A poster describes a problem, posts it in the forum with a price in CSDN points, and then waits for replies.
The site hosts many IT blogs, but the large number of bloggers makes the server slow.
In December 2005, Baidu rated CSDN as one of the top Chinese blog service providers.
Nevertheless, the website receives 1.3 million hits every day, according to Alexa[9] Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine.
This serious security problem was caused by storing users' passwords in clear text without any hashing/encryption in the CSDN database.