Taobao did make a mistake this time, the reason is yet to be reviewed.
Editor’s note: This article is from the micro-channel public number “geek park” (ID: geekpark) , Author: Jingyu.
On March 25th, some users responded that there was a bug on the mobile Taobao application. When the application page was opened, the prompt “Internal Beta Version, Download New Version” appeared. After uninstallation, the pop-up window remained the same. At 8 am, Taobao App launched an upgraded version. After upgrading the app, the pop-up window no longer appears. Tested by Geek Park (ID: geekpark), the Taobao application on the iOS side encountered the problem, but the phone using the Android system did not find the problem.
On the 25th, some users responded on social media. When they opened the mobile Taobao application, a pop-up window appeared on the page, showing that the program you are using is a beta version and will expire on 2020-03-28 local time Will not be available in the future, please download the latest version as soon as possible.
After clicking the “Confirm” button on the popup window, the popup window disappears and the app can be used normally. If you uninstall the application according to the prompts and re-download the app in the app store, you will still encounter the same prompt after opening.
The pop-up window disappears after the upgrade
At 8 am, Ali pushed an upgraded version of the mobile Taobao app. After the update, the pop-up window in the app disappeared. The Taobao Weibo client released Weibo at about 4 pm and said:
1. My baby is always busy at home. It seems that I usually have more children and exercise. Taobao Special Edition will continue to be launched tomorrow.
2. Everyone is connected to WiFi, just update your mobile phone Taobao to the latest version.
At the same time, the Taobao Weibo client also denied rumors of “system-level bugs” circulating on the Internet, calling them “rumors.”
Official response from Taobao Weibo
According to Taobao ’s official Weibo answer, the e-commerce giant’s response to this bug is relatively calm. Now, as “super apps” become more and more complex, the difficulty of operation and maintenance behind them continues to increase, but it is still relatively rare for applications with billions of users to have obvious bugs.
The latest time may be January 24, 2019. WeChat, a national application, was temporarily unable to send files and links. Within a few hours, however, the application returned to normal. Compared with Taobao’s bug, WeChat has adopted internal corrections to restore the normal use of the application without upgrading.
At present, some commentators speculate that, in view of tomorrow, March 26th, Taobao will soon launch a new version of “Taobao Special Edition”, this hand Taobao bug may be a large-scale “special warm-up”. But the possibility of such a guess is very low, and it is extremely unreasonable.
After all, Taobao is a super app with more than 800 million users. Preheating in such a way that damages the user experience is not considered by any team.
Although Taobao has not yet given a precise explanation of the bug, I believe that the team will also review the matter.
As an ordinary user, you do n’t need to panic, just follow the official guidelines to upgrade the application.