6 features "VKontakte", which you might not know

1. Sticking to write interactive mention users and communities

Typing text for a new post or comment, you can reference it in the pages of the communities or users. For this purpose there mention - special links that are displayed as text instead of unreadable URL-addresses. And when you hover over a link pops up a preview of the information on the landing page. Moreover, the user, are mentioned, it receives instant notification.

Most often mentioned are used for the right people have not missed those records. For example, a public congratulation. Or just for a beautiful text design with references to members and the community.

How to insert a reference to

1. Go to the editor of a new post or comment.
2. Enter @ and immediately, without a space, insert all characters that are after the fragment https://vk.com/ in the landing page URL. For example, a reference to the profile address Paul Durova https://vk.com/durov the editor will look like this: @durov.
3. Click on the right person or the community from the drop list.
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4. You can edit the person's name or the name of the community, which will be displayed in parentheses, if desired.
5. Reference is now ready, you can publish the recording.

2. Set Old as new

Sometimes you want to return to one of the old photos of the place of the main, and some people are downloading it needs to re-image. As a result, the albums are duplicates, and all your favorite huskies and comments have to work from scratch. But to re-use the old photo as your profile picture, you can take it directly from an album without downloading again. Just know this is not all.

To re-do the old main photo, open it in the album. Then move the cursor to the "More" in the lower right corner of the image viewer, and the dropped menu, click on "Set as profile photo". Adjust the field of view and save the result. Done.

3. Exclude repost from news feed

Surely you at least once visited the desire never to see quotes, jokes and other "valuable" content community who actively share your friends. Fortunately, "VKontakte" allows you to remove all of the latest news, repost. After this news can only unique content that publish your friends and community.

Remove repost from the tape very easily. To do this, open the section with news and navigation right from the content block, click the funnel icon. Then, in the window that appears, uncheck the "Show up" and save the changes. Done now tape should become cleaner. But it is worth noting that the mobile client will repost.

4. Filter news by using lists

If you subscribe to a large number of sources, keep track of all publications can be difficult. In this case, you will be useful news lists. With their help, you can combine the selected community and friends to receive their publications in separate tabs. Thus it is possible to group the news by category, each of which will isolated news flow dedicated to your topic.

To create a list of sources, go to the "News" section and click on the plus in the upper right corner of the navigation unit. In the menu that appears click on the "Add a tab". In the next window you can select the desired community and / or friends and ask the name of the list. New tabs appear in the navigation unit, which between them can be easily switched. Customized site lists will be available in the mobile client.

5. Receive news from people and communities, not subscribing to them

Perhaps there are people or community from which you want to receive updates behind the scenes. That is so that friends do not notice these sources among your teams and in the block "Interesting pages". Or not to be enrolled in a community or human subscriptions that cause you concern. That can be arranged with the help of the above lists.

To receive news from relevant sources, the first still is necessary to subscribe. But only for a moment. Subscribe to the desired page, then turn them in a separate list as described in the preceding paragraph. After that, by addition of a source can safely unsubscribe. Their news will be displayed in a special tab of the news section.

6. Delete sent files from a dialogue

"VKontakte" not remove from another dialogue sent messages. But you can do it with attached materials: photos, videos and even audio recordings. What for? For example, to prevent accidental viewing of images sent. Or to clean the intimate correspondence with a former partner. Of course, the removal of material would make sense only if they did not have time to review or, in the latter case, to copy.

Sent to destroy a picture or a video, open the material is sufficiently correspondence and click on "Delete." The files that are inserted from your section with audio recordings can be removed only in this section. And these are the materials that are attached via a global search, to withdraw from the dialogue is no longer possible.

In addition, according to official information, you can delete files that are inserted in the section of documents, but only if you get rid of them in the primary source. Moreover, people are warned that the disappearance of the files may take some time. I waited a day - deleted from section material remains in the dialogue documents. So this information is likely to be outdated.

Even more non-obvious opportunities "VKontakte" look at our previous article.