Yeah, it strikes me as incredibly short-sited to not serve this region better (or at all!). There's a lot of ignorance and short-sitedness abound, but it still doesn't explain enough why nobody is doing it right.
For what it's worth, I don't think it's totally out of our control. Me and my team are pretty influential, connected, and crazy enough to try things. I would love to have conversations about some of the issues on dev.to and welcome you to start discussion threads or write about any of it. It would really help me orient myself around the unknown unknowns that do make things "out of my control" for the moment.
Yes i know it's something that's out of your control.
I'm just wondering why so many "internet-based" companies ignore the traffic in this region.
Nigeria has the largest number of internet users in Africa (More than South Africa and Egypt combined).
Like i said earlier dev.to is fast enough here. So no worries at all :)
Yeah, it strikes me as incredibly short-sited to not serve this region better (or at all!). There's a lot of ignorance and short-sitedness abound, but it still doesn't explain enough why nobody is doing it right.
For what it's worth, I don't think it's totally out of our control. Me and my team are pretty influential, connected, and crazy enough to try things. I would love to have conversations about some of the issues on dev.to and welcome you to start discussion threads or write about any of it. It would really help me orient myself around the unknown unknowns that do make things "out of my control" for the moment.
Maybe you can both contact Andela - andela.com/ ?
I've heard they are pretty connected in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, maybe they know someone that can point you in the right direction.