The nearly two-decade-old Predator community will stop posting today and will be closed permanently from March 1 next year

The nearly two-decade-old Predator community will be permanently closed.

On December 20, the Predator Community issued a statement saying that the website will stop user posts and reply functions on December 20, 2021, and from March 1, 2022, the Predator Community will be officially and permanently closed.

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The statement said that before the official suspension of the Iron Blood Community, users can log in to the account to download historical posts and transfer important personal information, and the data will be retained for 3 months. "The Predator community started with Web 1.0 and grew in Web 2.0. Now that Web 3.0 has arrived, unfortunately, in the boom of mobile Internet and Internet of Everything, we have not been able to keep up with the development of the times. ”

On the same day, Iron Blood Technology (833658) also issued an announcement that due to the needs of business strategic transformation, the company decided to officially close the iron blood community in the near future, and the company's other businesses will still operate normally. The closure of the Predator Community will not have an impact on the normal business activities of the Company.

According to the data, the iron blood network (tiexue.net) belonging to the iron blood community was founded in 2001, and in 2004, Beijing Iron Blood Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Iron Blood Technology") was established, and now has nearly 400 employees. In November 2015, Iron Blood Technology was listed on the New Third Board (833658). In June 2016, Iron Blood Technology became one of the first companies to enter the innovation layer of the new third board. Since its listing, it has successively accepted investment from many institutions such as Oriental Fuhai, Jingwei China, Guangming Media, and People's Network.

The current president, Jiang Lei, is the founder of Iron Blood Network, who entered the Department of Materials Science of Tsinghua University in 2000 and was later sent to directly pursue a doctorate. In 2006, when The Iron Blood Network was facing business difficulties and was on the verge of closure, he chose to take a break from school to start a business, after two consecutive years on the Forbes Chinese list of "China's 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs".

The data shows that Iron Blood Technology has previously lost money for consecutive years. In 2019, the loss amount was 18.8425 million yuan, and the loss in 2020 was 10.4622 million yuan. In August this year, the semi-annual report of Iron Blood Technology turned slightly, its operating income was 142 million yuan, an increase of 159.73% year-on-year, and the net profit was 9.6819 million yuan, a year-on-year turnaround.

The following is the full text of the statement:

I'm sorry to say goodbye to you all – to my dear predators

The new journey often begins with a goodbye, and it's time to say goodbye.

The day is finally here.

We are very reluctant but regretful to inform you that the Predator Community will stop user posts and reply functions on December 20, 2021, and from March 1, 2022, the Predator Community will be officially and permanently closed.

The Predator community started with Web 1.0 and grew to grow in Web 2.0. Now that Web 3.0 has arrived, unfortunately, in the boom of mobile Internet and Internet of Everything, we have not been able to keep up with the development of the times.

Nostalgic for when I was a teenager, I was full of spirit and stirred up words. We follow original military novels, discuss weapons and equipment, discover historical stories, disagree with each other, argue fiercely, call friends and friends, and "build buildings" all night...

In 2001, Iron Blood Network was founded, which is the cradle of China's original military online novels.

In 2002, the predatory military community was born, and the number of daily visitors exceeded 20,000 that year.

In 2003, 200,000 community daily visitors were received. During the period, the predatory server collapsed many times, and the predatory netizen organization collected donations, and in two days, the iron blood was enough to make up enough for the new server and rent a larger bandwidth.

In 2004, the "fishing storm" pushed the iron blood to the cusp of the storm, as a famous "angry youth" gathering place, due to the fierce rhetoric of some netizens, netizens experienced ten days of "shelter" wandering, cohesion is stronger, once again for the iron blood donation upgrade server.

In 2007, with the first batch of 17 M65 trench coats being snapped up in the Predator community, Ironblood finally had a relatively stable source of income.

In 2008, the number of daily visitors exceeded 2 million.

In 2011, the Dragon Tooth brand was founded, and we wanted to make "high-performance tactical clothing independently developed by Chinese".

In 2013, it signed a contract with the China Social Assistance Foundation to establish the Iron-Blooded Veterans Public Welfare Fund to provide material and spiritual assistance to veterans of the war.

In 2021, the Predator Public Welfare Project has carried out activities in 27 regions across the country, with a total of 1,010 volunteers participating in the activities, and has helped 16,191 veterans.

All of the above is like yesterday. We regret, sadness, or can only choose to let go. Because we still have to embark on a new journey to provide users with more quality services, please pay more attention to the new and old friends of iron blood.

In the past twenty years, hundreds of millions of netizens in the iron-blooded community, successive moderators, administrator teams and staff, have jointly built our military fan home with enthusiasm, dreams and perseverance, and jointly created the glory of "China's military fan home", and the iron blood has also ranked first in China's top ten independent military websites.

On the occasion of parting, I would like to solemnly thank you!

Gathering and dispersing are interdependent. Gathering is the collection of passion, scattering, and the spread of fire.

We didn't leave, we just moved to a new battlefield. Especially the iron-blooded veteran public welfare, as well as the dragon's tooth tactical clothing, we will continue to grow and develop unswervingly, do not forget the original intention, do not live up to the original intention.

Before the Iron Blood Community officially stops serving, users can log in to their accounts to download historical posts, transfer important personal information, and the data will be retained for 3 months. During this period, if you need to communicate, you can add QQ: 1969217715 or phone: [phone] get in touch with us, we will be happy to serve you.

Hereby, we sincerely thank you for your support and attention to the Iron Blood Community, and apologize for the inconvenience caused by the closure of the business!

Iron-blooded family, thank you for your companionship and warmth along the way.