to try the demo you need to sign up. why? to sign up you need a password 8-16 chars. Why limit at 16? geez, I hate Chinese IT companies with a passion.
update: AFTER signing up, and only then, am I told: 'This service is not available in your region yet.'
ah, Eastern Europe is a homogeneous slop, good to know. The 25th is only celebrated as a national holiday in like 90% of Eastern European countries. Russia and Serbia celebrate it on January 7th instead, and even that is only due to their use of the old Julian calendar. But sure, normal day in a very narrow and obscure definition of Eastern Europe.
I loved the article, the translation is pretty good, too.
Can you share a link to the full Chinese text with me, please? My wife is also from the Gobi desert and I think she would love to read the original version.
edit: I just found 我在404长大 [1] on douban, it seems the be the original version
I tried to open the link in 2 browsers, both times the step "Establishing connection" resulted in "Dashboard Load Failed
Reset operation timed out after 60 seconds"
I command clicked (on a Mac, equivalent to Ctrl click on Win) on a link. It did not open in a new tab, but the same tab. That alone makes me not want to test it further, because 1) that should be default and 2) whenever I see a list of links, I would like to be able to open more than one of them in the background before actually checking them out.
update: AFTER signing up, and only then, am I told: 'This service is not available in your region yet.'