[rhizome]

>Every Chinese site I've ever used requires phone number or ID verification

Frankly, this happens a lot in the West these days, too. Take OKCupid, for instance. And the third-party doctrine.

[JamesG124]

Twitter too. Every Twitter account I registered locked me out and asked for phone number after an hour or so

[mrcodedude]

Probably a decent security idea to have minimal PIE requirements for a dating site.