New forum up and running!

A Former User

@<a href=https://forums.opera.com/user/haavard "title = haavard"</a>

<a href = https://vivaldi.net/forum/index "title = Vivaldi.net"</a> also uses an existing solution, but it doesn't look like a POS, and has quick links, quoting, bbCode, and all the other stuff people need.

People have to acquire a whole new skill set even to format a post here.

A Former User

Markup or markdown sucks.

That seals it fore me. I haven't got time to learn new skills just to find my way through a morasse of spam in order to help users get to grips with Opera — whether that's the new version or the old one.

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@davehawley
You got a knack, it's a great responsibility you know. Anyway, that's not the "shine" you're looking for.

Deleted User

Deleted User

Love the new forum, Opera Team. I understand it's still a work in progress. Spam reporting has got to be a priority. We'll help all we can if we have the tools.

cryoburner

cryoburner

@pesala

Why throw away all that hard work and start over again? Don't you guys have enough to do with rewriting Opera?
We're using an existing forum solution, and I'm guessing it's much easier to maintain than the old My Opera forum.

They're also not rewriting Opera, just reskinning Chromium. They have much more time for wine tasting and polo matches this way.

A Former User

@cryoburner

They're also not rewriting Opera, just reskinning Chromium.
That is not true. We made a new user interface on top of Chromium and did not just use Chromiums interface.

rainspa

rainspa

Well, what can one say? Loathe as I am to waste time with negative posts I'm pushed to think of anything positive, comparing this to the old system. It seems such waste to have lost the wealth of information we used to have and the way we could comfortably access it. I suspect my daily browse through the forums might die a death. Then, perhaps, for Presto users like myself that may be by design. Change is inevitable but Opera has gone through a total reinvention, I wonder how many users it can take with it.

A Former User

Also - the ui is not significantly different than original #facepalm...
Nope, it's quite different. Quite noticeably in Win8, and not only in the surface but also in the code.

A Former User

@joshl

I couldn't see any "new posts" or "first new post" buttons - either with threads or boards.
In the discussion view new threads / topics with unread posts are highlighted with a gray background.
Clicking in the thread titles themselves will act as "First new post".

@woj-tek

I'm using win8 - counting making corners square as opposed to slightly rounded ones is not quite noticeably....
Yeah that's the only difference. :rolleyes:

dezzo77

dezzo77

It is alarming that the Opera team chose to discard previous topics regarding issues and problems, feedback etc. for Opera Mobile when migrating to the new forums.

Tons of messages with wishlists, pleases for fixing of longstanding bugs, etc. have all been removed and are no longer present.

These old postings contained valuable information with regards to what users wanted most and which things they were most desperate to see fixed. Given that many bugs that cause serious annoyance on a regular basis to users never get fixed, combined with the removal of all related postings on those subjects, it would seem that the Opera team still has not learned how to care what the users really want and need - something I have long seen as an ongoing problem. I see the culture has not changed. What a shame.

Deleted User

Deleted User

Unfortunately the former forum was filled with SPAM and useless (and bandwidth wasting) whining and complaining. So, Opera gutted it and I say: good for them. Let's hope the whining is now over and that we can get down to giving support for the new browser instead of having to see thread after thread having nothing whatsoever to do with getting support for it.

A Former User

It is alarming that the Opera team chose to discard previous topics regarding issues and problems, feedback etc. for Opera Mobile when migrating to the new forums.
Tons of messages with wishlists, pleases for fixing of longstanding bugs, etc. have all been removed and are no longer present.
These old postings contained valuable information with regards to what users wanted most and which things they were most desperate to see fixed. Given that many bugs that cause serious annoyance on a regular basis to users never get fixed, combined with the removal of all related postings on those subjects, it would seem that the Opera team still has not learned how to care what the users really want and need - something I have long seen as an ongoing problem. I see the culture has not changed. What a shame.
What would be useful about these posts? If they were confirmed bugs or popular requests then they already have read it and noted elsewhere. The correct place to report bugs is in the bug report wizard, not in the forums.

dezzo77

dezzo77

It is alarming that the Opera team chose to discard previous topics regarding issues and problems, feedback etc. for Opera Mobile when migrating to the new forums.
Tons of messages with wishlists, pleases for fixing of longstanding bugs, etc. have all been removed and are no longer present.
These old postings contained valuable information with regards to what users wanted most and which things they were most desperate to see fixed. Given that many bugs that cause serious annoyance on a regular basis to users never get fixed, combined with the removal of all related postings on those subjects, it would seem that the Opera team still has not learned how to care what the users really want and need - something I have long seen as an ongoing problem. I see the culture has not changed. What a shame.
What would be useful about these posts? If they were confirmed bugs or popular requests then they already have read it and noted elsewhere. The correct place to report bugs is in the bug report wizard, not in the forums.

They were useful because it allowed people to add their voices to the bugs which were affecting them. Given that sending bug reports doesn't seem to get them fixed month after month after month, having an ongoing thread where people could add their name to the pile of those wanting it fixed might have gotten the point across that it was indeed something Opera should get taken care of. Unfortunately there are some negative users on the forums who seem to respond to every topic and have something to say about any type of complaint against Opera, so I wouldn't expect any longstanding issues to be fixed anytime soon if that's the sort of attitude that prevails here. What a shame, because Opera is already a wonderful Android browser. I can only imagine how awesome it would be if some of the reported bugs were taken more seriously.

This will be my last comment on this subject, since it's clearly still a waste of time to hope for glaring issues to actually get fixed.

To anyone reading this who notices bugs or usability issues in Opera: SEND well written BUG REPORTS to the Oopera team.

A Former User

They were useful because it allowed people to add their voices to the bugs which were affecting them. Given that sending bug reports doesn't seem to get them fixed month after month after month, having an ongoing thread where people could add their name to the pile of those wanting it fixed might have gotten the point across that it was indeed something Opera should get taken care of.
And we are still free to do it, you can add your comment to an existing thread or start a new one if you want.

Unfortunately there are some negative users on the forums who seem to respond to every topic and have something to say about any type of complaint against Opera, so I wouldn't expect any longstanding issues to be fixed anytime soon if that's the sort of attitude that prevails here.
LOL do you think that affects anything? A bug report is a bug report regardless.
And there's no need to drop a hint at me, as it makes no sense, because I myself have also commented about various bugs and annoyances in the past that are still not fixed.

Threads regarding Opera 16 were imported. I doubt bugs from Opera 14 or 15 are still relevant, they were either already fixed or of low priority for everybody. If there are still bugs don't worry, people (including myself) will comment about them again and again.

Deleted User

Deleted User

So as mentioned earlier the old forums were closed down because of spammers. In that respect these new forums are far far worse. I will keep looking at them, but in their current state with so much spam, the difficulty in finding relevant posts among the wood, and not being able to 'mark all as read' they are virtually unusable.

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@davews
Spammers are the smallest problem for Opera Welcoming Committee in this forum and so it was for older one. Besides, if you will keep looking at them then them may looking at you. The idiom "be that as it may" as a rule has a general purpose in any forum.

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@tempatwisatamurahdibandung missed some letters. There shouldn't be a limit for usernames? 10 it's a max for a 240px width display, enough to be narrowed with posting hour.

A Former User

So as mentioned earlier the old forums were closed down because of spammers.
No, as I explained, spam is one of the reasons I personally don't think closing My Opera as a whole was a good idea. The forum spam on My Opera was quite insignificant compared to the blog spam.

If you compare My Opera as a whole to the new blogs and forums, the spam problem has nearly vanished.

vikingen

vikingen

And I can't edit my post...

I wanted to add, I don't get any formatting tools when I compose posts. I'm not sure if it's because here are no tools, or if Opera 12.16 is incompatible with the Opera forum...