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amatczak

amatczak Opera @burnout426

@burnout426 said in New Opera Forums launching soon!:

@amatczak Looking at the diff, it looks like a super-safe patch.

Applied manually already. Tell me if it works

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @amatczak

@amatczak Looks like it works so far. I'll test more on a notification for a post that isn't the last post in the thread though and let you know.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @amatczak

@amatczak said in New Opera Forums launching soon!:

@burnout426 Yes, we're aware of that - redesigned email templates were only introduced less than a week before the roll-out, with 1.6.0 upgrade of NodeBB, and we simply didn't have time to style the email template like we'd like. It's on our todo list already. Be sure that after we're done it will look much better (the giant pic on top is a bit of an eyesore indeed )

The default notif_post template has a lot to it. Also, all the HTML comments are emitted in the outgoing email source. So, in playing around with things, I'm starting with this instead:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>{intro}</p>
        <blockquote><p>{postBody}</p></blockquote>
        <p><a href="{url}/post/{pid}">Click here to read the full reply</a>.</p>
        <p>[[email:closing]]</p>
        <p>{site_title}</p>
        <p>[[email:notif.post.unsub.info]] <a href="{url}/user/{userslug}/settings">[[email:unsub.cta]]</a>.</p>
    </body>
</html>

In the source of the outgoing message, there will be a style tag added above the doctype by the emoji plug-in. I turn it off and restart the server before testing to make sure the markup in the source of the outgoing mail is correct.

In short, it might make sense to start with a simple template and go from there; adding back anything (like some of the meta tags) if needed.

julianlam

julianlam @burnout426

@burnout426 Just so you know, all the boilerplate is there for a reason:

http://tedgoas.github.io/Cerberus/

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @julianlam

@julianlam Thanks. Will take a look.

Edit: Read it. Interesting. A lot of workarounds for clients.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @julianlam

@julianlam said in New Opera Forums launching soon!:

@burnout426 Just so you know, all the boilerplate is there for a reason:

http://tedgoas.github.io/Cerberus/

I see the reason for the use of:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="x-apple-disable-message-reformatting">

, the use of CSS (media queries and such) in STYLE, and the use of inline styles for clients that don't use (or strip out) STYLE tags. But, is it really necessary to use TABLE and CENTER to lay out everything, especially for a simple notification email?

I'm not really thinking Table vs. CSS (although the latter would be preferable). Just thinking all that table markup is a lot of noise for a simple notification email.

That's just all on the side though. The actual problem in NodeBB is the big image at the top of the email. Getting rid of the image and the black space above it would make things so much better.

amatczak

amatczak Opera @burnout426

@burnout426 said in New Opera Forums launching soon!:

The actual problem in NodeBB is the big image at the top of the email. Getting rid of the image and the black space above it would make things so much better.

Yes, as said earlier - we are in the process of writing our own, branded templates. The header is definitely going to be slimmer.

But I am sure our friends from NodeBB team are also interested in feedback about the default ones

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @amatczak

@amatczak said in New Opera Forums launching soon!:

But I am sure our friends from NodeBB team are also interested in feedback about the default ones

Yes, that was my intent with the post.

A Former User @burnout426

@burnout426 said in New Opera Forums launching soon!:

That's just all on the side though. The actual problem in NodeBB is the big image at the top of the email. Getting rid of the image and the black space above it would make things so much better.

The "black space" is actually where the headers are, black text on a black background, as you can see if you select it!

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest

@davehawley Can't confirm. What mail client?

A Former User @burnout426

@burnout426
It's a rather ancient copy of Eudora!
I think in other clients the black band does not include the headers and is therefore not as wide.

alt text

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest

@davehawley Ah, I see.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @amatczak

@amatczak Yes, after testing for a while, the link in notification emails does indeed work correctly where it navigates to the correct post.

amatczak

amatczak Opera @Guest

@davehawley It looks to me like Eudora not parsing and rendering that e-mail correctly. These fields should be rendered as application's native UI, since e-mail headers are not part of the e-mail content

A Former User @amatczak

@amatczak I'm sure you're right, and it doesn't surprise me.
It is a very old program, not updated since 2006, and does struggle to display some modern e-mail formats properly.
Its one saving grace is that it's one of the few (possibly only) e-mail clients that allows you to edit and re-save received messages, so it's usually possible to correct the display problems.
I keep using it because I have an archive of messages stored in it going back to the 1990s, but I really should let it go now!

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

Hmm, I'm looking for a link to list all threads I'm watching. I'm not seeing one.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

Nevermind. Found it. I had to go to my profile, click the 3 vertical dots and choose "watched".

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426

Hmm, I don't think all/any of my starred threads from the old forum were automatically watched in the new forum. I'm guessing there wasn't an easy conversion for that.

zalex108

zalex108 @leocg

@leocg said in New Opera Forums launching soon!:

There is no FAQ on Linux forums, nor on Mac's.

I don't use Linux nor Mac so it would be kinda complicated for me to create a FAQ for those systems.

There is no reference to Windows FAQ into *Nix / Mac forums for shared fixes

I'll probably try to create one general FAQ for Opera for desktops to cover things that aren't OS specific.

After looking at Profile's options, can not find any option to add a signature.

I was talking about the new forum.

As I've been seeing, you can:

Ask to Opera employees to help on this task.
Ask to @Sgunhouse (if I'm not wrong he's playing with Linux and Mac).
Take a look at those forums, right now they have the most common asked questions and most of the fixes found by the users themselves.
Open a thread asking for missing FAQ points.

Not a task just for you @LeoCG but for all Opera Employes - Opera's forums Moderators.

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sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

For the record, I do Windows, Linux and Android - someone else needs to cover Mac. Not that I don't try to answer general questions in the Mac forum, but I don't own any Apple equipment - neither Mac nor IOS devices.