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Really ?

As someone who speaks natively German, can you give me an example or a source for this ?

ß is after a long vocal, ss is after a short vocal. I don't know any regional problems with that (and I come from a region with a VERY different language than most of the German speaking people)

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The op claimed it makes no difference if you write words with ss or ß. I simply claimed it makes a difference in standard language but certain dialects differ from that so that many people don't know/hear/speak certain words correctly and thus don't understand the difference. For some words, both forms are said to be correct (e.g. Geschoss and Geschoß) but not for all.

BTW, the English word for Vokal is vowel, not vocal (which means something else).

Oops - thank you.

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