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Imagine fucking up a social media service so badly that people switch to a Meta product.
I don't have to imagine. That's exactly what happened around me. In a few years, many people I know and care about left VKontakte and are using Instagram instead. Some deleted their accounts, many effectively abandoned them.
@kaifi they redesigned the posts to look a lot like Instagram and also limited what kinds of attachments you can combine. For example, you can't post music on its own any more, it *must* be together with an image. The text is now below the attachments. Everything requires extra clicks now for no reason. New profiles hide the friend list behind multiple clicks. Everything is slow because it's been rewritten in React and makes what feels like a million API requests to render a single page.
@kaifi and they also completely killed third-party client apps, including Kate Mobile
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@grishka i wasn't able to get my vk account back ever since 2022, or even enter the service. What's happened since then?