"VKontakte" hardware failure - Russia's and CIS's largest social network "went down" at home and abroad [Updated]

Emergency recovery work is underway

[News updated at 17:50 22.11.2023]

[News updated at 19:55 22.11.2023]

The largest social network in Russia and the CIS, «VKontakte», is experiencing problems today. In Telegram and other messengers, users say that they cannot log into their accounts. Some users can log in through the browser tab in the desktop version, but access to communities or updating the news feed is not possible.
Such a sick dog-symbol of the social network is displayed when trying to log in from a personal account to your communities
Image source Screenshot of VK page

The Brand Analytics monitoring system shows that reports of problems began to arrive at 15:15 Moscow time.

The vast majority of users complain that they cannot access the site at all
Image source Brand Analytics

The timing of the restoration of the site and application is still unknown.

The problem affected not only Russians. Access with difficulties, judging by the maps, is available to Polish, Belarusian, French and other users of the social network
Image source Brand Analytics

However, it is already known that the problems are related to a failure on the «VKontakte» hardware side. Emergency recovery work has begun and is underway.

Updated: As of 17:50, our editors found a way out of the situation. We found that if you go to the «VKontakte» page through the domain name «https://vk.com/», you can go to your profile. As in your communities. However, when trying to update the news feed, the system still fails.

As of 19:55, the «VKontakte» press service reported on the complete restoration of the social network after the failure. All social network services are now available to users again.

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