New forum up and running!
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Deleted User last edited by
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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mgmgdgtd last edited by
@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. -
mgmgdgtd last edited by
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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 last edited by
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.
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vikingen last edited by
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...
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
All bookmarks are broken. They just lead to the main forum page. Sad.
You mean your bookmarks? Well, My Opera no longer exists so the options were to redirect to the new forums or just display an "address/page doesn't exist" message.
I think that the first one was the right choice.
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A Former User last edited by
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...
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vikingen last edited by
All bookmarks are broken. They just lead to the main forum page. Sad.
You mean your bookmarks? Well, My Opera no longer exists so the options were to redirect to the new forums or just display an "address/page doesn't exist" message.
I think that the first one was the right choice.They moved all content to the new place, and I think they also should keep a directory of the old data so that they could redirect to it. Not just send all requests to the main page.
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khabzela last edited by
The new look is very too extra simple. Its coding ain suitable for Opera Mini 4.5, can't go about all services....
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A Former User last edited by
now also I find that I have to log in every time I come here.
Yep, i think it's happening to everyone. Kinda annoying but i guess i can live with that.
I seem to be permanently logged in, as I was on the old forum.
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burma-road last edited by
The arrogance of Opera astounds me. I also lost my Blog and all the images that I had posted, yes I had backups but all the work in formatting and arrangement is now lost. The pitiful support for retrieving content was as good as useless. The guidelines almost non existent and the solutions abysmal I tried downloading in the format given for Wordpress and all I got was text I could have just copied and pasted to a new blog of my choice, which would have been blogger, but after wasting so much time with the totally useless so called support I gave up and started from scratch. After years of convincing others to move to what used to be one of the best browsers, built in mail client and the superb Notes feature, all now gone from the latest version that now resembles a cobbled together copy of Firefox, I nave now got many people asking me what to do about their lost content, I have no solutions for them. I am appalled by the attitude of the once fine folks at Opera and in future will recommend people to avoid it like the plague. You guys really suck.
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vikingen last edited by
I see that some members have got avatars. How? I don't have any options regarding avatar.
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A Former User last edited by
I see that some members have got avatars. How? I don't have any options regarding avatar.
You have to register the e-mail you use for your Opera account at http://gravatar.com and add the avatar there.
(I think that instructions are somewhere in the profile / edit account settings, but I can't find them right now maybe because I already have one.)