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My Opera feedback

Please let us know how to improve My Opera related to our <a href="http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2009/11/06/help-shape-the-future-of-my-opera">feedback post</a>!

Originally posted by serola:

Copyright act to clean numerous albums full of art presented without permission of original artists. Let's say an one month campaign of notices displayed all over MyOpera, where members asked to acknowledge the original artists on their albums or remove the images presented without permission.

what if they are googled images and don't know the proper source/author ?

Originally posted by decodedthought:

Originally posted by serola:

Copyright act to clean numerous albums full of art presented without permission of original artists. Let's say an one month campaign of notices displayed all over MyOpera, where members asked to acknowledge the original artists on their albums or remove the images presented without permission.

what if they are googled images and don't know the proper source/author ?

Good question Lack of "information literacy" is common problem. People just don't know what copyright means in practice. I searched forums and found a good comment by Jonimueller where she lists excellent information sources on this topic: Opera photoalbum policies. I also recommend to continue discussion over there if you have any more questions on this.

I would suggest a more fluid way to manage our files. Be able to delete more than one file at the time, move files from one directory to other, maybe a search feature.

Originally posted by Belfrager:

I would suggest a more fluid way to manage our files. Be able to delete more than one file at the time, move files from one directory to other, maybe a search feature.

+1

Add select 'Scale image if larger than: 1280*1024 | 1024*768 | 800*600 | Keep original' also for mobile devices. I was disappointed to find out I can't keep the original image size when using Opera Mini to upload images to my photo albums.

The Speed Dial has been a very nice feature. However, when inserting new websites I guess most of us will directly copy and paste the address instead of selecting those suggested long list from opera. The problem is that every time I paste the address, opera will prompt for other suggestions related to my address. The list is long and results in mis-selection of these rubbish list. The auto-complete feature here is very annoying.

fix it!

Originally posted by Belfrager:

I would suggest a more fluid way to manage our files. Be able to delete more than one file at the time, move files from one directory to other, maybe a search feature.

+1

On a blog post reply, if you uncheck "Notify me if someone replies to this comment" and post, it'd be cool if it was then left unchecked by default for that blog post (so you don't have to keep unchecking it everytime you post or edit). Would be very useful when you're using feeds to monitor a post instead of email notification.

I think when you edit a reply and save, it still takes you back to the first page of the blog post. That's really annoying.

If a user uploads a image, and then decides to edit the image and re-upload it, the preview will show the "orignial" image un-modified, this is a really annoying problem of my.opera.com , if this is fixed it will really make my life and probably others who are having these problems lives easier

thank you

Originally posted by samMD:

If a user uploads a image, and then decides to edit the image and re-upload it, the preview will show the "orignial" image un-modified, this is a really annoying problem of my.opera.com , if this is fixed it will really make my life and probably others who are having these problems lives easier

F5

You are seeing the image from your cache.

Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

You are seeing the image from your cache.

It seems like the server isn't sending the right cache directives then.

Server seems to update changes very slowly today. I tried to update my user css, but had to give up, because seeing the results took even over ten minutes.

EDIT: Sorry for being off-topic. However, I wish updates could take place much sooner in future. I have had a lot of troubles when trying to update my own pages and especially group blog on MyOpera. Sometimes I have to change something on 'Page configuration' page before changes take place. And changing avatar has been extremely slow for very long time.

It is great browser with lots of user friendly features that can hardly be ignored. Whats more, its features are amazingly original and it does not take a long time to open a website. I hope it will keep doing better in coming year.

It'd be nice if the atom feed markup for blog comments was improved so escaped markup isn't included in <title></title> That'd make things look much nicer in M2.

I realize that since there isn't a subject/title for each comment, the content of <title></title> is gotten from the comment's body. But, I find this annoying. I'd rather see a subject of just "User commented..." than a subject of

<a href="http://my.opera.com/comm...

in M2's message list. And, when reading a message in a new tab where you can see more of the markup in the subject, it's even more annoying.

At the least, what's inside <title></title> should be a fragment of the body's textContent, not a fraction of the body's markup.

Originally posted by burnout426:

I want a "Disable markup" posting option next to "Disable smilies" so that everything I type is treated as just plain, preformatted text. That way, I don't have to worry about escaping things that might be interpreted as markup.

If you look at my previous post right above, the partial markup that was shown was originaly outside of code tags, but was still properly-escape with HTML entities, so it should have been treated as text. But, it wasn't and hosed this whole thread. I had to delete my post to fix it.

There are all kinds of ways that escaped markup still gets treated as HTML on these forums. It gets quite annoying because the markup parser that's used on these forums is broken. That's why I'd love to have the forum just escape everything that I post so that everything is treated as plain text. The code to do it is way less complicated, which means way less to zero bugs.

I can't update my facebook status via my opera. I do have checked the box to share it but it just doesn't work.

Custom Javascript
I try to paste this but it doesnt work.


<script type="text/javascript">
nuffnang_bid = "cdc2d7697a590f34f7adb655c29fb746";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://synad2.nuffnang.com.sg/j.js"></script>



Are custom javascript not allowed?

just downloaded opera 10.10 on my mac book, during installation, i wasnt shown whether i wanted to import bookmarks from safari or firefox, so after installation i tried to import bookmarks from my firefox [file/import&export bookmarks/import from netscape+firefox], but it lead into "finder" - i think - to choose which folder my firefox bookmarks are stored...i dont know where these bookmarks are stored, as a regular user i dont need to know, so until now i can't import bookmarks...... heck, when i installed firefox, i just clicked import from safari and you're ready to go...

2nd.ly how do you un-delete bookmarks if you accidentally delete them... in "manage bookmark", if i right-click the bookmark/bookmark folder i want to undelete, there's no option to do so, nor when i click "file" on top of the screen.... this thing should be a very standard function... right-click you can delete, undelete, edit name, etc etc... this function is probably there, and if its there, it still isnt user-friendly 'coz it means we have to search for such a basic functionality...

or is there a bug in my opera ? all in all not a very good first impression....

@GothicScarlet Not allowed, yeah. Try a flashy substitution.

I did not have time to read through all of the submitted feedback inputs, but I did see a few regarding turning Operamail into a serious e-mail client with calendar functionality. Syncing my contacts, calendar, etc. is important to me as I like to sync these items with my PDA (which is a lot easier to pack around than my laptop most of the time). The lack of a really good e-mail client and calendar system has kept Opera as a secondary browser for many years for me. I know I could use something else, but that defeats the purpose of a totally integrated package which I prefer. SeaMonkey does not appeal to me due to the lack of support (e.g. extensions and themes). Opera is the better browser in my opinion.

Thank you for your time and asking for our input.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before. (TL;DR)
To close the smiley selection box, you have to click the smiley button. This is kind of annoying, especially if you zoom the page, because the button disappears behind the selection. It'd be much better to be able to click anywhere outside the selection box to close it, as expected.
Also, on the forums front page, the "My friends' latest posts" box doesn't show quotes properly like the "Active forum topics" box does.
Speaking of the "Active forum topics", it would be nice if it only showed topics in your chosen language, or English + your language.
I should probably mention that I had some problems setting the language on this site permanently. Every time I changed it, it would reset after a few minutes. I managed to get it working by changing the language in my Opera browser preferences. That should work regardless of the browser setting.

That's all I can think of for now. Keep up the good work.

- could you please develop a sidebar widget for last.fm and other services in our blog sidebar?
and
- could you enable people to rearrange their blog sidebar modules?

sorry if anyone has posted similar ideas.

+1 to what Avola said.

Originally posted by Avola:

Sorry if this has been mentioned before. (TL;DR)
To close the smiley selection box, you have to click the smiley button. This is kind of annoying, especially if you zoom the page, because the button disappears behind the selection. It'd be much better to be able to click anywhere outside the selection box to close it, as expected.
Also, on the forums front page, the "My friends' latest posts" box doesn't show quotes properly like the "Active forum topics" box does.
Speaking of the "Active forum topics", it would be nice if it only showed topics in your chosen language, or English + your language.
I should probably mention that I had some problems setting the language on this site permanently. Every time I changed it, it would reset after a few minutes. I managed to get it working by changing the language in my Opera browser preferences. That should work regardless of the browser setting.

That's all I can think of for now. Keep up the good work.

+1 needed badly and waiting

Uploading photos simply does not work. It has crashed my browser multiple times. Worst thing is, it works with FF, which I find rather embarrassing on Opera's behalf. Classic uploader works though, but that gets rather tedious.

I'd love to get some way of exporting images from my favourite image browse program, directly into MyOpera. A bit like you can do with Picasa. That way, the images can be auto scaled just prior to the upload process, saving lots of time. Another option is to integrate with Pixelpipe or similar service.


System specs:
Opera 10.10
Ubuntu 10.4

Using Opera Mini it is impossibel to hit the "Quote Icon" in Blog post! In the forum we have the "Quote" text that works well with Mini. I hope to see same solution in the Blog's

The bright white background color isn't all that comfortable to look at for long periods of time. Perhaps change it to something slightly darker? Or better yet, give us the ability to choose different colors.

It's possible letting people choose between Opera's favicon to MyOpera Blogs and a resized avatar favicon, or just another one? That will be a nice touch from Opera...

A wish. I miss being able to see what number I am in the affiliate program, would be nice if it was showed together with your points!

I know I can click for 30 min to get to my result :-s

Have the developers at Opera considered adding a share feature to the browser that would allow us to share web content on our My Opera profiles? I know, it's facebook-y. But I think it would be a good feature.

in home page when I update my status, the status gets updated but the text box doesn't get cleared !! I think Opera dev. team should look into it !

improvements

1. visitors can vote in the pool-they dont have to be registered
2. i can add some poll also to my blog post (as in forums of opera)
3. improve twitter integration(in my case it works not very good, just letter...no collors)
4. add possibility to add post, which can be seen only to people who receive link for this blog post-something like google picasa albums
5. better embeding of external application to the sidebares
6. to the home page-put there also possibility for twitter integration to reply, delete...as in twitter homepage
7. possibility to resize pictures when adding to the blog post

sorry if some of this ideas was already mentioned

sone more:
when i want to share my blog post with any picture to the facebook, it stops me with warning that this blog post has not appropriate

and add google analytics...this hotlinks is pretty bad..

Hi,

I would really like to see the my.opera.com pages using https, or at least a ssl secured login. Until now I hesitate to use the blog or the online access to my Opera bookmarks (http://my.opera.com/camaxtli/account/link/bookmarks/ ).

I realize that Opera Link encrypts data while synchronizing. But if you have to access the bookmarks over the my.opera.com-Website this usually means that you don't have your own Opera version installed, e.g. at work. And exactly in these scenarios I would really appreciate https.

Same thing with the blog. What good is it, if I can't use it while using any public WLAN hotspot (cafe, hotel,...)? Some bad luck, and the guy next to me sniffs my my.opera-Password and can read all my bookmarks and notes, see my uploaded files/pictures,...

Hmm... split Subscriptions ( http://my.opera.com/community/forums/subscriptions.dml )into subpages. There is no way of automatic unsubscribing from threads and the list is prone to getting bigger (esp. if someone is active on the forum and want to keep track on ones discussions), which causes the page to load slooooowly.
At the moment my list is slowly reaching half thousands entries. :/

Originally posted by lwiczek:

split Subscriptions ( http://my.opera.com/community/forums/subscriptions.dml )into subpages.

+1000000

Originally posted by lwiczek:

Hmm... split Subscriptions ( http://my.opera.com/community/forums/subscriptions.dml )into subpages. There is no way of automatic unsubscribing from threads and the list is prone to getting bigger (esp. if someone is active on the forum and want to keep track on ones discussions), which causes the page to load slooooowly.
At the moment my list is slowly reaching half thousands entries. :/

Yes, we need a fix for this. It drives me nuts.

Hi. I want to translate Opera's site to russian language. Some pages have been translated, but most of them still only in english/francaise etc...

Hi, since the last update, I see this home page in MyOpera:



is this normal?

On 'mobile site view' use similar whisper style and image* as on 'full site view'. Otherwise recipient easily not notice if being directed with private whisper message.

*image something like this

Originally posted by FataL:

#5
UserJS section of the site. Similar or better than Opera Widgets or Opera Unite Applications. UserJS scripts can benefit many people, and that scripts as useful as widgets or Unite apps.

Preach! Been asking espen for this for ages... before the Unite section existed (and possibly before they started working on it). Maybe that's why it was a resourcing issue at the time. I wonder what the hold up is now.

Originally posted by fatal:

#5
UserJS section of the site. Similar or better than Opera Widgets or Opera Unite Applications. UserJS scripts can benefit many people, and that scripts as useful as widgets or Unite apps.

+1

@camaxtli It's been promised. Meanwhile, you could run Opera Mini (online or locally), with only the traffic between Opera Mini Servers and My Opera unencrypted (they say).

Please make the 'mobile site view' more consistent. See this comment for few inconsistencies I found. I recommend someone at MyOpera to browse through MyOpera mobile site using some mobile device.

Please add expire date for 'mobile' cookie and make it considerable long (till year 2036 or something). Some people want to select desktop site view on their mobile browser, and keep it that way, but for example on Opera Mini browser this 'mobile' cookie does not seem to stay selected between sessions. Instead the cookie get expired when the session on Opera Mini server become closed.

EDIT: There's also alternative option suggested on forums. Maybe this desktop/mobile site view could be changed into personal setting and that way user could choose to keep the current view permanently.

PLEASE FIX THIS:

Even though I am logged off, I can still see the titles of my PRIVATE blog posts in the "Latest blog posts" section.

If they are marked as private, they shouldn't be showing for anyone except me (when I'm logged in).

Please fix this!!!

@mairabay
Are you sure you aren't viewing a cached page after logging off? Do you still see your PRIVATE posts after pressing the F5 button?

Originally posted by burnout426:

Yes, operamail.com should be built in-house and basically be a webmail version of M2 (Using IMAP as a backend (but still allow pop3 translation for pop3 clients) with whatever language (python for example) for config/serving etc.)

To expand on this. I think the webmail's IMAP server should forget about folders (besides Inbox where all messages would be) and make use of flags like \Draft for drafts, \Deleted for trash, the absense and presence of \Seen for unread and received, and IMAP keywords for other labels that you can apply to messages. This would fit really well with M2. Basically, do Gmail the right way with flags instead of copies in IMAP folders etc.

a lot of my friends have requested me that if My Opera can get (CSS that I have done) as "options" while "Advanced" Customization basically having all the "CSS" commands at your fingertips at your reach with few clicks of a button. Like for example: (body{background:url("www.blahlah/bdfs.png") fixed;}