Chao News Client Editor Xu Guang has stopped visiting Tianya Community for nearly a year and is about to restart. On the evening of March 1, Tianya Community issued an announcement stating that after communicating with relevant departments and telecommunications companies, in the

Chao News Client Editor Xu Guang

Tianya Community, which has stopped visiting for nearly a year, will be restarted soon.

On the evening of March 1, Tianya Community issued an announcement stating that after communicating with relevant departments and telecommunications companies, in the next two months, it will make every effort to raise funds of no more than 10 million in a market-oriented manner, specifically for restoring access to Tianya Community. and the New Tianya Plan with sustainable operations as its core.

Tianya Community will raise funds by introducing strategic investments, resuming advertising business, launching a social e-commerce platform and vigorously developing member value-added services. Under the premise of ensuring data security and compliance, within 2 months, that is, before May 1 Restore access to Tianya community.

In April last year, Tianya Community issued an announcement stating that it would undergo technical upgrades and data reconstruction, during which the platform would be inaccessible. Subsequently, one after another netizens found that they could not access the Tianya community. It has been nearly a year. Can this announcement of a reboot bring back the youthful memories of a generation?

was shut down for a year, and the live broadcast for self-rescue raised only 150,000 yuan.

Tianya Community was once one of the most influential websites on the Chinese Internet, with 130 million registered users at its peak. Forum sections such as "Tianya Zatan" and "Entertainment Gossip" gathered elites and opinion exporters from different fields at that time. The first generation of "Internet celebrities" such as Ning Caishen, Ten Years of Chopping Wood, Wuyue Sanren, and Nian Mingyue were also born here.

However, his fate was ill-fated. In April 2023, Tianya Community announced that it would suspend access to services due to debt issues, and both web pages and apps could not be opened.

Subsequently, the Tianya community started the road of self-rescue.

At the end of May 2023, Song Zheng, the former executive editor of Tianya Community, and many Tianya netizens launched a "Seven Days and Seven Nights, Restart Tianya" live broadcast fundraising event, hoping to raise 3 million yuan for Tianya Community to pay for Telecommunications equipment room fees and restoration of server access to Tianya Community.

However, this "self-help" live broadcast only raised 150,000 yuan in the end, which was nearly 20 times different from the 3 million yuan set before the live broadcast started.

html March 1 is also the 25th anniversary of Tianya Community. The company released the schedule of the entire restart plan, including the launch of New Tianya and the restoration of access time to the old Tianya Community. After Tianya Community resumes access, the new international domain name tianya.net will be enabled. Tianya Community’s original domain name tianyaclub.com was the brand’s “global travel and fashion consumption social platform” and provided membership-based e-commerce services. Xing Ming, the founder of

, once said when talking about the preliminary idea of ​​a membership-based e-commerce platform: "The efforts we are currently making are the first official attempt by Tianya to save itself. If it fails, we may, perhaps, be the last ones." Once."

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On the eve of the restart, Tianya was filed for bankruptcy review

It is worth mentioning that just before the Tianya community issued an announcement, on February 27, a piece of news that Tianya was filed for bankruptcy once again aroused public attention .

Qichacha shows that on February 26, Tianya Community Network Technology Co., Ltd. added a new bankruptcy review case. The applicant is Zhang Xin, and the handling court is the Intermediate People’s Court of Haikou City, Hainan Province. Tianya Community Network Technology Co., Ltd. was established in April 1999. Its legal representative, chairman and general manager is Xing Ming, with a registered capital of 93 million yuan. It is composed of Xing Ming, Hainan Dawei Internet Investment Management Co., Ltd., and Dazi Yanyue Management Consulting Co., Ltd. and others jointly hold shares.

risk information shows that at present, the company has multiple pieces of information about persons subject to execution, and the total amount of execution exceeds 10.51 million yuan. In addition, there are also multiple consumption restriction orders and equity freezing information.

Regarding "filing for bankruptcy", this announcement also explains this case. The announcement mentioned that this case is a normal legal proceeding faced by the company after encountering financial difficulties and will not have a substantial impact on the restart of Tianya.

We have close friends across the sea, and we are neighbors even as far as the end of the world! Will Tianya return this time?