The “tie.youdao.com” is a whole new forum service introduced by Netease in February 2009, providing a new space for people to make friends and to share information. The “tie.youdao.com” is generally a traditional forum, whose concept, design and the whole functions differ from those of other forums slightly. The “tie.youdao.com” also provides a dozen of boards like “education”, “ entertainment”, and so on, which are divided into several subcategories and pages, so you can browse and post in you favorite webpage.

There are hot posts and boards launched by “tie.youdao.com” in the homepage, facilitating your discussion about the hot topics. These functions are quite similar to those of Baidu Tie Ba, even in layout (Both of them locate the search engine onto the top of the homepage). Nevertheless, being a newcomer of forums, “tie.youdao.com” owns its unique functions to facilitate the net-surfers. First of all, the forum can establish a page automatically, and then the user can create a discussion area on his or her favorite topic in this webpage. This is a relatively original function, and is very useful, which is not possessed by Baidu Tie Ba. You can talk about every thing you like, from a book, a movie, an interesting event even to witty skits by creating a certain area in “tie.youdao.com”. Of course, you can apply for the position of webmaster, to guide the discussion, and to manage your own communication space.
 
Furthermore, you can upload pictures and videos onto your post, to make it more living and vivid. Input the URL of the pictures or videos into the dialogue box “picture/video” of the “tie.youdao.com,” and you can see the effect the in preview area. Click on the button “publish” to release your pictures or videos into the content of the topic or reply. This kind of operation is convenient and easy to learn.
 
Thirdly, the quick-inserted expressions and emotional icons are quite abundant. The “tie.youdao.com” is equipped with a great number of Bubble Expressions, Bun Expressions, and other funny expressions, among which the Bun Expressions are more conspicuous, possessing the style of Netease.
 
The “tie.youdao.com” is also equipped with the function of “Tracing the Post”, which aims to find and locate the post you read previously, lest the post you are interested in is buried under the countless reply posts, just like the function of “ pause/play”. When you release your post, use the function of “Building the Wall” to keep the layout of your serialized posts more neat and perfect, and to keep out the vicious inserts of the reply posts. Besides that, with the help of this function, the “building lord” can regulate the order and the layout of the posts, to put your own posts together, and to construct a tall building. All these functions in “tie.youdao.com” are very useful and novel for netizens, compared with those of Baidu Post Bar, and surely you will like them.

While admittedly, compared with the well-developed forums like Baidu Tie Ba, the “tie.youdao.com” is relatively simple and insubstantial in terms of the content of some boards. For example, the stock investors will find out under the board of “Shanghai A shares”, there are nearly no sub-divisions for each stock. While in Baidu Post Bar, each stock has its own discussion area according to the code of it, in which the stock-investors buying the same stock can share information each other.

And besides that, Baidu Tie Ba is sensitive to hot issues. For example, after the breaking out of the Pan Xinyi event, a “Pan Xingyi Bar” was established immediately, to provide a space for netizens to recollect, and discus the issue. On the contrary, the “tie.youdao.com” is less sensitive to this kind of events. And at the respect of interaction, Baidu Post Bar stands out from the rest. A variety of activities like “Calendar Activity” and the “Voting” enrich the content of the forum, and encourage netizens to participate the activities positively, while there are almost no such activities provided for netizens to join in the “tie.youdao.com”

Of course, the “tie.youdao.com” is a newly established forum, and it is in the course of high-speed development. During the past few days, the forum has begun to take shape, and gained the popularity among the internet. May the “tie.youdao.com” grow up rapidly and become a good place for people to get together in the internet. Come on, and go to the “tie.youdao.com” if you have something to say!