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Gregory

Uh, and I've only now noticed that on the 2006 screenshots, THERE IS NO NEWSFEED in the left menu!

Anyway, here's what newsfeed looked like in 2009-10, pre-microblog.

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Gregory

The newer (2007?) design of groups and events. Events are a special kind of group internally, with additional fields.

Gregory

Interesting to look back at how it was all about people connecting with other people, but eventually shifted to people consuming content from faceless commercial communities and celebrities. As did all other mainstream social media. I'm making #Smithereen to address this exact issue — give people a cozy place to connect with each other.

Fun fact: the "old" newsfeed in VK still lives on after all these years in the "updates" tab and in the API, but no one's using it any more.

Alexey

@grishka Agree. That was partially the reason I quit VK, together with insanely annoying algorithmic timelines and all that "clips" nonsense, I just jumped over to Mastodon where I really like the community. And Smithereen looks like a great project to move over people who like VK's method of interaction.

Thanks for your work on this!

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