Welcome to the Newly Redesigned chinaSMACK!

After many weeks of hard work, welcome to the newly redesigned chinaSMACK.

2008 September 25 … 2009 September 27 … 2010 April 27 TODAY

There are many big changes. Some of you may find the changes to be very drastic. However, I hope you will come to like them after some time and enjoy some of the many new features to help you discover new and interesting content. For example, see our new “At a Glance” page for Top 10 lists of our most popular content in 2008, 2009, and so far this year.

Please take your time to explore our new website. Since this is a new design, there may be some bugs. If you find one, please let us know so we can fix it.

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In addition to our new look, we have some new plans and developments to share with everyone soon. Of course, we will continue to translate the scandalous, silly, stupid, and serious stuff that becomes popular on the Chinese-language internet. Although we cannot make everyone happy, we hope to continue learning, sharing, and laughing with our loyal fans and all the people who truly understand what chinaSMACK is about.

At this time, chinaSMACK and I would also like to thank some very kind and generous people:

Python: If you have noticed that our website is faster and more reliable recently, it is because of Python‘s hard work improving, updating, and managing our web server. My job is to make more and more and more. His job is to beg me to do less and less and less. In the past, when I win, our web server loses. Now, we can both win. I think.

Kai: Many parts of the new chinaSMACK design were directly contributed by Kai. He helped us add a lot of new features and answered many questions very patiently. In fact, many parts of the website were programmed by him. For clarification, all of the pretty parts of our website were designed by me. All of the ugly parts were designed by him.

Chris & Freedur: chinaSMACK is happy and thankful for Freedur‘s continued support. In addition to their sponsorship of chinaSMACK, they have also provided us with VPN service which has allowed us to do many things we could not do because of China’s Great Firewall. If you need VPN service to allow you to access websites like Facebook or YouTube that are blocked in China, please give Freedur a try!

Of course, chinaSMACK owes its success mostly to you, our readers, our supporters, and our fans. Thank you so much for visiting, commenting, and sharing us with other people. We will continue to do our best to share more about modern Chinese society and popular Chinese internet culture with you. We hope you enjoy our new design!