New Opera Forums launched
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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".
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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
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Checked out a demo of NodeBB and realized I've already been using it when on https://forum.vivaldi.net.
It's pretty cool in general, but still haven't gotten used to a reply showing in two places (nested under the comment you're replying to and then as a regular comment in comment order).
Also, we've had to turn off pagination in settings because of this bug:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/18916/when-pagination-is-checked-in-settings-stuck-in-the-first-page-of-this-forum/5
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/15821/possible-bug-in-forum-software-scroll-to-top-of-next-pageNot sure if it's something specific with NodeBB or just something the forum devs messed up though. It's kind of nice with pagination turned off anyway as posts lazy load.
Also, links in notification emails just take you to the post and not the specific comment.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/13478/forum-email-notifications-link-doesn-t-point-to-replyIt used to work though, so I'm thinking that might not be on NodeBB's end. Hopefully. It's something I'll be testing right away.
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amatczak Opera last edited by
Also, links in notification emails just take you to the post and not the specific comment.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/13478/forum-email-notifications-link-doesn-t-point-to-reply
It used to work though, so I'm thinking that might not be on NodeBB's end. Hopefully.A quick scan of a notification email I got from our beta version of Opera Forums indeed confirm that the link points just to the discussion (reads "Click here to read the full topic") not the comment. Shame.
...but. When I click the link the Forums offers me a "click here to jump to last read post" popup. So it's kinda okay.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
A quick scan of a notification email I got from our beta version of Opera Forums indeed confirm that the link points just to the discussion (reads "Click here to read the full topic") not the comment. Shame.
Thanks for the heads up.
