The Creator of the Second Dimension

At the headquarters of Tomato Video Network, Fang Yuan, the leader in charge of animation and other business departments, is not very happy recently.

It's all because of Fantastic Animation, all because of Xu Rui.

Director Wu Yi's new work "Wolf and Cat", which was originally imposing and likely to win the five-year animation award, performed well and broke through 100 million hits early, but it was surpassed by the fantasy animation "Magical Girl" in terms of discussion and CD sales. Madoka" was hoisted up and exploded with a hammer. Looking at it this way, the annual animation is no longer in Rainbow Media's pocket, and accidents are very likely.

In addition, although Fang Yuan's plan to suppress the animatronics prevented "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" from being broadcast on other video sites, who would have thought that Xu Rui would directly set up a video site by himself, and use the bullet screen The comment method has attracted a large number of users. In just a few months, the daily activities of Hatsune Video Network have almost caught up with the daily activities of Tomato Video Network's animation area. In terms of the quality of paying users, it is even more beaten.

This is not what made Fang Yuan most angry. Liu Xueyan resigned shortly after being transferred to the activity team. Zhang Ke, the editor who took over from the animation area, also left with him. At the same time, Liu Xueyan also took Fang Yuan away from the technical department For a programmer who has never even heard of his name, the feeling of using someone you don't want to hang you up and beat you is very uncomfortable.

Originally, the data analysis team under Fang Yuan thought that "Magic Girl Madoka" was only averagely popular, and Hatsune Video Network's reviews on Wenhu and other websites were not very good, and it was very likely to hit the market, but who knows, one A blizzard did not destroy the animatronics, but made "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" a sales miracle, and even turned Hatsune Video Network into a monster that Fang Yuan couldn't handle.

To put it simply, Fang Yuan's previous strategies all failed.

He has been held accountable to a certain extent, but it does not affect his status.

However, Fang Yuan is still a little fortunate. Hatsune Video Network has a single income structure and low cash flow. At best, it has only made a jump in the animation field. It's just a fat fish.

"Mr. Fang, I'm Zhu Zhiguo from the technical department. What can you do for me?"

A middle-aged man with glasses and few hairs on his head knocked on the door and walked into the office.

"You're the one responsible for the development of our website player, right?"

Fang Yuan glanced at him, then continued.

"You know Hatsune Video Network, what kind of chatting website is that?"

"Sandalwood? Oh, a barrage website."

Zhu Zhiguo corrected in a low voice, but Fang Yuan didn't care, but said in an orderly tone.

"Can our player also add the function of scrolling comments?"

"Uh, this function is actually an interactive comment system, by grabbing the content in the comment area and projecting it to a separate video player"

"speak English."

Fang Yuan didn't have the patience to listen to such technical details, so he knocked on the table and said.

"Yes, yes, but there are two problems."

Zhu Zhiguo said carefully with his words.

"First of all, our user base is very large, more than dozens of times more than Chuyin Video Network. If we add the barrage function without restricting users to speak, it may lead to a large number of meaningless barrage screens. Colleagues have doubled the workload, even if this is limited to paid members, the number is much larger than that of Hatsune Video Network.”

"Then how do they review their website? Can't we hire more people to review these comments?"

After hearing this, Fang Yuan felt that there was some truth in it, so he asked.

"According to what I know, Hatsune Video Network's qualification to send barrage needs to be obtained by answering a question. The question is very difficult, and ordinary people really can't answer it. I chose technical questions and answered them three or four times. certified."

Zhu Zhiguo stroked his head with few hairs, and said with some embarrassment.

"Therefore, the user quality of Hatsune Video Network is very high, and the bullet chats sent are generally in compliance with the regulations, and the review difficulty is much less difficult. They also have a corresponding processing mechanism such as a small black room, which can basically be completed through user reports. Most of the review work."

"It means that the quality of users on our website is very low?"

Fang Yuan asked back, Zhu Zhiguo has been saying good things about Chuyin Video Network, which made him a little displeased.

"Mr. Fang, that's not what I mean. I mean, if we also open up the barrage mechanism, we may need to improve the user's comment permissions. I can't make the decision. You have to find a product that is responsible for this."

In fact, the development of new functions is usually to find the corresponding products. The reason why Zhu Zhiguo answered so patiently is mainly to leave a good impression on Fang Yuan.

"I will find someone to implement this later. What is the second question?"

Fang Yuan waved his hand, not sure if he remembered it or not.

"Second question, I'm ashamed to say it."

Zhu Zhiguo considered it for a while, and then spoke.

"At present, our player has some minor problems, and it is still under maintenance. The schedule for adding new features may be delayed."

"piece of cake?"

Fang Yuan frowned, not quite understanding what Zhu Zhiguo meant.

"How long will it be delayed?"

"I'm not sure about this, but according to the current progress, the development of this area will not start until the next year at the earliest."

Zhu Zhiguo replied that when the year-end statistics are approaching, all Internet companies' products have already frozen their version numbers, just to prevent any mistakes from affecting the year-end bonuses of the year. The programmers are moving, so the next year is actually the most optimistic forecast.

"Okay, as soon as possible, I will call the product and set up a special team to be responsible for the development of this area."

Fang Yuan signaled Zhu Zhiguo to leave, and he walked out of the office tremblingly, with a sad face.

Of course, Zhu Zhiguo did not tell the whole truth. In fact, the player of Tomato Video Network exposed a major problem in a version change a year ago. This problem occurred with the upgrade of the operating system and was unpredictable. , involving the core part of the player, if the vulnerability is leaked, the worst result, Tomato Video Network is likely to be completely paralyzed.

And the most important thing is that Wu Tong, who presided over the design of the player's core, has long since resigned and went to Phantom. The maintenance of this area was basically lost to each other. In the end, it was left to him alone, and no one paid attention to it. Now Before the programmers who took over figured out the code, a major BUG appeared, and it was too late to fix it, so there was no time to develop new functions.

Generally, in large companies, it is absolutely impossible for this to happen. The most important player core cannot be maintained by Wu Tong alone, but this did happen on Tomato Video Network, and if no problems are found during this system upgrade , then it is very likely that this BUG will continue to exist until the day when it causes losses.

This is a dereliction of duty by the technical department. Naturally, Zhu Zhiguo didn't dare to report it casually. He only urged his subordinates to fix it quickly. He didn't expect this matter to be brought up again. Once the special team is established by then, it may be difficult to cover up this problem.

He sighed, and thought of Wu Tong who was not liked by the people in the group, and no one kept a word until he left.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have let him go."