VK.com integration - the largest European social network

[motomac 293]

Vkontakte (or VK.com) social network is like Russian Facebook. It is number one social network in all Russian speaking countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, e.t.c.). It's ranked 21 in Alexa global top and has over 300 million users. Its active users database is bigger then Instagram or LinkedIn. Almost everybody in Russia has VK account (and doesn't have Facebook account).

@Charles, @Lindy, @Matt, please, consider the possibility to add VK integration into the future IPS releases as one of the default login methods along with Facebook, Twitter and Google. It would be the best Christmas gift for all Russian speaking community.

VK supports oAuth 2.0 authentication and has wonderful documentation: https://vk.com/dev/authentication

Thank you in advance!

[seobot 1]

Yes! It's true, this is a huge social network, and integration is still no ...

[+TVplaneta 28]

We need iT!

[mistudio 4]

Great!

[+Martin1980 108]

I suppose there is a typo in the topic title, it's not the biggest social network of Europe, but Russia.  

[motomac 293]

@Martin1980 may by my information is outdated, but I followed the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_(social_networking). The largest European social network means made in Europe.

[+MADMAN32395 449]

Why not just have someone make the login handler? IPS gave us the tools to play with, why not use their sandbox? (Figurative sandbox)

[xtech 389]

They say in their site they have 1/3 of active users. It means 2/3 are ghost users by now.

" VK is the largest European social network with more than a 100 million active users. "

[xtech 389]

36 minutes ago, MADMAN32395 said:

Why not just have someone make the login handler? IPS gave us the tools to play with, why not use their sandbox? (Figurative sandbox)

Indeed. With lots of great programmers in Russia, nobody takes the chance to make some money?

 

VK says in their 100 million active users. The problem is that they must be very localized (mostly Russia).

" VK is the largest European social network with more than a 100 million active users. "

European here must be russian, because i'm in europe and don't know anyone who actually uses it.

[motomac 293]

@MADMAN32395 there are some solutions, but they all have bugs and sometimes die after new IPS releases. The main disadvantage is that it could block login function for all users registered via VK. My proposal is to make a native high quality VK support.

1 hour ago, xtech said:

European here must be russian

Yes, and also Ukrainians, Belorussians, but anyway the phrase about the largest european social network seems to be correct, because the big part of Russia (and entire Ukraine and Belorussia) is located in Europe, and the city where VK was created is located in Europe too. So there is no any typo in the title.

[+Ilya Hoilik 597]

21 minutes ago, motomac said:

Belorussians

21 minutes ago, motomac said:

Belorussia

No, please, no!  Belarus, not Belorussia  

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[motomac 293]

Oops, sorry! I simply translated it from informal Russian  My mistake.

[MGeek 32]

In mafia, there is a wonderful plugin for VK, 4.1.6 works without problems

[Alexey MMM 0]

+1

[+Kitsum 0]

+1

[motomac 293]

Hey, guys! siv1987 from http://ipbskins.ru/ created a fully working free plugin for VK. You can find it here: http://ipbskins.ru/forum/files/file/303-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7-vk-%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F-ips-4x/

[Frost_Bite 2]

+1 for the official plugin

[+tolik777 41]

+1. We need oficial login method!

[+Ilya Hoilik 597]

19 minutes ago, tolik777 said:

+1. We need oficial login method!

Why? You have at least two good 3rd-party plugins which add VK as a login method.

[+tolik777 41]

14 hours ago, Ilya Hoilik said:

Why? You have at least two good 3rd-party plugins which add VK as a login method.

Потому что одно дело, когда метод авторизации встроен и поддерживается официально, а другое дело когда форум обновляется каждые 2-4 недели и каждый раз надеяться на разработчика что плагин заработает, как-то не айс. Рано или поздно разработчик перестанет поддерживать плагин и тогда искать новый...

Я бы вообще в маркетплейсе ввел бы платные плагины с гарантией поддержки и обновления. Не выполнил разраб обязательств по обновлению и совместимостью с новой версией - будь добр верни часть залоговой суммы.

Edited October 3, 2016 by tolik777

[Joel R 4,686]

On 10/3/2016 at 1:41 AM, tolik777 said:

Потому что одно дело, когда метод авторизации встроен и поддерживается официально, а другое дело когда форум обновляется каждые 2-4 недели и каждый раз надеяться на разработчика что плагин заработает, как-то не айс. Рано или поздно разработчик перестанет поддерживать плагин и тогда искать новый...

Я бы вообще в маркетплейсе ввел бы платные плагины с гарантией поддержки и обновления. Не выполнил разраб обязательств по обновлению и совместимостью с новой версией - будь добр верни часть залоговой суммы.

As much as I think Vkontake is an important regional social network, it pales in comparison to Facebook's global reach.  

VKontatke average daily users: 46.8 Million

http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/russian-social-media-stats-yandex-vkontakte/

Facebook average daily users: 1.13 Billion

https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-dau/

 

It is not the responsibility of IPS to support every regional social network or login method.  

[motomac 293]

On 07.10.2016 at 7:03 AM, Joel R said:

it pales in comparison to Facebook's global reach

But it doesn't pale in comparison with Linkedin whose social login feature is already integrated into the IPS. Or Microsoft. Do you know many people who have and use their Microsoft accounts for social logins?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites#List_of_websites

[+Adriano Faria 11,206]

4 minutes ago, motomac said:

But it doesn't pale in comparison with Linkedin whose social login feature is already integrated into the IPS. Or Microsoft. Do you know many people who have and use their Microsoft accounts for social logins?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites#List_of_websites

That's what people don't understand. Microsoft or Linkedin are global! VK doesn't. Even having 100% of russian people using it.

[motomac 293]

OK, Pinterest is global. Tumblr is global. Steam is global. Samsung is global. Is global still more important than popularity?

[+Adriano Faria 11,206]

6 minutes ago, motomac said:

OK, Pinterest is global. Tumblr is global. Steam is global. Samsung is global. Is global still more important than popularity?

Yes. VK is popular... IN RUSSIA.