Unaccustomed to this, many of them greeted the new design with rejection and began to arrange single online demonstrations on their pages demanding the return of the old VK. Even Pavel Durov expressed seven complaints about the redesign.
From our own experience, we note that addiction occurs after two weeks of using the new interface. After that, there was no desire to return to the previous design.
We tell all old-schoolers, neophobes and retro lovers how to turn on the old VK look.
How to return the old design "VK"
1. First, install the Stylish extension in your browser (you can use it to change the design of sites on your side):
- for Chrome and Yandex.Browser
- for Firefox
- for Safari
- for Opera
2. Now go to the old design styles page and click on the green "+Install with Stylish" button.
3. Go to the VKontakte website and see the familiar interface. Yes, the authors of the crutch style have not yet succeeded in recreating a neat copy of the old design, but this is the only working way to return the old VK.
You can switch between designs by checking/unchecking the checkbox in the extension settings.
Attention!
Since the design was updated by 100% of users, now only one way remains from the working ways to regain the old VKontakte design, this Method number 5, so just use it.
As soon as there are more ways to help get the old VK back, I will immediately update the article. In the meantime, be content with what you have, enjoy reading the article!
A beta test of the new VKontakte design has already begun a long time ago, I even wrote several reviews on the new VKontakte design 2016, highlighted all the pros and cons of the new social network style. But today, VKontakte began to massively change the design of all users, and not just those who subscribed to the new style on the VKontakte blog.
I learned this quite by accident, but it happened like this, all beta testers, including me, had a button in the new design " Return to the old VKontakte design“, by clicking on which you could go to the old design. In the old design, there was a button that could bring you back to the new style and set it as the main one. This afternoon, for some reason, I don't remember what, I decided to switch to the old design, pressed the button and I was transferred to the new design style, and the button disappeared.
That's how I found out that VKontakte changed the old design to a new one already 10% of users, at the time of writing the article, it probably already became more.
By the way, at the time of editing the article, the design was already enabled by all 100% of users, that is, VKontakte is completely switching to a new design, and in any way, VKontakte will not return the old design, it remains only to use these scripts and browser extensions!
Many users did not like changing the design to a new one, as I said that changing the design is a rather important step for the VKontakte management, many users cannot work in the new design, relying on what they are already accustomed to the old one, and the new design similar to the failed design of classmates and they want to return the old one. I don't know what they don't like, as for me, the new design is more comfortable and more modern.
A petition has even appeared on the Internet, which collects the signatures of those who want VKontakte to add the opportunity user choice between old and new designs. You can sign the petition here: Social network VKontakte. Possibility to use the old design.
The petition was sent to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and already has 11,660 signatures out of 15,000 needed to send this letter, I think it will soon exceed these 15k signatures and the VKontakte administration will consider introducing a design choice for a social network, but you can only switch to the old vkontakte design using the method that I will describe below, the method is fully working and is not fake.
Once approved, the petition will be delivered to the Mail Group administration.
Personally, I did not sign this petition, because I like the new design that was installed on VKontakte and fully satisfies my needs, like the design of a popular social network.
Way to bring back the old design #5! 
Why did I start the article with the fifth method? It's simple, all the methods listed below stopped working after today's update, so use this method, as it is currently the only way to return the old VKontakte style!
So, in order to return the old VKontakte design in this way, we need the following:
Stylish extension for Google Chrome, for Opera, for Mozila Firefox
Install the extension for your browser, all download links are above.
We go to the site from which we will install the old VKontakte design for ourselves: Old design - style
Everything, now it remains to go to the VKontakte page, click on the Stylish icon in the upper right corner and activate the old VK.
As a result, you will get such a VKontakte style, I wish you good luck! 
How to switch to the old VKontakte design (Method number 1)
Under this method there are 2, more effective ways, read below!
Immediately after the new VKontakte design appeared, a site appeared that posted a link with which you can switch to the old VKontakte design, despite the fact that VKontakte disabled this function.
In order to return, or rather use the old VKontakte design, just follow the link that I wrote below.
<—— Переходим на старый дизайн вк по ней!
Attention!
To switch to the old design, a new link is available, after clicking on which you will not have a new design at all, even if you refresh the page with the new design open. I found this link purely by accident, I don’t know who the author is, but the idea is good. A notification appeared on the open page that you were going to update the page in VK, but even after doing this, the old design will remain in place, it will not go anywhere.
This is what happens after installing this extension, the old design is like a glove and does not disappear anywhere even after rebooting the laptop.
Method number 3 to return the old VKontakte design.
This method is as simple as method number 1, only in this case we will have to create a shortcut on the desktop to quickly switch to the old vkontakte. To do this, we do the following:
So far, there are no browser extensions with which you can return return the old VKontakte design on the computer on a permanent basis, so as not to constantly follow the link. As soon as such an extension appears, I will immediately add it to my blog in order to give you the opportunity to enjoy the old classics.
A way to return the old VKontakte design No. 4
Today I dug up another way to bring back the old design to us, well, like the old one, almost, since it still contains echoes of the new design in Vkontakte 2016.
There is such a wonderful site called userstyles.org, which has a lot of different styles for VKontakte, and so, I rummaged there today and found a redesign of the VKontakte design for the old VK. It looks like this.
As you can see, it reminds us of both the old design and the new one, two in one. But this version is still raw and contains many errors, but if you are so eager to get rid of the innovation of the VKontakte developers, then feel free to turn on this style, and you can do it like this.
Attention, the script is still under development, so it will be updated and improved!
The new design of VK does not turn on, what should I do?
Now, in fact, this question is not relevant, since the new design is connected to 100% of the users of the VKontakte social network, good luck in using it!
If you didn’t sign up for the beta test of the new VKontakte 2016 design back in April and didn’t start receiving the design then, then now, when the design is starting to be connected to everyone in a row, you still haven’t been included, why? It's simple, the VKontakte guide includes a new VK design gradually, a few percent a day. Since immediately enabling the new VKontakte design for such a large number of users is simply unrealistic without any system failures. After all, more than 350 million users are registered on VKontakte, and this is not a small number. For clarity, I will lay out statistics on VKontakte users for you.
And if you are worried that you might not be included, something is wrong with your page that the design is not included, I will reassure you, this is all temporary. Soon your time will come to become a user of the new wall design and, in general, the entire VKontakte site. You just have to wait for the inevitable, because the design change can no longer be stopped, even through the VKontakte petition for a new design.
Although many on the Internet write that it is now impossible to return to the old VKontakte design, you now know that this is not so. And many fumbling users will soon find ways to bypass the new design and return to the old one without any complex manipulations.
And yes, I hope that the VKontakte administration will still consider the petition about choosing designs between the new and the old and still introduce such a function. Since the new design is really so important to some users. But unfortunately not for me. 🙂
I will be happy to comment on this article.
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 August 2016, the VK design changed and began to be shown to absolutely everyone, and not just to users who participated in testing. Those, in turn, could still click on the coveted button "Return to the old design", but now it is gone. And what to 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! Searching for information on the Internet, I found various scripts, shortcuts, and so on, which supposedly will help to switch to the old design. Indeed, it used to be so, but now these methods are already outdated and do not work 100%, so you don’t even have to try. The method I've given below is a little crude, but allows some use of the old design that we once loved.
Old VK design, how to switch to it?
So, one very good developer has created a browser plugin that allows you to switch to the old design. To install this extension, follow this link.
When you are on the site, click on the link "Install Style", then you will be prompted to install the Stylish extension.
Enable the extension on the browser panel and go to the Vkontakte website.
Click on the plugin icon and select the item there "Find more styles for this website", you will be redirected to the same site where you need to select the first link "Old Design VK".
You will be redirected to a page where you need to click on the green button "Install With Style". 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 Design VK". bottom tick "Turn all styles off". We update the page and voila, we have an old VK design.
Conclusion
For me, the new design was to my taste, although it was not familiar, for some it was terrible. At the moment, this way of switching to the old design is the only one, since no scripts and shortcuts work anymore. The disadvantage of this extension is that it has not yet been finalized. You will see many shortcomings, but in general, Vkontakte will be similar to the one that was before. Good luck with your transition.
How to return the old Vkontakte design on a 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.
Hello everyone!
Today I hung out on Vkontakte, as a result of communication, it became clear on what topics you can write articles.
Today 2 had to answer this question, asked in different word forms, but this did not change the meaning).
For example, there was another question.
How to switch to the old version of Vkontakte?
About everything in order.
On August 17, 2016, the social network Vkontakte changed the site 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 immediately for everyone, but gradually.
For example, the design of my Vkontakte page was updated for the first time just a couple of weeks ago.
I’m sitting at my laptop, as always, I have a bunch of open tabs, you can chat there, look here, read here ... in general, I click on the tab of my Vkontakte page, a new version flies out ... the first thought then was - what is it 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 didn’t have 1 account in contact, well, they like contact to freeze pages, there’s nothing to do with it, people openly scatter advertisements about cheating and selling VK accounts on the open walls of groups, and this okay, here you throw a thematic link and they block you ... In general, the meaning is that passwords from accounts are stored in the browser's memory, and along the way, when I change the new design to the old one, VKontakte security works, I'm thrown out of the site and I can't come in).
Summing up a point under everything that has been said.
I don't like the new contact version.
Yes, hell knows, 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 ugly similar to the design of Facebook.
Okay, I won’t load you with my weekdays), let’s get down to business.
How to return the old Vkontakte design
For now, this is 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 had it irrevocably changed, it seems to me they are lying, lying). Control murderous at the end, only not long ago appeared).
I will show you 2 ways to change the new VKontakte design to the old one.
First way.
Scroll with the mouse almost to the very end of the VKontakte page, click the full version.
You will return the old design of your page in contact. 
If this does not help you, go to the second option.
Second option.
Encloses the numbers "0" in addition to the url
Just write before m.vk.com, add 0, you should end up 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 leaving to rest, do not disturb the week).
Good luck to everyone, see you here, July 14;)
A new version (new design, appearance, design) of VKontakte appeared in April 2016. The old one existed for a very long time and is outdated. At first, during the trial period, each user could turn on the new version for himself, and if he didn’t like something, then return to the old one.
How did you turn on the new version of VK?
At first it was like this: the person who wanted to open the news on the VK blog and at the very end of the page clicked "Join Testing"
You could also enable the new version using the link “Use the new version of the site by default” in the left column of the site, at the bottom (if you open VK on a computer, not on a phone).
How did you include the old version?
It was possible to return the old one back in the same place, at the very bottom of the narrow left column of the site, a pale gray link. She was called "Return to the old version of the site." Then she did not stay with everyone, and even later disappeared completely. Read more:
Why did the new version turn on by itself and how to go back?
Since June 9, 2016, a part of VK users (about 10 percent) received the new version forcibly, that is, it turned on itself, and they could no longer return to the old one. You could also be among these users. Nothing can be done about it, one could only get used to it, because a person gets used to everything. The best option is to take the change calmly. Some time will pass, and the old version will already seem uncomfortable to you. And in any case, the developers of the VK site would not be able to support the old version for a long time.
This was the beginning of the 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% could still switch to the new version and back to the old one for some time, but since August 17, VKontakte has completely switched to the new version, She herself turned on for everyone without the possibility of returning to the old one.
Since then, due to numerous requests from users, some changes have been made (they changed the font, left the ability to use dialogs similar to those in the old version, etc.). But in general, there will never be a return to the old version. Most likely it no longer exists.
How to return the old version of dialogs?
Go to "Messages" and find the gear icon at the bottom - . Click on it and choose "Switch to classic interface." After that, you will have dialogs like in the old version. To go back to the new version, just click on the gear and select "Go to the new interface."
Is the new version on the phone too?
The new version is 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 How to download VK to your phone). There is also a mobile version of the VK site, which also exists separately, but it also gradually borrowed many elements from the new “full” version.
How to return the old version of the VK mobile application on the phone?
You can install the old version of the mobile app manually, see here:
The old version may not play music. No one guarantees that older versions of the application will work at all. The VK administration can disable them. For the future, you can turn off automatic updates for yourself, and the application will not be updated.
A better option is to get used to the new version of the application. When something new comes along, there are always people who don't like it. So it was with the new version of the VKontakte site - many promised to leave VK forever, but they are still sitting there perfectly. It's all about habit.
Who doesn't like the new version of VKontakte?
Not everyone likes the new version of VKontakte. Many demand to return the previous version, which they consider more convenient. Someone claims that the new design is too similar to Facebook and even Odnoklassniki. Users even created an online petition demanding that they keep the old version and give them "the right to choose" (this did not affect anything). Online petitions are often created for various reasons and thanks to them the information is disseminated very widely. But in fact, the petition has not helped anyone yet. 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 in VK ().
It is known that some people always meet any big update with hostility, since changing old habits is too painful for them. But over time, they calm down.
Our instructions will help you quickly navigate the new version of VKontakte: Where are the settings, my answers, music, birthdays, output, statistics in the new version of VKontakte ...?
Please write below in the comments what you think about the new version of VKontakte! Your opinion matters.
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 where to write - they don’t care. Congratulations if you are reading this! If you really want to contact the VKontakte staff and ask them to return the old version, try contacting their support team - but we don't think this will affect anything.
What happened to VKontakte music? Why is she paid now?
There have long been rumors that a paid subscription to music will appear in the VK application. At the end of April 2017, VK decided to transfer music listeners to the Boom application, where there is a paid subscription. The application belongs to the partner Mail.ru Group, which includes VKontakte itself. The music section in VK has changed - playlists and advertising have appeared. In the VK application for Android, music caching has disappeared (now you can’t save music and listen to it without the Internet). Why did all this happen? The fact is that if everyone listens to music for free, the musicians will have nothing to eat and they will have to go to another job. Therefore, it could not continue indefinitely. You can express your outrage right here in the comments. Be sure to share this page with your friends!
Here is how representatives of VKontakte answer questions about free music in the application.
