What is the Bilin Forum? Bilin Forum Review

1. Basic information of the website

Foreign name: BilinNet

Launched: August 10, 2014

Slogan: Bilin Forum - Be your neighbor and friend

Domain name registration place: Republic of Tokelau

Founders: Wang Jixu and Zhou Hu

2. Propose an idea

Wang Jixu, the founder of Luyou.com, launched Lehuopu on July 12, 2014. Lehuopu is an e-commerce website. However, the internal staff did not pay attention to the importance of the number of users to the development of the website. Lehuopu did not get much traffic, and the technology did not receive a lot of support, so the website did not develop.

The Luyou team recognized this dangerous problem and decided to build a new website to guide users to use the Lehuopu shopping service. The team referred to portals, news and navigation websites, but most of them were not ideal models. There were problems such as insufficient funds, technical problems, copyright issues, etc., and finally it was decided to use a forum. There are also many BBSs in China, but the Luyou team realized that there are no distinctive high-quality forums in China. Although Tianya, Mop, and Baidu Tieba have a large number of people, they still have certain shortcomings in resources and management, and many forums are monopolistic, which makes it impossible for many grassroots talents to show their characteristics. The Luyou team decided to solve this problem and discover more grassroots stars, while safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of stars. In recent years, the mobile Internet has developed rapidly. The Luyou team believes that this opportunity must be seized. In the future, there will be hundreds of millions of people in China who will access the Internet through mobile devices, and there will be a huge market gap.

Luyou team members discussed the name of the forum and referred to a lot of poems. Wang Jixu opened the ancient poems and began to look for phrases such as "If friends in Luoyang ask me, I will tell you that I have a pure heart in a jade pot" and "A bosom friend is always there, and the world is like a neighborhood". Finally, the name was chosen as "Bilin". Bilin means friend. Later, he searched for "Bilin" on the Internet and confirmed that there was no such website. The name of the forum was thus decided.

Development Phase

As the technology was not yet fully mature, the Luyou team finally decided to choose the Colin program.

In order to seize the opportunity in the mobile Internet era, Bilin Forum took the lead in developing a touch screen version (Html5). At the same time, since people dislike cumbersome pages, they speed up access. CSS technology was introduced to avoid inputting a large number of pictures that slow down access. The page layout design is clear in structure, which is convenient for users to use the website quickly and provides rich resources.

4. Website Launch

Bilin.com was launched quietly on August 10, 2014 without any grand ceremony, and its relationship with Luyou was not made public. Only important people in Luyou knew about it, and later served as CEO and editor-in-chief of Bilin.com.

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