Not long ago, the popular social network VK began to experience serious disruptions, and at the same time a large number of users are expressing dissatisfaction, since some of them have lost their VKontakte likes, and what caused this is completely unclear. In fact, there is no need to worry and panic, since the project has previously experienced various technical problems, this also applied to the usual “I like” button, the marks of which not only disappeared, they could not even be set. There has been no official news from the administration of this site yet, so it is completely unknown what is really happening. VKontakte likes may disappear from various sections: photos, videos, posts, but after some time they return again.
Temporary glitches
In fact, not many users even noticed that this kind of problem began to occur, but if, for example, you visited large groups and official pages, then you could understand that something was wrong with the VK social network. In fact, if you have lost your VKontakte likes, don’t worry, since most likely the administration is updating or optimizing the database, after which the likes should appear on your page again. Even if there are failures in this project, after a short period of time everything falls into place. Of course, such problems may appear repeatedly, but the developers are trying to improve the network and optimize it for quick and comfortable access. By the way, if we talk about popularity, then we can say that this resource, even because of its frequent failures, does not become less in demand; on the contrary, many users begin to write on various services, forums and websites about such a problem, and this can only be attributed to excellent self-promotion.
The right to choose
If you don’t know who likes whom on VKontakte, then you need to visit your friend’s page or go to your favorite community. A heart-shaped mark, which confirms your sympathy, can be placed under absolutely any entry. However, if you have lost your VKontakte likes, then you can easily contact the administration of the social network with this question or fill out a technical support form.
New VK bookmarks
The popular social network has relaunched its bookmarks section, adding new functionality. At first glance, it might seem that many of your saved posts, photos, videos have disappeared. This is not true: if you bookmarked content by liking it, that content is now in your News Feed. To access viewing:
- Go to the main page of the news feed;
- In the right corner in the “News” section, select “Like”;
- Select the type of data you want to display (posts, comments, photos, videos or products);
- Gain access to manage such content.
If the “Like” item is not in the menu, click on the “Plus” icon opposite the “News” tab and configure the list of required sections in the drop-down menu.
The bookmarks section remains in the same place. If you use the browser version of VK, you can go to it from any page by clicking on the corresponding item in the left menu with a list of pages for quick navigation. In the mobile version, you will need to additionally open your profile.
To add a content to bookmarks, you will need:
- open the drop-down menu by clicking on the “down arrow” or the “More” section and click on the “Add to bookmarks” item (relevant for recordings and videos);
- To add an article, a person just needs to click on the “star” button.
Recovery
Remember that if you have lost your marks, then they should definitely return to you in the near future, and this will happen in any case. Even if the social network experiences serious technical failures, in this case, employees will be able to restore the database using backup copies, which the project probably has. According to experts, database backups within VK occur every second; accordingly, if any problems are detected, the administration can quickly return the system to a working state. If this site is very slow for you, and VKontakte likes have disappeared, then in no case should you panic, you should take a little break from this resource, because sometimes it happens that the servers cannot withstand the heavy load of users who switch every second on different pages. If the social network actually experiences serious technical failures, in this case the administration will definitely warn its users about this, so don’t worry so much. Moreover, you can find out about such news instantly from various Internet sources, and perhaps even from your loved ones, relatives and friends who use the portal and watch everything that happens on it.
VKontakte has disabled likes on posts. How can I get everything back?
Miscellaneous 08/06/2019 | 0
Today, August 6, 2021, many users of the VKontakte social network experienced a real shock because all of their likes on their posts suddenly disappeared. Since for many people these are an indicator of "coolness", this led to real panic. There were so many complaints about this “problem” that the administration of the social network decided to promptly comment on this state of affairs. As it turned out, this is not some kind of glitch or bug, but a completely planned act aimed at completely getting rid of the like counter under all publications.
Before distributing such an innovation to the entire social network at once, the administration decided to test it on a limited circle of people, so if you have lost likes, you are the “lucky” person who decided to test the innovation. According to the owners of the social network VKontakte, the final decision on whether likes will remain on the social network or not has not yet been made. The innovation is currently being tested, and its future directly depends on how the entire audience reacts to it. If it is perceived positively, they will refuse the likes.
According to Andrei Zakonov, director of growth and research for the social network VKontakte, in recent years the attitude of users towards likes has changed. Not so long ago, they showed the level of communication between the author of a post and his readers, but now this mostly measures the quality of the content, that is, the more likes a post has, the more authoritative it is in the eyes of other users. The likes that will be placed during testing will not disappear anywhere, that is, if such an idea turns out to be a failure, then everything will come back, and users who unwittingly became participants in such an experiment will not suffer from this in any way.
It is difficult to say how Russian residents will perceive such an innovation, but Instagram recently refused to like, which caused a shock reaction from many users. Some people believe that in this way social networks are trying to fight those who, using various services and programs, get likes for themselves, which are not given by real people, but by fake accounts and bots. Whether this is true or not is unknown for sure, but gradually there is a trend in the world in which the number of services using likes as a measure of content quality is decreasing. There is no way to return them back, and all the services that will allow you to do this are a scam.
Earlier it became known that VKontakte launched the Lovina dating service and is giving everyone a premium account.
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Speed
Quick likes on VKontakte can be installed by absolutely all users who have accounts on this social network. In order to make a mark, it will be enough to select a specific entry, it could be a picture, a specific file or even a video. The portal is constantly filled with new materials that may be of interest to you, and even more so, if you are a regular user and spend a lot of time on familiar pages, then you will probably be able to find a lot of relevant materials for yourself and will want to evaluate them.
Adding material
In addition to the fact that materials under which the “I liked” button was clicked are added to the list, there is a second, more standard way to add publications to bookmarks. This is easiest to notice when it comes to “community” posts. You can add material to the “saved” list in the following way:
- Hover over the context menu symbol at the top of the “post”.
- Click on the line “save to bookmarks”.
After this, you can quickly return to the specified material using the corresponding menu item on the site itself.
Displaying bookmarks
In the first image, you can see that the “my bookmarks” line is present in the basic interface. To do the same, you will need to activate it. It should be understood that in the mobile application and on the website activation is carried out separately, but navigation through the materials and the materials themselves are identical.
Note: Despite the fact that liked materials will be added to bookmarks, previously “liked” publications are not discussed.
Site version
Let's start with where the bookmarks in the contact went on the page in the browser. Returning them to their original place will not be difficult. The user will need:
- Go to your page and open the “context menu” by clicking on your own avatar.
- Select "Settings".
- In the “site menu” section, select “Customize the display of menu items.”
- In the list that appears, find and check the box next to the “Bookmarks” item.
The result will be the appearance of the “My Bookmarks” item in the main menu of the site. Now you can quickly move on to the materials you like and continue reading if you previously had to postpone it for some reason.
Mobile app
In the mobile application the implementation is made even simpler. Bookmarks from it were not hidden and were not removed at all. You can find them as a separate item in the account menu.
A distinctive feature of the update was the separation of “bookmarks” and “liked publications”. Now they are in different categories.
Some features
As noted in the “mobile application” section, after the update, the saved links and publications from the bookmarks were separated. The reason for the change was the constant cluttering of the feed with publications that received a similar rating. The PC version of the site did not initially have this function. Instead, there are “Tags” and “Types”.
"Type" indicates how the added material is sorted. If a separate post is added, it appears in the “Posts” category. While the People category allows you to view specific users and their “open updates”.
“Tags” allow you to independently filter materials into convenient categories. Equally important is the ability to create your own tags for further use when sorting materials.
Scale
As we said earlier, various types of problems can occur with the technical side of the social network, but they are minor, specialists are able to fix them very quickly, so “VK” is always available on the Internet and, if desired, each user can visit their account. VKontakte is currently used by a large number of people from around the world, with many new registrations taking place every day. The project successfully repels attacks from critics. For example, many of them claim that VK copies the idea of Facebook, as well as the architecture and design of the site. Some experts call the project a clone of the English-language portal. However, despite this, the resource is one of the most visited.
