Some time ago, Yu Wenfei gave himself a new position, called "Chief Experience Officer"!

It means that he will use the most demanding requirements to "pick thorns" for all the company's products, until he thinks it is okay and is satisfied with it, and the product can be launched.

It's no wonder that in this era, there should be no one with a higher vision than him, just like in the process of Facebook from development to version update, it is often Yu Wenfei's words or two sentences that can solve the problems that Lu Qi and them have been entangled for a long time, and the things they make are surprisingly beautiful, easy to use and humane.

Therefore, now this chess and card game platform, if you want to go online and officially operate, you must Yuwenfei nod first.

After thinking about it, Yu Wenfei spoke, "Board games may not have as many audiences as you think, or rather, things like Go and chess are not very suitable for our Facebook user group. I suggest that card and mahjong games be placed in a more prominent place. In addition, the gameplay of solitaire and mahjong is different from place to place, and it is necessary to take into account the habits of users in each place. ”

Lu Qi is a little confused, Go chess is understandable, because most of the users who play this are older, and the Facebook user group is generally younger, so naturally they don't like to play Go or anything.

But Yu Wenfei's second suggestion, he was a little confused, so many provinces in the country, if you get the gameplay in various places, wouldn't it be too complicated, which is not in line with the company's consistent "concise, simple, friendly" style.

"That'...... If you do this, the menu bar may be very cluttered, and various ways of playing will be mixed together, which will make users not know how to choose. This will add a lot of difficulty to users in terms of use. ”

Lu Qi said euphemistically, this is also difficult for him, a straight man who does technology, and his speech has always been straightforward.

However, Lu Qi also understands that the company is getting bigger and bigger, and Yu Wenfei's status is getting higher and higher.

Yu Wenfei smiled, since he raised this problem, of course there is a solution, and this solution is related to the things that were originally planned, that is, several major data centers!

"This is very simple, we don't want to build several big data centers, and after the number of users of the chess and card platform increases, it is impossible for everyone to concentrate on one server, there will be partitions. Then, you can determine the region where the user is located based on the IP address of the user when logging in.

When he logs in to the platform, the system directly reminds him to register the corresponding regional server. After entering the server, there are only a few types of general gameplay of chess and card games in the game list, as well as the local gameplay of solitaire mahjong in his region, and users can choose to download and add to their own exclusive game list!"

This perfectly solves the problem raised by Lüch.

Users who choose a local server can experience faster internet speeds and get a better experience. At the same time, in the regional server where he is located, the players are basically from that place, and the players of the entire server are almost the same when it comes to playing cards and mahjong.

In addition, although the game platform provides many kinds of games and many ways to play, these will not appear directly in the player's game list, but the player can add them according to their needs.

The end result is that each player's platform interface is clean and clean, with only the types and gameplay he likes to play the most, and the players he meets are even locals!

This solution has never been thought of by game platforms such as Lianzhong, Wingfeng, and China Game Center, which have been doing it for several years.

Their platform interface, the game directory on the left is densely arranged with a lot of gameplay, making players look numb.

This is the difference in the understanding of the product, and the difference between what is made is worlds apart!

What is user experience?

That's it!

When Yu Wenfei opened his mouth to explain, Lu Qi had already taken out a paper and pen and quickly wrote it down.

After remembering, he looked up and sighed: "If Mr. Fei is a product manager, it is definitely the best! Every time, the simplest and most humanized solution is used to solve the conflict between product functionality and user experience." ”

Yu Wenfei smiled: "Okay, don't slap my ass." You should do these functions as soon as possible, this game platform is very important to Facebook, and Tencent's game platform is about to be launched, right? ”

The old game platforms, such as Lianzhong wingers, did not pay attention to it, because it was not an opponent of a magnitude at all.

Based on the number of users and user activity of Facebook, as long as the game platform is launched, it will definitely beat those old platforms.

But Tencent's game platform should not be underestimated, Tencent, like Facebook, has a huge user base, and the real competitor in the future is estimated to be it.

Yu Wenfei also has a bit of a headache, with the development of Facebook, there are more and more competitors, some of them are others who take the initiative to challenge, and some of them take the initiative to attack.

But there is no way, the Internet industry is said to be big, but it is small, but it is actually very small.

And based on the characteristics of Internet enterprises, this industry is completely an ecological environment where big fish eat small fish, no matter which subdivision you just start to do, when you develop to a certain scale, you must expand your business scope and go to other people's territory to grab food.

After the development of the Internet to a certain extent, if there is no strong external intervention, then there may be only two or three giant companies left in the entire industry, monopolizing the entire industry, and the rest of the companies will either be wiped out or can only be attached to the wings of giants.

There will be no exceptions, and there will be no new giants rising......

Since Yu Wenfei has made Facebook and set foot in the Internet field, he certainly has only one goal, that is, to be at the top and become one of the giants.

Or, there is no "one".

............

Today's version of this platform, without a while, was beaten back to continue to modify and polish.

Although Yuwenfei also wants to let the product go online as soon as possible, after all, in the Internet industry, the first-mover advantage is too great, in case Tencent takes the lead, and then forms an advantage, it will be difficult for him to catch up.

This is known from the comparison between Facebook and Sina Blog.

But what he can't tolerate is that an immature product is pushed in front of users, and the long-term impact of that is even more fatal.

Sometimes, a user's first impression of you may last a lifetime.

It's better if there are no competitors, and users have to use your product, then you can slowly make improvements and change the user's impression.

But in a fully competitive industry, users have so many options that they will vote with their feet.

Therefore, Facebook can go live in advance, and then slowly add features and update the version, because when Facebook goes live, there are no competitors in the market.

But the game platform is different, there is an old platform like Lianzhong Winger that has been operating for several years, and there are strong new entrants like Tencent in the back, and there is no room for a little mistake.

............

"How's the music and video teams doing?"

After discussing the matter of the chess and card game platform, Yu Wenfei asked again.

"Those two projects were a bit cumbersome, involving technical difficulties in audio and video decoding and large file compression and transmission, and I was recruiting professionals in this area. Lu Qi replied.

Yu Wenfei nodded, good products are not so easy to make, and it takes enough time to develop.

"SoftBank's investment has arrived, and we will also discuss how to spend this money. Cai Congxin interjected.

SoftBank's efficiency is still very high, Xue Chunhe and the team have already done their due diligence, and all the data and financial statements provided by Facebook will certainly not have any problems, so everything is going well.

According to the agreement, $200 million went directly to Facebook's company account, and the other $200 million went to Star Technology's company account.

All of this money is to be reinvested, so there is no need to pay taxes.

"This money has already been planned, 200 million US dollars, that is, 1660 million yuan, of which 60 percent will be used to build our data center! The remaining 40 percent will be prepared for music, video, and board game platforms. Yu Wenfei said dryly.

Cai Congxin is a little smacked, 60 percent, that is, one billion yuan, is used to build a data center?

Do you need to invest so much?

"Mr. Fei, now our business volume does not seem to need too large a computer room, I think the existing computer room is not small, and the loading speed of our Facebook network is also the fastest in the industry. Cai Congxin asked suspiciously.

When he first came over, he visited Facebook's huge computer room, which occupied a whole floor, which was full of dense cabinets, and even the servers were purchased from IBM's high-end machines.

At that time, Cai Congxin was very emotional, Yu Wenfei was really willing to spend money on hardware.

However, it is understandable, because the opening speed of Facebook is also well-known in the industry, and users are unanimously praised.

As a result, he didn't expect that Yuwenfei would have to spend more than half of the $200 million investment he had just gotten to build a data center.

That's a big step, isn't it......

You must know that in the Internet industry at that time, companies like Tencent with more users than Facebook did not have their own computer rooms.

Cai Congxin has learned that Tencent is now renting the computer room of Pengcheng Telecom.

"Mr. Cai, it seems to be enough now, but it won't be enough soon! Our new projects are all big hardware eaters! Especially the video platform, if you want to do a good job, you need the support of hardware and bandwidth. Yu Wenfei explained with a smile.