My Opera News - Elderberry release

Elderberry release

By Nicolas Mendozanicomen. Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:51:29 AM

Just in time for Christmas we've released an update for My Opera, this time codenamed Elderberry. (Btw here's a recipe for making Elderberry jam in case you needed that)

This release's changes include:

Activity feed updated, "Home" is now your home on My Opera.
New Community section with more featured content.
Group news now in the activity feed.
Twitter sidebar integration.
YouTube API is now used to display video thumbnails for Opera Mini
My Opera optimization for mobiles and smaller screens, with media queries.
Updated photo tagging. Sorting of tags and opt-out.
Updated CSS customize tool.
Opera Unite updates.
2 GB storage for everyone.
Parsing fixes: Dreaded problems, entities not escaped when text is truncated
Increasing modularity of file accesses from backends
Featured news page where we can showcase things we think you would like to see.
Removed technorati ping support
Security issue with forum when set to restricted
CSS files optimizations (concatenates css files for less accesses)
Issues with encoding and caching pages led to empty pages
Blocked users showed up in recent visitors page
[DevOpera] New CC licenses
Forum feeds not visible for non-admins
Some HTMl validation fixes
Stricter on filetypes allowed as usercss
Too much escaping of entities in blog entries
Soft limit on signature lengths
Timezone fixes for activity feed
MMS blogging character encoding fixes
Jump to correct comment after editing it.
Stricter validation on various user provided fields
Don't show your own status updates if feed is empty
[DevOpera] Share article button
Show full name in comments
Fixes for narrow screens
[DevOpera] fixes for tag links
Spaces in group names shown properly
Variable speed dial size support
Fixes for internal reports
Some DB load balancing fixes
Improve caching of "static" pages for various user agents
Better grouping of activity feed entries
[DevOpera] Editing tags led to faulty URLs
[DevOpera] Editing articles led to old SEO URL b0rk
Some Twitter status parsing fixes
Fixes for customizing page background
Phototagging fixes
Add blogID to RSD files
More correct avatar caching
Allow Favorites and Unite as default pages
Future group blog posts should not show up
Various fixes for alignments and layout in MSIE
[DevOpera] Search results showed up double encoded
And much more \o/

PS: We know about some remaining encoding issues, and will try to fix them as soon as possible ;-)
PPS: Most encoding issues should've been fixed.

Back to our primary master databaseNew year's Latest activities bug fixed

Comments

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:30:17 PM

Andrew NguyenSouthernCross # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:33:07 PM

thobi # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:42:37 PM

nice

btw: a way to delete shoutbox-comments would be nice

Phạm Lâmphamlam # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:51:06 PM

Nice

z@h3kZAHEK # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:12:32 PM

wow..

Tamil # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:43:59 PM

selurus # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:30:08 PM

I'll have to check about the you tube update.
Also thanks for the additional space

David Tsunamydavidtsunamy # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:04:54 PM

nice work team!!

FataL # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:41:08 PM

Appreciate bug fixes!

kiyokofutaichigo # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:57:14 PM

Martin RauscherHades32 # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:07:02 PM

Should this update include the fix for Posterous.com and autopostings?

Muttsfan # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:12:09 PM

Dark FurieFurie # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:18:00 PM

Hmmm, don't like this full name displaying in comments. It's too easy for someone to set up a fake account with the same avatar and name. I guarantee it'll lead to problems.

FataL # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:29:33 PM

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Nicolas Mendozanicomen # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:36:02 PM

"русскоязычное сообщество" ?

Илья ШпаньковIlyaShpankov # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:35:22 PM

Yes. But now I'm not sure that we're "русскоязычное сообщество"...

Our language now looks like we're ET's in this world

Илья ШпаньковIlyaShpankov # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:36:08 PM

Юмор для наших:

"Мастер, мне не надо лучше, сделай как было"...

theoddbod # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:36:17 PM

+1 to Mik, the only real Dark Furie

theoddbod # Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:41:55 PM

Indeed, I can't think of a positive from this particular tweak - it's just opened the door for impersonation and confusion. I propose an "I'm Espen" event in the forums later

FataL # Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:49:26 AM

BTW, I was displayed as FataL, but now it's Andrey Petrov.
How to change it back to FataL?

theoddbod # Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:52:27 AM

It's only half been implemented - if you click the Quote option it still displays the username FataL rather than Andrey Petrov.

Dark FurieFurie # Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:50:09 PM

Another problem with it.

I've already been asked nicely not to tell people that I'm Espen in disguise and to give me their bank details or they'll get banned so I can't take part in that event.

Fredrik Anderssonfred # Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:56:51 PM

Dark Furie, I see your point. We will see if we can find a suitable solution. Though we want to move My Opera in the direction where we encourage users to use their real identities as opposed to nicknames. (nicknames will of course always be allowed for everyone who wants).

theoddbod # Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:58:32 PM

You're going all Facebook-y

I'm not there under my real identity either

FataL # Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:59:23 PM

Originally posted by fred:

nicknames will of course always be allowed for everyone who wants

So will be there two fields: real name and nickname? I want to be "searchable" by both, but prefer to identify myself as FataL in blogs and forums.
If you decided to left just real name field, most people will put here nickname anyway (history proved). So please be friendly and open.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, December 18, 2009 1:36:12 AM

Originally posted by thobi:

btw: a way to delete shoutbox-comments would be nice

Originally posted by FataL:

So will be there two fields: real name and nickname?

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Monday, January 4, 2010 5:48:23 PM

Originally posted by marc brussol:

no embedded flash

Good thing. Myspace is not the measuring stick of websites. It is one of the most poorly coded major sites.

Muttsfan # Monday, January 4, 2010 7:00:49 PM

I hate myspace. nobody uses it anymore

(well, maybe tom still does)

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Monday, January 4, 2010 7:13:03 PM

Originally posted by Muttsfan:

nobody uses it anymore

I am glad it is using users at a blinding rate.

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Monday, January 4, 2010 7:18:35 PM

Originally posted by marc brussol:

ok facebook?Better choice?

No that has bad code too. But, it is the lesser of two evils.

Dark FurieFurie # Monday, January 4, 2010 7:29:42 PM

Did someone just say that Facebook was less evil than something else?

Muttsfan # Monday, January 4, 2010 7:32:23 PM

Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

Originally posted by marc brussol:

ok facebook?Better choice?
No that has bad code too. But, it is the lesser of two evils.

No, no, no. you should have said:
MyOpera is the better choice

theoddbod # Monday, January 4, 2010 11:16:53 PM

Youtube's embedded Flash is allowed, but allowing the users to embed whatever Flash or other plugin object they wanted was causing an increasing amount of malware to appear. I think it was all blocked a bit over two years ago.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Monday, January 4, 2010 11:57:40 PM

If I do embed a youtube video or some other similar, I also place the url of the video if the embed fails or it does not work for the visitor

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Thursday, January 7, 2010 5:11:22 PM

Originally posted by marc brussol: