Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 145 Nip it in the bud!

After Yang Siqi left, Yan Ruoxuan asked Chen Cheng in a low voice, "That person didn't give you any trouble, did he?"

"No."

Chen Cheng smiled slightly, looked her up and down and said cheerfully, "Your new look is great, and your fashion sense is much better too."

Yan Ruoxuan's small face instantly turned bright red.

She hasn't quite adjusted to her new look.

She wasn't uncomfortable with becoming more attractive; rather, she was uncomfortable with suddenly going from being nobody to being the center of attention.

Walking down the street, many people stare at her; on her way here by plane, every male passenger in business class can't help but stare at her face.

Back at school, it was the same; wherever I went, I was met with a lot of intense stares.

She had planned to visit Chen Cheng's printing shop as soon as she arrived at school, since she had agreed to come and help on the 7th. However, when she arrived, there was a long queue at the printing shop, and many people in the queue were staring at her with unsettling eyes.

Yan Ruoxuan felt shy and embarrassed to respond to Chen Cheng, so she changed the subject and asked him, "Is there anything I can help with?"

Chen Cheng thought for a moment and said, "Yes, wait for me."

As he spoke, he put his DSLR camera away and said to Yan Ruoxuan, "Put your luggage down first, and I'll take you to East Lake to take some photos."

"Taking pictures?"

Yan Ruoxuan was surprised and couldn't understand why Chen Cheng suddenly wanted to take pictures of her.

Chen Cheng, however, had his own plans.

Judging from Yan Ruoxuan's current image, I dare not say she can definitely become the campus belle of Jiang University, but she can at least be ranked in the top five. She will have countless followers at Jiang University in the future. The most important thing is to get her to open an account on campus as soon as possible, and the album should be set to be accessible to all registered users!
So he deliberately raised his voice a few decibels and said, "Aren't you also going to open a campus account? I'll take some photos for you and upload them. Hurry up."

When the boys in line heard that this beautiful girl was also going to open an account on the school's intranet, they immediately became excited.

We don't know the girl's name yet, but that's okay, we can find out!
As long as she activates her school account and completes her profile, people can find her by searching her name!
Chen Cheng told his roommates, "I'm taking the class monitor to take some photos. You guys go ahead and do your work."

In their eyes, Yan Ruoxuan was no different from Chen Cheng's concubine, and they had long been used to it.

Chen Cheng led Yan Ruoxuan toward East Lake, and along the way, countless boys stared at her in a daze.

Chen Cheng couldn't help but exclaim, "Class monitor, it probably won't be long before you become famous at Jiangda University."

Yan Ruoxuan was a little uneasy: "I don't want to be famous... It feels so strange to be stared at like this wherever I go."

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "You'll get used to it gradually."

Yan Ruoxuan was too embarrassed to discuss this topic with him, so she asked him instead, "Do you still need that two million? I've been waiting for your news, but you haven't contacted me."

Chen Cheng said, "I've been busy with the website since I got back, so I haven't had time to think about it. Tomorrow, I'll take some time to go to the vehicle management office to check the current market conditions. If it's suitable, I'll buy another batch of license plates and then ask you for the money."

Yan Ruoxuan nodded and said, "Then I'll go to the bank and transfer the money to you in a bit. You can use it directly if you need it."

Chen Cheng said, "These are minor matters, no rush. Quickly take some nice photos, and I'll create a campus account for you later."

Yan Ruoxuan asked curiously, "What is 'Xiaonei'? I saw that your printing shop is also called 'Xiaonei'."

Chen Cheng chuckled and said, "The campus website is one I created. It's a personal homepage for college students, and it also has an electronic photo album. After you complete your profile, others can search for you and follow you if they know your name. If you know each other, you can also follow each other, so you can keep up with each other's updates."

Yan Ruoxuan asked Chen Cheng, "Is it that interesting? Have you opened a personal account yet?"

"not yet."

Chen Cheng laughed and said, "The website just launched today, and I haven't had a chance to open it yet. I'll open one when I get back to the store, and then we can follow each other."

The most beautiful season at Jiangnan University is actually the cherry blossom season, but the autumn scenery is also beautiful. Plus, it's afternoon now, so the sunlight is just right, making many of the views perfect for taking photos.

Chen Cheng didn't have much experience in taking photos, but Yan Ruoxuan's looks and temperament were just too good. This kind of cute girl didn't need to pose at all. Just standing there and taking a picture would produce very good results.
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While Chen Cheng was busy taking photos of Yan Ruoxuan, Yang Siqi led a few people back to the Galo Forum's office and began to convene a meeting of all technical staff to deal with the situation.

The fact that the home was hacked is already a fait accompli. Even if you find the owner of Renren.com and beat him up, it won't solve the key problem.

The key question is how to prevent the other party from attracting all the users of the Galo forum to it.

As a computer science student himself, he could naturally see that the school's intranet was well-prepared. The photo album function alone was unprecedented on the internet, and it had attracted its first batch of users through its own Galo forum. If the other party were allowed to continue developing, the popularity of Galo forum would inevitably be greatly affected.

He had just gathered everyone together when the technical lead immediately reported to him, "President Yang, our online users have dropped to less than three hundred." Yang Siqi didn't react immediately and instinctively asked, "How can it be so few?! Usually, there are at least one or two thousand people online at this time!"

The technical lead awkwardly explained: "It's not that you ordered the blocking of over a thousand accounts; all the new accounts they registered afterward were also blocked. Moreover, the speed at which Renren.com is developing is too fast. Several classmates in my class have already registered and even called to ask if I had registered yet, wanting me to follow them. So, some daily active users have definitely gone to Renren.com, which makes our number of online users even smaller."

Someone raised their hand in agreement: "By the way, all my high school classmates in Shanghai have registered on Renren.com. They even asked me about it on QQ. Apparently, one of our alumni from Jiangnan University knows him, so I shared Renren.com with him on QQ. He also gave Renren.com a very high rating and thought it was particularly useful."

Yang Siqi paced anxiously: "It's spread beyond Jiang University so quickly! This is much faster than what's happening on our Galo Forum!"

The Galo Forum, which has been running for two years, has attracted only current students and alumni of Jiangnan University.

Yang Siqi also wanted to attract more users, but his positioning was a vertical forum based on Jiangnan University. Such a forum had no appeal to users outside of Jiangnan University, which is the biggest dilemma of vertical platforms.

The more vertical a platform is, the more support it can receive from its specific target audience, making its initial development much more efficient.

Just like the most competitive social platforms, WeChat covers all netizens on a large scale. In this case, if you want to do social networking, you can only focus on a niche market.

There are platforms that facilitate dating for men and women with non-traditional relationships, platforms that facilitate same-sex dating, and even platforms that facilitate work for laborers.

Although Renren.com is also a vertical platform, it is not as thoroughly vertical as campus forums.

The target user group of Galo Forum is tens of thousands of current students and hundreds of thousands of graduates. Apart from that, Jiangda University only has a few thousand new students a year. This kind of website will never have any significant development, no matter how long it exists.

Xiaonei.com targets all college students, graduates, and prospective college students, a group that numbers in the tens of millions nationwide and is growing at a rate of hundreds of millions every year.

However, Yang Siqi still doesn't quite understand the logic behind it.

Upon hearing that the news was spreading so quickly on Renren, he asked anxiously, "Are people still discussing Renren on the Galo Forum?"

"Have."

The technical lead nodded: "There have been posts that have been subtly discussing this, and we've been monitoring them and deleting them."

After saying that, he reminded Yang Siqi: "President Yang, we can definitely block it, but the more we block it, the more upset the users will be, and the more users will leave..."

Yang Siqi asked nervously, "Could we also develop a photo album function?"

The technical lead hesitated for a moment, then said somewhat uncertainly, "To be honest, we've never worked with a product of this type before. Developing it from scratch would probably take quite a long time. We've also assessed the cost of enabling the photo album feature. If we have several thousand daily active users, the server cost would be tens of thousands of yuan per month, and the bandwidth cost would be huge. If we limit the bandwidth, the speed at which people upload, download, and view pictures online will become very slow, and the user experience will suffer..."

Yang Siqi's main focus wasn't on the backend, so he wasn't very precise in controlling server costs. When he heard that server costs were so high, he immediately became conflicted.

He frowned and muttered, "The server costs are already this high, and they even set up a storefront and hired five people to scan photos for free. This guy has a lot of money to burn!"

The technical lead said, "If development is rapid, server costs will continue to rise."

Yang Siqi was greatly puzzled: "Can we recoup these costs through advertising?"

A junior student who had tried the campus network said, "There are no ads on campus network yet. I guess it will take them some time before they can make a profit."

Yang Siqi nodded and said, "No matter what, we have to follow up."

Then, he looked at the technical lead and instructed him, "Dawei, lead everyone to study the photo album and see how long it will take to develop it."

"it is good."

Technical lead Chen Wei nodded and said, "We'll work on it tonight and see how to implement this feature."

Yang Siqi then looked at another person and instructed him: "Jiakai, work overtime tonight to write a script that can register users on campus in batches and upload photos in batches, so that its server bandwidth is fully utilized! All its users will be affected. If we do this a few times, its website will be ruined!"

Tang Jiakai and Yang Siqi are classmates. Tang Jiakai is responsible for the network security of the Galo Forum and is also an online member of the Red Hacker Alliance. He is very talented in network information security. Although he may not be the top in the country, he is certainly hard to beat among his peers.

However, what Tang Jiakai was proud of was his status as a member of the Red Hacker Alliance, but what Yang Siqi instructed him to do was to hack websites. This kind of thing went against his consistent beliefs. It was like asking a doctor who was supposed to save lives to use his professional skills to kill someone. Naturally, he could not accept it.

Without hesitation, he said, "I can't do that."

"why?"

Yang Siqi immediately questioned him: "This guy used a dirty trick to steal our Galo forum users, so it's perfectly reasonable for us to attack his website. It's self-defense!"

Tang Jiakai responded seriously and earnestly: "The other party played tricks in the operation. We also bear responsibility for our own inability to judge. Even if you want to retaliate, you should do so through operational means, not by launching an attack. That is wrong."

Yang Siqi was surprised that this kid was so stubborn, and immediately scolded him angrily: "What kind of time is this to be talking to me like this? Galo Forum is the result of all our hard work. If we don't think of a solution soon, all the users will be stolen by Renren! We can't fix the photo album function in a short time, and we can't just sit by and watch it grow bigger and bigger. The best way is to paralyze its website as soon as possible! You have to understand, it just went online today. If we paralyze its website today, we can nip it in the bud!"

(End of this chapter)