How to post a story on VK from a computer. A selection of interesting ideas for VK Stories

Users of the VKontakte mobile application have noticed a new type of news - Stories.

In Stories, you can share instant photos and videos with friends and followers without adding them to your wall.

Photos and videos from stories are stored for 24 hours in a separate storage on the device, and then disappear automatically. But you have the opportunity to save them in your smartphone’s memory.

From VK news, your story will disappear 24 hours from the moment of publication. If you have not saved it on your device, then the photos and videos from the history will be lost forever.

But this is the essence of the new function of VK - to share some moment from life with friends.

To create a story, you need to enter a special section and use photo, video and graphic editors there.

You can add masks, stickers, text and graphics to your stories.

Stories can be sent in a separate message to the user. When viewing your own story in the public domain, you will see a view counter and be able to see how many people have viewed it.

A history cannot be created from a desktop computer or laptop; this option is only available for mobile devices with the updated version of the VKontakte application downloaded.

How to create a VK history. Step by step instructions

Step #1

Log in to your VK profile.

Step #2

We go to the “News” section and at the top we see the “Stories” button. We click on it. If there is no button, this means that you do not have the latest version of VKontakte. Update the app and the button will appear.

Step #3

We get to the photo editor, where you can take a snapshot in normal mode or with the front camera. At the top, follow the arrow to switch to story publishing mode.

At the bottom left is a transition to the story repository. It contains all the latest stories for 24 hours:

Step #4

You can add text to photos, graphics or stickers.

Click on the buttons located at the bottom of the screen. Please note the download button at the top right, here you can download photos from the story.

To record a video, you need to hold the center button. Button with two circular arrows – switch to the front camera. The gear means story settings. Here you can set the engine to save stories and other settings as desired.

Step #5

After processing the photo or video, you need to click on the arrow further at the top right and the story is ready for publication.

Send it to your friends or publish it in the news.

Step #6

After a day, your story will disappear from the news and you will be able to create new interesting stories.

Write in the comments how you like the new VKontakte feature, do you often publish stories?

Don't forget to share the instructions with your friends on social networks.

The entire VKontakte service is aimed at making the use of social networks by each user as convenient and interesting as possible.

What is history?

Following Instagram and Facebook, stories appeared on the social network Vkontakte. This is a new and unique way to tell friends about your life, using any photographic materials and short videos (no more than 12 seconds). On top of each of the materials you can insert text, stickers and emoticons. It is also possible to change its appearance using a graphic editor.

Stories are displayed at the top of the news feed as a circle with the user's avatar and a blue outline. After full viewing, the blue outline will disappear.

You can add several entries to your history per day. Each user who viewed the story can add a comment. You can review it an unlimited number of times.

This feature is currently available only on Android, IOS and Windows Phone platforms. On computers, only viewing is available.

Making a story

To add, you need to open the news feed in the VKontakte application and find the icon for adding at the very top left of the stories available for viewing - a white camera with a plus sign on a blue background. A menu will appear to create new photos or videos that the user would like to add. After creation, it is possible to edit and add decorative elements.

Of course, the user can post any materials on his wall, which is an unchanging and mandatory attribute of many social networks. However, stories allow you to tell all your friends about what is happening to a person at the moment, and not return to this news.

In the same way, you can add a second and subsequent stories. At the same time, several stories will be available to subscribers.

Update: Since December 2017, VKontakte allows you to publish subscribers’ responses to stories.

There are privacy settings that can be used to limit who can post responses.

In the last days of 2016, the head of mobile products of the VKontakte social network, Mikhail Blodov, introduced a new feature of the VK mobile application called “Stories”. This function made it possible to share created photos and videos with friends, and after 24 hours, the specified content was automatically deleted from the user’s news feed. At the same time, creating “stories” is possible only within the VK mobile application; the stationary version of VK does not have such functionality. How to bypass this restriction? In this material I will tell you how to post your story on VKontakte from a computer, and what tools will help us with this.

The ability to post content limited to a specific time frame is not new. The creators of VK directly borrowed this idea from the popular social network Instagram, which, in turn, copied this concept from the famous American messenger Snapchat.

As I mentioned above, this function is implemented only within the Vkontakte mobile application for Android and iOS. Videos posted using “Stories” should be no more than 12 seconds long, photos and videos are automatically deleted after 24 hours, and “Stories” capabilities also allow you to display the number of views of your story and identify the viewers themselves. You can view stories in the “News” section of your VK account.

Creating your own story is also quite simple. Open the VK mobile application, go to the “News” section, click on the “My Story” button at the top and, by clicking on the round button (photo) or holding it (video), create the content you need. Also if you want you need to visit the corresponding article.

How to add history to VK from PC

Users of desktop computers would also like to use this toolkit, but the functionality of the desktop version of VK does not involve adding user stories. How can I get around this limitation? Let's take a look.

Use an Android OS emulator

The most effective and efficient way to publish a story in VK on a computer is to use an Android OS emulator, with which you can run most mobile programs on a PC. Popular emulators now include Bluestacks 2 and Nox App Player, which have demonstrated good emulation quality for Android mobile applications.

The Bluestacks 2 emulator will allow you to run the mobile version of the VKontakte application on your computer

You will need to do the following:

This method is the most effective in creating history in VK from your computer.

"VK Utils" and adding developer code

Until recently, there were also other ways to create a story in VK. In particular, the capabilities of the special utility “VK Utils” made it possible to add history to VK directly from the user’s computer (for which it was necessary to click on the “Load history” button in the program menu). VK developers quickly learned about this “gap” in their code and covered this opportunity (now the “VK Utils” functionality is useless in this regard).

The functionality of the VK Utils program is now useless

Another popular option to add a story to VK from a computer was to insert the code:

return API.stories.getPhotoUploadServer(("add_to_news":1));

in a special field for VK developers (go to

Many network users are interested in learning how to make a story on VKontakte. This function appeared on the VKontakte social network quite recently. However, Instagram users are already familiar with this function. Although there are differences.

VKontakte Stories are a new way to share moments from your life with friends and subscribers. However, photos and videos from stories do not appear on the page. They are displayed in a special block in the news feed. Stories are viewable only within 24 hours. After that they disappear.

How to make a VKontakte history online.

At the moment, creating VKontakte stories is only available through a mobile application on Android and iOS. It is impossible to make a story from a computer on an official website or application. To publish a story, you must do the following.

1. Log in to your account through the mobile application. Go to your news feed and click on the history icon at the top of the window.
2. Take a new photo or select a photo from the gallery for the last 24 hours. To take a photo, tap the round button at the bottom. To record video, press and hold the button while recording.
3. Now you can start history editing. VKontakte, unlike Instagram, does not yet have photo filters. But you can add text and drawing. To do this, simply tap the appropriate icon and use your imagination. If desired, the text can be reduced or enlarged. And also change the size of the marker when drawing. To cancel a drawing action, tap the arrow in the top right corner of the story.
4. Add VKontakte stickers.
5. After finishing editing, tap the arrow in the lower right corner.
6. Then click "Submit".
7. Now you can see your story in the top block of the news feed.
   

If necessary, you can hide your VKontakte history from certain users. The network also provides the opportunity to save VKontakte history. And if, after creating it, you decide to delete the history before it disappears, you can delete the VKontakte history. Thus, such a function as making a VKontakte story is an addition to communicating with your friends and subscribers.

Hello friends! Social networks do not stand still, but are constantly improving, offering their users more and more new and interesting functions. And VKontakte is no exception. In December 2016, the developers added the ability to create a History to VKontakte.

This feature could already be appreciated by those who are registered on Facebook or Instagram. Now contact users also have this opportunity. In this article, let’s touch on this topic in more detail.

What does it mean

A story is a photo or video that users add to their VKontakte profile. It will be displayed to all your friends in the News for 24 hours. After this time, it will be automatically deleted.

You can add photos and videos to it (there is a limit of 15 seconds) from the “Gallery” of the device. Or you can go to the Story creation window and take a snapshot. It will not be saved automatically on your device, but this setting can be easily changed in Settings.

You can view your friends’ Stories on your page by going to the “News” section. They are displayed at the very top.

They are also shown in the user profile. If a person created a similar thing, then by going to his page, in the “Photos” block, at the very beginning, you can see a square image on which “History” will be written.

How to create a Story

Now let's learn how to make our own. For these purposes, you can use a phone or tablet with the VKontakte application installed.

1. Open the application and go to the “News” section on your page. At the top left you will see a button in the form of a camera - click on it.

1. After this, the image from the camera and the following buttons will be displayed on the screen of your phone or tablet:

pointer to the right – return to profile (exit);

lightning icon – turn the flash on or off;

gear – settings;

two circular arrows – camera change;

a large button at the bottom center - take a photo or start recording a video;

at the very bottom you can switch between different modes - “Live”, “History”, “Video story” (duration up to 15 seconds), “Ping-pong”;

miniature image of a photo – opens the “Gallery” of the device.

1. Clicking on the gear will open the Settings window.

Here you can make sure that all the Stories that you add to VKontakte are saved on your phone or tablet. If the switch is in the left position, then all photos and videos on the device will not be saved, and when it is deleted from the VKontakte page, you will no longer be able to view the pictures.

Just below, in the “General” section, you can save the broadcast for 24 hours, publish it on the wall and enable animated stickers.

1. I took a photo and pressed the big button in the center. Then the following buttons appeared on the screen:

cross – close;

buttons at the top right - photo editing. You can add text, sticker and more;

arrow at the bottom right - instant publication;

arrow in the circle in the middle – selection of recipients.

I click on the arrow in the middle to select the desired users.

1. Check the box so that the Story is published on your profile and is available for 24 hours. If necessary, tag your friends to whom it will be sent as a private message. Then click "Submit".

1. The selected photo or video will be added to the History on your page. It will appear in the “News” and in the “Photos” block.

How to add a photo to History

If you created a Story using the method described above, and now want to post not one, but several photos or videos, then do the following.

1. Click on the “Camera” button again, which is displayed in the News. Or you can click on the round button with a plus sign.

1. Take a photo or record a video. We figured out the photo in the first point, now I’ll tell you about the video. Select the desired section below - “Video story”. Next, press the button in the center and start shooting.

1. If you complete it in less than 15 seconds, press the button again to stop recording. You can use the time to the maximum and after 15 seconds the recording will end automatically.

1. Next, a window like this will appear. It will play the recording you made.

At the top right there is a picture of a speaker. If it is like in the screenshot, then the video will be added with sound, and if you click on it, it will be crossed out and the video will be added without sound. There are also buttons for editing at the top.

Below are the usual buttons for saving and publishing. We examined them in the previous paragraph.

1. If desired, tag a friend to whom you want to send the video you took as a personal message, and click the “Send” button.

1. Now in News, click on your Story.

1. At the top, the bar will be divided into parts: how many photos or videos were added - so many parts there will be.

At the bottom left there is an image of an eye - this is the number of views by other people.

This way, you can add more photos or videos to your Story throughout the day. Add 5 photos - the strip at the top will be divided into 5 parts. In general, as much as you add, the strip at the top will be divided by that amount.

How to delete VKontakte History

1. Click on your Story.

1. You need to delete photos and videos separately. That is, you won’t be able to delete the entire History at once.

I have 2 added entries: the first is a photo, the second is a video. I'll delete the video. To do this, you need to wait until it starts playing on the screen. Then click on the three vertical dots in the lower right corner.

1. In the window that appears, select “Delete history.”

1. After this, there will be one less bar at the top. I had two of them, now she has one.

I'll delete the last photo too. Click on the three dots at the bottom right.

That is, in order to delete a VKontakte History you have made, you need to separately delete all photos and videos from it.

How to view a friend's Story

If you want to see the Stories of your friends, then open the VKontakte news section.

When at least one friend adds this feature, it will appear in the block at the top of “Friend Stories”. Click on it to watch.

By the way, you can view the Stories of friends or other users not only from your phone or tablet, but also from your computer or laptop.

It is also displayed on the user’s main page in the block with photos.

If you are interested in seeing your VKontakte History, then while on your page, open the “News” section. In the “Friends Stories” block it will be signed “You”.

History in VK from a computer

If you want to be able to create a VKontakte History, or add a photo to it, from a computer or laptop, then you need to install a special program called BlueStacks.

BlueStacks is an Android emulator. After installing the program, you can use it to download the VKontakte application to your computer. Then create Stories as described in the previous paragraphs. You will also be able to add or remove a photo from History.

You can read more about where to download and how to install BlueStacks in the article:.

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