Members “VKontakte” outraged by the new design – Rosbalt.RU

 Members of social networks “VKontakte” faced a new virtual reality and she did not like them so much that they began to sign the petition for the return of the old version of the site.

 The new interface has been designed to facilitate the social network user’s life: it refused to outdated technology Flash and moved to HTML5, so the audio and video players will now work in the mobile version soon

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 Design developed about one and a half years, and testing started 4.5 months ago. Now on the right side of the page the user was added to the unit switching between sections and recommendations. Miniature avatars changed, becoming round. Icons “Like” and “repost” moved to the left.

 The new version has many new things, but the important thing is that all users have noticed – it is very similar to Facebook. This is confirmed by data from a survey conducted by the group “Interesting Peter.” About 25% of users said they like the design, approximately 41% said that “hateful”, another 37% – confirmed the similarity with Facebook

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 «#VK Stupidly copies #facebook. At first glance, not very comfortable # design. It is a pity that we can not go back to the old version “, – said a user under the name Eva Madison

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 “Remove from Facebook, because he understood and uncomfortable, but he still found me”, – said Victoria Dregovichi

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 Some users have noted that now “VKontakte” lost uniqueness and looks like a “Odnoklassniki”. Some representatives of the public confirm that the mobile version of the social network is better than usual.

 Someone Yegor Holosko wrote: “Thank you for the site Vkontakte Administration wonderful new design, you can now remove another tab from bookmarks and sit with a smartphone, although there you have not ruined all»

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 Members have organized a petition for the abolition of the new design. It was signed by more than 30 thousand. Man. General leitmotif of comments is: return, as

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 “Very few people need now is a new, people appreciate the good old classics. We do not impose and not compelled by this gesture to ensure that rejected the new design. However, a person must be an alternative to – choose what to use and what to ignore. Lord, it’s a disaster! I’m not against progress, but that a global solution must take place with users’ consent – wrote petition creator

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 It is noteworthy that in “Vkontakte” registered more than 350 million people.