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The Most Fragmented Thing in the World: WeChat Developer Platform

The Most Fragmented Thing in the World: WeChat Developer Platform

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作者吐槽微信开发者平台体系混乱:开发者平台、开放平台与公众号后台名称和入口割裂,关联公众号需绕路,不能自动列出主体下小程序;账号切换形同虚设,切换后其他页面登录过期,对多工作区用户极不友好。

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When you want to create a Mini Program, you have to face this WeChat Developer Platform, which is more fragmented than nuclear fission

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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?

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Then what is this? The carousel says Developer Platform, but the top-left corner says Open Platform

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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

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But the ridiculous part is:

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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

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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

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