A little while ago, Orkut, one of the social network that was famous before Facebook has now announced that the UI has been revamped for some users and is slowly rolling out to others in a short while. Orkut, also claims that the UI is much simpler and cleaner. The social network, which was taken over by Google has been experimenting with new UI elements for the past three years, which is quite a bit of a time that any social network would do to just test it over with the public.
The social network was exposed to a lot of vulnerabilities and spam lately and in the right time, when users started hating it, Facebook pitched in and took the lead. Orkut has now decided that they need to force the users to use the new UI which they had developed and has been testing for the past 3 years and starting today, this transition is bring made.
And now, the new Orkut!
If you use the old version of Orkut, you’ve noticed that some pages look different today. Your interface may be much cleaner and simpler. You may have noticed you have more options for personalization. You also may notice that moving around your profile may be much faster. That’s because starting today and over the next few months, we will begin rolling out the new version of the platform to all Orkut users.
You’ll remember that about 3 years ago, we announced that we were testing a new version of Orkut that would be faster and easier to use. We also gave you the option of choosing whether to stay with the version of Orkut that you were familiar with, or to move on to the adventure of the latest platform. Since then, we’ve continued to experiment and update Orkut based on your feedback so that we could offer the best experience possible. And you responded. Now most of you are using the newest version of Orkut, and over the next few months everyone will be using the new platform.
We realize that for some of you, this will take getting used to. However, we want to be able to offer everyone access to some of the exciting things we’re working on and will be bringing to Orkut in the future, at the same time. We look forward to your feedback! It will help us continue to make Orkut a place where you feel comfortable sharing with your friends and experiencing the best Google has to offer. If you have any questions or comments, find us on our Official Orkut Community! We look forward to hearing from you.
Posted by Hermes de Freitas, Bárbara Veloso, and Natália Duarte, Orkut team
Does this really interest you? And do you think your friends are still using Orkut and would you delete your Facebook account for this social network?
Source: The Orkut Blog