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My Opera gone bananas!

Monday, 25. May 2009, 09:41:20

It's "patch day" and this means addition of new features, fixing and hopefully joy and excitement! We are very excited about this release for a number of reasons: First and foremost, we've made some very important changes to the friends system. You now have a list of pending requests with necessary action buttons.

You can also send your friends e-cards with an updated design! Simply hover a photo you've discovered on My Opera and choose from the new quick links to favorite, share or zoom in.

We are also very excited about the return of the affiliate program! We would personally like to thank all the beta testers for contributing with feedback how to improve the program! If you already have the "Download Opera" button activated on your page you're automatically particiating in the affiliate program and no further actions is needed, but if you're not, get started today!

We will come back with more information about the affiliate program later this week.

You can also read all about the markup changes for this release in our devblog.

Changelog for the banana release:

General:

A lot of speed optimizations have been made to make My Opera load faster.
Increased page width 40px for community pages.
We have updated the look of the status field on the home page and made it more visible.
Displaying 2 instead of 3 "community news" on home page when logged in.
Redesigned "Download Opera" page.
Redesigned the "Choose Opera" page.
New look for the Opera affiliate banner.
We have updated the look of the status field on the home page and made it more visible.
A brand new "favorites" page is now available for all users. It can be turned on/off by going to "My page" > "Account" > "Page configuration".
Trimmed the size of all buttons to make them smaller.
Small "join My Opera" promo is shown on "about" page for logged out users when they visit My Opera directly from another site.
Small notice to download Opera displayed on some pages for other browsers.
Activity feed is updated to show "favorites" and "new profile picture".

My page, blog and photo albums:

Your "files" section have been redesigned for better usability.
New buttons for adding photo as favorite and sharing photos added when hovering photo album images.
The e-card pages have been redesigned.
Several pages like "start a new photo album" and "start a blog" have been redesigned to fit the look of the blog themes.
Updated design of default blog theme menu.
Added twitter to "share this".
Moved MMS e-mail notice from the album overview to the album page.
Moved tags from the album overview to the album page.
Added date to photo albums.
Added album description to album page.
Fixed the design of the photo tags page.
Added a new page for editing single images in photo albums.
Redesigned the photo page for the default blog theme.
Added "share this photo" to photo sidebar.
Added "blog this" to photo pages.
The "info" page is gone and links point directly to the "about" page.
The top menu avatar now links to your own page instead of the community home page.

Friends:

Status have been removed from the friends page.
Added friends request info to top bar.
Added "block" and "ignore" buttons to friends request page.

Comments

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Sutekh # 25. May 2009, 09:48

first

Dacotah # 25. May 2009, 09:48

Dacotah # 25. May 2009, 09:50

Hmmmm, this post was new on my wathc list, I commented and then went to my news tab and it still shows as a new post.

phamlam # 25. May 2009, 09:55

yes

samfresco # 25. May 2009, 09:56

wooooooooo!! new My Opera! Thanks Opera Team!

Dacotah # 25. May 2009, 09:57

Wishing that the "News" tab would be there when I visit other's blog.

theoddbod # 25. May 2009, 09:58

What does Ignore do on the Friends page? Ignore the friend request but have no other effect?

digmed # 25. May 2009, 09:58

Originally posted by Dacotah:

Hmmmm, this post was new on my wathc list, I commented and then went to my news tab and it still shows as a new post.

There's a new button on the watch list, "Mark as read". Items will only be removed from the watch-list when you click it.

Tamil # 25. May 2009, 09:58

theoddbod # 25. May 2009, 10:01

Favourites section of the About page still only shows certain item types.

Originally posted by digmed:

There's a new button on the watch list, "Mark as read". Items will only be removed from the watch-list when you click it.

Ok, 5 minutes of use and that new functionality is already annoying.

nicomen # 25. May 2009, 10:09

Dacotah: known bug that wasn't prioritized, hopefully will be out soon.

We also have some few other fixes pending, but wanted to get the biggest changes out first.

ZAHEK # 25. May 2009, 10:11

nice, thanks:)

Words # 25. May 2009, 10:13

Smooth upgrade so far. Thanks!

Spaggyj # 25. May 2009, 10:15

I'd like to know what the "ignore" button does, as well.

The-Doc # 25. May 2009, 10:16

Great

noronha1 # 25. May 2009, 10:23

checking it

Jurgi # 25. May 2009, 10:30

Hm, where did status description go from under the picture? And where did the button to change it go, too?

I want my status back!

theoddbod # 25. May 2009, 10:34

The Ignore button seems to just remove the Pending friend request...just did a major prune

castus2 # 25. May 2009, 10:42

why fix,when its not broke,ugghhh

pfelelep # 25. May 2009, 10:48

cool

Spaggyj # 25. May 2009, 10:59

Thanks Mart. I'm guessing there's no "ignore all".

zoso # 25. May 2009, 11:02

@theoddbod: About the "Mark as read", it seemed like the most sensible way to solve several problems we have had in the past with it, including news items "returning from the dead". But I understand that the change can be annoying, at least at first.

Hopefully the current annoyance you're experiencing will go away when you get used to it... But of course it's not set in stone, we're just trying to figure out what's the best way of making a reliable and easy to understand UI for the news!

teknomobil # 25. May 2009, 11:08

Thanks Opera Team

Furie # 25. May 2009, 11:16

Zoso, being able to add a checkmark to items in the watchlist then click to have the checked items marked as read would be a good system to run on top of the earlier watchlist system (where going to an item removes it from the list) and the regular Mark All As Read button. That way users have good control and a fast and smooth system.

This new way seems rather counter-intuitive for my liking and it's a pain in the ass on mobile. Visiting the pages you want to visit, then reloading your watchlist and having to manually mark that you've been there is a major data waster.

operainchicago # 25. May 2009, 11:17

Good deal now back to sleep

killerrabbit # 25. May 2009, 11:35

Great!

Spokks # 25. May 2009, 11:38

It doesnt get better than this. KUDDOS Designers

theoddbod # 25. May 2009, 11:44

@zoso : I didn't really see any problem with the earlier system when it was first implemented - it seemed to me that the bugs/issues with it (such as posts reappearing, or reading anything other than the bottom post clearing the ones beneath it) appeared later.
And, nearly 2 years after they first vanished, i'm guessing Friends Only posts still don't appear in Subscriptions.

soumitram4u # 25. May 2009, 12:08

Cois # 25. May 2009, 12:10

Right.. Taking it for a spin then..

fammcdon # 25. May 2009, 12:14

Not really liking everything being centered. Makes some things just look bad and makes the pages longer. Since some pages are already too long for my piece 'o' crap phone, this merely exacerbates the problem.

lor74cas # 25. May 2009, 12:18

this time, good job

Furie # 25. May 2009, 12:18

Agreed. The centring seems a little intrusive.

Cois # 25. May 2009, 12:24

I like that the usernames are at top of comments...
The friends thing could've been put somewhere else..

Gandrung # 25. May 2009, 12:30

Awsome

EspenAO # 25. May 2009, 12:31

Furie and fammcdon; What "things" are centered?

fammcdon # 25. May 2009, 12:37

All pages seem to have a [center][/center] type thing applied to them. Everything runs down the middle as opposed to left-justified.

Cois # 25. May 2009, 12:38

Check on Opera Mini Espen..you'll see what they mean..

Dacotah # 25. May 2009, 12:45

There's a new button on the watch list, "Mark as read". Items will only be removed from the watch-list when you click it.

Thank you. So that means every new post I have to mark it as read to clear my watchlist?

EspenAO # 25. May 2009, 12:47

We are looking into how mark as read is working. I feel it's not working as intended atm. If you've read a post, you've read it. No need to mark it then.

Dacotah # 25. May 2009, 12:50

http://my.opera.com/community/blog/show.dml/3283001#comment7756144

I tried to use the quote link and it didn't work.

Hi Espen, thank you. Did you know that you can't get to your about page anymore by clicking the display photo. I didn't have the about tab showing because I liked to just click my display photo. Doesn't work anymore.

Dacotah # 25. May 2009, 12:52

Thank you nicomen.

EspenAO # 25. May 2009, 12:57

It seems that comments are marked as read, while blog posts are not.

Cois # 25. May 2009, 13:00

After checking a new post it doesn't disappear from your watchlist when you reload it or go to it again. You have to click the Mark As Read button as Dakotah explained.. Irritating at most but not life threatening