When you want to create a Mini Program, you have to face this WeChat Developer Platform, which is more fragmented than nuclear fission
In the WeChat Developer Platform (developers.weixin.qq.com), you need to bind an "Open Platform account". Does that mean the "Developer Platform" and the "Open Platform" are not the same thing?
Then what is this? The carousel says Developer Platform, but the top-left corner says Open Platform
On the mixed platform (mp.weixin.qq.com), you can associate a bunch of things, but you cannot associate Official Accounts, so how do you associate them, you need to switch to Official Accounts - Marketing and Services - Mini Program Management in the mixed platform
But the ridiculous part is:
They are all platforms within WeChat, and I am logged in with the same account, yet I still need to search by Mini Program name and id to query. ?
Since I can query it and verify whether I can associate it, that means the platform is capable of retrieving all Mini Programs bound under my entity, but obviously, it cannot currently do so automatically.
I vaguely remember that previously you had to repeatedly log out and log in to switch between managing Official Accounts and managing Mini Programs, and later a nominal account-switching feature was added
Why is it nominal?
What I envisioned:
Log in with one account and manage Mini Programs, Official Accounts, etc. at the same time
In reality:
If you log in to a Mini Program, you cannot manage Official Accounts, you must switch accounts, and after switching, the pages elsewhere all become logged-out sessions
This is very unfriendly for someone like me who opens a workspace and many pages for every task