Starting as a Manga Editor

Chapter 125: The New Website Goes Live

Very soon.Everyone else at Avalon Studio found out that their boss and the investor were busy working on promotional stuff for the new version of the game.But as for exactly what they were doing—most people had no clue.All they knew was that every day, Tang Yao and Li Xue would sneak mysteriously into the meeting room, and now and then, faint voices could be heard coming from inside.But the thing was, the office Mingyu Tech rented wasn’t anything fancy, yet somehow the meeting room had surprisingly good soundproofing.Most people couldn’t hear a thing from outside.So no one really knew what Tang Yao was up to in there.

Honestly, even a lot of the support staff weren’t sure. Like Chu Yuxin and Kang Ming—one handled keyframes, the other handled tech—but even they only vaguely knew that Tang Yao seemed to be working on some kind of virtual version of Rin Tohsaka.They didn’t know anything beyond that, because Tang Yao absolutely refused to do voice acting in front of other people.Too embarrassing.Doing it in front of Li Xue and Tang Xun was already her limit.

Gotta say—She did a damn good job keeping it all under wraps. Even the rest of the studio was in the dark.

And just like that, time passed.

Mid-December.The ANF website revamp was finally done.

When Tang Yao got the news, she didn’t even care about voice acting anymore—she went straight to the ANF operations team.She double-checked the entire new site from top to bottom, and once she confirmed everything looked good:“Let’s launch it.”Tang Yao looked at Cai Quan and gave her answer.

She’d contributed a lot of ideas to this website overhaul.No matter how busy she was, she couldn’t ignore the site—it was the foundation of their promo strategy.The main direction of the changes was to keep part of the original look while adding new sections and reorganizing the layout to make the homepage cleaner.

“Okay…”Cai Quan nodded when he heard that, but then he couldn’t help but add, “But, uh… the new homepage is really different from the old one. The users might not be able to get used to it…”

He honestly hadn’t expected Tang Yao to overhaul the site in such a bold way.It looked nothing like the site he’d originally built.You could still see the skeleton of the old version… but barely.

“I know.”Tang Yao nodded seriously. “Most people are nostalgic. And when a website they’ve used for so long suddenly changes, it’s normal to feel thrown off—or even upset. If it were me, I’d be uncomfortable too.” “But you can’t stop making changes just because you’re afraid of user discomfort or complaints. If you do, the site will never change. It’ll stay frozen in this illusion of ‘perfect just the way it is,’ and from then on, any change will have to be made with extreme caution. What’s the difference between that and getting stuck in the past?”

“And don’t tell me you think the site’s current condition is great.

If Kang Ming and the others hadn’t gone through everything, we wouldn’t even know there were so many issues. Honestly, the site only crashed a few times—consider yourself lucky.Frontend dev is sloppy, accounts get mixed up, users can’t leave comments, videos don’t load—if we don’t fix these constant bugs, forget about attracting users—you’ll be lucky if the site doesn’t get shut down.”“If the tech needs an upgrade, then upgrade it.If these problems don’t get fixed, they’ll always be problems.If the actual user experience sucks, fix it.Otherwise, when traffic picks up, it’s only gonna be worse.”

“And didn’t I already tell you to keep parts of the original version?Just add a toggle to switch back to the old layout. Let users ease into the new one. Once they’re used to it, most won’t bother switching anymore—then you can remove the toggle.”

It’s not that she was being pushy—It’s that this was how it needed to be.

Remember why A-Site lost?Sure, management had problems, but the real killer was their endless hesitation.They dragged their feet forever just to revamp the homepage on PC.They wanted to change it but didn’t dare to. Any little problem and boom—they’d revert it back.And every time it crashed, they’d throw out some random excuse: line interruptions, server disk failure, DDoS attacks, data center upgrades, shut-downs, technical errors during legacy video repairs…

That unstable service was the final nail in the coffin.It pushed the whole site into the abyss.Now it’s just something people nostalgically remember.

Sure, there were multiple ownership changes.But tech kept blaming everything on the previous devs for writing bad code. They never took initiative to fix it. Isn’t that a problem too?It was just—so frustrating.

Tang Yao didn’t want ANF to repeat that mistake.She never expected to make much money from the video section, but you still need a user base, right?And to get users, at the very least, your platform can’t suck.

Otherwise, are we really gonna see another round of users creating their own spin-offs while ANF gets publicly dunked on by randos on the internet?

“…Got it.”Seeing Tang Yao’s unwavering look and firm tone, Cai Quan felt a little ashamed.He’d been really worried that a sudden revamp would cause trouble.

“Go ahead. Keep an eye on things these next few days.”Tang Yao didn’t say more. She knew the only reason she had this much confidence was thanks to the knowledge from her past life…She could understand Cai Quan’s concerns. “If we get a surge in user numbers, make sure the review process doesn’t fall behind. Put all the new hires to work. I don’t want the new site to be live for a few days and already be full of unreviewed uploads and rule-breaking videos.”

“Alright.”

Cai Quan nodded and left, still a little hesitant. Tang Yao turned her eyes back to the homepage on the screen.She stared at the new, prominent feature window… and thought about how the video she’d voiced would soon be up there.Her expression became a little complicated.

But she wasn’t the kind of person to back down last minute.She’d made her choice—And she wasn’t going to regret it.

“Let’s hope everything goes smoothly.”Tang Yao murmured to herself, then stood up, just about to finish the final edits on the virtual idol video.

But just then, a popup suddenly appeared in the bottom-right corner of the screen.

[Famous producer Sheng Zhi: A one-of-a-kind 2D game! Closed beta begins now! A grand adventure awaits!]

“…?”Tang Yao froze when she saw the popup. She quickly sat back down and clicked it open.

In just a moment—She’d finished reading the ad and slowly raised an eyebrow.

Seriously?Just as she was getting ready to push the FGO update promo, a second 2D game was launching?

She had expected this.She knew the trend—A second 2D game was bound to come out fast.Especially since her game’s day-one revenue had already gone public.

But still…Tang Yao looked at the beta launch date on the screen and muttered:“You sure you wanna pick this day?”

Who the hell had such perfect timing?Choosing Christmas of all days for your beta test?You’re asking for it.

…

Tang Yao was definitely surprised by how perfectly this second 2D game’s launch clashed with hers… amazed at how coincidental it all was.But she clearly wasn’t about to change her own schedule for the competition.

December 18th.The new AnimationFan website officially went live.

During the revamp, the site had been constantly hyping up the changes.Site director Cai Quan had been talking to users daily.But no one knew exactly what the new version would look like.

And today—The new site was finally about to meet its users…