How to install a new VKontakte interface. New version of mobile VK - What's new

Dear friends, let's conduct a full review of the new design of the social network VKontakte 2016. So, here we will analyze all the features. We will also try to answer popular questions. It is known that work on the new VKontakte design took more than a year and a half and was presented to us on April 1, 2016.

So, now let’s take a closer look at what new VK offered us. First of all, we note that we have received a design that is unified for all existing Internet devices. For many, it is very important that it opened on screens with a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels.

What exactly has changed?

The improvements have affected almost the entire VKontakte website! So, it became more convenient for us that the background table is much darker, and only elements with information remained white (for example: a wall, a page, an audio recording section, etc.). And the blue bar at the top of the site now occupies the entire width of the screen. So now it has a logo, notifications (bell), music and a user profile button installed.

Finally the fonts have increased

Now, the page itself has become almost full screen. It's good that the dialog window is now split in half. So, now you can see your chats on the left, and the dialogue you selected is open on the right, in detail. It's now easy to respond to a new message or quickly switch between multiple conversations.

At the same time, your unread messages have become more visible; they are marked with a blue dot, which will disappear after reading. And your messages are now tagged with neither last name nor first name, but simply “You”. Interestingly, a green dot on a friend’s avatar indicates that he is online.

Notifications have been significantly improved

Now, they are located under the bell in the blue strip of the site. Here you will find requests to add friends, likes, information about upcoming events, and so on.

It’s great that in communities you can now immediately subscribe to updates so as not to miss important news. A notification bell with a red dot located nearby will remind you of them.

There have also been improvements in the “Audio Recordings” section

So, we now have the opportunity to create our own playlists, right in the process of listening to music, using the “Play Next” function. We will notice it when we hover over the audio recording. And on the right there is a column: my audio recordings, friends’ updates and other tabs.

The news feed has changed globally

As a result, the pictures became larger in size and more visible. In addition, a right column has appeared in which you can select what currently interests you (photos, videos, communities...)

Of course, we notice that the social network VKontakte is very interested in its users: where we go, what we comment on or like. As a result, based on the information collected about us, we can receive a list of communities that would be interesting to us. And then, it displays them first.

It should be noted that the left menu has become very versatile. Now instead of sections, we now see clear icons. And for our convenience, the most frequently used functions are duplicated in the blue bar of the site.

As for viewing our account, it has now become much more comfortable! So - on the left there is motionless user information, and on the right the wall itself scrolls. At any time, the user can view the wall even to the very end, while friends, groups, news will always be at hand...

P.S. I think this information will be useful to you!

P.S.S. The VKontakte 2016 updates can be seen more clearly in this video! I look forward to your feedback!

Popular social network " VKontakte» changed the design. According to the company's operating director Andrey Rogozov, the new appearance of the social network is the result of the fruitful work of specialists that has been carried out over the past year and a half.

The design team pursued the main goal - to make the site look recognizable on all devices. It looks like they managed to achieve this, and now users of the web version can easily find the desired section in the mobile application, and vice versa.

Unnecessary elements have disappeared, additional space has appeared for new functions, and the screen width and fonts have increased, making the interface easier to read. The menu on the left has undergone significant changes - the names of items have been shortened and icons have been added, and the most popular sections " News" And " Messages" are now at the top.

IN " News» Each element is displayed in a new way. News lists, search and comments are located in a separate block on the right. If you do not want to view all the news, click on the section " Interesting first", located directly below this block.

Regarding " Messages", then the designers created it completely from scratch. Now dialogues and the current chat are on the same screen, which has greatly simplified the process of switching between conversations. A blue dot marks unread messages, and a green dot indicates that the user is currently online.

Chapter " Answers"disappeared completely, and find out who put the mark" I like"of your photo, video or other publication, you can go to " Notifications" All requests for adding friends, mentions and names are also displayed here. If you are afraid of missing something new on the page of a person you are interested in or in a community, you can subscribe to notifications. As soon as a new post is made, a corresponding indicator will appear next to the bell icon at the top of the screen.

Good news for those who like to publish and view photos - now the pictures are displayed in a larger format and in a magazine layout (i.e., without spaces between them).

As I understand, this mode is only in the development plan, here is information about the new VK https://new.vk.com/blog/redesign2016

You just need to submit an application and they will send you an invitation, by accepting which you can easily install the updated design on VKontakte.

If you have taken part in testing before, then in the left menu of the site, under all the sub-items, just click the button - use the new version of the site by default.

Unfortunately, those who want to remove the design do not always manage to do this and this is very wrong. I have the old design and the new one on one page, I can put it if I want, but on one page there is already a new one - there’s no way to remove it, alas.

VKontakte is sending out invitations to switch to the new design. Apparently for now you can only change by invitation. At least that's how it is for me. An invitation arrived and I switched to a new view in testing mode.

This mode is still in development mode, but the VK team gave the opportunity to test the sketches of this new VK on April 1st.

You need to submit an application and wait until a message from the VKontakte team arrives on VK.

https://new.vk.com/blog

According to the developers, the site was made easier to read, the fonts and screen width were increased, and unnecessary details were removed, due to which the VKontakte site was more loaded.

At one time, it was possible to follow the link in the notification sent and update to the new version of the Vkontakte website.

Now you can use the new version of VKontakte after writing a message with a request to VKontakte technical support. The service is only being tested and therefore they write to us the following:

It is not yet possible to enable the new VKontakte design yourself. This function is available only to site moderators.

To change your profile interface, you need to write to support.

VKontakte also has a group that notifies you about the latest news regarding the new design.

To change the design in VK to a new one, you need to take part in the testing program for this design.

Participation is available only by invitation.

How to get an invitation to test a new VKontakte design? To do this, you need to either come to the attention of the administration that will send it, or speed things up by submitting an application to participate in testing.

The new design has not yet been fully tested and at the moment there is no global transition to the new VKontakte design. But you can switch to a new design for testing purposes. To do this, you simply submit an application and wait to be notified that a new design may be available to you. To apply follow this link.

Just write to VKontakte support. I wrote to support and they immediately gave me a new design.

Good day.

Not everyone who took/is taking part in testing the new VK design liked this new design of the VKontakte social network.

Put a new design those who have been sent a special invitation to participate in the test can. The administration of the social network itself sends out invitations to participate in testing. If you have been sent such an invitation, you only need to follow the link attached to the message.

You can apply to take part in this test. To do this, follow this link.

As far as I understand, the new design is currently being tested. Only those who take part in testing can install it on their page. We come here, leave a request and soon you will be sent a link by clicking on which you can install a new design.

Judging by the reviews, not all users like this new idea.

At the moment, the new design of the well-known social network VKontakte is still at the testing and finalization stage.

However, now you can try to become one of those who can test the new image of the site and point out possible errors. To do this, you need to contact the site administration with a request to join the test group.

- this is not a joke. Since the transition to such an interface is obviously inevitable for everyone, the question is: how to return the old VKontakte design has only a temporary solution. But because albeit temporarily, but disable the new VKontakte design and it’s still possible to continue working with the usual sane interface, then that’s what we’ll do.

This question is relevant, perhaps, for all VKontakte users who, over 10 years, have become accustomed to the simplicity and convenience of the old design and use its functionality to the fullest. In particular, this applies to those who created and administer communities and groups - the developers of the new VK.com have certainly made their lives difficult with their innovations.

By the way, for this category of VK users I would like to give a practical recommendation: in order not to waste precious time on independent public promotion both on VKontakte and in all other popular social networks, and to fully concentrate on quality content for your community, you should contact the service Soclike. Judging by the numerous positive reviews, this PR team knows their business and will be able to quickly provide your group with the required number quality subscribers.

Let's return to the main question. Let's make a reservation right away - we will talk about browser version social network. Android and iOS applications, alas, will not be considered in this article.

Upd. 08/17/2016. Dear Reader, in order not to waste your precious time, I would like to immediately inform you: “The uprising has been suppressed, Skynet has won.” Well, jokes aside, the inevitable happened: despite all the protest sentiments of VKontakte users, the developers, after several “waves” of transferring users to the new design, decided that enough wasted time: on 08/17/16 ALL users of the social network were transferred to the new design... Accordingly, the addresses are new .vk.com simply does not exist at the moment, and recommendations using its return do not work...

This does not mean that there are now absolutely no ways to return the old VKontakte design: especially for those who do not give up, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the ““ block located below in the text. There you will find a method that will probably be able to extinguish the flame of righteous anger in you.

Well, before this block there will be information that has more historical than practical significance: the chronology of the fight against the disease called “ New design of Vk.com". Getting acquainted with this information will not take you, dear Readers, much time, and probably someone will be interested in knowing “how it all began,” so all previously working methods remain in the article. So let's begin.

For those who have become a “guinea pig” for VKontakte designers involuntarily (i.e., they simply encountered a new interface at a certain moment), there should be a link “Return to the old version...” located at the bottom of the left column with menus and advertising. In truth, the designers clearly tried to make the tool for how to return the old version of VKontakte as inconspicuous as possible: gray letters on a gray background - this is difficult to notice.

Those who voluntarily joined the “ranks of testers” of the new interface (by clicking on the ill-fated “Join testing” button) may not find a link to return to the old version.

And how to disable the new VKontakte design in this case?

Pay attention to the browser address bar:

As you can see, before vk.com “ new" Those. in fact, it is another user profile page. To return the usual vk.com/page_id, and with it to return the old version of VKontakte, we simply “edit” the address: you need to erase “ new." And, of course, press Enter (or the input confirmation key on a touch device).

The result will be like this:

Sound familiar? Probably to the point of pain :) Yes, yes, this is the good old vk.com interface, which everyone has gotten used to over the 10 years of its existence. Well, now it’s a small matter: all that remains is to bookmark this page in the browser, so as not to edit the address every time, and call up this page after logging in to the social network.

It is not yet known when exactly the redesign of VKontakte will “cover” everyone, so there is hope that the old version of vk.com will be able to be used for a long time.

Upd. 06/09/2016. It seems that the “old believers” did not rejoice for long: the VK.com team began a forced transfer to a new design without the possibility of returning to the previous version.

Upd. No. 2 - joyful (not so joyful anymore - has lost its relevance...)

It turns out that there is still a workable method to return the old VKontakte interface even to those who seem to have been left with no options (at least the “prompter” was repeatedly thanked for this method in VK). However, we warn you right away - you will have to perform all actions at your own peril and risk, and there may be a risk. The method of returning the old vk.com design is associated with running scripts, and Netobserver does not guarantee that the body of the script does not contain code capable of stealing user login and password.

Let's consider a really working method, suitable for the Google Chrome browser and its “brothers”, like Yandex.Browser (browsers on the Chromium platform):

So, the method is as follows: find it on Google Playmarket

Install the first plugin in the list:

After installation, the activity of the plugin can be checked by the icon in the upper right corner of the browser:

In the tab that opens, click on the “Install this script” button:

Next, a warning from Tampermonkey will appear stating that only reliable scripts should be run (i.e., it once again warns - you act at your own peril and risk), and the installed script will be displayed:

That's all - the script immediately starts working. All you have to do is go to VKontakte (or refresh the page if you are already there) and make sure for yourself that the good old vk.com is back!

Moreover, the effect will persist both when moving between elements of the VKontakte menu and when logging in again.

This is more convenient than the method that was proposed in the comments to this article (however, I would like to say “Thank you” for this option for solving the question “How to return the old VKontakte design”).

There are also extensions similar to Tampermonkey for other browsers:

• For Ognelis: ;
• for Opera: ;
• at Safari - .

Well, after installing the extension for your browser, return to the step of downloading the user script - and then in order :)

Upd. 3 - for the most persistent.

Dear readers, you have 2 options: accept it and start getting used to the new design (this is difficult, but possible - I say from my own experience), or fight to the end :) The remaining way to fight is to use custom styles. There are several of them currently being developed, and all of them are still very crude. But, as they say, in the absence of fish and...

For enthusiasts who do not give up and are ready to get confused, we have prepared the following recommendations:

1. Using a custom script via Tampermonkey;
2. Using the Stylish browser plugin with style loading(most popular option) .

For those who have already learned to work with Tampermonkey (see description in Upd.2- above in the text), an alternative script is proposed (though very crude), returning some semblance of the old version. There’s probably little point in using it for now, but you can track the changes being made—I’m sure that after a while this custom style will work much better.

https://userstyles.org/styles/userjs/128986/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B9%20%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0 %B7%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%20%D0%92%D0%9A.user.js

The script will need to be edited. Specifically interested in the following lines (from 7 to 10):

// @include http://new.vk.com/*
// @include https://new.vk.com/*
// @include http://*.new.vk.com/*
// @include https://*.new.vk.com/*

You need to remove "new." on lines 7 and 8, ".new" on lines 9 and 10.

It should look like this:

The Stylish plugin is the most popular option for returning the old VKontakte design

In principle, the algorithm of Stylish is similar to the method of Tampermonkey, with the only difference being that Stylish, unlike the latter, works with styles, not scripts.

Attention: Do not run Tampermonkey with Stylish! Although both plugins are designed to do, in principle, the same thing, it is not a fact that using them together will lead to twice the best result (rather, the fact is that it will not :)).

So, if you have already tested the first method and decide to move on to the second, first deactivate the Tampermonkey plugin.

After installing the extension, you need to make sure that it is activated. For Chrome, the picture will be as follows: an icon with the letter “S” will appear in the upper right corner of the browser:

The next step is to download the style from the developer's website: .

On the page that opens, you will need to use the big green button - it’s hard to miss:

Judging by the speed of releases, the author is trying very hard to eliminate all the currently existing shortcomings. Therefore, I recommend that you bookmark this page so that after a few days (weeks) you can download the modified style for Vkontakte, which will no longer be so crude.

In the meantime, let everything be the same for you as the lucky person who left this review:

Dear readers, if you have alternative methods for solving a return to the old VKontakte design, do not hesitate to leave them in the comments! We are also looking forward to feedback from those who have benefited from the above recommendations.

Have a good mood everyone!

Article How to return the old VKontakte design - disable the new version was modified: May 4th, 2017 by Netobserver

The topic of this article is the new design of VKontakte. Changed again, now you can set a horizontal cover in a group. Designing your VK community with such a header is much more interesting. Frankly, no Photoshop knowledge is required here. And you can make a beautiful picture even in PowerPoint, Fotor, Canva, Pixlr Editor without any special skills.

By going to the group, you will notice that in those groups the buttons “Pinned post”, “Information” and “Click menu” have become visible. And before they were hidden. Naturally, all the registration of the groups began immediately.

Uploading a new cover

Now let's figure out how to enable the ability to install a horizontal header. Let's click on the "Manage" button.

Then click on the last one and download the new cover of the VKontakte group. This is where you can understand that the download file can be of any size! But no less than the size 1590x400 px. We create a cover prototype in any editor. Next, we can select and save the area that meets the VK requirements. Here's a tip on where to find a cover image and which editor to use to

What is interesting about the new design of VKontakte?

The main thing: there is more space for information. Now here you can write the name of the group, the purpose of its creation, a call to action, and so on. Such a design will be logically complete and more functional. But you can leave the old design, it’s a matter of everyone’s taste.

When you design a horizontal cover, you will notice that the internal menu now somehow falls out of the general context. I think it would be better to pin the image to go to the menu. And use it to host wiki pages in the group.

At the same time, I would like the developers to add some other option for setting up a beautiful transition to Wiki pages.

I would like to note that since 2016, the developers of the VKontakte social network have been actively trying to set up this network to promote business. Make it more convenient for business or something. From my point of view, this is very good and is in great demand among many Internet entrepreneurs.

But most importantly, in my opinion, they need to carefully consider the “Bans” system so that entrepreneurs can work quietly without interfering with those users who came to have fun on the social network.

How to make a VKontakte group cover online

Use your creativity and choose what you prefer: a horizontal cover or the already familiar VKontakte design. Creating online and installing a new cover is clearly presented step by step in the video below the article.

P.S. I hope this information is useful to you.

P.S.S. Use your creativity and good luck in all your endeavors!