New commenting mechanism on Opera blogs

[Opera Comments Bot]

Opera Comments Bot last edited by

Hello everyone, Today we wanted to let you know that we are changing the commenting mechanism on Opera Blogs. What this means in practice is that we are replacing the current solution with a new commenting system that utilizes the Opera forums. From now on, in addition to the usual comments section underneath the blog…

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[amatczak]

amatczak Opera last edited by

Have fun, everyone!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Nice.

[frenzie]

frenzie last edited by

Excellent!

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Amazing.

[portvine 0]

portvine 0 last edited by

Cool.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Instead of Disqus? Interesting.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I like it better already.

[tspringer]

tspringer last edited by

Oof.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

as a replacement for disqus or can one still use the disq-account here (probably not)?
And it seems astonishingly similar to vivaldi, they've set it up like this for quite some time...

[amatczak]

amatczak Opera @Guest last edited by

@aphaltgrau Yes, this mechanism, for several reasons, will replace Disqus. This means that, sadly, you will not be able to use your Disqus account to comment here anymore.

As for similarity to Vivaldi - yes, we used the same open-source project as the base for this feature and we both use NodeBB for our community board/forums

[A Former User]

A Former User @amatczak last edited by A Former User

@amatczak, no problem with the disqus-account, d. is a chatterbox anyway, so it doesn't matter. pure info question.

Blog seems a bit more accessible than the forum, at least so far.
Disadvantage now: the comment function (layout options) in the blog is now somewhat badly solved. Therefore less readable than before.
here, too, a "vivaldi-orientation" could be worthwhile:
The link blog-forum exists, the comment function in the blog is still well solved (colors, text highlighting, tree view, screenshot, etc.). This would make it a bit easier to read.

[amatczak]

amatczak Opera @Guest last edited by amatczak

@aphaltgrau: Of course, we will continue to work on improving the user experience. Tree-like view is already in our backlog, and was there even before this initial release. Cannot make any promises regarding dates, though

[andrew84]

andrew84 last edited by andrew84

Tree view, text editing tools before posting, notifications when somebody replies to your comment (red circle in front of user name, maybe upvoting too), screenshots attachments, longer period for post editing, increase text size. Return these things in the blog's comments.

[A Former User]

A Former User @amatczak last edited by A Former User

@amatczak, ok. no dates - how awful...
(& andrew84 lists what is missing)

[andrew84]

andrew84 last edited by

And regarding the forum, I can't find a way to edit my profile: I can't change password or email for example.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 You can change your password and email at https://auth.opera.com/account/edit-profile

[amatczak]

amatczak Opera @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84 You can change both email and password on Opera Auth page. Forums is not storing any passwords.

[andrew84]

andrew84 @leocg last edited by

@leocg: thanks, I thought that Opera forum and Opera auth are two parts of the same community with the same credentials. So if I delete Opera account on the auth page, it will be also deleted on forum too (in both places there's 'delete' account/profile button)?

[amatczak]

amatczak Opera @andrew84 last edited by

@andrew84: You can either delete both (in which case your Forums account will also be deleted) or delete just the Forums and leave your Opera Auth account intact.