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November 8 News, discuz! The product team is developing what is known internally as "discuz! X3.0 "New version, this version is not only mobile, social and other features, and in terms of stability, security, user experience and so will be a major breakthrough. discuz! Zhang, general manager of the market and the product team, have answered the question of relative concern.

Q: From discuz! X2.5 has been released for half a year, many webmasters want to know the latest trends in discuz! products, our research and development team have been busy what?

discuz! Product Team: We have focused our efforts on discuz! this period. New product development, in the optimization and perfection of discuz! X2.5 Hundreds of functions based on the development of discuz! X3.0, currently discuz! X3.0 has entered the final stage of fortification.

discuz! X2.5 since the release, on the one hand we have received a large number of webmaster friends on product use problems, functional needs of feedback, on the other hand, we also visited a group of use discuz! X2.5 webmaster, listen to their use feelings and collect some of the problems they encountered in the operation, and classify the different types of site requirements for collation, data statistics and analysis, can be said that the entire product team for the discuz! X3.0 has done a full investigation and preparatory work, on this basis we began to discuz! X3.0 's research and development has been in progress for four months now.

Q: I can hear it discuz! The research and development team did put a lot of effort into the development of new products, what are the design concepts and characteristics of this product?

discuz! Product Team: discuz! X3.0 's characteristics in community mobility will be more prominent, and in the stability, security, user experience has a major breakthrough and upgrade.

①. "The characteristics of community mobility is obvious"--help Web site quickly into the mobile internet

The rapid development trend of mobile Internet is obvious to all, and the major platforms and companies have entered the field. Many webmasters also want the community to follow up the pace of mobile Internet development quickly, so discuz! X3.0 has also done a lot of homework in terms of mobility. First of all, we pay more attention to QQ, UCWeb, such as mobile phone browser adaptation, so that the smartphone user browsing experience a new level, user-friendly mapping and other operations, and improve webmaster background management capabilities. Second, we are to the WAP page refactoring and improve user experience, so that some of the non-smartphone users can also be a smooth mobile phone access to the site, convenient for the webmaster to retain the old users. Again, we collaborate with a number of Application Center development teams to help them develop more HTML5 skin and enhance discuz! User experience, for the site to integrate more fresh, stylish, minimalist elements. Finally, we will be able to open an independent client for the webmaster, so that the webmaster more free to set the cover of the site, LOGO, recommended content and other elements to meet the site personalized operation needs.

②. "The community is complete, the stability is stronger"--satisfies the big Data age website development need

Through the early visits to the webmaster and the function of the webmaster needs analysis, we understand that the webmaster for the stability of the Forum program needs or first. Mainly based on the fact that the current large data age, the webmaster faces more and more users, the forum community needs to deal with the daily data is amazing, so discuz! X3.0 will increase the development of the stability of the program, in the program structure, performance optimization of the overall upgrade, in order to meet the large data age to prepare fully.

The background of the large data era has also brought more threats and security risks to the forum, and security of the Forum is the most important. Therefore, we have made a new security aspects of the attempt to integrate suspicious file reminders, code security scanning and other security tools, while the account was stolen, spam filter also made a new optimization, as far as possible from a number of channels to protect the forum security and harmony.

③. "Better community User experience"--help the website to further enhance the popularity and traffic

The user experience is the forum cliché question, is also the Forum eternal topic, whether is for stationmaster or Netizen user, discuz! X3.0 has greatly improved the user experience.

Q: In addition to mobile Internet, social media also play a more and more important role, such as Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo users have exceeded 300 million, the data show that social media use of the chain of communication and fermentation will bring a lot of return and popularity of traditional communities, discuz! How does the research team look at the problem? Is there a target for discuz!? Forum solutions?

discuz! Product Team: The social networking architecture at the core of "interpersonal relationships" shows strong scalability and user stickiness, and traditional community forums centered on "interests or topics", as opposed to social networks, are in dire need of social supplements to achieve greater growth. Appropriately adding some social functions to the Community forum will greatly promote user interaction and make the community more popular and dynamic. In view of this, discuz! The research team has also done a lot of work in this area.

As early as 2011, we saw social network in the promotion of the effectiveness of the Forum traffic, so the introduction of the QQ Internet, it is a social transmission of high-quality solutions. In the QQ interconnection provides the post synchronization function, replies the synchronization function, the topic sharing function, may realize the website content in Tencent Massive user quickly spreads the goal. Data statistics show synchronized to the QQ space, Tencent micro-blog dynamic can bring more than 200% of the return of the site, the original content more Web site return effect more impressive. Therefore, discuz! X3.0 will continue to consolidate and improve on the basis of this feature, allowing more sites to enjoy the benefits of community socialization.

In addition, discuz! Application Center has a lot of development based on good, high evaluation of social sharing applications, webmaster can download and install the use as required, discuz! X3.0 will retain the Application Center benign cycle mechanism, and introduce more excellent third party development team, for stationmaster transports more high quality social sharing application.

Q: Specific to functional details, discuz! X3.0 What other features can be exposed in advance?

discuz! Product Team: discuz! X3.0 's new features and features have hundreds of items, such as portal static, it can be the channel of the portal, lists, topics, articles all generated static files, can effectively increase the forum users access speed, enhance the performance of the Forum, and also conducive to the forum's SEO. Like the global default signature function, compared to "small", but the role is not small, when the user does not sign, will display this signature, help the site to increase the chain. Again such as the Hot post calendar, the user small black house, put to the desktop, live posts and other functions are very distinctive, of course, more multi-functional to be webmaster friends to dig and experience.

Q: We all know that the user experience is the quality of the test site is an important indicator. discuz! X3.0 also made a significant improvement in the user experience, can you give an example, so that everyone has a more intuitive understanding.

discuz! Product Team: discuz! X3.0 also made significant adjustments to the user experience take the "vote" function, users can directly publish pictures to vote, floor reply to increase the landlord mark, the most popular replies automatic front row and new reading mode, users in the post can quickly filter water, so that reading more refreshing, fast.

Q: discuz! Application Center Since its inception, up to now the cumulative number of applications has more than 1500, through the Application Center to download the number of sites installed content more than 250,000, the overall download amount of breakthrough 1.7 million times, please ask in the discuz! How will the Application Center in X3.0 change?

discuz! Product Team: Every day we receive feedback from webmaster and developers about discuz! The operational model of the Application Center is generally satisfactory. So in the future we will increase the discuz! Operational strength of the Application Center, from two aspects of efforts, focusing on the developer and application rating work, on the one hand, let the webmaster easier to find high-quality applications for their own web site "building blocks" to enhance the strength of operations; On the other hand, we will launch bounty hunters, developer training and other activities to give developers more economic benefits, Make discuz! The Application Center has become a mutually beneficial platform for both webmasters and developers.

The interview learned that discuz! X3.0 has entered the final stage of research and development, and in the stability, security, user experience and so will have a major breakthrough and upgrade, while it also has the community mobility, social characteristics, for webmasters to operate the site to add more tools and channels, I believe discuz! X3.0 is a product worth looking forward to, follow-up will also do more detailed reports, please look forward to!