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I realize that it is a bit late to comment on the new format of the forum, but I must say that what I've seen of it so far isn't what I hoped that it would be. I particularly dislike the fact that the various boards are hidden from each other in different pages, requiring that I load each separately to know what's going on. Yes, there is still the buttons for today's and new posts, but so far they don't work. I've also noticed that the email notifications that I have from the old forum don't seem to work either, I just get a "Not Found" error, with a dumb monkey. The connection speed that I'm getting is horrible, but I hope that is also temporary. The only good thing that I have found is the new hardware forum.

Originally posted by Quinn52:

How come I keep getting Cannot find server when I use Opera on some sites?

Hit the reload button (F5) you may have to try a couple times. The server monkeys are just having fun with you

It would be nice to be able to close the "Opera Girl Header" on the home page........I've read it already and, after a couple 'o' hours, it just gets in the way.

Opera Girl.gif

Originally posted by fammcdon:

It would be nice to be able to close the "Opera Girl Header" on the home page........I've read it already and, after a couple 'o' hours, it just gets in the way.

Add this to user.css:

#myopera-forums #intro {display: none;}

Originally posted by Jakub81:

Originally posted by fammcdon:

It would be nice to be able to close the "Opera Girl Header" on the home page........I've read it already and, after a couple 'o' hours, it just gets in the way.

Add this to user.css:

#myopera-forums #intro {display: none;}

Thanks....didn't work right-off but I'll keep playin' with it.

In the search results page (and perhaps in various other forum pages, too), the column texts' (Replies, Views, Topic starter and etc) are blue links and the background is blueish as well which makes the links almost as part as the background so you can hardly see them. I assume they are supposed to be white?

In the last hour, time after time, when I try to reply to a post, I see a "404 - Page Not Found" Error.
Will this ever be fixed?

Originally posted by Jakub81:

Originally posted by fammcdon:

It would be nice to be able to close the "Opera Girl Header" on the home page........I've read it already and, after a couple 'o' hours, it just gets in the way.

Add this to user.css:

#myopera-forums #intro {display: none;}

This is my user.css file..........i"v tried it with and without @charset "utf-8";
but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

anyway

user css.gif

Originally posted by Jakub81:

Originally posted by fammcdon:

It would be nice to be able to close the "Opera Girl Header" on the home page........I've read it already and, after a couple 'o' hours, it just gets in the way.

Add this to user.css:

#myopera-forums #intro {display: none;}

This is my user.css file..........i"v tried it with and without @charset "utf-8";
but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

anyway

user css.gif

Originally posted by fammcdon:

Originally posted by Jakub81:

Originally posted by fammcdon:

It would be nice to be able to close the "Opera Girl Header" on the home page........I've read it already and, after a couple 'o' hours, it just gets in the way.

Add this to user.css:

#myopera-forums #intro {display: none;}

Thanks....didn't work right-off but I'll keep playin' with it.

This is my user.css......I've tried it with and without @charset "utf-8";

Still no joy in fammcdon land.

2user css.gif

As a direct quote from the Opera CEO:

Jon von Tetzchner: The community is very, very important. Opera would not be where it is today if it were not for the community. We know that and we know that we must continue to work very hard to provide the best possible browser and Internet client. We will continue to listen carefully to what the community has to say and focus on what the community wants. Your wish is our command.

This is not a complaint (just a general observation) as I'm sure that Opera Staff are trying their best, but these new forums have now been online since the beginning of Sept 05' and now it is almost Oct 05' and there still seem to be many issues, ie:major 404 Server Monkey errors yesterday, speed on the forums is great one minute, then the next day slow...Time Stamp bugs, ect., ect...

Hopefully...these issues will be rectified for a reliable, fast, accurate Opera Community experience for all.

It's been 3 weeks to the day that the "New" community and forums went on-line. They seem to be coming along nicely, all considered.

As I recall, when I first found these forums in January of 2001. It took months to get vBulletin running this well. There were less than 3,000 members when I joined, no blogs, no photo albums, just a forum and some help files.

I know that doesn't excuse anything, but I think they are doing pretty good so far.

Originally posted by fammcdon:

Originally posted by fammcdon:

Originally posted by Jakub81:

Originally posted by fammcdon:

It would be nice to be able to close the "Opera Girl Header" on the home page........I've read it already and, after a couple 'o' hours, it just gets in the way.

Add this to user.css:

#myopera-forums #intro {display: none;}

Thanks....didn't work right-off but I'll keep playin' with it.

This is my user.css......I've tried it with and without @charset "utf-8";

Still no joy in fammcdon land.

2user css.gif

1. Go to Preferences > Advanced > Content > Style options...
2. Enable My style sheet in author mode
3. Click Choose and select your user.css file.

Awesome

Here's a




for ya Jakub81



As you can tell, I'm still a rookie when it comes to css

Fortunately some of us can delete posts ...

Hello Saddle Magic,

I understand, and these new forums do offer a lot of features and when they are completely solid and reliable, it will be quite nice... I see various reports from Opera Staff members, who are experimenting with developmental servers, so we all know that they are giving it their best efforts and it will all come together evenually.

The forums members have been very helpful to me (as a new user of Opera), yourself, sgunhouse, ect, and many others...it's nice, informative Community...The direct inacteraction of Opera Staff, Developers, ect. here is fantastic...

I have new colleagues like alex p., and neeraj_deshmukh, and had to LOL at fammcdon's post above "being new to .css code workings". I had a site that was given to me by a German colleague who is a Moderator at a Aqua Emulation forum which was a customized DeviantArt Search site, and worked with both IE and Firefox, but not with Opera.
So I sent a copy of the link via a 'message' to neeraj, and he cam through with flying colours aa there was a fatal, but minor .css code error... using his keen knowledge, the site now works with Opera...

Having been a member @Mozillazine Forums (since the days of Pheonix 0.5), I am slowly getting many of my FF colleagues to try out Opera, and being mature individuals we never get caught up in the browser war kiddie games-lol!

P.S. My FF colleagues did however give me a good ripping on this thread-lol (Not regarding content, but Forum Server errors)

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=102552

Having been a member @Mozillazine Forums (since the days of Pheonix 0.5), I am slowly getting many of my FF colleagues to try out Opera, and being mature individuals we never get caught up in the browser war kiddie games-lol!

Yes..indeed.

Anyway, the new forum layout looks nice to me. But its hard to navigate and i really missed to see who online. Perhaps a symbol online/offline should appear at the bottom of members avatar together with registered,location,posts & PM. Just a suggestion,though

Originally posted by storm119:

the new forum layout looks nice to me.

Yeah, though I would appreciate a bigger font size and not Arial font-type, as I'm on 1400x1050 screen resolution and I've to increase opera fora zooming to 120% for easy reading ...

Originally posted by storm119:

Perhaps a symbol online/offline should appear at the bottom of members avatar together with registered,location,posts & PM.

good suggestion IMO
+1

Originally posted by storm119:

Having been a member @Mozillazine Forums (since the days of Pheonix 0.5), I am slowly getting many of my FF colleagues to try out Opera, and being mature individuals we never get caught up in the browser war kiddie games-lol!

Yes..indeed.

Anyway, the new forum layout looks nice to me. But its hard to navigate and i really missed to see who online. Perhaps a symbol online/offline should appear at the bottom of members avatar together with registered,location,posts & PM. Just a suggestion,though

lol...speaking of one of my former FF colleagues...

Rob, great suggestion on perhaps a online/offline symbol...
+10

TQ folks!.

WoW!, i never thought had a good repond from my senior m8's

@Tamil

Nah!, this is the highest (+100) rated i've ever seen before! LoL

@Glenn

See you around, dude!. But need to go now, will continue later.

@Tamil

Damn!, after seen those links. I thought you will rate this to 1 Billion or Trillon or so. LoL

Back to my original post.I still found adding the status online/offline below the avatar would be a great idea. Some advantage i see if we having some issue and need a fast repond/answer especially from the Opera Software ASA staff. Just look around find which staff/members online then send a PM. You're done!...just wait for thier respond.

Anyway, ATM.. i feel like nobody here be'coz we dont know who's online or offline?.... did you guys feel like what i feels now...emptiness!. Hello! anybody here..? em i alone here! LoL

Hopely they might consider this suggestion in future time.

cheers.

I still miss the list of who's on the board (members+guests) that used to be at the bottom of the home page.

Yes. The original idea is bring back the list who's online/offline/guests at the bottom of front page. Unfortunately as i see, we have very limited space there then only i come up with this suggestion at least i feel like i'm not alone here.

great I`m glad that I`m not the only one missing the list of members from the front page which was very useful to me.Also why hasn`t the online/offline button been added back yet?

Another lost feature I miss.......

Showing previous posts under the reply dialogs on the "Post Reply" page. They were an extremely handy reference source while composing your reply. None of this Back and Forward stuff.

When you are directed to a specific post for any reason, like going to the last read post in a thread. The initial view does not show the top line of that post.

Can this be adjusted to show that line?

Well I'm glad that a lot of forum errors are still being seen, for within the last 3 days, I am constantly getting the main forum page to look b0rked, please see 'ss':

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/2847/forumerrors7kd.jpg

I even went so far as to reinstalling a fresh install of Opera8.5, even after clearing cache upon exist, hitting F5...sometimes the Main Page loads up fine, but mostly not.
All other websites, forums display properly...

As far as your post kulma, when I search for posts by you the post is listed, selecting to view posts I can even see part of the text, but if I click on the listed post ID then I get a 404 message. One of the admins will have to look into it on Monday.

I decided I needed to split off the section on kulma's missing posts (and my own), see Missing posts, split from New forum

When will the 'subscribe to forum' feature return?

There are now so many sub-forums (for example the style council and many others) worth watching after that it has now become quite a burden [to follow so many] w/out subscribing to them [the forums!].

<petition>Bring back 'subscribe to forum'!</petition>

Did any one notice, the forums are loading very slow today.And when I mark them as read it is not working. I have to do it 3 times before there marked as read.

yes, monkeys again... I would guess they had to 'offline' a server, hence the slowdown...

I haven't seen one of these in at least a couple of weeks, but today, this link caused a 502 Proxy Error:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=102609

Shouldn't these be gone forever, or will they always come and go?

The forums are different day by day. On Wed. I posted the forums are running very slow. Yesterday Fri the forums were running great. I zipped through all the forums with great speed. When I marked the forums as read it worked the first time. When I loaded the forums it did it fast.Now today which is Sat. the forums are slow today. It took me 2 to 3 times to mark forums read. And the forums are loading slow again. So I assume it is a day by day thing right now.

I have noticed much the same thing except, I would call it more a minute by minute thing as opposed to a day by day.

I cannot get rid of a forum in the new Harry Potter Fan CLub can anyone tell me how to fix this?

I think that only an admin can remove a forum. You could set the forum so that only a moderator can see it, but you can't delete it. Similar to how I can't actually delete a thread here, only hide it from everyone except moderators (by moving it to a forum which only moderators can see).

yes, I noticed that when getting 'active threads' - most likely a 'secret tag' that escaped!!! - they've covered them up now...


ahhhh.. just tried with nothing in the fields.... It could be just a 'crash-preventer' then....

I noticed today on the topics colum on the last reply column the date is missing. Replaced by a series of numbers.

Never mind the date has just returned.

Gone again!

And so have all the forums apart from the Lounge!?!

Plus, the threads with no replies show '0' instead of nothing. I was just getting used to the new format.

There has been an upgrade this morning, because the 'Subscribe to...' links have moved to the right of the page and have gotten an icon.

"..and we won't have to rely on third party hacks to get things done."

It's always nice to have inhouse hacks doing the work. ;>}

I'm not able to get anything on the front page of the forum this morning, except the 4 active topic boxes.

i'd rather like to see a - instead of a 0/nothing. btw the page navigation is still not working properly; as described here
page_navi.png

Good new forum index!