About YDIFC

V2EX = way to express

V2EX lets you express yourself, share your ideas and life, connect with your old friends and meet new friends all over the world.

Express Yourself

Join various discussions in thousands areas or start your own new discussions.

And you can write blogs in V2EX's Nexus Weblogging Platform, you can tag your articles so that everything is get organized in a clear way. When you publish new entries, V2EX will automatically notify all major aggregation service including FeedBurner and Technorati, so your new updates will soon spread to the world. You can choose from the V2EX designed themes to decorate your blogs.

Share Your Ideas and Life

There are thousands different discussion areas in V2EX, they're organized in 6 big sections:

• Limbo
  
  Topics in this section are about life in different countries and cities around the world. Flying to Shanghai(And replace this to any place) next week and curious on culture there? And you'll find your answers here.
  
  It's interesting to explore different culture meeting each other and how they change the world, and V2EX is all for Mixed-Culture.
  
  
• The Gray Waste
  
  Topics in this section are about ABSTRACT stuff, compared to REAL and detailed stuff about life in section Limbo.
  
  Got a random question to ask? You can go to Q & A area. Some ideas about Blogging? There's an area dedicated to Bloggers. Or how about George Orwell's Doublethink? And you can even only talk to yourself, it's a special place that only you can answer your own topics. There're many more interesting areas to be discovered in The Gray Waste.
  
  
• Mechanus
  
  Programming languages, different computers, operating systems, cars, various software and technologies, etc.
  
  Mechanus is a place for nerds and geeks, for people who count numbers from 0. :-)
  
  Oh and one more thing, V2EX is running on an open source software codenamed Project Babel, if you want to run your own site with Project Babel, you're welcome!
  
  
• The River Oceanus
  
  A section dedicated to finance. Including areas about Stock, Stock Index Futures, FOREX, Mutual Funds and more. And there is an area about Jobs offering employment opportunities from companies around the world.
  
  
• Elysium
  
  We all love music. So this section is all about your favorite singers, bands.
  
  
• Sigil
  
  We trust in brands and this is a time that life is full of brands and fashion. Levi's, DIESEL, Converse, Adidas, UNIQLO and many more high and low.

Get Connected

Every member of V2EX has got a fancy profile filled by personality.

• Basic stats about when you joined, how many topics you posted and how many you replied.
• Your favorite artists and tracks, powered by Last.fm.
• Your online status, others can click to talk to your or chat with you, powered by Skype.
• Your other profiles on various sites, we call this "savepoints", a concept borrows from games.
• Your friends on V2EX.
• Other can click buttons on your profile to add you as a friend or send private messages to you.
• RSS 2.0 output.
• The places you've been to and the places you're going to.

Every profile has a easy-to-remember URL: http://v2ex.com/u/yourname, for example:

http://v2ex.com/u/livid

Way To Explore

There are always new tiny applications developed as a new version of Project Babel comes out.

• ZEN - A simple tool for you to get things done.
• ING - Update your status, random thoughts, whatever.