"VKontakte" hides huskies. While this experiment

Social network "VKontakte" began testing a new feature that hides the number of likes for records. It drew attention to the user Michael Plyaskin, who was in the test group. This was confirmed by technical support of social networks.

Andrew Laws, director of growth and research VKontakte, commented on the innovation:

"We test different display social buttons below the posts in the news feed. One of the options - huskies and repost without counters.

Drinking Laika over the years has changed. Previously, they were about the communication between author and reader, but eventually began to perceive them as a measure of the quality of content. As part of the experiment we want to check how changes will affect the involvement of users.

We will monitor the metrics and feedbacks and draw conclusions based on the results. While participating in the testing of a small audience. "

A similar innovation tested and Instagram. However, there are users themselves decide whether to hide the number of likes for their posts. And how do you feel about such changes? Tell us in the comments.