WeChat Signup & Integration

[JasonMcz]

There was a post mentioned by users under CN tag. This could drastically increase the amount CN users on the site to drive more traffic and more demand/liquidity for STEEM/SBD.

https://steemit.com/cn/@xiaohui/stongly-suggest-to-dan-and-ned-that-steemit-support-for-qq-or-wechat-verifieation-steemit-qq

@abitmore

[faddat]

https://github.com/node-webot/wechat-oauth

And who knows, maybe SBY is on the horizon? Point is, this is something that we should take care of.

[valzav]

Is there any plan how to prevent bots registration?

[faddat]

I don't think that wechat accounts are any more likely to be zombies/bots than Facebook accounts. They're tied to phone numbers, so there's a cost for making them. So I guess, to answer your question, that I figure we use the same plan to prevent bot registration that is currently used with FB / Reddit:

Self-interested risk with as many safeguards as possible (like how we check the reddit reputation when making accounts).

Getting into international markets in big ways (or even in small ways) and outside of the English-Web-Bubble would be monumentally gigantic for STEEM and Steemit.

[abitmore]

Perhaps it's better to just make a Chinese fork, like the Russian one.

[faddat]

@abitmore
I have no idea. These are hard questions.

[jcalfee]

TeleSign can send an SMS verification code to China for about $.018 cents each.

[faddat]

So there's the less than two cent SMS option.... and so ya know-- there's also the fact that you can't get a Weixin account without using a phone number...

[TimCliff]

Is this request needed anymore now that signup validation has been switched from Facebook/Reddit to SMS and image verification?

[abitmore]

Afaik CAPTCHA is blocked in China. So we still need a solution.

[faddat]

Joy!

Well, who is our CAPTCHA provider? Is there a telegeographically neutral provider?

[abitmore]

See #515

[faddat]

Don't think so.

Still might be good to add wechat / qq, however given that we now provide
an easy way for people from China to make accounts, the situation is vastly
improved.

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[sneak]

Working around censorship firewalls is not a design goal at this time. Perhaps in the future.

[faddat]

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