Until recently, the Morrowind Screenshots integration with VK worked like clockwork: posts were published quickly and with virtually no technical glitches. This was one of the most hassle-free integrations in the project—compared to other services where it is present, VK had a relatively straightforward API.

However, the company then suddenly decided to prohibit the use of the wall.post method for posting on walls via the API for almost everyone, except for a select group of large companies. And all they offered in return was RSS, which can be imported into a group at a specified frequency. Even setting aside the fact that this is not a replacement for a full-fledged API, this format works extremely poorly with images: the image in the post turns into a link to the website and is crudely cropped. It’s completely impossible to create a collection of images using this method. And I wouldn’t want every post in the community to look like just a link to the project’s website. In short, this format is completely unsuitable for a photo community, not to mention its other drawbacks.

I still can’t wrap my head around how you can prevent an author from publishing posts via the API in their own community.