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There's no menubar in Chropera.

Here we go, yesterday was an anomaly. These new forum-based comments here aren't as good as My Opera used to be (e.g., they require JS) but at least they work.

Oh, I see. If I enable "show close buttons on each tab", the O/Opera button follows the tab bar around. But close buttons on each tab are just a recipe for disaster if you click in the wrong area. I guess I'd be okay with not showing the MDI buttons as a workaround, which I think was separate option in 11.64. In any case, this turns out to be specifically an Opera 12 regression, although the button itself has been quite annoying since 10.50. They simply managed to make it even worse.

PS If you disable the tab bar, the O/Opera button creates an empty "tab bar" either way.

@andrew84 said in New commenting mechanism on Opera blogs:

notifications (red circle next to username)

Disqus logs you out constantly and always displays a deceptive red circle as soon as it does. It's probably the most noticeable intentional misfeature. By contrast, there's a magical place with an actually functional notification icon. One guess...

@andrew84 said in New commenting mechanism on Opera blogs:

And the fact that Disqus was more popular than forum among users till know (including Opera team) tells me that Disqus was more informative and easier.

It tells you people follow the blog and feel the impulse to comment on the blog. Nothing more and nothing less. That might tell you something about Opera's browser and blog posts, but preciously little about Disqus.

Fyi, the widely disliked Disqus system fails to load again this morning:

Disqus is utterly unusable on mobile. Or it would be if it actually loaded. Most of the time it gets stuck using all your CPU like a malicious bitcoin miner until it craps out.

These days Disqus loads even less than back on its introduction in 2014. Make no mistake, some of us still posted a few comments occasionally in spite of Disqus. It used to be that Disqus was noticeably less dependable than anything else, where anything else basically loaded 99.99 % of the time and Disqus only some 90-95 %, usually fixed by a refresh. In 2019 it's literally down to loading on some days and not loading on others, refresh or not.

In short, the fact that Disqus is terrible is pretty much irrelevant. If Disqus worked I'd dislike it, as I detailed in a rare Disqus comment on the Opera blog back in 2014. On good old My Opera that'd have been quite easy to find; on Disqus it might be borderline impossible.

Either way, Disqus quite simply doesn't work at all anymore, so it needs to be replaced by something that does. Even if that something were somehow worse than Disqus, like the impressively, even caricaturishly awful Facebook comments. As luck would have it, this forum is a lot better than Disqus.

@andrew84 said in New commenting mechanism on Opera blogs:

And the whole versions history with changelogs and other stuff can be moved to the forum.

Not in its current form. There's no relevant newsfeed available afaict, just new comments per category.

@burnout426 said in New commenting mechanism on Opera blogs:

I'd like to have the "view forums thread" link at the top of the user comments section on the blog page too. Currently it's only on the bottom.

+1 Also it should read View forum thread instead.

Originally posted by blackbird71:

Hmm. That may be true in some sense, but in both my Opera 11.52 and 12.14u setups (which I'm looking at even as I type this), the tab bar appears at the bottom of the Opera screen (which is where I want it to be), and the red Opera button is indeed at its far left... as it has for a very long time. However, in 11.52, the button simply contains the half-"O"-logo and lacks the "Opera" text that appears in the 12.14 version.

Well, this is what it looks like for me. It's true in each and every sense.

Put the tabs on bottom and it creates its own empty "tab bar". Disable the tab bar and it does the exact same thing. This button is almost as annoying as the broken addressbar, but keeping the tabs both enabled and on top isn't nearly as annoying as hard-coded text colors that become unreadable if you want to use the "wrong" background color. The addressbar is the worst bug in Opera 11+. The Opera button is the second-worst.

Originally posted by blackbird71:

However, in 11.52, the button simply contains the half-"O"-logo and lacks the "Opera" text that appears in the 12.14 version.

It's a half-O button for me in regular use. I don't know when, how, or why it decides to flip around between one display mode and another.

Opera/Presto has an optional menubar; Opera/Blink unfortunately does not.