✅ Why are subscribers not visible in VKontakte?

Why are subscribers not visible on VK?

For each VKontakte profile, the display of subscribers is configured to open and secret only in conjunction with hiding/opening the profile itself and nothing else. VKontakte is constantly expanding its privacy settings. There are even functions for hiding entire profiles, but it should be noted that it is impossible to hide absolutely all subscribers and friends without hiding the profile completely. If you want to limit access to your page for other people, then simply hide it completely. Subscribers and friends can only be partially hidden, and not in all cases. Let's take a closer look at why subscribers are not visible on VK, and what to do to hide them on purpose.

The first step is to make sure that you actually have subscribers. The fact is that many ordinary VKontakte users simply add all subscribers as friends. There will be many friends, but not a single subscriber. That is, absolutely any friend request is accepted, even from spammers, bots and other strange characters. Due to the characteristics of their profile, bots do not touch someone and do not send advertisements, and completely normal profiles are accepted as friends. In both cases, in order to become a subscriber, your application must not be added as a friend.

To check your current privacy settings, ask a VK profile you know to add you as a subscriber, but do not accept friend requests. If you immediately see one subscriber, then the problem is solved. It’s a different matter when you know for sure that you have a lot of subscribers and they definitely exist, but for some reason they are not displayed.

If the number of subscribers is small, then most likely they deleted (described themselves) manually and added your profile to the blacklist. There may also be other reasons:

Some elements are not displayed on the small screen of a mobile device.
Hacking of a page and deliberate deletion of subscribers by an attacker.
Hidden profile (easily fixed in privacy settings).

Deleted subscribers can always be restored simply by adding them again. The social network Vkontakte does not have the functionality of hiding subscribers. If they are definitely there, but you don’t see them, this is a technical glitch. There are no known recorded cases of VKontakte experiencing such failures. If subscribers are not visible, then they simply disappeared, and more often than not, they were not there at all.

Who are subscribers?

When a person applies as a friend, he automatically subscribes to your updates. When you do not want to accept an offer to be a friend, you have the option to leave the user on your subscription list.

The number of people who are interested in your news affects your page ranking. If you want to promote your personal brand and become a popular person on VK, then the more inhabitants of the social network want to receive information about changes in your profile, the better. Therefore, many people deliberately increase subscribers and other indicators in their personal accounts and groups.

In addition, when the number of people interested in you is more than 100, statistics become available: how many people came to visit, their age, gender, city and country, device type. You can get this information by clicking on the chart icon under your main photo.

If you are not interested in popularity on a social network and page traffic indicators, you can delete friend requests and clear the list of people you are interested in.

How to hide subscribers

At the moment (end of 2021), Vkontakte does not have any other ways to hide subscribers, except for hiding the entire profile. You cannot leave profile information open and hide only subscribers. This decision is dictated by advertising and social considerations, otherwise VKontakte will simply cease to be a social network. Let's look at how to hide VKontakte subscribers along with your profile.

In your profile, click on the “settings” line, in the settings select the “privacy” section.
Scroll down the “privacy” section and select “other” at the very bottom.
Find the line “profile type” and select “closed”. All subscribers will be hidden along with the profile.

The only way to hide friends is to manually select them from the list and press the corresponding button. Separate material will be presented on our website on how to hide VK friends (not subscribers). In the end, you first add those subscribers who need to be hidden as friends and then hide them. You cannot hide more than 30 people in this way. Again, this restriction is made to ensure that VKontakte remains a social network. Subscribe to our updates so you don't miss interesting materials.

Who are subscribers and why hide them?

First, you need to figure out who the subscribers are? These are users of the VKontakte social network who can view news and events of those whose profile they are subscribed to. And subscriptions are pages whose news you can view.

You can get subscriber status like this:

apply for friendship, but do not receive approval;
to be friends before, but to be removed over time;
be friends now.

Now it’s clear who the subscribers are. But why hide them is not always clear. For example, users who subscribe to your page can simply be deleted. After this, they will not be able to view your news and other events. In turn, other users scrolling through your information will not be able to see those who were previously subscribed to you.

If you deleted your subscribers, your data will not be affected. Besides, you can return everything back at any moment.

How to properly remove subscribers from your VKontakte page

At the moment, users of the social network VKontakte have only one way to hide subscribers - blocking or deleting. To perform this operation, you must follow the step-by-step instructions.

Step 1. Go to your VKontakte page. To do this, you need to fill in the login and password fields.

Step 2. On the page, find the “Subscribers” section and enter it by clicking once with the left mouse button.

Step 3. There is an “x” icon above each user avatar. It means blocking this user.

Step 4. Click on the crosses of all the users you want to block. A window will appear asking you to confirm the blocking.

Step 5. After fifteen to twenty minutes, the selected users can be viewed in your blacklist.

Step 6. After that, go to the page settings. To do this, click the “Settings” icon at the top right.

Step 7. In the “Settings” section on the right there is the “Black List” item. It will already display blocked users.

Step 8. To the right of the user’s avatar, click on “Remove from list”. Perform this operation with everyone you want to delete.

Step 9. If you want to return the user back, just click “Return to list” to the right of him.

Do not forget that if you yourself have removed certain users from your friends, they still remain in the list of your subscribers. Therefore, as before, they will be able to see events and receive news from your page.

Methods for deleting a VKontakte group by the creator

Technically, VKontakte users cannot delete communities. Therefore, even if you are the creator of a group, you can destroy your brainchild in only two ways:

Write a letter to the social network support service with a request to delete the community.
Delete all information and users, and then leave the group yourself.

In the second case, the procedure is as follows:

After completing these steps, an empty community will remain inaccessible to anyone, which will be deleted after some time by VKontakte technical support.

If there are a lot of materials in a group, deleting them can take a lot of time. There is a way to perform this operation with one script. To do this, open the group in the browser, right-click on it and select “Inspect Element” in FireFox or “View Code” in Chrome. Next, go to the console and paste the following code:

if (!confirm(“Delete all posts?”)) return;
var deletePostLink = document.body.querySelectorAll("a.ui_actions_menu_item");
for (var i = 0; i
deletePostLink .click();
alert(deletePostLink.length + "posts deleted");

When you try to paste, the browser will display a warning and ask you to enter a phrase, such as “allow pasting,” as confirmation. After inserting the script, press Enter, the “Delete all messages?” window will appear, confirm again.

This is a convenient way to delete posts in bulk, but if there are a lot of them, you may need to run this script several times. There is also a possibility of temporary blocking in VK for such activity, then you will have to wait a couple of hours and then continue deleting.

How to hide friends and subscribers on VKontakte

Hello everyone, dear readers of the AFlife.ru blog! Millions of people visit the social network VKontakte every day. This resource is one of the most popular in Russia and the CIS countries. And almost all users have friends and subscribers. Due to various circumstances, the user may need to hide one or more friends from prying eyes. Today we will tell you how to hide a person on VKontakte.

Why hide friends?

The reasons pushing VK page owners to take such a step can be very different:

the desire to avoid scandals with your significant other when adding former classmates or old friends as friends;
the person holds a high management position or is a public figure, and therefore does not want to “shine” on the Internet;
the position held does not allow the user to have a VK page, and the only way not to get caught is to be a secret friend.

The social network VKontakte provides the ability to hide a certain number of profiles included in the friends list. The service's policy regarding user privacy has changed several times. At the dawn of VK, you could hide absolutely all your friends. Then a restriction was introduced - only up to 15 people were allowed to be hidden. And only later the maximum number of “invisible” friends was raised to 30, and this limit remains to this day.

Step-by-step instruction

You can move one of your users to hidden friends using the step-by-step instructions below. When accessing the network from a computer, the hiding algorithm consists of several stages:

you need to access your profile page through a browser using a secure connection;
find your avatar icon (located in the upper right corner of the VK control bar) and click on it;
Select “Settings” in the drop-down list of functions;
click the “Privacy” button;
a large list of settings will appear on the screen, including the line “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions”, you need to click on it;
in the window that opens with a list of people, you need to select those profiles that should be moved to the hidden section;
Click the “Save changes” button.

After these simple manipulations, the tagged people will no longer appear on the user’s page. This means that other visitors to this profile will not be able to see them.

It is impossible to hide friends from your phone using the mobile version of the application. If you do not have access to a computer, use the social network via a browser on your smartphone. It requires you to follow the same steps. Remember that any changes made to your VKontakte profile must be saved. Otherwise, the actions taken will be of no use.

Why can't you get more subscribers?

The question “The number of subscribers in the VKontakte group does not match that” is asked by many network users and community owners. The answer is quite simple - “dogs”. At one time, VKontakte experienced a massive onslaught of bots and offers. Needless to say, even now many people commit the sin of increasing likes, subscribers, and comments. And they will continue to develop their community in this way in 2021.

It is absolutely forbidden to do this! After all, in this way you are killing your account or community. We have already answered how to properly develop a community in this article. Now let’s delve a little deeper into the question. To do this, consider the life cycle of bots or offers:

They created a bot - They sold it to you - Then they sold it to someone else or hacked it - VKontakte eventually realized that it was a bot - VKontakte blocked the bot - A “dog” appeared in your group

As a result, almost all bots get banned over time, and the number of dogs (if you got more subscribers) will grow rapidly! How to determine the real number of living subscribers in a community?

We go into the community and look at the members section. In this case, we see impressive numbers (this figure reflects absolutely all participants, including dogs). Click on the numbers...
We have a more detailed list. It still displays the total number of all participants. Click on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner.
A search window opens in which only live subscribers are now displayed
With the help of simple calculations in a calculator or mind, we see the number of “dead” accounts in the community
Now we know how many living subscribers there are, how many “dogs” there are. With such a number, we can quite reasonably say that this community was guilty of cheating bots or offers.

If you are interested in discussing the correct and effective attraction of subscribers to your community, leave a request in the form below. Our SISW team will analyze your community and make recommendations for free!

How to hide subscribers

The above method will help you quickly hide your friends from prying eyes. But this algorithm of actions does not apply to subscribers. Let's see if it is possible to hide people who follow your profile and how to do it.

Any user who has been removed as a friend or whose friend request has been rejected becomes a subscriber. Therefore, by viewing and analyzing the list of subscribed accounts, you can find a lot of interesting information about a person’s past connections.

At the moment, there is only one way to hide subscribers - to block them. Once deleted, the subscribed person is automatically blacklisted and no longer appears on the user's page.

Things are much more interesting with subscriptions. The need to hide them arises much more often. After all, if subscribers are deleted or rejected profiles, then subscriptions are a voluntary choice of the user. And he can tell a lot about his interests and preferences, some of which he would like to hide.

People who are not on the user's friends list cannot see the user's full list of subscriptions. They have access only to the “Interesting Pages” section, which displays all profiles and communities with more than 1,000 members. You can hide all groups and publics in which the user is a member through the privacy settings by selecting the required value in the “Who sees the list of my groups” line.

We looked at how a group differs from a public in this article.

Tips: how to ensure security and not lose access to the group

The owner is the creator of the community or one of its administrators to whom the creator has transferred his rights. This is a critical element of your community.

You cannot take the security of the owner’s page lightly; there is a risk of losing access to the group forever. The owner is the same administrator as others, but only from him other administrators cannot take away the rights to the group, and only he can transfer the owner rights to another administrator. In addition, only the owner can carry out some actions to manage the community - for example, transfer the group to public and back.

Take care of the owner's account. Its page should always be linked to a valid phone number. Follow all safety precautions.
Don’t do anything on behalf of the owner’s page that could get you blocked. Do not violate the rules of VK: do not send spam, invitations to the group.
Even if you don't use the owner's page, you should receive all the messages that come in private and be able to respond to them. It is recommended to enable notifications of new messages by email or SMS. The fact is that if one of the other administrators tries to send an application with a request to transfer the owner’s rights to him, then the VK administration will contact the current owner to find out the circumstances of the case. And if they don't receive a response within two weeks, the owner's rights may be transferred to another person.
If the person who is the owner is no longer involved in managing the group, ask them to transfer ownership rights to you. This is done in group management, in the “Participants → Leaders” section.
If the group belongs to an organization, you need to double-check who is assigned as its owner. This should not be an employee who is unable to ensure the security of his account, and especially not a former employee who has already been fired.
Be careful when appointing administrators. These should be people you completely trust. If there are unnecessary people in the administrators, you need to remove them from there. And if a person will only publish materials or act as a moderator, there is no need to make him an administrator; It is enough to grant editor rights.

I support an online store of a local seller of mobile phones, tablets and other wearable electronics. One morning I received a message from one of the store group administrators with approximately the following content:

Hello, do you know who Alexey Kholyshev is? Overnight, he kicked out all of our employees as administrators and turned the store group into a group selling steroids. What should we do?

The full story with all the problems and (spoiler alert) a happy ending is under the cut.

Prologue. What actually happened?

One night, someone logged in under the account of the creator of the store group (nobody knows a person with that name, most likely a fake page), deleted the administrators and changed the theme of the store.
I don’t know for sure who logged in under this account. I just know that this account was the creator of the group and during the sale of the store to new owners, he appointed new administrators and left the group. In the morning, managers and management were in panic. The group that included living active clients of the company was lost. With the thought “you’re a programmer” and professional curiosity, he advised me to write to VKontakte support and describe the situation, and he himself went looking for precedents. As it turns out, there is very little information about the restoration of commercial groups. There are stories about information and entertainment groups everywhere, but not about business communities.

Act 1. Write to support

Since the group was clearly commercial in nature and referred to an existing online store, we described the situation and offered to confirm the rights to manage the store’s website by creating a special page.

Act 2. First response from support

The first answer came the next day, but it did not inspire optimism. The agent's response was something like this:

At the moment, we have blocked the community for changing the topic and want to have a conversation with the creator of the group.

Quite predictable. We are waiting, gentlemen.

Act 3. Instructions for action

After 7 days without replies from the agents, we wrote a message to the ticket asking about the recovery process. After 3 days, an agent (judging by the number, a different one) answered us and sent us a list of necessary documents:

An official request issued on the organization's letterhead. A seal must be present, as well as the signature of an authorized person or general director. The request must reflect the essence of the requirements.
Power of attorney in your name indicating the powers delegated to you (also stamp + signature of the general director + date)
ORGN Certificate
Trademark certificate with attachment (if applicable)
Placing a code (16-digit digital code) on any page of your website (site url). Please provide the link to the page here.

Here we were happy. The documents and link were ready the next business day and sent to technical support.

Act 4. Waiting. A happy ending

Only VK employees know what happened on the VK side. Almost 2 weeks passed between sending the documents and restoring access. As a result, the group was again under the control of our managers and one of them was appointed creator.

Epilogue.

The source of all the problems was the incompetence of SMM managers (if you can even call them that), who did not take away the rights of the group creator.
When changing business owners or reshuffling administrators, check the relevance of the current administrators and the creator of the company community on social networks. In fact, the group was lost for a month, but the next day after the capture it was blocked and only managed to publish 1 entry. The rest of the time it hung blocked in the list of groups for our clients. During this period, we lost 15% of group members (these were real clients). The volume of lost profits is difficult to estimate.

Now everything looks simple and consistent, but in reality it was a lot of stress for the entire company. When working with a small market, it is very important to maintain customer loyalty. This whole story hit the company's image hard.

If your group is no longer needed, has completed its task, or you have lost interest in this topic, the question may arise of how to delete a VKontakte group. This is not difficult to do, but unlike deleting a personal page, deleting a community is a labor-intensive operation.