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

Chapter 177 Thousands upon thousands of fishponds have arrived!
On the second floor of the Sichuan restaurant, Xiao Peng and Tang Jiakai were leading their team in working overtime.

After Chen Cheng arrived, Tang Jiakai raised his hand to him and said, "President Chen, the Galo Forum is attacking again."

Chen Cheng walked over and asked, "From which direction did the attack come?"

Tang Jiakai said, "We found a vulnerability in the album permission loading. There is a bug in our basic code. If a person's album is encrypted, the blocking page has a script that can repeatedly try and fail. This is not verified by humans, so once there are frequent attacks, the frequent password verification will greatly consume our server performance."

Chen Cheng frowned. Websites are really like a half-finished ship being launched, being repaired as it goes.

So I quickly asked, "The website isn't down, is it?"

"No."

Tang Jiakai said, "It was stuck for a few minutes, so I quickly turned off the photo album password input function."

Chen Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Senior Tang. We need to restore the function as soon as possible. We have a large user base now, and there must have been many people entering their passwords to view other people's albums at the same time. If more users are affected, it will lower users' psychological evaluation and trust in the website."

Tang Jiakai laughed and said, "It's all set up. It'll only be off for a little over a minute, so it won't have much of an impact. I added a restriction on incorrect passwords. You can try once every three seconds. If you try three times incorrectly, you'll be blocked for three minutes before you can try again. If you accumulate five incorrect password attempts in a single day, you'll be blocked for a whole day."

Chen Cheng was relieved and smiled, "Well done. Let them mess around one more time. Once the fishpond goes online tomorrow, the Galo Forum will basically be a thing of the past."

Xiao Peng said, "At the current pace, the fishpond will be online tonight."

Chen Cheng nodded and asked everyone, "Who among us knows how to design icons using Photoshop?"

A senior student raised his hand: "I know a little bit. I can manage the simple ones, but I'm afraid I'll have a hard time with the complex ones."

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "It's not complicated. Just design a golden carp logo with a bent body. Keep the lines simple. Every user who joins the fishpond can light up this logo after their nickname. Oh, and add a number after it. The more active you are in the fishpond, the higher your Xianyu level will be."

In the early days of the internet, users were very flamboyant and unconventional.

They are just like those male birds that love to adorn themselves, wanting to light up any colorful mark they can find.

Back then, the benchmark for measuring a person's wealth online was how many icons were lit up on their QQ account: VIP, Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, Green Diamond, Red Diamond, Black Diamond, and so on. Naturally, the more icons the better.

Chen Cheng also plans to promote the "light up the logo" feature on Renren.com. After joining the fishpond, users can light up the Xianyu logo. In the future, when they open a membership service, there will be various exclusive membership logos.

Soon, a simple golden carp logo was designed. Chen Cheng had it slightly adjusted based on the aesthetics of later generations before approving it.

At 11 PM, while Yang Siqi was fretting over the fruitless attack and the sudden drop in popularity on the Galo Forum, the official "Campus News" account released a push notification across the entire network: "Campus Fishpond is now online! Come and join your fellow alumni to be a happy idle fish!"

On Fridays, many college students spend their time at internet cafes to pass the time. Some play until midnight before returning to their dorms, while others simply spend five yuan to stay up all night.

So at this time, the number of online users on Renren.com was still over 10. After seeing this official news, everyone was very curious about what exactly the fishpond was.

The introduction in the main text is also very simple.

Starting today, in the "Schools" section of your personal homepage, there will be an entrance to a fishpond next to any of your elementary, middle, high school, or university schools. Clicking on it will take you to that school's fishpond.

Once you enter the fishpond, you can browse, post, and interact with others. This isn't anything new; it's just a school forum.

Interestingly, simply browsing fishponds won't light up your Xianyu badge; users must select at least one fishpond and click "join" on the fishpond's homepage.

Once you join this community, you'll be marked as its exclusive member on Xianyu. You'll receive notifications whenever there are trending posts or events in the community, ensuring you don't miss anything.

Your friends can also see which fishponds you've joined, and they can even come to those fishponds to find you.

Of course, you can also choose to keep it confidential; it's up to the user.

Currently, an account can only join four fishponds, and can only join one of each type of fishpond: elementary school, middle school, high school, and university.

If you are a college student, you can join the fishponds of your former elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as the fishpond of your current university.

If you are a high school student, in addition to joining the "fishponds" of the elementary, middle, and high schools you attended, you can also join the "fishpond" of the university you dream of attending.

Even if your grades are poor and you might not even get into university, you can still join the Tsinghua and Peking University student community. Come and browse around, follow the interesting things happening here, and see what the older students are talking and discussing every day. It might even motivate you.

Moreover, if you have a school you're interested in, you no longer need to search for its BBS everywhere like before. You can directly search for the school on the school's intranet. Not only can you see the list of all users of the school, but you can also see the relevant introduction of the school, as well as the entrance to the school's online community.

One product brought together all the university BBS forums across the country.

In other words, as soon as the feature went live, it automatically created tens of thousands of fishponds.

In order to reduce server space and computing power, Chen Cheng unified the underlying code of all fishponds into a single template, so no matter how many fishponds are opened, the same code is called, and no extra space is occupied.

This development approach is very efficient at saving server resources. For example, in a famous real-time battle game, the code for healing from the fountain and the code for a support hero's healing skill are the same.

The same code doesn't mean two identical code snippets; it means that only this one code snippet is used simultaneously by both fountains and when heroes use skills.

Developers will try every means to reduce their burden as much as possible, but players will never experience these technical tricks.

Because of this underlying logic, even if millions of fishponds are opened at once, there is no fluctuation in the server performance.

If it were just launched on a single school's forum, it wouldn't pose much of a challenge to other campus BBSs. However, once it was integrated into the campus network ecosystem, it immediately attracted the attention of a large number of campus users.

For users of the campus network, what truly surprised them was not the university's fishpond.

Almost all universities in China have their own campus BBS, because these BBSs are created by university students who have access to the internet and have a certain level of technical skills. However, no one has created a BBS for middle and primary schools in China.

Just like the 40,000 to 50,000 students of Jiangnan University, they can chat and talk with current alumni on the Galo Forum, but they don't have the opportunity to go to the forum of their high school alma mater to chat and reminisce with their classmates from back then, or leave some blessings for their current juniors.

Because no one has done this before.

But now that Renren.com's fishpond has arrived, things have changed immediately.

Every registered school, primary and secondary, now has its own fishpond.

Even if your high school hasn't registered users yet, it doesn't matter. The fishpond is already open, so you can go there as soon as possible and post a message looking for alumni.

Moreover, Chen Cheng deliberately added a sentence to the top of the fishponds in each high school, middle school, and elementary school: Welcome all the idle fish who once flowed into the vast ocean from this school to migrate back to their alma mater!
At this moment, the words "fishpond" and "idle fish" have acquired a special meaning because of their migration.

The fish that had entered the sea finally had a path to migrate back.

They can return to where they came from, and although it's just a virtual space on the internet, it still deeply moves many graduates.

As a result, a large number of users went directly to the fishponds of various schools to post.

Someone posted on the forum of their high school: "I am so-and-so from so-and-so class of science in so-and-so year. Any high school classmates who know me, come in and report!"

There might be a short period of silence when you first post something, but as more and more users start to try out the fishpond, many of these posts begin to get responses.

For a college student, it's impossible to have the QQ number of every high school classmate. In this era where mobile phones are far less common than QQ, not having a classmate's QQ number basically means losing contact with them.

When you think of a high school classmate, you can find their information on the school's intranet. Many people you might not think of, and there might not be any opportunity for you to connect.

But the fishpond is like a social center with a sign, and the sign is so eye-catching and so vertical that you can get your classmates to come in and register by posting a message, and gradually you can find all the people you've lost contact with.

Fishpond went live at 11:00 AM, and by 12:00 PM, it was already incredibly popular on the entire campus network.

Although Yang Siqi also registered on Renren.com, he only looked at Yan Ruoxuan's photos and did not use the software.

He wanted to play, but the thought that this website was like his father's killer made him resist touching it. Even when some of his high school classmates asked him to follow each other, he declined, making an excuse that he didn't play much.

At that moment, he received a message on QQ from a high school classmate.

"Old Yang, come quick to the school's fishpond! Holy crap! More than twenty students from our class have come, even our senior year homeroom teacher has come in!"

"What on-campus fishpond?"

Yang Siqi was completely confused.

The other person said, "The school's 'Fishpond' feature! It's a newly launched feature that's awesome! I've found a lot of high school classmates who I had lost contact with, as well as classmates from other classes. A lot of people from our year got in! I never expected that our homeroom teacher would be using the school's 'Fishpond' feature."

Then, the other party sent another link.

He felt uncomfortable seeing the pinyin letters xiaonei in the domain name. This website had stolen its first wave of users from him, but he never expected it to grow so fast and become so powerful in just a few days.

Now, it has not only affected his high school classmates, but also his high school homeroom teacher.

And what exactly is in this fishpond?

Curious, he couldn't resist clicking the link.

The link redirected to the browser, immediately taking me to the school's intranet login page.

Yang Siqi entered her registered account and password, and after the verification was successful, she was directly redirected to a page called "Shandong University Affiliated High School Fish Pond".

Upon entering this page, he felt a sudden wave of dizziness.

This...this is a BBS!
The first screen is filled with posts introducing themselves:
I graduated in '99, looking for classmates from the same year!

So touching to see so many alumni from our alma mater! Wishing our younger schoolmates all the best in their studies!

"People in Shanghai, instantly transported back! Are there any classmates from the Class of '98, Arts 2?"

Wow! Eight years after graduating from the High School Affiliated to Shandong University, I've finally come home from Germany!

Anyone here who graduated from Shandong University High School and is currently on Xianyu (a Chinese online marketplace for secondhand goods) in the US? Let's get together sometime! It's so lonely without anyone speaking our hometown dialect!

This is the significance of the internet! Even though people are scattered all over the world, they can still find a way back!

"I'm Xue Yong, a teacher at the High School Affiliated to Shandong University. Are there any students I've taught? Come and register!"

Yang Siqi's hand went numb from holding the mouse after seeing these posts.

He quickly went to the school's intranet homepage and searched for Jiangcheng University. Sure enough, he saw that there was a fishpond for Jiangcheng University.

At that moment, his vision blurred, and he murmured in despair, "How did they even come up with this...?"

(End of this chapter)