New Community Home Page & Other Improvements

[Marjo]

Hey everyone! How is your Thursday going?

If you noticed a few changes to the Community today, don't worry, it's not your imagination. We're really pleased to officially announce an updated version of our O2 Community Home page! 

Many of you have provided valuable feedback about the home page over the past few months and we wanted to say a big thank you! 

We have made sure to include as much of it as possible in this version and continue working towards future improvements. Here a short list of changes! 

• The Knowledge Base, which sounded a little too technical, is now called Content created by our Community with its How to Guides and Reviews boards.
• We have separated Pay Monthly and Pay as You Go boards as per your wishes for clarity when helping with related member queries.
• O2 Home is no longer at the top of the page (it will be archived anyway later since the service is closing), instead, we have a link to the News board and to the make a new post page at the top.
• Additionally, you can see a carousel at the top where we can now better highlight interesting info, discussions, member-created guides or device reviews.
• We have also made some improvements to the mobile experience in general, for example, you should now be able to edit your own posts in the mobile view. 

Please note also that the Ideas section has now been archived which was also something that was asked about. Thank you very much everyone who posted an idea or voted for one, it's much appreciated!

Please do continue posting and discussing your ideas and feedback in the Feedback board. We do love to hear all you have to say and we make sure all your feedback is shared with O2.

Let us know what you think of these changes, and as always, keep your feedback coming.

----- Things noticed so far ----- UPDATES

Things that don’t work as expected:

• Mobile view: “Add comment” button in each post on mobile only adds a comment technically to the first post in the thread. This makes it impossible to quote a specific reply.
• Full view on mobile: need to press the emojis several times to be able to add to post. WORK IN PROGRESS
• "Users Online" isn't working. There's no clickable link to see who is online and if you hover over the images they are all N/A. Link to "view all" is missing. WORK IN PROGRESS
• Error when trying to access My O2 on Firefox: "The page isn't redirecting properly"
• Delays noticed in the Latest Topics section

Missing functionality:

• Mobile view: Access to emojis is only possible in edit mode. WORK IN PROGRESS
• Mobile view: Cannot add photos. FIXED

Improvements:

• Wording at the top of the page: lack of clear info that the community is not Customer Service.
• Make full view default on mobile, as it seems to be more user-friendly and include more options.
• Edit button should be visible only when the editing window is still open. FIXED
• Latest Topics section taking a lot of space on home page.

[pgn]

Foreign-nuff... Fairy-nuff... Fair enough 😁

[pgn]

Who's Online?

You've gone invisible again, @MI5. 👻

I can see your footprints, just not you 👣

Ah'm gonna havta get new specs 

[Cleoriff]

@pgnI am...but I have discovered I show online when I first log on for about 30 mins. Then I disappear even though I haven't logged out at all.

Also remember some people choose not to show as being online at all. Others can choose to show as online to friends only ....

[pgn]

Hmmm... I shall have to go take a look at the options in the Settings, methinks... Thanks for mentioning that, @Cleoriff.

[jonsie]

A lot of people choose that option so that they can just browse the threads or through a privacy preference.

[Cleoriff]

Since the board changes I have been getting this message on my PC when I try to access My O2

Never had a problem before and can access my O2 on mobile using Chrome. I will attempt it later on PC using Chrome

[Cleoriff]

Just tried Chrome on PC and could access My O2 with no problems . So it appears to be a Firefox issue. Any ideas? 

It might be coincidental that the problem started when the board changed. I have no problem with any other links. Only My O2

[gmarkj]

Without checking I would guess that mobile view is less data hungry - smaller/fewer photos, slightly different layout that is (supposedly) easier to use/navigate on a smaller screen.
I think what would be useful would be for Lithium/forum mods to try mobile view to see how it looks/works as part of the testing.
Wonder if you can view the mobile view on a PC. Off to try...

[Cleoriff]

My issue on PC appears to be with Firefox. Having just checked (again on PC) by logging into Chrome My O2 was accessible. Also no problems with mobile (using Chrome)

I just get the above error message using PC and FF. Which is a bit of a drag as FF is my default browser on laptop!....

[welshsteve76]

I'm liking the changes.  Much clearer than before, making it easier to find what you want.  Good job