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Resurrection A station's second-element lunatics Part 1.

After being acquired by the fast hand, station A “disappeared” for a year, and there were almost no legends on the rivers and lakes. On June 18th, the silence was suddenly broken. The former Netease comics person in charge was appointed as the eighth monkey king at the A station.

This may not be a story of the resurrection, but a change of technology, capital, and people, as well as an incomprehensible obsession with this small station and dream.

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On February 2, 2018, the official Weibo of Station A uttered a voice, "I want to live another 500 years!" with a tearful expression.

The financing is not smooth, and the earliest secondary community in China is in a desperate situation. The fans who got the news burst into tears in the comment area. "We are very sad and mourn the origin of the Chinese barrage network - AcFun." "I have been watching for 10 years, my A station account is more than 10,000." "60 years of agreement?" A station, love you, don't go..."

Yu Yijie is deeply impressed by the feeling of waiting for fate to fall. As a product manager, all he can do is squash with his colleagues on this small ship that is unmanned at the helm and fluctuate with the wind and waves.

"Thank you for your quick daddy." Speaking of the bumps of A station for 12 years, the cap of the cap showed a messy hair, and the big boy who wore a black T-shirt with a second yuan text smiled. "This is the truth."

AcFun's full name is "Anime Comic Fun", which means "the world is a family", created by Xilin on June 6, 2007. The screen full of flying screens has made many people find the joy of watching the drama with others. Jinpu La, the ghost star, my skateboard shoes, the little apple, and many other online pop cultures are growing wildly here.

As a personal website, the A station has been in an irregular operation since its birth. In June 2009, station A could not be accessed for one month in a row due to a machine failure. Xu Yi, an old member of the A station who just graduated from Beiyou, spent three days and established a temporary site called Miku fans, which was later renamed Bilibili. In 2018, B stood on the NASDAQ.

In the following years, station A was continuously transferred. After moving from Wuhan to Beijing in 2016, it was replaced by three CEOs in one year because of the complicated capital and high-level infighting. Each investor has its own interests, and the A station becomes a chess piece. The founder Xilin is 4 million yuan when it is shot, and the live market of the betta fish that has been independently invented from the A station has exceeded 20 billion.

So stumbled, this small broken station actually came over under the loyalty of the diehard powder until the biggest crisis at the end of 2017. At this time, there is no money for the A station to do business and copyright procurement, and the employee's salary can not be sent.

“In October, the wages dragged on for more than a month, and the wages in December were not released until February.” Yu Yusuke and his colleagues were also panicked.

In the company, some people expressed dissatisfaction in the group, some people chose to leave directly, and others like Yu Yijie determined to hold on to the last day.

The research and development stopped, and the product manager had nothing to do. Qi Yijie and his colleagues still go to work every day, and they don't have to be late. He simply calculated his savings, and if he only spent 500 in a month, he could still be 20 years, and he used this joke-like calculation to comfort himself. Some colleagues in the field were miserable. I rented out more than 2,000 rented houses and found friends everywhere. A female colleague even brought snacks to the office for lunch.

Before the February 2 crash, the crowded A station took dozens of people.

The magic is that soon after this, the wages will be issued. The company's top management is silent, but the bottom is rumored, there is gossip, the new father is "orange LOGO." Qi Yijie and his colleagues immediately took out their mobile phones and guessed one by one. "Millet is possible? Xiaomi is a mobile phone, and it has no content. It is possible. Didi? Drip is not possible. Finally, I guess the public comment went."

Holding the money of a mysterious dad, it took more than three months in the shackles. In June 2018, Fasthand officially announced the acquisition of Station A.

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At the West Second Banner Quick Hand Headquarters, Station A occupies two floors in a building.

It is said that the arrival of the A station caused a lot of waves in the fast hand. Someone secretly expects to wear a young lady in Hanfu. Someone is gossip everywhere, I haven’t seen your women’s swearing for a long time? There is a fast-handed girl who is responsible for overseas operations. I just took a look at the canteen crowd and found a sister who wore the same sailor suit. When I heard it, it was A station.

Freshly, the real problems immediately appear. After joining the fast-handed, will the A station not be independent? Although Cheng Yixiao, the founder of the fast-handed, promised “no downtime, no salary, no confusion”, Yi Yishang still has doubts.

A few years ago, when Youku potatoes merged, he heard a similar promise, but after two weeks, all the potato innovation projects stopped and the people were dismissed or persuaded. I used to enter the potato to make a barrage and only leave.

In contrast, "fast hands are authentic, programmers can still believe." After a year, he completely let go.

But the fast programmer is crashing.

Zhou Yifei, the product manager of the fast-handed product, was shocked to discover that station A, as a veteran Internet company for more than a decade, did not have any historical product documentation. He relied on verbal communication with the product team to spell out the business modules of the PC and mobile.

The mess in front of the firefighters is comparable to hell. The problem on the surface is the nakedness visible to the naked eye. It is normal to hang two or three times a week. The A station user built a website for himself - is the station A bombed today? In addition, the playback video is very card, the loading time is relatively long, and third-party logins such as WeChat and QQ are not supported.

The underlying system is a black hole, there is no framework, and all kinds of messy things are patched, because before "every team came, they tried to refactor and optimize, but the management changes too fast, often the pits of the previous generation are still not filled. When I finished, I left only half of it."

In the past year, the fast hand has been stationed in nearly 100 people, and the system of the A station has a lot of holes. Everything must be carried out without the user's knowledge. It is equivalent to someone living upstairs and the foundation underneath has been completely changed.

And this needs to work closely with the A-station who knows the user best.

The operational thinking of the two companies is fundamentally different. A station is heavily operated, driven by experience and sensibility, fast-handed technology, data-driven, to be tempered together, and to cross the river by feeling the stones.

In the beginning, the logic of the two dialects was not on one level. Products and technologies are saying what algorithms we want to use, what kind of recommendation mechanism, what kind of traffic pool allocation.

The most difficult is the response to user comments when updating the version.

A station is a community of interest, senior users are spiritual shareholders, will publish in the article area "I think deeply about the A station business" "about the development direction of station A, I have a few ideas" and other posts, to the master-like Attitudes and suggestions.

This makes the station A user very sticky, and it is easy to compromise in front of the user. In the past, there was a thing on the line. Some people were very fiercely "squatting". How did they change to the same platform? The station A immediately resumed the original version, and the previous efforts were in vain.

Technical director Li Weibo likened this work to changing parts for a high-speed car. It can't stop, and the function needs iteration. He talked about a "difficult decision." When I first entered the station, station A made a revision of the comment system. Previously, station A had been using a nostalgic cover-style comment, which changed to the current first-level review.

"Look at the data, the number of user comments has improved significantly, but a lot of old users are embarrassed." Finally, the station A decided to add a switching function, allowing old users to freely retreat to the old version. "Keep two versions, this is the biggest concession that can be made at the time. If you put it before, it is likely to return completely."

Yan Yusuke also admitted that in the past, everyone was not sensitive to the data, and it was a quick hand to combine the data with the judgment of the people.

For example, after the station A built the recommendation system, some users felt that the recommended style was a bit off. This is a problem that the recommendation system itself will encounter because the machine has no emotions, does not know what is beautiful and what is ugly, it only knows what people look at and what people see. “People have feelings, so we need to find some ways to evaluate the user’s feelings.”

There is a balance between sensibility and rationality, and the two people are gradually open. The A station operation is accustomed to Internet vocabulary such as DAU, and the fast-hand programmer also eats Amway who wears the second-yuan costume at the A station. Once I had a T-shirt at the A station, there was a suggestion from R&D that it would be better to look like a bat-like feather-weaving suit. It seems quite interesting to wear such clothes in the office.

When I learned that the father who bought the A station was a quick hand a year ago, Yan Yijie and his colleagues had stunned the big teeth and felt that they were "not taking it." Despite the stormy weather, the old Acer always has a sense of superiority. There was a map, and other Internet companies were crowded in the Eurasian continent. Only station A was quietly staying in Iceland. Mysterious, niche, lonely, and cold "deep ice" are the self-identification of many station employees and users.

After the quick hand, the "superior sense" was broken. As a small break station product manager, Yu Yijie had to meet with the quick-handed 500-year-old employee and the industry's big brother. When I met for the first time, I was very upset. After all, he is the kind of person who talks with the female colleague who met for the first time and will come up with the "How old are you this year?"

The two talked about the basic situation of the A station, who is using the A station, what is in the station A. Chatting and talking about the model that A station otaku loves.

Yan Yijie said: I will make models, dinosaurs, buildings, boats, robots.

Uncle Shu immediately took out the mobile phone, and I did it. The two otakus of the plane and the tank saw it as soon as possible, and the tension was gone.

Qi Yijie found that the programmer and the second-generation otaku are two kinds of otaku, but they are self-indulgent and extremely enthusiastic when explaining their own algorithms, exactly the same as the second yuan Amway.

He also began to watch fast-handed videos and found that "some of the content is quite moving, including taking pictures of themselves cooking, taking pictures of their own lives, quick-handling some creators, and using some homemade props to pay tribute to some classic (anime) works."

Ye Hao went to station A to be the "second palace", claiming to be the "traitor" of station A. In 2015, when A station just moved from Wuhan to Beijing, Ye Hao joined the entrepreneurial mood. At that time, the server of the A station was blocked, and only 10 of the employees in Wuhan followed Beijing. No one had no money and started from scratch. That will be he is still in Shanghai, and he was dug into Beijing by the CEO of the A station for strategic analysis.

But his ambition was blocked. As a strategist, he cares about the changes in data as well as investors. However, colleagues at the time enjoyed the perfect feeling of going to work and interest. "The data is up, everyone will not be very happy, but which event users like it very much, fans are good, they are very happy."

Sometimes, the clear data proves some problems, but no one solves it, the technical schedule can't keep up, the budget can't keep up, and the management can't keep up. Station A would like to be a wider community of young people and finally did not do it.

In a high-level turmoil in 2017, Ye Hao was also forced to leave.

In April of this year, Ye Hao went to the quick interview and finally learned that his strategic department would support the work of Station A. I am very happy. Come back, many familiar names, familiar faces, familiar expression packs and stalks, he feels very kind, but feels that the current A station is completely different from before. “Before, there were a lot of things to push, but the final result could be a sloppy, barely online state. Now you have a new product requirement, a new technology implementation, or an operational activity that can be solved with simple departmental collaboration. ""

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