192: Chapter 192 New Version PP Tree Hole

The National Day holiday ended. Xinghai Technology's Legal Department had already submitted the lawsuit to the court and begun the litigation process, while Chu Qianlan returned to Shenzhen University to continue his classes.

Just one week later, Du Guangbai sent a message: "The Tencent Youth Edition PP installation package has been released, and the Technical Department is rushing to test it."

Chu Qianlan walked into the empty lecture hall, threw his backpack onto a seat, and quickly replied on his screen: "Focus on testing the background processes and data usage, and send the comparison data directly to me."

Just after putting down his phone, Liu Daocheng followed him over, his face filled with excitement: "Third, have you checked the campus connect app? Our user count has already broken through five thousand! The Security Department even proactively contacted us, wanting to sync all their lost-and-found information over."

Chu Qianlan took the breakfast he handed over and said casually, "These numbers are too inflated. There definitely aren't five thousand students at Shenzhen University with smartphones!"

Du Ming, who was nearby, flashed a look of surprise: "According to the backend detection, at most only two thousand Shenzhen University students have registered for our Campus Connect. The rest are either parents or students from other schools!"

He hadn't expected that Chu Qianlan would grasp the key point just by speaking casually.

Chu Qianlan took a sip of soy milk: "Don't worry about the registration numbers for now; you need to make sure all the functions are working well. Test it within Shenzhen University, and if the application is stable, then you can expand to other universities!"

In reality, he was not optimistic about the campus connect app. It wasn't that the idea or technology was lacking, but rather that there were too many constraints. To develop the campus connect app, one needed to maintain a relationship with the school.

The faster it developed in the future, the more disputes there would be with the school, and troubles would follow one after another.

However, since this project was proposed by Liu Daocheng and the others, he couldn't very well oppose it. In any case, it didn't require much capital, and it was a good opportunity for them to gain some entrepreneurial experience.

"Then what counts as stable?" Zhang Lei asked, his eyes gleaming.

"The program doesn't lag, the functions work as you intended, and the user reviews aren't too bad. If you can achieve these few things, that should be about enough!"

As soon as Chu Qianlan finished speaking, Liu Daocheng took out a notebook and quickly recorded: "The fourth is optimizing the lag issues. As for features, the lost-and-found and club registration are already running smoothly, but checking the class schedule occasionally glitches, so we need to interface with the Academic Affairs Office again."

Zhang Lei patted his chest: "I look at the user reviews every day. The most common complaint is that the interface is too simplistic. I found a classmate from the Art Department to help redesign the icons, and we can update it tonight."

Du Ming pushed up his glasses: "The backend server has been expanded once and can accommodate two thousand people online simultaneously. Among the existing users, besides our Shenzhen University, the most are from the Vocational and Technical College and the Normal University. Should we try testing the waters at these two schools first?"

Chu Qianlan took a bite of his steamed bun and mumbled: "That works, but don't spread yourselves too thin too quickly. First, find the Student Union or clubs to cooperate with and have them help promote it. Wait until you have seed users before doing anything else. Oh right, remember to tell Zhou Yuan about the server bandwidth so it doesn't crash again when the time comes."

Just as they were talking, Chu Qianlan's phone vibrated; it was the test report sent by Du Guangbai.

He clicked on the document, waited a few minutes for the data table on the screen to finish caching, and then the content appeared.

The Youth Edition PP was indeed simplified quite a bit, with power consumption reduced by 42% compared to the original version, but it still couldn't compare to StarChat.

When sending the same content, data consumption was 28% higher than StarChat, especially when downloading large files, where the gap was almost visible to the naked eye;

Under a 2G network, the loading latency for the same image was also significantly longer than StarChat.

"As expected, it's still lacking a bit," he chuckled, then replied to Du Guangbai: "Have the Public Relations Department start comparative promotions on various forums tonight. Make sure to highlight the advantages of our StarChat."

Tencent's newly released Youth Edition PP did not meet expectations, so Xinghai Technology naturally had to take the opportunity to promote xingliao software.

However, making comparisons directly on the official website would be a bit too deliberate. It would be better to carry out the promotion on major forums under the guise of netizens.

Du Guangbai replied almost instantly: "Understood! I will have the Public Relations Department follow up."

Putting away his phone, Chu Qianlan looked at the three people still discussing the promotion plan for Campus Connect and suddenly remembered something: "Oh right, don't build that second-hand trading section of yours."

Liu Daocheng was stunned: "Why? Many classmates have said they need this feature."

"Too much trouble," Chu Qianlan leaned back in his chair. "There's no proprietary payment channel and no guarantee mechanism; if a dispute actually arises, it's too hard to resolve."

The excitement on Liu Daocheng's face faded a little: "But we've already reported it to the Student Union, and even said this feature could help everyone deal with their idle items..."

Chu Qianlan put down his soy milk cup, his tone calm but filled with unquestionable certainty: "Reporting it doesn't mean there's no risk. Last week, a classmate tried to resell a second-hand electric scooter in a club group chat, but it turned out the paperwork was incomplete and it was confiscated as a stolen vehicle. Once you get involved in such a dispute, will you take responsibility yourselves or push it onto the school?"

Zhang Lei scratched his head: "Then... what if we add an 'Item Source Declaration'? Let the sellers guarantee the legality themselves."

"Can a declaration serve as evidence?" Chu Qianlan retorted, "If something actually happens, users will only blame the platform for poor supervision. If you can't sit still, why not focus your energy on the class schedule and lost-and-found? These two areas are ones the school is happy to see, and the resistance will be much smaller."

Du Ming pushed up his glasses and suddenly spoke up: "Qianlan is right. Last week, when we were debugging the class schedule interface, the teacher from the Academic Affairs Office hinted that they wouldn't provide any support for features involving transactions, and we would have to take full responsibility if any problems arose."

Liu Daocheng was silent for a moment, then finally nodded: "Alright, I'll listen to you. We'll shelf the second-hand trading section for now and talk about it later when we have the capability."

Zhang Lei's eyes suddenly lit up: "Then how about we add a 'Campus Tree Hole'? Anonymous posting to vent, it would definitely be a hit!"

Before Chu Qianlan could speak, Du Ming spoke up first: "The audit cost for an anonymous feature is too high, and it easily breeds rumors. Don't forget, rumors were spread about Qianlan on the Campus Network last semester!"

Hearing this, Zhang Lei was a bit disappointed, but Chu Qianlan was thoughtful: "This problem isn't hard to solve. We can require real-name authentication first, and then allow anonymous posting..."

According to Chu Qianlan's idea, users could post anonymously, but only on the condition that they had passed real-name authentication on the campus connect app.

In this way, if any problems arose with posts made by users, the platform could easily find the poster.

With this layer of restriction, presumably, the people posting would have some reservations; at the very least, illegal posts would not easily appear on the platform.

Even so, the platform would still need to have dedicated personnel to audit the posts to avoid anyone uploading inappropriate content.

"Third is still the most thoughtful. I feel that with the 'Campus Tree Hole' feature, our campus connect app will be even easier to bring into other schools!" Zhang Lei said with some excitement.

"Then let's refine Campus Connect a bit more recently, and next weekend we'll head to other schools to promote the App!"