How to return the old design of VKontakte: three working methods

Two versions of pages: old and new

If you notice, with the transition to a new design, the address of your page has also changed - it has a postscript "new". Now it looks like this: https:// new.vk.com/user_ID", and before it looked like this: "https:// vk.com/user_ID". In fact, 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 it was enough to remove the postscript from the address bar and refresh the page to return it, now this trick does not work. The option of replacing “new” with “0” (zero) does not help either, although it worked until recently. Switch to the mobile version of VK (https:// m.vk.com/user_ID) is also useless - it opens with a new design by default.

But, to our joy, while the pages of users exist in two versions, there is also the opportunity to download them of their choice. Today there are at least 3 working ways to help us do this.

magic link

This option is perhaps the easiest 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 on this link again. For convenience, you can bookmark it.

Magic Label

There is another option for implementing the previous method - creating a kind of label, 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:

Russian “Christmas tree quotes” will have to be changed to regular ones, the script does not work with them.

Now, to open the VKontakte page with the old design, just double-click on this "shortcut".

miraculous script

This method will appeal to those who do not want to mess around with links and shortcuts, but prefer to make all the settings once and use them all the time. 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 Nikolai Isaev) in the browser.

The script itself is . But to make it work, you first need to install an extension in the browser to execute user scripts.

• For Opera, this extension is called . To put it, go to the page on the link and click " Add toOpera».

• For Google Chrome, this is . To add, follow the link and click " Install».

• For Mozilla Firefox - . Open and press Add toFirefox».

• 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 "VKontaktik" and rejoice at the return of the previous interface.

Please note: the script "Old Design VKontakte" is regularly updated, so if you encounter problems with displaying elements of the site pages, downloading attachments, playback, and the like, try reinstalling it. To do this, click on the icon of Tampermonkey (or its analogues) on the browser panel and select " Check script updates».

To delete the script (if you decide to switch to a new design), in the same menu, click the item " Panel". A table of all installed userscripts will open. Select the one you don't need and in the column " Actions» click on the trash can icon.

Or just remove the extension itself from the browser.

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How to return the old design of VKontakte: three working methods updated: August 4, 2016 by: Johnny Mnemonic