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This is kind orthogonal to comments about the FB dating features, but my company chose to launch a major feature this week in Canada as well. I guess it is the
by cschmidt 8y ago
This is kind orthogonal to comments about the FB dating features, but my company chose to launch a major feature this week in Canada as well. I guess it is the natural choice as: 1) it is English speaking, so it is easier for our English speaking employees to diagnose, 2) it is small enough that the traffic won't be too much, 3) roughly the same time zones as our devs so we can be online at the same time.
- soperj 8y agoNot sure if you're actually unaware, but a large portion of the population here speaks French (1/5th) as their first language.
- cschmidt 8y agoSure, of course you're right. Our website is in 26 languages, so they would have been accommodated. I was just meaning Canada would allow English speaking developers to use the site and debug issues.
- 706f6f70 8y agoOther important factors: * Diverse enough to extrapolate findings specific to other communities (e.g. the huge Chinese and South Indian population in urban Canada are still culturally very similar to China and India, despite being in Canada). * Toothless privacy legislation and enforcement. * A historic lack of global attention means they will bend over backwards to attract "prestige" projects (see: Sidewalk Labs)