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

Chapter 200 Membership Features Launched for Trial
After dinner, the two went to the music academy's recording studio.

Liu Shiyu's friend had already obtained the key to the recording studio and was waiting here.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the other party left first, only asking Liu Shiyu to turn off the power and close the door after she was done.

Liu Shiyu, having seen and experienced things, was very skilled at operating the equipment inside, and even taught Chen Cheng how to operate the playback and recording from the outside.

Afterwards, she went into the studio and recorded two songs, "In My Song" and "The Best Arrangement".

The workload of a singer's recording can vary greatly, depending entirely on the singer's ability and condition.

A singer with strong skills and in good form can sometimes even get it right in one take.

But idol singers might record each song many times, and then pick out the relatively good musical phrases from countless recordings and piece them together.

Liu Shiyu studied vocal music and has a very good voice; both songs were completed in one take.

Chen Cheng sat outside listening, and the professional recording equipment made it sound much better than yesterday's version, significantly enhancing the song's overall effect.

Chen Cheng felt that he had reached a level where he could leave the original singers far behind.

Just to be on the safe side, Liu Shiyu recorded both songs again, saying she wanted to listen to them carefully when she got back, so that if there was a problem with any line in either version, she would have a backup version to cut and replace.

Chen Cheng was extremely satisfied with the recording results. If he randomly picked one of these songs and released it online, it would definitely become the hottest online song at the end of this year.

Over the next few days, Chen Cheng spent his days attending classes and working on development projects with everyone. In the evenings, he and Liu Shiyu would go to the music academy to borrow a recording studio to record songs.

Within a few days, Chen Cheng had basically finished recording the songs he had brought out.

Every song Liu Shiyu sings is better than the originals, while Chen Cheng doesn't have that level. Even with his best efforts, he's only at the level of an online singer. But as Liu Shiyu said, as long as the song is good, the singer can sing it well no matter how they sing it, as long as they don't go off-key.

After another weekend of hard work, the campus showcase, the campus showcase mall, and the supporting data sharing function have all been developed and completed.

Chen Cheng is most proud of this data sharing function.

In theory, all cached data can be shared, including but not limited to Renren Show, Renren Show Mall, popular albums, and background music source files.

The school's talent show also owes a lot to Su Zishan, who has been drawing for Chen Cheng for more than a week. At first, she drew people and facial features, then clothing, accessories, and even the background.

Chen Cheng asked her to draw background images of various countries and styles, such as the Great Wall, snow-capped mountains, Potala Palace, Yellow Crane Tower, Victoria Harbour and Oriental Pearl Tower in China, the Eiffel Tower in France, Mount Fuji in Japan, Yellowstone National Park in the United States, and so on.

Each background is a cartoonized version of an actual photograph.

In the campus showcase, beautiful facial features are generally priced between 1.8 and 3.8 campus coins, and attractive hairstyles are priced in a similar range. Clothing is more expensive, with more attractive and complex clothing costing more, reaching up to 8.8 campus coins. Backgrounds are priced between 1.8 and 5.8 campus coins. All these virtual items are valid for six months and will automatically expire if not renewed after six months.

After becoming a member, you will receive a set of exclusive campus fashion items, valid for the same period as your membership.

As for background music, it is enabled by default for members. A rotating CD player icon will appear in the upper left corner of the member homepage, with song titles and lyrics floating behind it. It will start playing by default as soon as you open the member homepage, and members can turn it off themselves.

Chen Cheng had initially considered allowing users to upload audio files, but later completely rejected the idea. Why should exposure be given to songs that had nothing to do with him? Even if he didn't have to pay copyright fees, he still wanted them to pay promotion fees.

Therefore, we simply eliminated all customization; it's an official music library with only one song available from the start.

On Sunday, October 27th, at 7:30 PM, Chen Cheng posted a message on Renren.com that Renren.com would officially launch two services this Friday, November 1st: Membership and Renren Show.

To give everyone a taste of what it's like, from 8 PM tonight until midnight on November 1st, for these three or four days, all member features except for the photo album space will be available for free to everyone to experience.

Everyone was curious about how members of Renren.com actually played the game.

As a result, many users waited in front of their computers until 8 o'clock to see what was going on.

Chen Wei and the others were somewhat uneasy. He said to Chen Cheng, "President Chen, although we already have a data sharing algorithm, if you go online at 8 o'clock, a large number of users will request data at the same time without any time difference, and data sharing will not be possible. The instantaneous pressure on the server will definitely be very high."

Chen Cheng laughed and said, "Be a little more quick-witted! We don't need to wait until eight o'clock to have them request data simultaneously. Let's start caching the data for them quietly now!"

Everyone was stunned: "You can do it like that?"

Chen Cheng explained, "What we fear most is requesting both the campus show data and the background music data simultaneously. There are two sets of campus show data for both male and female users, and only one set of background music. We're now quietly pushing these three sets of data to a group of users in batches, letting them cache them in their browsers first. When the page changes at 8 o'clock, they can refresh the page, which won't put pressure on us. Moreover, we're quietly enabling data sharing, so they can now share their cached data with other users. By 8 o'clock, most users will likely have finished caching their data, and we won't need to handle the remaining data. Letting the majority of users who have finished caching serve them will greatly reduce our pressure."

Everyone couldn't help but marvel at how important it is to be quick-witted. Who would have thought of such a clever trick as having users cache data in advance? From 7:30 to 8:00, within the server's capacity, as many online users as possible could be queued to cache data. Once the data was cached, it would be simultaneously transmitted to other users, effectively completing all the preparations quietly.

Since it's Sunday, large companies like NetEase and Tencent are on holiday as usual, with only a small number of employees on duty.

Recently, they have all been busy with their own product development. NetEase's photo album is expected to be launched in mid-November, and Tencent's alumni network is expected to be launched in early November.

Because they already consider Xiaonei.com a competitor, they pay close attention to every step of Xiaonei.com's development.

When the staff on duty saw that the campus network was about to launch a trial membership service, they immediately reported the news to their superiors.

Both sides' leaders attached great importance to this, requiring core team members to sit in front of their computers before 8 o'clock to see what was special about Renren.com's membership service, and then formulate a strategy based on the specific situation.

It's exactly eight o'clock.

When users refresh their personal homepage, they find that the homepage has changed significantly.

First, a new cartoon character has been added to the homepage. The character is based on gender and looks very cute and stylish.

Secondly, a new background music track appeared on the homepage. When you click on it, a very pleasant female voice starts singing, and the lyrics are also very well written and full of emotion.

This song is so beautiful, why haven't I heard it before? Who sings it?!

In addition, my name has turned gold and has a crown logo, and I also have a special member badge in the fishpond.

As for search priority, it is not yet apparent because everyone is a member during the membership trial period.

With hundreds of thousands or even millions of people simultaneously accessing their homepages and requesting data for campus live streams and background music, the server did not encounter any problems in terms of capacity.

The unprecedented cartoon characters and background music immediately attracted the attention of many users.

Many people were immersed in this moving music, and many others subconsciously clicked on the campus show's store to see what fun things were available.

Once you open it, it's like opening the door to a new world. The campus showcase is completely customizable!
Moreover, all paid decorations can now be tried for free!

Many people have started to create their own favorite on-campus looks, changing outfits one after another with great enthusiasm.

The NetEase team was relieved to find that members of Xiaonei Show did not significantly increase their photo album storage space.

What they want to create is not Renren.com, but NetEase Photo Album. Therefore, they only focus on the photo album. As long as the photo album does not improve significantly, they are confident that NetEase Photo Album will surpass Renren.com.

However, Tencent's team was caught off guard.

Their QQ Show project was already in the works, but it was only recently paused to catch up with Renren.com. Why did Renren.com suddenly release Renren Show, which is exactly the same idea as their QQ Show?! And it's already fully developed!

The employees who were originally supposed to work on QQ Show and were reassigned to work on the alumni network were all extremely frustrated. They had thought that even if QQ Show was launched later, no one would have thought of the idea before them.

Unexpectedly, they actually implemented all the features planned for QQ Show, and what's worse, they made it even better than their original QQ Show.

During the conference call, the head of the technical team asked a question that had been puzzling him: "Why is their website so fast?! Renren Show, Renren Show Mall, and the background music all consume a lot of bandwidth, but browsing the web is completely smooth!"

This immediately caught the team's attention.

yeah why?
The reason Tencent hasn't dared to launch video chat, image transmission, and QQ Show is because it's concerned about bandwidth costs.

The company's top management originally decided to first consolidate revenue and accumulate more cash on hand, and then gradually launch these bandwidth-intensive product features in 2003.

However, Renren.com was even more financially powerful than them.

Some people tried switching back and forth on the store page, and the dozen or so cartoon images on each page loaded very quickly and smoothly.

The colleague in charge of the server said on the phone: "If the campus network has 500,000 online users, its bandwidth requirements are higher than our 5 million online users! In our product, the only image involved is the avatar, but the avatar files are all installed locally by the installation package. The server mainly uploads and downloads text information, but their information volume is too large. How do you make it so smooth?"

Another developer said, "They must have invested heavily in bandwidth; they might have already secured a large amount of funding!"

(End of this chapter)