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    • khadgar
      khadgar last edited by

      @zisele: It's the lounge. Go ahead. 🙂

      Hey, everyone. I'm sure some of the old My Opera people might remember me from well over a decade ago long before I started working for Opera. I hadn't posted in the forums in a while. There's a lot of work left on the forums to do, so stay tuned. Things are indeed a bit simple and bareboned, but we're working to improve things. I would personally like to see smilies back. I'll see what I can do, but I can't make any promises, of course.

      @pesala: Like I said it's been a while since I posted on the My Opera forums. You said that the limit was 30 seconds between posts. Do you remember what the waiting time period was? Was it 10 minutes long or just like a minute or something like that?

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      • frenzie
        frenzie last edited by

        @khadgar
        Thirty seconds, period. Additional time would be adding insult to injury.

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        • khadgar
          khadgar last edited by

          @frenzie Okay. Thanks. I'll get it looked into. It's likely just set to whatever the default is.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            @khadgar and @frenzie

            IIRC there was a stricter limit for new users. Once you had racked up a number of posts (perhaps 20?) then you could post every 30 seconds without limit.

            They tried several different settings on the Spam filter.

            What I cannot understand is, after spending 10 years designing and refining the code for the My Opera forums, why do you need to throw it all away and start again? It's a pointless duplication of effort, and only frustrates your users no end.

            We recently had this issue on the Serif forums. The had (and still have) a well-established and vibrant support forum

            http://forums.serif.com/showthread.php?t=138635

            They decided they needed something better, so they spent loads of time creating Community Plus:

            https://community.serif.com/forum

            I think that you will agree that it's a whole lot better than these new Opera Forums (though it still has some issues), but it is still in Beta, and the old forums are still open. When they get it properly fixed, and the old forums have outlived their usefulness, then they may archive the old forums, closing them to new members, but leaving the threads available because they contain a ton of useful information about older product versions, and general knowledge that applies to any version.

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            • Deleted User
              Deleted User last edited by

              Well, we'll not have any useful info at Opera! :p

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              • frenzie
                frenzie last edited by

                IIRC there was a stricter limit for new users. Once you had racked up a number of posts (perhaps 20?) then you could post every 30 seconds without limit.

                That would certainly make sense. Another (more annoying) approach would be to require a CAPTCHA or some such for the first few posts, although these days I think computers might already be better at 'em than humans.

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                • joshl
                  joshl last edited by

                  You can use images manually

                  How exactly?

                  And you used a "hidden" link in another thread - again, how?

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                  • l33t4opera
                    l33t4opera last edited by

                    Hi Josh, Markdown syntax for images:

                    ![Caption text](/path/to/img.jpg)
                    

                    or

                    ![Caption text](/path/to/img.jpg "Image title")
                    

                    and to make links:

                    [The link text](http://example.net/)
                    

                    or

                    [The link text](http://example.net/ "Link title")
                    
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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      @l33t4opera

                      I am not even going to bother trying to learn that syntax. @username I can manage, or bold or italics but I am going to paste links as text:

                      http://example.net/

                      On the CommunityPlus forum https://community.serif.com/forum

                      There are buttons for Bold and Italics, and for inserting Images from a URL or from disk.

                      There are also buttons for code, hyperlinks, quotes, horizontal rules, bullet lists and numbered lists. Plus two more for undo/redo.

                      These basics are essential. Most users are not geeks for whom writing in code is second nature. I am familiar with many forms of code, but it's a real problem remembering which to use on which forum.

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                      • joshl
                        joshl last edited by

                        The DnD Sanctuary is down!
                        test

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                        • joshl
                          joshl last edited by

                          I can se no "caption"!:(.
                          Thank for the links syntax! 🍺

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                          • joshl
                            joshl last edited by

                            "My Smiley's Haven"
                            How about this?

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                            • joshl
                              joshl last edited by

                              !(http://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/3D_emoticon_CHRISTMAS002.gif) (Can it be just an image?)

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                              • joshl
                                joshl last edited by


                                !(http://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/3D_emoticon_CHRISTMAS002.gif"")
                                !(http://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/3D_emoticon_CHRISTMAS002.gif)!

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                                • joshl
                                  joshl last edited by

                                  O'k, I see you JUST NEED a caption, so it's obligatory to have a pair of brackets between "!" and the parentheses

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                                  • l33t4opera
                                    l33t4opera last edited by

                                    Yep Pesala, I see your point, but unfortunately, as far as I know, this is what the users of this forum have for the time being.
                                    Nevertheless, it's possible, that the Developers, will implement more user-friendly interface in the future, but here and now, it's new forum engine, fresh start, and it certainly needs some fixes, like for example "editing comment" bug, and many additional developments, and improvements.

                                    These basics are essential.
                                    I agree with you Pesala, perhaps in the near, or distant future, all of these functions, or at least part of them, will be implemented in the forum, it would be really nice.

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                                    • mvthakar
                                      mvthakar last edited by

                                      Miss you My Opera.

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                                      • barulheira
                                        barulheira last edited by

                                        The DnD Sanctuary is down!

                                        Confirmed. Since yesterday. I'm waiting for news.

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                                        • joshl
                                          joshl last edited by

                                          I'm "chatting" with Michael on his blog. The Fb folks haven't been spotted online yet.

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                                          • joshl
                                            joshl last edited by

                                            The DnD Sanctuary is down!

                                            Confirmed. Since yesterday. I'm waiting for news.

                                            What if it's opera.com guys' conspiracy to bring us back here?

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