<![CDATA[New Opera Forums launched]]>Hi everyone,

I wanted to let you all know that the moment of migrating to new Opera Forums is very near (1-2 weeks).
Here's what you need to know:

  • All accounts and content will be transferred over. You will still log in using your Opera Account as you do now (so your passwords safely remain on auth.opera.com servers and are NOT part of the migration process).
  • The forums category layout is going to change: we are going to have English as a primary language for all categories and consequently we will drop the idea of having each category in each language. There will be a dedicated place for discussions in your native language (plus we're adding French and Arabic to the list) so non-English speakers will still have a place to go 🙂
  • 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!
  • For the duration of the migration we will need to lock this forums into read-only mode. There will be an info box that explains it while it happens. We will also try to notify you all 2-3 days in advance, once we're 100% sure when the migration will take place.

Please let us know if you have any more questions or concerns regarding the migration 😉

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/22795/new-opera-forums-launchedRSS for NodeFri, 13 Mar 2026 19:03:12 GMTWed, 11 Oct 2017 09:30:21 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:29:54 GMT]]>@amatczak said in New Opera Forums launched:

@zalex108 One easy way I can think of would be using a sticky post in each category - huge advantage is that it does not require any Forums code modifications (we currently don't have time for it, unfortunately). Downside - it's definitely less visible. But it's something 😉
Remaining issue would be to have the message translated in each of the Local forums language.

I can help you with that.

  1. Something most crucial or important getting indexed in Google and such, or/and shared on appropriate pages on Facebook and such.
  2. There could be a statistics page placed BEFORE a user chooses their language forum, showing how many whatnots blah-blah-blah in various language sections in comparison. Or not. I mean not to bother everybody, one could skip it or we just have it somewhere in the navigation, like a beautiful button. Or a monthly e-mail digest having it.

Anyway, in my humble opinion, if someone can access the Internet, let alone OperaForums, they must understand themselves that knowing English is a worthy idea 😉
So disregard my suggestions 😃

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137632https://forums.opera.com/post/137632Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:29:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:15:51 GMT]]>@amatczak said in New Opera Forums launched:

Nope, sorry, I tried to pick a low traffic hours, but due to the fact that we have users in all timezones, it's virtually impossible.

You should do maintenance from 26 to 29 PM 😛

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137630https://forums.opera.com/post/137630Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:15:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:25:48 GMT]]>@amatczak
That's good too!

Thanks to take it in count.

About the translations, then we will see.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137581https://forums.opera.com/post/137581Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:25:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:56:39 GMT]]>@zalex108 One easy way I can think of would be using a sticky post in each category - huge advantage is that it does not require any Forums code modifications (we currently don't have time for it, unfortunately). Downside - it's definitely less visible. But it's something 😉
Remaining issue would be to have the message translated in each of the Local forums language.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137498https://forums.opera.com/post/137498Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:56:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:32:54 GMT]]>@amatczak
Thanks.

The banner should be in the related forum's language, sure.

About the translation,
I suppose it could count on the community to help to translate the sentences.

Thank you.
It will be appreciated to be evaluated.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137441https://forums.opera.com/post/137441Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:32:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:16:48 GMT]]>@zalex108 just checked and this cannot be done without writing some custom logic, unfortunately (i.e. this cannot be configured through Admin Panel).
If it were like that I'd done it right away, but since this requires some coding work, all I can do it add it to our backlog of ideas to implement.

I am not sure though if a banner in English will really help people who don't speak it well enough to post a question 😞
Translating it into each language would be better, but for that many languages we would need to hire someone to do the translation (cost -> less likely to be implemented).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/137418https://forums.opera.com/post/137418Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:16:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:08:20 GMT]]>I would like to ask/comment something related to some local forums.

How about a Banner on top to tell the users something like:

If there is no response to your question on your local forum, try searching / asking on the English forums.

It could also be considered if a translator's recommendation would be useful or necessary.

Some local forums are very alone.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/136719https://forums.opera.com/post/136719Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:08:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:37:35 GMT]]>@amatczak

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@zalex108 said in New Opera Forums launched:

Thanks.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132146https://forums.opera.com/post/132146Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:37:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:33:18 GMT]]>Thanks.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132104https://forums.opera.com/post/132104Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:33:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:30:37 GMT]]>Nope, sorry, I tried to pick a low traffic hours, but due to the fact that we have users in all timezones, it's virtually impossible.
We will post an announcement from now on.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132103https://forums.opera.com/post/132103Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:30:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:25:24 GMT]]>@amatczak
There was any announce about the update?
I was writing a reply and suddenly the page went to a "We are in maintenance".

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132101https://forums.opera.com/post/132101Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:25:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:54:58 GMT]]>Thanks for reporting. That's due to yestarday's NodeBB upgrade. I have fixed this now and emojis should be back.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132099https://forums.opera.com/post/132099Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:54:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:42:32 GMT]]>Somehow all the smilies seem to be gone. I guess might be related to that discussion about them not working in Windows 7 machines?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132098https://forums.opera.com/post/132098Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:42:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:50:37 GMT]]>Or scroll up, if you clicked the link at the right to get to the last post. It's a decent system, once you get used to it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132063https://forums.opera.com/post/132063Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:50:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:00:57 GMT]]>@kapanywi said in New Opera Forums launched:

Can anyone tell me why infinite scroll

It really means to lazily load comments. Or, load comments on demand. It's basically what Facebook and Youtube do for example. The page loads a few posts and only loads when you scroll down for them.

It helps with performance (both client side and server side). And, it allows you to have all comments on a single page where you don't have to keep on clicking next, and where you don't have to wait for a zillion comments (as in, all of them) to load to really work with the page. It really sucks for searching though.

Anyway, there are pros and cons. I think it's a nice default though.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132051https://forums.opera.com/post/132051Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:00:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:31:35 GMT]]>@burnout426 Thanks for that, shows how infrequently I use forums these days that I didnt think to look for a setting.

Can anyone tell me why infinite scroll is useful in a forum setting? scrolling to the future seems counter-intuitive. if it was history I could understand.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132038https://forums.opera.com/post/132038Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:31:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:08:42 GMT]]>@kapanywi You can enable pagination in settings to see if that's better. Icon at top left of this page -> settings.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132032https://forums.opera.com/post/132032Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:08:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:59:47 GMT]]>and then I just had to wait an arbitrary 120 seconds to post that reply, the error made me think my post was lost, but fortunately i discovered clicking the red thing brought the post dialog back up. meanwhile I discover nope.. Im not at the bottom of the thread and more posts were loading.

Guys, this is a terrible experience. "frustrating", to say the least.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132025https://forums.opera.com/post/132025Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:59:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:56:29 GMT]]>oh and I just discovered it doesnt load the whole thread, but does when you scroll, but again no indication of whats going on... im on a slow ass connection in Peru and it's not a good experience at all. I still don't know if im at the bottom of the thread or if it's loading up more posts in the background.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132030https://forums.opera.com/post/132030Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:56:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:52:41 GMT]]>new user here, not used the forum software before, but when posting a new thread or replying, and clicking submit, the way the dialog disappears made me think my post was lost to null and so I posted again, then noticed the little red dot in the bottom right.

Can I recommend coming up with something a bit more intuitive? i.e. leaving the post edit/box on screen but disabled until posted, with an indicator something is happening (that isnt in the bottom right).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/132029https://forums.opera.com/post/132029Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:52:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:53:54 GMT]]>@burnout426
Actually making the top image a link is not a bad idea, I think. We'll look into it when we have time.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131968https://forums.opera.com/post/131968Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:53:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:04:03 GMT]]>0O0O0O0O... the letter O is slightly wider than the number 0, but only marginally. Other than that, no obvious difference.

0000000000
OOOOOOOOOO

Ten number 0, ten letter O. With that many, the width difference is obvious. On a single character, the difference is close to 10% and impossible to spot.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131964https://forums.opera.com/post/131964Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:04:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:00:11 GMT]]>Whatever font that's used (outside of code blocks) on the forum makes zeroes and uppercase O's look almost exactly the same. If I go to google.com for example and type in the search filed and type a zero and an O, I see a way bigger difference.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131950https://forums.opera.com/post/131950Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:00:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Opera Forums launched on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 02:56:35 GMT]]>I see the new email notification template is active. It looks a lot better.

I don't know if it's considered finished yet, but it'd still be nice to have the link to the post at the very top of the message. If not the very top, maybe at least make the word "reply" or "posted a reply" be a link to the post. Or, if https://forums.opera.com/assets/images/emails/header.png was an image instead of a background, make the image be a link to the post.

For example, for RSS feeds in Thunderbird, there's a "Website": header displayed as the last header in the header toolbar, which makes the link to the article appear right above the message. It's so awesome that way. There's no standard, supported way to do that with a regular email, but having the post link be at the top of the body would be great. Opera M2 didn't do this for RSS feeds, which is why SmartRSS added it, and it's super nice.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/131948https://forums.opera.com/post/131948Tue, 21 Nov 2017 02:56:35 GMT