We are getting close to having half of Russia onboarded to #Quicksy and me going broke on SMS fees. привет, I guess 👋🇷🇺

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@daniel umm, congrats, I guess.
@daniel здравствуй :)

@daniel I am curious if/when they start blocking you.

Paying money for russian SMSes is the worst part, though.

@daniel Literally half of Russia? Is this reflected in Google Play download stats? Sounds more like someone just wants you to go broke on SMS fees.
@WofWca No. It's valid sign ups. SMS pumping looks different.

@daniel Alright alright. Nonetheless "half of Russia" doesn't sound realistic. You say this has been going on for at least a month? But Quicksy on Google Play is still at "10K+" downloads: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.client

If you want to see an example of an app that really is used by a third of Russia, there is one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.oneme.app

Quicksy - Apps on Google Play

An XMPP client with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery

@WofWca @daniel How trustworthy is that reporting in the Play Store?

@gtsadmin @daniel well I don't think that it's reasonable to expect that Google is purposefully displaying the wrong number of installs and reviews for Quicksy. One can also check Apple Store.

They do remove some VPN applications for Russian users and stuff, but I think that they would not be displaying the wrong number of users.

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Any thoughts on how to make #quicksy more sustainable? I find this service really important for onboarding WhatsApp victims.
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@daniel ну ничего, скоро РКН заблочит серваки quicksy и можно будет не платить за смски 😁

conversations.im уже давно в блоке
@daniel или же заблочит как смски от Telegram
@vlnst @daniel ну, в конце концов quicksy подразумевался как ознакомительный вариант, поди разберутся с "взрослой" версией
@daniel I would not support russia's terrorist state, and have blocked this shithole country by geoip. Here is a good example of how to deal with them:
https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/2155
Geoblocking Russia · Issue #2155 · oerdnj/deb.sury.org

I should have done this before, and sorry it took me so long, but I started geoblocking Russia on packages.sury.org. I can't do that for launchpad packages, but if I could I would. I see no reason ...

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@zen @daniel stop xenophobia, people are not guilty of living in countries like russia/iran/etc