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posted by martyb on Sunday June 04 2017, @07:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the following-a-sex-bot dept.

A Chinese dating app for lesbians that has more than five million users has been shut down.

The app, Rela, is no longer available in the Android or Apple app stores, and its website and Sina Weibo account have been deleted.

Users began to notice that the app was not accessible last week. It is unclear why it has been shut down.

Rela told its users on WeChat that the service had been suspended for an "important adjustment in service".

"Rela has always been with you and please await its return!"

[...] The state internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), has not commented on the shutdown.

Some users have suggested that it was connected to Rela's support for parents of LGBT children who wanted to take part in a "marriage market" in Shanghai on 20 May.

Shutting down such apps must be especially significant for users in socially conservative societies.


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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday June 05 2017, @09:56PM (2 children)

    by butthurt (6141) on Monday June 05 2017, @09:56PM (#521007) Journal

    Two ways to do that are to choose "Extrans (html tags to text)" instead of "Plain Old Text" or type out < and > for the angle brackets.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @10:20PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @10:20PM (#521012)

    Thanks for pointing out the extrans option, but doesn't "plain old text" not actually treating the text typed into the box as plaintext seem a little misleading?

    • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday June 05 2017, @10:52PM

      by butthurt (6141) on Monday June 05 2017, @10:52PM (#521021) Journal

      Yes, I suppose it does. As far as I've noticed--and I haven't looked at the Perl code, only its output--the difference between "Plain Old Text" and "HTML Formatted" is purely in the way newlines are treated. The former turns a single newline into <br> (line break) and turns a pair into a <p> (paragraph) tag.