My Opera Community Wish-list

My Opera Community Wish-list

In My Files, Sorting of archives by file name & size, Renaming folder and files, Moving files from one folder to another, Deleting multiple files & folders, Viewing only selected folder in archive & Uploading a zip file and extracting it.

Number of posts made by each user in a thread by clicking the number of replies.

Show signatures when the user is not logged in.

A page showing all spotlighted topics.

Signature preview in 'My settings'

Show total number of votes in "Question of the Week" poll

Search title only option

Some users do not want their online status known - and with good reason. Or did you mean show signatures to forum visitors?

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

Or did you mean show signatures to forum visitors?

Yep.. I want that one too

I'd like to add one request:

- ability to move photos from one album to another.

hm.. abillity to show more than 5 albums on /username/albums .. i can do it thru url, but it would be nice to have some preferences...

Originally posted by Seji:

- ability to move photos from one album to another.

Now thats a good idea......

Originally posted by SerbianFighter:

abillity to show more than 5 albums on /username/albums

Yes. We definetly need this. It has been on our to-do list for a long time.

I'm waiting on a thread review for replying and a forum quick-jump dropdown menu.

I would like notification of new PMs to display on the forums. Perhaps in the vicinity of the Log Out option.

I agree with the Preview Signature idea.

-- Support for trackback pings in the blog (send a trackback ping to the website that I link)
-- More information on blog/album hits...referrer info (did they find my post on Opera or did they find a link at someone else's blog?), unique visitors, etc.
-- Ability to re-order photo albums on page (if I add a new album, it goes to the top of the list but I might want to keep a specific album always first)
-- Ability to select which elements I wanted included on blog page (I dont really want my photos being slideshow-ed next to my political commentary, thank you).

The Friends page seems kind of useless, unless a user only wants to link with Opera Community users.

Otherwise, very nice service.

• Direct linking to IRC channels in your links.
  I want links to IRC channels to be clickable. Check out the IRC channel list in my links page to see what I mean: http://my.opera.com/eyeque/links .
  
  
• Easy rearangement of page elements.
  I want to sort elements on my page with ease. I want to be able to drag and drop link-boxes in the sidebar or have a move up/down link on each box. This would probably be useful for the about page too.
  
  
• Setting element behavoiur in the page.
  http://my.opera.com/eyeque_community/links/ . See that feed from my blog? I want to be able to switch elements on and off. I mean post title, text, images and so on. And I want to be able to choose which photo album the slideshow in the sidebar should use as standard.
  
  
• Forum.
  I want to be able to add a forum to my blog just like with a group. I'm using a group as a forum at the moment. It would be less hassle if the forum was a part of the blog.
  
  
• Slideshow in photo albums.
  I would like if there was a slideshow function in the photo albums.
  
  
• Custom links in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
  I want to be able to add my own custom links to the top navigation bar. Blog, Archive, Photo album, Links, Friends, About, <Custom links>
  

This list is getting very long so I guess I'll stop here. Even though I see Opera Community's "My page" as the best blog service around, it's still possible to do lots of improvements.

Originally posted by Sgt_Hobo:

forum quick-jump dropdown menu.

Added.

Originally posted by Tamil:

Preview of comments in blog.

Originally posted by eyeque:

More information on blog/album hits...referrer info (did they find my post on Opera or did they find a link at someone else's blog?), unique visitors, etc.

+1

I didn't post that. cbjohnso did.

Originally posted by olekasper:

Originally posted by Sgt_Hobo:

forum quick-jump dropdown menu.

Added.

Your personal love slave is reporting for duty sir! Also, thanks for the thread history in the normal reply window but for some reason, it doesn't show up when I click on quote under someone's post; seems to only happen when I click on preview post.

As discussed in http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=127455 I would like to have the ability to sort links within categories, as well as whole link categories, to control how they are displayed on the blog (and personal) pages.

Just thought of something that would make the forum quickjump better: highlight the background of the forums in the menu that have new posts (kind of like having the new posts icon on the main page). That would make it easy to see which boards have new posts instead of playing trial and error with them all.

PHOTO ALBUMS:
The ability to order the links shown on the front page. Right now they are in the order created. Could there be a function similar to Links, where you actually CHECK a box to indicate which albums you want displayed on the front page sidebar?

BLOG:
Ability to edit date/time stamp once a new post is created.

ABOUT:
Field to add SKYPE contact info (similar to AOL, MSN, Jabber, ICQ)

Gee, I don't want much, do I?

Originally posted by jonimueller:

Gee, I don't want much, do I?

Sorry but that cracked me up!


Oh well, even if you do, that's what this thread is for.

I agree with Tamil. That would be kind of helpful, though mine would probably be less than one per day.

I think the most cool feature must be referrer info, so it can be viewed from what sites visits are coming; and also script support. I know some people could think that having scripts capability opens a window to all kind of malware and traps to the visitors, but for example blogger has it and is more a benefit than a threat. Why Opera could not do it?

Also I think that edit date of blogs and arrange photo albums like joni says could be very useful.

Greetings to all

Perhaps to help newbies, we should have some kind of list of unanswered threads. Like list the last 5 unanswered threads or something.

Originally posted by Sgt_Hobo:

Perhaps to help newbies, we should have some kind of list of unanswered threads. Like list the last 5 unanswered threads or something.

There's always the "unanswered posts" entry in the menu above. Should perhaps be rephrased though?

I'd like to lengthen the list as well...

Stuff that has already been said but I'll add my voice :
>>> Skype field in ABOUT -- Just one more field
>>> Referrer Info -- Very useful
>>> Drag-Drop Rearrangement of my Sidebar, or at least a move up/down button or something.

Stuff of my own imagination...

>>> Being able to post just plain text on the sidebar, like a sticky or something, but on the sidebar.
>>> Being able to post a poll on our sidebar.

Like eyeque said, my list is getting too long. I'd like to commend the opera team on what they've done, but there's still place for improvements, to make this the best blog service ever.

Yes, it is possible.

Originally posted by olekasper:

Originally posted by Sgt_Hobo:

Perhaps to help newbies, we should have some kind of list of unanswered threads. Like list the last 5 unanswered threads or something.

There's always the "unanswered posts" entry in the menu above. Should perhaps be rephrased though?

Methinks I need to start paying more attention.

Hm.. didn't get that last one

An easier way for the peasants to turn on/off the sidebar features would be my vote...
(example: turn on/off photo album slideshow, Calendar etc)

Peasants as in us older folk who aren't totally technical savy

I REALLY want to shut off the photo album slideshow!!!

Originally posted by Tamil:

In My Files, Sorting of archives by file name & size, Renaming folder and files, Moving files from one folder to another, Deleting multiple files & folders, Viewing only selected folder in archive & Uploading a zip file and extracting it.]

I have really missed a better possibility for managing private, uploaded files.
I think Tamil's wish is my number one wish.
(I don’t know how much of this is already included in Opera 9.)

Originally posted by leirom:

I have really missed a better possibility for managing private, uploaded files.
I think Tamil's wish is my number one wish.

I have a ticket assigned to me which says «file upload system requires overhaul».

So, it is noted, and will be acted upon, although not necessarily soon-ish.. :/

Originally posted by Tamil:

Preview of comments in blog.

Originally posted by eyeque:

More information on blog/album hits...referrer info (did they find my post on Opera or did they find a link at someone else's blog?), unique visitors, etc.

+1

++

1.

Custom links in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
I want to be able to add my own custom links to the top navigation bar. Blog, Archive, Photo album, Links, Friends, About, <Custom links>

this one is good.
but i want to add more:
it would be good to have posibility to rename these items (to use them in my native language).
2.

In My Files, Sorting of archives by file name & size, Renaming folder and files, Moving files from one folder to another, Deleting multiple files & folders, Viewing only selected folder in archive & Uploading a zip file and extracting it.

deleteing folders (directories) is also a good idea (like everything else)

3.

ABOUT:
Field to add SKYPE contact info (similar to AOL, MSN, Jabber, ICQ)

also good idea.

4. Posibility to get personal messages from anyone (anonymous)

5. Post date dependence on timezone

i'd like the option of being able to change the dates of my posts.. ;-)

i'd like the option of being able to change the dates of my posts.. ;-)

sort of have that now.. option of deleting forum posts? like since the above request is achieved, i'd like to delete that forum post?

Can we get a [hr] tag for the forums please?

Stability
Right now (and this is something that's gotten progressively worse, imo) is that the whole Community seems to have become less stable. I have no idea what this is down to, increasing numbers of members, perhaps? But know that over recent weeks I've seen more time-outs and loading problems than I'd like.

I know this is a free service you're running here, so appreciate what you're giving at the minute; but it's ever more tempting to go back to things like Flickr when I upload a bunch of photos in a zip file, and only half of them appear in my album and I'm greeted with a server error message.


Report Inappropraite Content
I've seen a lot of blogs that are filled with porn, spam or a mixture of the two. Now, whilst I know certain staff that can take care of this issue - I'd be nice to have a 'report' button which will take us to a form to fill in, explaining the reason we thing OC is being abused.


Visitor Stats
I dont know how this would be possible; but since you display visitor/hit stats for people's blogs, would it be possible to share a bit of extra information with bloggers about their blog? Maybe get in touch with Hitslink and see what they can do for letting bloggers see more stats - like referring urls, countries, keywords, etc.


Backing Up
This is kind of a question, rather than a request - but do you guys have anything in place to back up what's on the server? I mean, I've a lot of posts, and a lot of photos on there. Some of the photos I've uploaded I've lost on my computer, so the copy on Opera Community is my only copy of those precious photos. If your main server were to die for xyz reason, do you have all my posts and photos backed up to revert to?

If so, would it be possible in future for me to download backups of such things. Maybe the ability to download a photo album as a ZIP?


Send as e-Card
I've talked about this once already, so there's not much point in repeating it. View the original post here.


Hire me.
I really want to be paid to sit and improve an online community in ways and means I see fit. It would be wicked! I want to make some new design(s) for the Opera Community homepage. Okay, I know it's been updated recently - but I think it needs more work. It's not quite right - things dont run consistantly enough across the community at the minute.

Plus, I want to work at Opera one day.

I was going to take some time off work and apply for your internship this year. However, decided against it because of my girlfriend. She pleaded with me not to apply for a job at Last.fm because I'd have to move to London - nevermind moving abroad to work for Opera.

Originally posted by coxy:

Stability
Right now (and this is something that's gotten progressively worse, imo) is that the whole Community seems to have become less stable. I have no idea what this is down to, increasing numbers of members, perhaps? But know that over recent weeks I've seen more time-outs and loading problems than I'd like.

The last few weeks have been quite painful, to say the least. We have had a database backend solution which was not optimal from the get-go, and it has become progressively worse as we have gained more users and traffic.

Luckily we have ordered new hardware for a radically different approach to the database backend which we hope to have up and running in about three weeks' time. This will free up the servers we are currently using as database backends to something else. For example dedicated album upload servers.

I know this is a free service you're running here, so appreciate what you're giving at the minute; but it's ever more tempting to go back to things like Flickr when I upload a bunch of photos in a zip file, and only half of them appear in my album and I'm greeted with a server error message.

Aye, it is a free service, however that doesn't mean it is supposed to be broken (I can easily agree that parts of the site currently is broken). I'm hoping to have dedicated boxes for photo album uploads soon, which should make stuff like uploading and editing more efficient. Currently, many requests will time out due to somewhat overloaded hardware.

Report Inappropraite Content
I've seen a lot of blogs that are filled with porn, spam or a mixture of the two. Now, whilst I know certain staff that can take care of this issue - I'd be nice to have a 'report' button which will take us to a form to fill in, explaining the reason we thing OC is being abused.

We agree that this is needed, and it is a recurring theme in discussions, although we haven't gotten as far yet. There are some issuses with the design of these things (we don't want to give users the feeling that they are constantly monitored by some gray mass of BigBrothers).

Visitor Stats
I dont know how this would be possible; but since you display visitor/hit stats for people's blogs, would it be possible to share a bit of extra information with bloggers about their blog? Maybe get in touch with Hitslink and see what they can do for letting bloggers see more stats - like referring urls, countries, keywords, etc.

This is a recurring wish, so we'll probably do something about it eventually. I'm currently a bit concerned with regards to the efficiency of storing each request to users' pages.

Backing Up
If your main server were to die for xyz reason, do you have all my posts and photos backed up to revert to?

Yep.

Hire me.

http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/opening.dml?id=24
http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/opening.dml?id=25
http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/opening.dml?id=29