The Beijinger is a community website targeted at English-speaking expats in Beijing, China. The Beijinger is the online counterpart to The Beijinger magazine which is a monthly print publication and the leading English language community magazine in Beijing. The bulk of the development work was done by Jeff Warrington on behalf of The Beijinger.
The Beijinger is built around free classifieds which are a user-driven section of the website. Other primary content areas are a mix of user created content such as forums and events and content provided by the staff of The Beijinger such as a blog and directory. Users can add comments on most types of content and in the case of directory listings can add reviews of places in the directory. Other areas include a weekly podcast and a photo gallery.
Some quick statistics about the site: 49,300+ users (about 25,000 active in the last 6 months), 325,000+ nodes (about 33,000 currently published - most of the unpublished nodes are expired classified ads), over 2.5 million page views a month.
Note: Transfer speeds from China to Europe and North America are not great as China's pipe to the outside world is not large. Speeds within China are quite fast for a fairly graphics-heavy site so speeds outside of China should not be taken as representative of the experience of the users of The Beijinger within China.
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