Nate Cull (.social)

Hi Mastodon/OStatus dev people. Have you ever thought about how your software might work in China?

I've visited China. Interesting thing about its Internet is Bruce Schneier's crypto blog is fine but Google is blocked - and so is all Javascript and ads and analytics that load from Google.com. Soooo many Silicon Valley websites are toast there.

Just something to keep in mind. Dont even assume, eg, github is available everywhere. The fewer off-server dependencies you have the better.

Apr 10, 2017 at 5:04amWeb
Show threadMax✅ Apr 10, 2017
@natecull Honestly all ads and analytics being blocked sounds like the websites work might better than normal :expressionless:
Show threadNate Cull (.social)Apr 10, 2017

@ftl Quite possibly! It just made them very slow to load.

But Wikipedia was fine and so were a couple of open source Chinese-English dictionary sites and that's about all I used.