After installing the app, the verification code received before began to come in handy. The entire registration process required a scientific Internet access, changing the region to the United States, successfully completing the account name and user name settings, and keeping the secret key in mind.

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In addition, it is quite special that the registration also needs to go through the process of "face recognition". In the previous emails that Voice sent to users, it was mentioned that HooYu will be used as a KYC tool. Judging from the official HooYu process, users need mobile phone numbers, Twitter / Facebook / INS / Google and other social accounts, selfies, driver’s licenses / ID cards, etc. information, and finally confirm the identity of the real person. But from the point of view of the final operation, this information is not needed.

It is worth noting that the face recognition picture will be defaulted as the avatar and cannot be modified later. You can probably imagine what it would be like to have a group of unbeautified, completely real selfie avatars on the same page. In addition to the account number and avatar, the current user's nickname and posts cannot be modified or deleted-but the comments of the posts can be deleted by themselves. Some people speculate that the content of Voice is not on the chain, but the hash of the stored content is on the chain, or the content is on the chain and packaged into a new block after modification.

Once you fully memorize all kinds of information, you can become a "Voicer". However, at present, the official team does not seem to have issued a relevant content support plan. If some "smart tricks" are not used, it will be difficult.

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"I suspect that the official is targeting Chinese users"

Although Voice is not officially open to Chinese users, this move has not stumped Chinese friends. As early as June this year, Voice CEO Salah Zalatimo announced that the public beta would start in July, and KOLs such as Zi Cen and Jing Kai soon followed Became the first to test the waters. Interestingly, after searching in the search box, the faces with the word "EOS" in their nicknames are all familiar.

From the above introduction, it can be found that the registration threshold of Voice itself is not low. Basically, there are basically three types of players who can overcome various obstacles and become Voicers: one is the player who is originally an EOS believer and simply wants to "try something new"; It is an enthusiastic crowd for the purpose of onlookers.

Li Yan is a member of the Wool Party. I originally thought that the platform could enjoy dividends in the early stage, but it was only after the actual operation that I found that the difficulty of collecting wool is not small. Since he is completely uncertain about the official incentive mechanism, Li Yan can only increase the "possibility" of income by liking, Voice it's own posts, frequently liking and leaving comments for others, and exchanging dots with a few familiar friends.

This blind, primitive approach did not go well.

Li Yan's most intuitive feeling is: Voice is not friendly to Chinese people, "Look at the top-ranked Voicers, there are basically no faces that look like Chinese." Within half a month, Li Yan received two bans, "The first blackout period was two days. The second time I just received the notice yesterday, I'm not sure how long it will last. I guess the reason may be that the likes are too frequent."

The official did not provide an explanation for such behavior, and it can only be attributed to being systematically classified as a "suspected wool party". However, the official has not clearly defined the standard of "Wool Party", and players cannot control this scale at all. Because I heard that being banned three times will result in a permanent ban, Li Yan is trembling now, "I'm afraid of being banned." He said frankly that if Voice loses its attractiveness, he doesn’t think of a reason to continue playing Voice. “There are too many apps in everyone’s mobile phone, why bother to play such an app?”

But in fact, since Voice's public debut at the EOS Developer Conference in Washington in June 2019, subsequent progress has been slow. From the point of view of the experience of ordinary users, the entire application is still in a relatively rudimentary state.

In April of this year, Voice CEO Salah Zalatimo (Salah Zalatimo) stated in an interview that the official plan is to conduct a one-year test, revealing that the full version of Voice may be released in 2021. According to such a long-term plan, the update of the application at this stage should be relatively frequent, but judging from the official Twitter information and user feedback, since Voice went online, there has been little news about fixing bugs and iterating the application. Could it be that the official is already very satisfied? current version?

In addition, although the APP shows that there is a corresponding function, even the "forwarding" function in the site is not yet open. If you want to try it, you will 100% receive the warm reminder in the screenshot below, and the sharing function outside the site is actually copying Link. In this regard, Enthusiastic Voicer suggests that you can use Google Chrome to log in to use such functions.

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In addition to the single product function, the entire background editor is also very simple. The background editor and front-end page of Voice are as follows:

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Screenshot Source: Voice

If I don't tell you, can you imagine that this is a product that has been polished by a team that has received 150 million US dollars in financing for more than a year?

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Reasons why users need Voice

The vision for this app, which claims to bring authenticity back to the digital world, is lofty. In fact, public skepticism about Voice has continued since its inception. Before Voice was launched, it was really not fair for the outside world to criticize it, but judging from the current open product page, it seems that even EOS token holders have difficulty finding reasons to cheer for it, not to mention the masses.

A good content platform should make it easier for people to link with good content. In terms of clear positioning, Voice is not like ZAO, which can rely on the unique function of "one-click face change" to blow up the social circle, nor is it like Clubhouse, which is deeply involved in the audio social field, and has won a small number of fans. Leaving aside whether the official content support plan will be launched, which will bring a group of opinion leaders in the fields of culture, politics, and sports, at least for now, the occasional ban and permanent account ban have discouraged some ordinary people.

The official is trying to create a "no robots at all" world where real people are active. It looks beautiful, but it seems unrealistic. Even if real people register accounts, there may be a group of users who are only willing to browse, like, comment and not post. Woolen cloth. However, the FOMO-like mechanism and top-paying method currently designed by Voice do not seem to make people overwhelmed enough to make people willing to abandon the original platform and switch to Voice.

In fact, successful social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Weibo will not receive hundreds of millions of dollars in financing when they are still in beta version like Voice. More than a year has passed, and the Voice made by the team with no shortage of money seems to be inferior to the products made by ordinary entrepreneurial teams.

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A user complained to Rhythm BlockBeats Voice development team