Suddenly, WeChat suspended account registration. This is what happened.

Today's WeChat is no longer the simple chat software it was 10 years ago. With the rapid rise of WeChat payment, mini programs, and video accounts, WeChat has penetrated almost every scene in our daily lives.

We are increasingly feeling that we can’t live without WeChat.

As of now, WeChat has over 1.2 billion active users. Despite this, many people are constantly registering new WeChat accounts to join the WeChat ecosystem.

On the morning of July 27, some netizens found that they could not successfully register a WeChat account. In the final step of registration, a prompt for "system technology upgrade" appeared.

I thought this was just an isolated case, but after asking Tencent customer service for confirmation, I got the reply that "new user registration for personal WeChat accounts has been suspended" because the platform system is currently undergoing technical upgrades.

It turned out that WeChat had indeed officially suspended the registration of new users for personal accounts, and with the continued discussion among netizens, the topic #微信停个人账新用户注册# quickly topped the hot search list.

The WeChat official team also responded through official media, saying:

So after seeing the statement from the official WeChat team, we basically understood the issue of the suspension of WeChat account registration, which was because the system needed to upgrade its security technology.

However, netizens have been complaining about WeChat and are eager to see some new features on WeChat in the future. In summary, there are several aspects.

1. Merchant advertising in the WeChat system

Many people hate that WeChat pushes some business advertisements in the Moments from time to time, and these advertisements cannot be turned off. Not only that, many advertisements are also inserted in the current subscription account information flow. In front of these advertisements, users can only watch them and have no autonomy at all.

2. About account blocking

WeChat has a very strict content review mechanism. For some illegal and infringing information that is actively detected by the system and reported by WeChat users, the WeChat platform will impose the most severe penalties, up to and including permanent account bans.

Some netizens think that WeChat should not block accounts at will. If there is sensitive information, it needs to be blocked through technical means or the relevant functions can be restricted within a certain period of time.

3. Voice progress bar

When chatting on WeChat, you often receive long voice messages. If you want to listen to a part of it again, you have to listen to the whole voice message again, which is very inconvenient.

It would be a very user-friendly feature if a progress bar was added to voice messages.

4. Two-way deletion of WeChat friends

This function is very practical and is also the most complained function every time a new version of WeChat is launched. At this stage, many people have the need to detect zombie fans. It is not realistic to detect a large number of WeChat friends one by one. Therefore, third-party plug-ins have emerged, which adds some risks to the normal use of WeChat. Therefore, I hope that WeChat can develop an official function to let users know how many zombie friends they have in their address book.

5. Customer Service System

WeChat has its own customer service system, but most of them are automated replies by robots with set rules. If you encounter some special situations, it is very difficult to find human customer service.

In general, WeChat has a huge number of users. Once there is any news about WeChat, it will attract a lot of discussion among netizens and in most cases it will be pushed to the hot search. I hope WeChat can also actively listen to the voices of netizens and make appropriate changes.