How to return the old VKontakte design on your computer quickly, in 5 seconds? In May, VKontakte changed its design and address from vk.com to m.vk.com, which was an unpleasant surprise for many VK users.
Hi all!
Today I hung out on VKontakte, and as a result of communication it became clear what topics I could write articles on.
Today I had to answer this question twice today, asked in different word forms, but this did not change the meaning).
For example, there was another question.
How to switch to old version In contact with?
First things first.
August 17, 2016 social network VKontakte changed the website address from vk.com to m.vk.com, and also removed the old design, which for many was, to put it mildly, not a very pleasant surprise.
To be more precise, VK began to change the old design to a new one not at once for everyone, but gradually.
For example, I updated the design of my VKontakte page for the first time just a couple of weeks ago.
I’m sitting at my laptop, as always, I have a lot of open tabs, you can chat there, look here, read here... in general, I click on the tab of my VKontakte page, the new version flies out... the first thought then was - what is this then the mobile version, I look at the address, m.vk.com ... the second thought is a phishing site. In general, I poked, I poked, my problem was that I have more than one account in contact, well, they like to freeze contact pages, for no reason, people openly scatter advertisements on the open walls of groups about cheating and selling VK accounts and this normal, here you throw a thematic link and they block you... In general, the meaning is that passwords for accounts are stored in the browser’s memory, and along the way, when I change new design on the old one, VKontakte’s security is triggered, I’m thrown out of the site and I can’t log in).
To sum it all up.
I don't like the new version of Contact.
Hell, it’s a matter of habit or design, but I don’t want this design, I like the old VK on the computer.
Many people say that the new design is eerily similar to the Facebook design.
Okay, I won’t bore you with my everyday life), let’s get down to business.
How to return the old VKontakte designOn this moment- This The best way! There are simply no others. Watch the video and repeat.
In fact, returning the old design is quite easy. I heard that someone has changed it irrevocably, it seems to me that they are lying, they are lying). The control killer at the end, but it just appeared not long ago).
I will show you 2 ways to change the new VKontakte design to the old one.
First way.
Scroll your mouse almost to the very bottom of the VKontakte page, click full version.
You will return the old design of your contact page. 
If this does not help you, move on to the second option.
Second option.
Consists of adding the number "0" to the url
Just write before m.vk.com, add 0, you should get something like this: 0m.vk.com...... then your id. 
I hope everything worked out for you.
If not, follow the link to this site
That's all.
I'm going on vacation, don't bother me for a week).
Good luck to everyone, see you here on July 14;)
A few days ago, the social network Vkontakte turned 10 years old. Of course, in honor of such an event, the developers could not sit still and a couple of months ago they organized a new design for Vkontakte, which, unfortunately, many did not like.
In the month of August 2016, the design of VK was transformed and began to be shown to absolutely everyone, and not just to users who participated in testing. They, in turn, could still click on the treasured “Return to old design” button, but now it’s gone. So what should I do? How to return the old VK design?
For this case, I found several options that will allow you to return the design. I think that such a feature will not work for a long time and sooner or later you will have to switch to a new design.
Attention! After searching the Internet, I discovered various scripts, shortcuts, etc. that supposedly would help switch to the old design. Indeed, this was the case before, but now these methods are already outdated and do not work 100%, so you don’t even have to try. The method I have given below is a little crude, but it allows us to some extent use the old design that we once loved.
Old VK design, how to switch to it?So, one very good developer created a browser plugin that allows you to switch to the old design. To install this extension follow this link.
When you find yourself on the site, click on the link “Install Stylish”, after which you will be asked to install the Stylish extension.
Enable the extension in the browser panel and go to the VKontakte website.
Click on the plugin icon and select “Find other styles for this website” there, you will be redirected to the same site where you need to select the first link “Old VK design”.
You will be redirected to a page where you need to click on the green button “Install With Stylish”. Confirm the installation of the add-on for the extension.
Go to the VK website and click on the extension icon and check the box “Old VK design”. The bottom checkbox “Uncheck all styles.” We update the page and voila, we have the old VK design.
For me, the new design was to my taste, although it was not familiar, for some it was terrible. At the moment, this is the only way to switch to the old design, since no scripts or shortcuts no longer work. The disadvantage of this extension is that it is not yet finalized. You will see many shortcomings, but overall VKontakte will be similar to what it was before. Good luck with your transition.
Two versions of pages: old and newIf you noticed, with the transition to the new design, the address of your page has also changed - the postscript “new” has appeared in it. Now it looks like this: “https://new.vk.com /user_ID”, and before it looked like this: “https://vk.com /user_ID”. Essentially, the address with a postscript opens a duplicate of your profile with a new design. But the old profile has not disappeared anywhere, at least until now. However, if earlier to return it it was enough to remove the postscript from the address bar and refresh the page, now this trick does not work. The option of replacing “new” with “0” (zero) does not help either, although it worked recently. Switch to mobile version VK (https://m .vk.com/user_ID) is also useless - it opens with a new design by default.
But, to our joy, while user pages exist in two versions, the ability to download them of your choice remains. Today there are at least 3 working methods that will help us do this.
Magic linkThis option is perhaps the simplest of all: to open your VK page with the old interface, just click on. You will be taken to the news feed, and from there you can go anywhere.
The method is good, but it has a drawback - the action is limited to one session. If you restart your browser, you will have to click this link again. For convenience, you can add it to your bookmarks.
Magic shortcutThere is another option for implementing the previous method - creating a kind of shortcut, more precisely, a file with the .html extension, which will immediately redirect you “where you should” - to the same news feed with the old design.
To create a shortcut, open Notepad (or a program that replaces it) and copy the following code into it:
document.ReDir.submit();
The Russian “Christmas tree quotes” will have to be changed to regular ones; the script will not work with them.
Now, to open a VKontakte page with the previous design, just double-click on this “shortcut”.
Miraculous scriptThis method will appeal to those who don’t want to bother with links and shortcuts, but prefer to make all the settings once and use them constantly. In order for VK to open with the old design always and on any page, it is enough to install the “Old Design VKontakte” script (author Nikolay Isaev) in the browser.
The script itself is located. But to make it work, you first need to install an extension in your browser to run custom scripts.
- For Opera this extension is called . To install it, go to the page using the link and click “Add to Opera”.
- For Google Chrome- This . To add, follow the link and click “Install”.
- For Mozilla Firefox– . Open it and click “Add to Firefox”.
- For the Yandex browser - or . To install, follow the link and click “Add to Yandex.Browser”.
- For Safari - also. Open the add-on page and click “Download”.
Next, go to the script download page and click “Install”.
After that, we go to our favorite “VKontakte” and rejoice at the return of the previous interface.
Please note: the “Old VKontakte Design” script is updated regularly, so if you encounter problems with displaying elements of site pages, downloading attachments, playback, etc., try reinstalling it. To do this, click on the Tampermonkey (or its analogues) icon in the browser panel and select “Check for script updates” from the menu.
To delete the script (if you decide to switch to a new design), in the same menu, click on the “Panel” item. A table of all installed user scripts will open. Select the one you don’t need and in the “Actions” column, click on the trash can icon.
Or simply remove the extension itself from the browser.
Also on the site:
How to return the old VKontakte design: three working methods updated: August 4, 2016 by Johnny Mnemonic
In April 2016, the social network Vkontakte received a new design and design. In the test version of the new VKontakte design, each user himself could turn on the new version, check it, and if he was not satisfied with it, then switch back to the old version of VK. But let’s consider whether it’s possible to return to the old version of VK now.
How to enable the new version of VKontakte?This can be done this way: open and at the very end of the page click “Join testing” (this may no longer work).
How to enable the old version of VK?You could return the old one back there, at the very bottom of the narrow left column of the site, a pale gray link. It's called "Return to the old version of the site". Now not everyone has it, and soon it will disappear completely.
A new version did it turn on by itself?Since June 9, some VK users (approximately 10 percent) received the new version forcibly, that is, it turned on itself, and they can no longer return to the old one. If this happened to you, then most likely you are one of these users. What to do? You can’t do anything, you can only get used to it, because a person gets used to everything. Try to take this calmly. Some time will pass, and the old version will already seem inconvenient to you. And in any case, the developers of the VK site would not be able to save the old version for you for a long time.
Reportedly, this is the beginning of a mass transfer of all VK users to the new version. Here is the official news about it. Those who did not fall into the mentioned 10% will still be able to switch to the new version and back to the old one for some time, but then everyone will only have the new version.
The new version refers to the full version of the site that people use on computers and tablets. This does not apply to the VK application for phones, which is developed and updated separately (see:).
Not everyone likes the new version of VKontakte. Many people want it back previous version which they find more convenient. Some argue that the new design is too similar to and even . Users even created an online petition demanding that the old version be preserved and given the “right to choose.” Most likely, this will not affect anything. Online petitions are often created for various reasons and thanks to them, information is disseminated very widely. But in reality, the petition has never helped anyone. When the noise subsides, everyone forgets about her.
VKontakte laughed at its users who promised to leave if they did not return the old version. A month after their promise, they still continued to sit on VK (look at them).
It is known that some people always greet any major update with hostility, since changing old habits is too painful for them. But over time they calm down.
Why is it important? When you express your opinion, it will become easier, you will release your negativity. True, 92% of people will not read this, but will immediately look for a hole where they can write. Congratulations if you're reading this! If you really want to contact VKontakte employees and ask them to return the old version, try contacting their support service.
How to log in to the new or old version of VK?You can easily log into any version of VKontakte (depending on which one you have now) through.
According to the developers, work on creating a new design took a year and a half. Of these, public testing lasted 4.5 months. By the way, the opportunity to test the new design was available to everyone starting in April of this year.
The changes affected not only the appearance of the pages, but also the architecture of the site: several thousand errors were corrected, speed and stability were improved. The developers completely abandoned Flash technology, which was no longer supported by major browsers, and completely switched to modern HTML5.
The “Messages” page for exchanging personal messages has changed significantly. If previously the names of the interlocutors were in the block on the right, freeing up space for dialogues, now the list of recent conversations and the current open chat are simultaneously placed on one screen. Switching between conversations and responding to new messages in this mode has become easier and more convenient.
Many users are very pleased with the new design of the social network: according to them, it has become more airy, modern, less cluttered, with new useful options. Others reacted to the innovation with a great deal of irony and even indignation. Already on the morning of August 17, the first calls for writing petitions appeared (for example, on) so that the developers would return everything as it was before:
So is it possible to return the old VKontakte design? Is there some kind of button to make everything the same as before? Unfortunately, no... You'll have to get used to the new appearance favorite social network. The developers only left the ability to switch between the classic and new views for the message interface. You can do this by clicking on the gear icon at the bottom of the screen:
Friends, how do you evaluate the new design of VKontakte? Do you like it or would you also gladly roll back to old version? Share in the comments.