New Opera Forums launched

[mxxl]

mxxl last edited by

Very good!

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

No more dependency on Markdown to do anything more than very basic formatting I hope!

[kikikikina]

kikikikina last edited by

is this is why opera is a mess right now i can't load anything normally and the spead is so slow !! or is it something else cause opera is going crazy on me for fea days right now !! can someone answer !!

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

The forum still uses Markdown, but has buttons for formatting so that you don't have to read the Markdown guide first. Anything that can't be done in markdown (for example, underlining) won't work in the new forum.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

is this is why opera is a mess right now i can't load anything normally and the spead is so slow

This topic is to discuss about the upcoming new forum. Problems with the browser must be discussed in a proper forum and topic.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Besides the previously mentioned formatting tools, there will be a real time preview so you can see how's your post looks.

[emniss]

emniss last edited by

NodeBB

[jmwking]

jmwking last edited by

Can't be worse, right?

This is just a comment engine...

-jk

[amatczak]

amatczak Opera last edited by

NodeBB

Any particular reason to dislike?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

We are basing on an entirely new, modern forums engine (NodeBB) which means: speed, cool new features and active development. We hope you'll like it!

Sounds awesome. Definitely like the sound of "active development".

[emniss]

emniss last edited by

NodeBB

Any particular reason to dislike?

Yes, it's confusing and chaotic by default and it uses ugly webfonts. Hope you got a real good template to resolve this

[amatczak]

amatczak Opera last edited by

Yes, it's confusing and chaotic by default and it uses ugly webfonts. Hope you got a real good template to resolve this

Thanks for sharing your opinion!
We'll be more than happy to hear your (and everyone in the community) comments about our particular take on NodeBB when we launch. We can promise that we will take all feedback seriously and prioritize future development of Forums according to your voices.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

The forum still uses Markdown, but has buttons for formatting so that you don't have to read the Markdown guide first. Anything that can't be done in markdown (for example, underlining) won't work in the new forum.

That's good news!
Having to manually type code into your posts to get quite normal and common formatting options has always seemed to be a nonsense to me.
Very odd that Markdown can't do underlining, I would have thought that was a pretty basic formatting option.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

it's confusing and chaotic by default

Hmm, how? It doesn't look confusing to me. On the contrary.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Confusing parts to me are the multiple levels of subforums (as in Opera for Devices > Android > Opera Mini) and the matter of threading - though that latter applies to email as well. Personally I like replies in chronological order, while others prefer that replies to comments appear near the comment they are in reply to. But personal preference is just that... I haven't looked, but there is probably a setting for that.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Confusing parts to me are the multiple levels of subforums (as in Opera for Devices > Android > Opera Mini)

Interesting, for me it makes the forum looks more organized.

Personally I like replies in chronological order, while others prefer that replies to comments appear near the comment they are in reply to

For me it's enough to have a way to know to what the person is replying to once it's not always exactly obvious.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

The other thing: you can post in a forum even though it has subforums. I could post into Opera for Mobile directly, or into the Android subforum. Kind of like a directory on a disk - it can contain both files (threads) and folders (subforums).

[amatczak]

amatczak Opera last edited by

Actually you could post there only because you're a Moderator which has some implicit privileges

Regular users will be able only to post in specific subforums (with the exception of "Opera for computers" where we will allow to post without going into specific Windows/Linux/Mac subforum).

But the point I want to make is that the new Forums will allow us to continue to adapt to community needs - something were not able to do here - so if a particular solution does not work we might be able to change it.

[rodrigowbs]

rodrigowbs last edited by

nice :3

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

But the point I want to make is that the new Forums will allow us to continue to adapt to community needs - something were not able to do here - so if a particular solution does not work we might be able to change it.

This is an important point.