@matigo physical locations of sites are not a determinant of whether the GFW effects a blockage. Two of my servers are in Tokyo and they both work just fine. CloudFlare on the other hand fails to work behind the wall at times. But hosting a site in Japan indeed increases the risk of getting blocked because too many Chinese netizens are setting up VPNs on servers in Japan for faster loading. Their preference: Hong Kong = Japan > Singapore > USA > Elsewhere. The Chinese government has already noticed this, so…
@JeremyCherfas honestly not. I found Manton was too busy to respond and I saw no point in seeking help elsewhere.
@matigo my observation: wildcard.nice.social has been repelled by the GFW. Domain blacklisting is rare and often a last resort. (Facebook, Twitter, and Google are good examples). More commonly they _slaughter_ certain IP addresses.
@matigo yeah he’s a great guy doing great things. My complaints only focus on the paucity of good customer support considering the existing deficiencies lying in a paid service. Not everyone is web-savvy after all.
@matigo see how micro.BLOG is being lucky in this way ? (I nevertheless experience slow loading at times but never failure to load)
Actually I started my first account here days ago when I wasn’t conscious of the GFW affecting connectivity. Many times of failure to access certain parts of the site led me to delete that account on a fit of anger. Later I came to think it might be due to the darn great firewall and decided to try again, hence my presence here. Yeah! ?
I remember shooting manton an email containing 15 questions about using micro.blog and he only helped enable https with the other 14 questions set afloat in the atmosphere 50km above earths surface… maybe I’m a perfectionist asking for too much or my questions were just stultifying him… I’d just wanted to make sure $5/m would go where it should, particularly as regards customer support…