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More monkeys.

Ninjas. A lot of them.

great ideas. never really became feeling comfortable with the newspage/ needs to be more compact and you should be able to see the latest personal/friends activities without scrolling. btw: opera mini 5 rulez! even if not perfect yet ;-) have fun in sweden

I'd like to see the UserJS section/domain magically appear. Nice pink mouse btw.

A lot of funky smilies, <- why this smily hasn't open eyes?
And yeah, I want to sort the albums the way we can sort the images in them.

Looking forward to some of the changes.

I'm tempted to take off my pants soon too.

Why stop there?

For myself, I'll be fine with anything on my opera that isn't too cluttered, blink, or has so much javascript that it slows my browser down (i.e. Slashdot). My opera is a good lookin' site.

"Replace the "Community" section with a "Popular" section and only show popular stuff happening on My Opera right now."

I think "Community" should stay,

"popularity" was in High School and it should stay there...
I am just saying



wonderful list of ideas,
I am looking forward to see them happening

First of all, get rid of white socks!

Inline comment and forum reply posting (similar to status posting). This will reduce server load and bandwidth.

Reduce the height of top bar.

We have reported lot of :bug:s but not yet fixed.

Skin page needs improvement (feed and watch for new comments, comment editing, number of comments per page, etc.)

Custom error page.

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Originally posted by Tamil:

Custom error page.

Your own design and content? Might be too risky...

Go to http://my.opera.com/EspenAO/blog/my-pictures it will show default error page but I want it to show your design. And I want to add any message or image to that page using CSS.

Originally posted by vetler:

More monkeys.

I agree

1) I'd like to see more "blocks" to build our page with. Things like blank text fields that we can add to our sidebar and show pretty much anything, or new pages that we can add to our pages and fill out however we like - writing our own profile rather than using the default template, for example. Or maybe we could get a visitor counter block to add to the sidebar.
Or a "Today is" announcement block linked to the countdowns and only showing when one hits zero. Or a popular posts block showing the 10 most visited on the blog.

2) I'd like to add my own comments underneath favourites. At the moment I don't use the feature because I can better explain things in the sidebar links, or in posts. Adding the ability to write comments would increase the value of the feature in my opinion.

3) Comment Moderation. I'd like to set a group of comments (all, members, friends, none) as safe and have them show up as normal, then the rest are kept private until I check them and allow them to be posted to my page. People in the group that are moderated will be told that their comment is awaiting moderation.

4) Inbox. I'd like to have threaded conversations appear there, with the ability to delete all parts with one click. I'd also like to select to view more than 10 messages on one page, and a single checkmark at the top of the column of messages to mark all for deletion.

5) Friends management. Ignore all option would be great.

6) Albums. Having one central image depository that allows us to select which of our albums a given image appears in would be great, allowing easy moving without losing comments and the ability to have the same image and comments appear in several albums.

7) Social networks. Automatic linking to networks is fine but sometimes people will only want one type of post to be pushed to the network. Having a checkbox inside the Add Post screen that allows us to choose whether to share the post or not as we're making it would be great.

8) Mailed blog posts. Currently when someone mails a blog post via e-mail or MMS the post shows up immediately. I was thinking that adding Draft to the subject would indicate to save the post as a private draft for later editing.

9) A screen high statue of me on the frontpage that all must click to worship before they can sign up.

10) Just for fun and a little competition, set the members of the week against each other in a monthly community vote to find the Member Of The Month. Then set 12 of them loose in an arena filled with weapons to find the Member Of The Year.

11) Opera Leapfrog, a simple system that when clicked takes you to a random post from any time that's in your language.

12) A way to flag blogs that appear as local when in another language so we can ignore them on the blogroll, or maybe have them changed from english to vietnamese.

13) A way to hide ourselves from the activity feed of anyone else.

14) Feed moderation. I'd like to set up my feed to only show a small introduction (like the watchlist does) and a read more link, along with sharing options. I've set up a Feedburner feed to do that but had to add it as a sticky post link meaning the effect is pretty much lost.

15) The ability to rearrange the sidebar elements in the order I prefer.

16) An optional Similar Posts section at the end of posts, that links readers to about five extra posts in the blog that are most similar to the one currently being read.

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I don't think it's a good idea to move the forums. There's enough people wandering around the site lost who haven't found the forums to ask the questions they need to, without them being hidden away.

One thought: An easier and more consistent way to report spam blogs and comments. Spam messages in the inbox are easy to flag, but the others require work that makes me give up sometimes.

Originally posted by Furie:

1) up to 7)

+1
nice ideas

ad 4) + folders to sort messages perhaps?

ad 6) + i'd love to change pictures without loosing comments etc (because i uploaded it quickly and want to edit it afterwards). but perhaps i'm alone with finding that would be a great feature

Well added to, that man. Have a cigar.

No-one likes number 9?

Jeez Furie.. You don't ask much

I'd hate to see Mik's Christmas list.


Personally, I love it here no matter what changes are made. I'll acclimate to whatever you guys do.

:sst:I would love a Chewbacca smiley in the works, though. Better yet - Darth Vader.

I love the atmosphere here but sometimes I find the features lacking compared to other sites. I could care less about the social networking things, but would love more blog customisation and management options.

Each of us is an individual with different needs from a site. For example, of the things I asked for, I want 1,2,3,6,12,14 and 16 for myself. The rest are things I think others would find useful, especially number 9. As the people who might find them useful may not find this post or speak up, a hero was needed to step up and take the soapbox. Bravely he spoke of the things needed on the site, slaying the demons of silence that once plagued the shadows.

I've just been checking out Dragon Age: Origins trailers. Does it show?

I don't have a Christmas list. We're skipping this year so we can get ourselves straight at last.

That's actually a wonderful idea! Financial stress can ruin a holiday, anyway.

We also skipped birthdays this year.

Sweet! Now you're not aging for an entire year!

Never have, never will.
*flies off to fight pirates*

Hmmm.. I'd love a little chatbox that follows you around like on Mocospace.. Especially usefull for mobile users methinks but it's probably just something I'd like..

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Replace the "Community" section with a "Popular" section and only show popular stuff happening on My Opera right now.

Replace? Does this mean people won't be able to find my obscure groups? My blog is at the mercy of the community manager? Please don't remove such a huge feature. You can hide it behind some other section but don't remove it.

I'm thinking we could remove the community blog from the front page and put subscriptions and friend feeds there only. Perhaps with some options to filter by blogs, photos, statuses and so on. Having links to the blog post creator and photo uploader on the same page would be a good idea.

The forums needs its own news page, just like the messages and subscriptions. And we need to be able to subscribe to threads, sub-forums, forums, friends, you name it.

The mobile version of My Opera looks a bit outdated. Perhaps it could use some big thumb friendly buttons and icons for navigation.

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Reported and should be fixed for the upcoming release.

Nice pink mouse, I am using the same keyboard

I like the community section, and would not want to see it replaced.

I would like to see friends updates and status moved to the top of the page.

spotlighting specific blog posts is a fine idea, as long as it doesn't result in losing member of the week.

Otherwise knock yourself out with changes.

OH! I just thought of something I'd like to have!

A couple weeks ago, I spotlighted a new member, which resulted in that person being in the #1 position in my sidebar. Now, I realize that to most people this is insignificant, but to me it's a big deal. I'm compulsive about the order in which things go!

Soooooo, in order to put things back in the proper order, I had to UNspotlight the previously spotlighted people and then REspotlight them in the proper order.

The option to be able to drag & drop the spotlighted junk on our About page would be incredibly spiffy. If not drag & drop, then perhaps some other system.

*flicks the light on and off thirteen times, opens the window, puts a hat in the oven and legs it as OCD girl explodes*

I'm only a tad bit OCD. I mean, my spices are in alphabetical order and my clothes are hung up by order of color...with the hangers spaced properly, but other than stuff like that, I'm perfectly normal!

Yeah, me too.

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Link monkeys!

I shall spank them with bananas. Or something.


I thought of another option I would LOVE to have here on my.opera while I was shampooing my hair ten minutes ago! (approx.) It would be flippin' badass if there were an "Unsubscribe" button in the alerts section...next to the "Mark As Read" button.

I find that at times, I've either grown tired of a thread or it's all but died, and I get all pissy when I get an alert and then have to actually take the time to go to the person's blog & click the Unsubscribe button there. It'd be SO flippin' much easier if there was said button in the Latest News section!

Originally posted by EspenAO:

We have reported lot of s but not yet fixed.

Reported and should be fixed for the upcoming release.

Are you referring to bugs in the myopera feedback forum finally being fixed?

I'd like to see blog comments searchable.

A lot.

So in other words, people won't be able to find groups, blogs, albums and forums unless you've featured them, or they know the person?

Whew...ya had me worried lol.

I'd like to be able to write a blog and have it available to only specific people in my friends list. Rather than selecting "Friends Only" be able to select particular friends or community members as well.

The same for photo albums.

I always wanted the option to password protect certain posts. That way only the people you send the password to would be able to see it, member or not.

A separate column with Twitter and Facebook updates(using your example this column may be on the left side of page).

Originally posted by Furie:

I always wanted the option to password protect certain posts. That way only the people you send the password to would be able to see it, member or not.

Here, here! That would be a wonderful feature. I second the motion!