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January release

By Fredrik Andersson. Thursday, 10. January 2008, 14:47:06

chuck norris We're kick off the new year with a beast of an update. Let's take a closer look at some of the changes.

New navigation

We got new drop down menus at the top of the page (or tabs, if you are surfing with a mobile). We added these to make it easier for you to find your way between your own page and the community pages. You will find all community related things under "Explore", personal things under "My page", and Opera stuff under... (yes, you got it) "Opera".. :cool::cool::cool:

Some of you will surely ask: "What about my page, I use my own CSS. Have you changed any HTML?".

Yes, we have changed the HTML for the top menu but it should look fine on your page because we always include the top menu CSS. In your account pages you can select if you want a black or white top menu, like before. (note: we changed the default settings for this, so some of you might have to reselect it)

The new menus also brings a stronger branding to all of our pages with a sweet My Opera logo on top. This has been done to create a feel of one community.

Faster loading

My Opera now loads faster than before. We have optimized the default design a bit. This is the first step towards building a faster and more efficient site. (more)

Find other members from your country

Now you can easily find other My Opera members from your own country! All you need to do is to make sure that you have selected a country in your profile, and then you will be able to click the country name to see other members.

We have even added features for sorting by last updated status, name, forum posts, or newest members (if you want to see oldest members, just remove &inv=1 from the URL)

Watch > Subscribe

The old "watch" feature has changed name to "subscribe", and you can now find an archive of all your blog and photo subscriptions in one place.

The subscription buttons have also moved from the (no longer existing) black top bar into the page itself. The buttons looks like this, and you can find them next to any blog post or photo album, etc: subscribe

The buttons have toggle functionality. This means that if you click them once they will spotlight/subscribe the specified item, and if you click them again you will turn the spotlight/subscription off.

Spotlights

The new spotlight buttons have also moved into the page, next to each item that you can spotlight: spotlight

The spotlights are no longer restricted to only 15. Now you can have as many as you like.

Previewing blog themes

It's now possible to preview blog themes, and see what they look like before you apply it.

Smilie drop down

Next to each comment box (or quick reply in the forums) you will now find a smilie drop down, to make it easier to add smilies. :D :cool: :happy:

New help section

We have a brand new help section. It's not complete, but we think it's a good start. We also added a link to the help section from the footer of all pages.

New contact pages

The contact pages have been updated in the same style as the help pages.

Forums

We added a direct link to "all posts by this user" at the side of each forum post, and also a link to "find users by country".

Photos

Some HTML have been changed on the photo page because of the new spotlight and subscribe buttons. We have also moved the zoom button, and fixed a bug that made the zoom button visible even for smaller images.

After you have uploaded a new photo to an album, you will now see a small thumbnail that has a direct link to the photo itself.

We fixed a bug so that the number of photo comments is always visible, even when the album is set to friends/members only.

Shoutbox

The encoding issues for Japanese posts should now be resolved.

New default photo

There is a new default picture (a camera) for members who have not yet added their photo.

People > Members

The name of this section has now changed to Members.

Opera

The Opera section has changed. It's now easier to find the skins, and there's even some new Opera buttons available. Why not take this chance to try the latest version of Opera and recommend it to your friends. :smile:

News items

If you get a new message, or a notification about a new comment, etc. Then it will be shown in a small bar below the top menus.

Edit status

The edit status feature is now mainly available on your profile page.

Account pages

We have restructured the account pages to make them easier to use.

Messages

Fixed a bug that always showed sent messages as unread. Fixed a Wii CSS bug, and added a number on the top of the inbox tab, showing how many unread messages you have.

We also made it impossible to send messages for new users who have not yet activated their account (this is to stop spammers).

Edit friends/members

We have added a more visible link to the edit friends page and changed the layout from 3 to 2 columns (because it works better for people with lower screen resolutions).

Sign up

The page that is shown after sign up have been changed. Tell your friends to sign up now and take a screenshot, to find out how it looks... :wink:

Error pages

The error pages have been slightly updated.

Links

We have fixed some bugs on the links pages, and made sure that it no longer says "URL" below all links without description.

New favicon

We have a new favicon!

And..

a lot of small bug fixes..

And a happy New Year...Happy leap day

Comments

Matt Cox 10. January 2008, 17:24

I like it thus far. I needed something to occupy my last 30mins of work. P:
I'm sure you'll get a few complaints about the height of the nav bar up top, but I dont mind it.

Vetle Roeim 10. January 2008, 17:28

Great work, guys!
:happymanager:

agony 10. January 2008, 17:33

finally an archive for the subscriptions \o/

Tamil 10. January 2008, 17:36

A lot of improvement. :up: :happy:

Gary Denness 10. January 2008, 17:41

I like. a lot. But.....there always has to be a but....!

The bar is a bit chunky! I would have preferred a slimmer bar.

Ryan Octavianus 10. January 2008, 17:45

kinda hard to navigate the tabs using opera mini 3 with images off.

Øyvind Østlund 10. January 2008, 17:57

Looks good, on all pages except mine p: One thing though. The Z-index order of the pop up menu seems off in IE. It is behind the banner and text on this page.


- ØØ -

Ricardo Ferreira 10. January 2008, 18:06

Est-Timor is contry, but is not on the list!

Zoli 10. January 2008, 18:12

"Find other members from your country"
you know,.. city would be great to, because a country is too big that the chances of ever meeting another myopera member in the town where you live in are very small ...
Just think of the U.S.

p.s. as far as I can remember, 'choose city' option was enabled on the community, back then
:smile:

Øyvind Østlund 10. January 2008, 18:18

All the links seems gone from the "info" pages of groups:

http://my.opera.com/aroundtheworld/info/

[Edit] Make that all "info" pages.
[Edit] Nope, just some of them again.
- ØØ -

Daniel Goldman 10. January 2008, 18:24

Good work guys. I think it will take me some time to get used to the new navigation menu.

Maulkin 10. January 2008, 18:47

Thanl you! :smile: Very nice update!

Jimmy Ramos 10. January 2008, 18:52

Well update. I can have by the hand all I need. Ok The show must gone...!

Lars Kleinschmidt 10. January 2008, 19:05

> New favicon

Still getting the old one (and no, it's not in my cache)

lamarca 10. January 2008, 19:36

great improvement.

Ayush 10. January 2008, 19:38

Great :cool: :up: :happy:

Originally posted by larskl:

Still getting the old one (and no, it's not in my cache)


same here :frown:

Fredrik Andersson 10. January 2008, 19:45

strange. seems like the new favicon was not synced to the live servers. I'll take a look at it tomorrow

Phred 10. January 2008, 19:47

God bless COMPLETE changelogs. Fred, you should have a talk with the desktop team. :D

Khadra Warsame Penh Neang 10. January 2008, 20:31

Sweet and Nicely

Ryan McCabe 10. January 2008, 20:48

Hey Fred,

Great job on the new release! Everything feels really snazzy. :cheers:

Do you think it would be possible to put the forum subscriptions under the subscriptions link too? Blogs are great, but some of us still are addicted to the forums too. :happy:

theoddbod 10. January 2008, 20:49

Looking good :cool:

Kiran 10. January 2008, 21:03

i cant log into my opera using 3.1 what shold i do? Whenever i type my username and password and click log in the same page appears with blank user name and password box.

babox 10. January 2008, 21:13

Great job! :up:

flamingo-rinse 10. January 2008, 22:17

Originally posted by rmccabe916:

Do you think it would be possible to put the forum subscriptions under the subscriptions link too?



I entirely agree :up:

Øyvind Østlund 11. January 2008, 00:18

@Flamingo rinse:

Nice location. Do you feel alone :D http://my.opera.com/community/social/location/?location=Beyond%20the%20Blue%20Horizon :D


- ØØ -

Ayush 11. January 2008, 01:43

Originally posted by rmccabe916:

Do you think it would be possible to put the forum subscriptions under the subscriptions link too? Blogs are great, but some of us still are addicted to the forums too.


+1

阮龍 11. January 2008, 02:29

hey, i dont like the new bar. too fat. and it screwed up my background image. if i have a custom background image, is this new bar supposed to crop out the top part of that image? it does to mine. hope you guys can fix it soon, thanks. keep up the good job.

Ryan Octavianus 11. January 2008, 10:13

Am i the only getting gmt time zone although i have set other time zones in my profile?

Stomyr 11. January 2008, 12:37

Great Work! :smile:

Đỗ Nam Khánh 11. January 2008, 14:15

My friend has translated this entry to Vietnamese, everyone can view it in http://my.opera.com/luuhainam/blog/show.dml/1658290 :D

@devblog: wish you success :yes:

Daniel Goldman 11. January 2008, 14:17

How do I unsubscribe from the comments of a post?

Đỗ Nam Khánh 11. January 2008, 14:29

Hi danigoldman,
You can click the button "You are subscribed" below each post to unsubscribe comments :smile:

Zotlan 11. January 2008, 15:09

A question taht is probably not going to be answered; will Opera 9.5 use the new my.opera icon?

kurt duyck 11. January 2008, 15:59

A nice new years present from my.opera developers. It is a lot snappier and faster.

anukasia 11. January 2008, 17:16

a one and only one best browser of the world. . .Opera

Luchio 11. January 2008, 18:46

REGRESSION: No way to unsubscribe directly from the subscription list page.

Daniel Goldman 11. January 2008, 19:09

namkhanh, I don't see any subscription links on posts pages that I'm already subscribed to.

Fredrik Andersson 11. January 2008, 19:12

the button should be right there, next to the spotlight button. I can see it. it says "you are subscribed"

all subscription and spotlight buttons are toggle buttons. click them once to turn it on, click them again to turn it off


...but I should probably change the text of the button, so it says "unsubscribe". I'll do that tomorrow

Vygantas 11. January 2008, 19:40

New icon? I am just wondering why you are using same shadow technique which was criticized?

Hiroyuki 11. January 2008, 23:11

Thanks for the detailed info. Seems generally good, but I agree that the opera bar is too chunky, also I don't like the zoom button intruding onto the image in photo album, it should be below the image (maybe this can be moved using usercss, I'm not sure?)

Fredrik Andersson 11. January 2008, 23:25

yes, the zoom button can be moved with css.

Lorenzo 14. January 2008, 11:55

Good work !
Now try to remove the black banner from the photos like in this post
http://my.opera.com/lor74cas/blog/?startidx=5

Ricardo Ferreira 16. January 2008, 01:12

My Opera members from your own country, the option "post" shod be update by posts in blogs in the same region!

Ricardo Ferreira 16. January 2008, 20:26

Azores is not a country, belongs to Portugal :lol:

Fredrik Andersson 18. January 2008, 21:30

Hi,
We are trying to fix your blog. I hope that we can fix it soon.

Fredrik Andersson 23. January 2008, 09:25

Did you manage to break your blog again?
We will take a look at it when we get time...

_Grey_ 27. January 2008, 15:29

Hey guys... I realize there's been a lot of effort/work into this and I do appreciate "smoothness", but...

I don't like it. The new positioning of "watch/subscribe" is just horrible. It breaks my habbits. If I go back to a post and decide it's worth to "subscribe" to the comments, I do not want to be scrolling through the entire post. In the past I just opened the page in a tab, click the link at the top and that was it. This gets annoying with long posts. Please, do something about this. UserJS is nice and all, but doesn't help when I'm not at home or even using someone else's machine. The only way around this would be custom.js (created by moi) loaded from My.Opera servers, but I see how this could be pretty dangerous...

Fredrik Andersson 5. February 2008, 13:09

The problem in your blog has been fixed on our internal server. The fix should be made live at the next My Opera release, later this week..

tk9 1. March 2008, 16:23

3 or 4 days that I could not enter any of Opera pages. Until yesternight, when put my login name as keyword in google search i.e. simplifolks. Then I found my url under this web - http://helpmehide.com/index.php?q=uggc%3A%2F%2Fzl.bcren.pbz%2Ffvzcyvsbyxf%2Foybt%2F

At the early moment I could not pull the drop down list from any of top row buttons. Now as I type this comment, I can do that.
It seems that I have to get entrance first, and then take tour under that shed. Indeed I travel in MyOpera smoothly under that "shed", but thinking of how nervous on past 3-4 days, and if I didn't find that link, I would be lamb forever and know nothing. So I'd like to inform your team.

Ironically, sometimes I think this guy is naughty and........, but if want to make his own trial, why didn't inform me?
(If I try to enter Opera by usual way, the loading indicator (progressing green spots) will run only 4-5 spots, then hang on.

sincerely.

Blue 2. April 2008, 12:50

Please help me my account isnt actived yet how to active the account:-)

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