One year ago, I started chinaSMACK to learn new things and improve myself. After one year, so many things have happened and this website has become much more than my original little project. After one year, chinaSMACK…
- Has over 300 published posts;
- Has more than 16,500 comments;
- Receives over 220,000 visits per month;
- Has over 3500 daily subscribers;
- Was a victim of a DoS attack for a week;
- Has switched hosting servers 4 times;
- Is still here.
These are pretty cool accomplishments, right?
We (I and anyone who wants to be part of chinaSMACK) will continue to do our best to share the hot and popular stories, pictures, and videos from China’s internet. We will also try our best to do more and do better so chinaSMACK will remain a fun place to learn, discuss, and understand more about China and Chinese people. We are really silly and strange like everybody else!
chinaSMACK Personals
Perhaps you have noticed a new feature on chinaSMACK? If you are interested in meeting more people, boys or girls, to make friends, you can visit our new section, chinaSMACK | personals. This is a great way for you to meet people from a different country or culture. Although you can read what Chinese netizens think, feel, or say on chinaSMACK, you can talk to Chinese netizens yourself through chinaSMACK | personals!
1 Year Anniversary T-Shirt Contest Winner
Thank you for everyone who submitted a design and voted for this contest. The winning design is…
5. chinaSMACK Certified By Netizens
Designer: Peng Guo
Design Details: Most websites based on Mainland China often have the ICP registered number and red shield badge at the bottom of their page, e.g. “沪ICP备05000001号” (registered #05000001 by ICP of Shanghai) and “京ICP证080274号” (certified #080274 by ICP of Beijing). They are required to have the ICP license or they will be blocked in Mainland China.
To mock Chinese government-controlled internet and to “represent” Chinese netizens, I replaced the original red shield badge with Jiong badge, “沪ICP备/京ICP证” with “网民证”, “numbers号” with “chinaSMACK号”. So it’s something like “#chinaSMACK certified by Netizens”…
Designer Bio: Native Chinese raised in Canada and United States, currently majoring in art at a graduate school.
An official announcement will be made later with information on how to order an official chinaSMACK t-shirt. I must contact Peng Guo soon and find a company to discuss how we will make this t-shirt. Peng Guo will receive a free t-shirt, some chinaSMACK stickers, and I hope some other prize. Thank you, Peng Guo!
Thank you…
chinaSMACK’s growth and popularity is because of all of you. Thank you to our contributors. Thank you to our visitors, our subscribers, and our commenters (even if some of you are crazy people). Thank you to all the blogs and websites that have link to us. Thank you to Chinese netizens who always have interesting stories to share. We are happy to help everyone see another side of Chinese people and society. We hope we can all understand each other more…and not be too serious.
Thank you,
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And thank you for giving us such an interesting / funny / accurate view of what chinese netizens opinion and modern chinese culture is.
Reading ChinaSMACK, I’ve learn much more about China that I ever did before.
– Woods
Happy 1 Year Anniversary, chinaSMACK!
Thanks for all your efforts, Fauna.
Fauna 加油！
其实我个人很喜欢看外国人在这边吵得不可开交！哈哈哈~~~~~~
hey i’d like some stickers. where can i get those?
It seems that I’m the only one from Serbia. Joing!
No thank you.
One of my favortie sites. easily!
Bon anniversaire !
Thanks for the fun given during all that year!
Just another comment to say thanks for all of your work. It’s a fantastic window into the Chinese online world, and I’m sure all of us enjoy sharing perspectives and reactions on the news.
So, another 10,000 years of ChinaSMACK? ;)
DWR
happy 1 year anniversary chinasmack
its getting better each day
A belated happy anniversary Fauna (still catching up from the Chicago to Cincinnati move) – best hopes into this new year and many wishes to see you again in 2010!
Fauna –
The link at the bottom of the front page “more Stories »”
currently points at:
http://www.chinasmack.com/category/pictures/
Surely it should be:
http://www.chinasmack.com/category/stories/
Fauna -
The “Most Viewed” panel at the bottom of the page is broken. Currently it is displaying nothing at all.
Hmm no one has asked what the two spikes up were, what caused them? And what is behind the dip? :) Can you reveal a bit to an avid reader. :)
Mr.K
Darn! Sorry my bad, did not notice you had a second page there that explained the highs and lows!!! My bad!
Thanks you guys for this website. =)