larger nation state and the fabric of most businesses. WeChat is trash.
Side Note
If anyone can get me a gig doing internationalization consulting for a major Chinese app/platform, I will take it in a heartbeat. China should be exporting software at this point, the lead is so large in many categories.... I suspect that we are not far from the advent of the era of cloned Chinese products appearing in the rest of the world, instead of the other way around.
2nd side note:
With the above said, China will continue to have a significant disadvantage in open source software development until Internet policies change.
@ned @dan Chinese people desperatly need things like steem , because we are sick of the censorship, ban, deleting everywhere in China, steem is the free land, the goverment wasn't able to block steem, only can block steemit.com. The policy change won't happen from the top, only from the botton, from the people.