It's weird that the country with 1.3 billion people and over 350mil middle class people with money to burn can't get on Steemit. The new hardfork ruined it even more by converting images to the steem hosting site. Now my Chinese friends can't even see the photos but can read the text. They used to see the photos.
They can't sign up either just enjoy reading my post, the whole google captcha thing.
And so much Crypto is in China, like tons of the stuff, Chinese love BTC.
For a platform that wants to be a world leader it sure has gone out of it's way to ensure a significant chunk of the BTC money never gets on the platform. Weird.
It's like my posts don't pay out like they used to but I kept writing and was always to happy to share my post on Chinese social media just to get some conversation going over there. Steemit was a journal I shared with my Chinese friends and groups am in.
But now they are all saying "I can't see the photos". It really sucks.
I liked it better when I could post using a 3rd party that wasn't blocked here, which I can use all of them, Tinypic and imagepost I chose most often work here.
Steemit took my freedom to decide where I host my photos
Facebook, Twitter and Google are desperate to get into China and the Steemit dev's are pushing it away. It's baffling. It doesn't make sense to me. Is there a reason anyone can share?
I don't get why.
Steemit didn't take anything away from you. You can still host your pictures wherever you want and insert the links in your posts like you used to.
that's I what do. I use www.postimage.io or tinypic and then post.
For example. I just uploaded this screen grab of this comment as i write it.
Now if you right click it choose copy address. Now paste it to the browser. It says
https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://s2.postimg.org/yejlye3u1/2017-04-20_at_17-08-02.?png (remove '?')
But this is the link i posted
https://s2.postimg.org/yejlye3u1/2017-04-20_at_17-08-02.?png (remove the "?")
It converted. I did not choose that.
Is it only me?
Oh okay, so I've not noticed that before now. SteemitImages should only be used for people that are uploading directly from their computers or phones. It shouldn't just override everything.
Now I get your point.
Gosh, he link is so complicated. You should try imgur or worst case 9gag.
Do you get the same thing if you use busy.org instead of steemit.com?
I don't know. I just use old school steemit editor.
I mean from a reader's perspective.
Never mind, I just checked myself, it seems to use the same system as steemit.com.
steemd.com has the correct link, but that's not very good for reading posts...
I think the solution may be for someone to modify the Steemit code and host it within China, with its own image hosting solution. It could dynamically change steemit.com links to its own url. Perhaps Steemit Inc should do this but it would be possible for anyone, as the code is open source.
Imgur works well. does it work in China? You don't have to sign up. Just go straight upload and you can upload from you PC or url, then copy the image location. It works well with steemit
yep those work in china. but that won't fix the issue. since the fork, i noticed anyways, they all switched to steemitimages hosting.
It seems not everybody in china shares this experience...
we are using VPNs. it's only way but they are illegal so mostly expats and tech savvy freedom fighters use them.
Once we get past the google captcha we dont need a vpn. It's a one time deal.
done edits.
well, maybe changing servers would resolve the image issues. I just need, Im not oppose to steemit hosting them. It doesn't really matter. But they aren't showing up in china for me. How to fix that?