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Hey everyone,
Unless you're very new to the community you've likely noticed a few changes to how the forum looks this morning. As we announced yesterday the O2 community has been upgraded! In addition to the new look there are several new features, some requested and a few new ones for good measure. 😄
New home page
Starting at the top we have a new integrated header for the community. The new header contains some useful links. On the left side you have a link to the main O2 site.
You then have links to the O2 shop page > O2 help and support page > My O2 and your shop basket.
On the right of these links you will see your community notifications > private messages and your profile picture.
Clicking on your profile picture will bring up a drop down menu which contains the following...
Directly below the header you will find the new community navigation! The community categories are listed here and if you hover over you will see a drop down of the different boards.
The next level down is the community search bar and your latests stats and notifications!
Below this is our new featured content widget. This is similar to Latest News section on the old home page but is in a much more prominent place than before.
Next is the new trending topics section which is a live feed of the most popular conversations happening in real time!
Below to trending topics you will see the familiar Community Activity where you can see the latest topics and filter them by most recent > most viewed > most commented and most liked.
Down at the bottom of the home page you will see a feed that highlights the most recent guides and reviews. If you hit the View All button it will take you to the guides and reviews category.
Finally the familiar community stats can be found at the very bottom of the page.
New private messaging interface
We also have a brand new private message system which will display your message conversations in a threaded view so no more going back and forth between your inbox and outbox. Please note: Only messages exchanged after the upgrade goes live will be in the threaded view.
Solution highlight
The next new feature to talk about is floated solutions. When a solution is picked on a thread it will be highlighted at the top of the discussion for easy viewing. The solution will still be in it's proper position down the chain of messages.
The new version has an updated text editor box for topics, replies and private messages.
Please have a good look around the new community and let us know any feedback, questions or issues in the comments below!
Issue log and updates:
Text font and formatting - Fixed. To correct this please clear the cache on your bowser
Signature cut off - Fixed. The hight of the signature box has been increased.
Continuity problem on long topics - Fixed. This was an admin setting that has now been turned off
Guide and review boards formatting issues - Fixed. We now have a tiled view for guides and reviews.
Topics on the board level not sorting by most recent post -Fixed. The topics will now sort at the board level by most recent reply.
Image gallery missing from profile page - Fixed. You can now find your image gallery on your profile page and the public image gallery of other members on their profile page.
Increase emoji size - Fixed. The size of the emoji's in posts and messaging has now been increased.
Add friends from member profile -Fixed. Add and remove friend has been added to profile pages.
Missing options in text editor on mobile view (video link, quote and emoji’s) - Fixed. Quotes and emoji's have been added to the mobile view text editor. Adding videos is not currently supported however this will be added in a future platform upgrade.
Adding unanswered topics to homepage dropdown - Fixed. A widget for unread posts has been added to the home page.
Guide links not working - Fixed. Guide links now take you directly to the guide page.
Adding post count and views to replies - Fixed. Post count and views have now been added.
Errors in footer formatting - Fixed. We have now corrected all of the errors.
Topic first post is displayed on all pages of replies - Fixed. Now the OP is only visible on the first page of the thread.
Spell checker in text editor - In progress. We have 2 different options for the spell checker. Inline, realtime or with the old style click to check for misspelled words. We'll decide this at a later date.
Spell checker change from US English to UK English - Investigating
Your own posts showing in the unread message page - Investigating
Clicking an unread message takes you to different unread message then highlighted - Investigating
Using male/female emoji’s adds extra emoji’s - Investigating
Quoting options - Closed. Unfortunately there is only one way of quoting on the current platform design.
Guides and Reviews slow loading times - Closed. There was no issue found in the loading times of guides and reviews.
“View all” for posts and replies option on member profile - Closed. Unfortunately this option cannot be added to the member profile.
Cant see if sent messages have been read - Closed. Unfortunately this feature cannot be added to the new messaging system.
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@Martin-O2 Topic first post is displayed on all pages of replies - Fixed.
I note you say "Now the OP is only displayed when you first land on a thread from a board, mention or unread post".
So is this why I see it when I go to a new post on the thread and if I click back to the previous page it's gone...then when I go click next page where I want to post something it's also gone?
If so I'm not keen. I would rather it was gone altogether.(and only shown on first page as normal.
You see, if we do Word Hunt Diamond, this is usually 16 pages long. IF we see the first OP on different pages when doing this quiz it will throw the whole thing out of sync. We don't need reminding that we have to find a word with W in it, we know what we have to do. So the op should ONLY show on the first page. That's it.
I'll tag @Mi-Amigo here as he runs the quiz.
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@Cleoriff wrote:@Martin-O2 Topic first post is displayed on all pages of replies - Fixed.
I note you say "Now the OP is only displayed when you first land on a thread from a board, mention or unread post".
So is this why I see it when I go to a new post on the thread and if I click back to the previous page it's gone...then when I go click next page where I want to post something it's also gone?
If so I'm not keen. I would rather it was gone altogether.(and only shown on first page as normal.
You see, if we do Word Hunt Diamond, this is usually 16 pages long. IF we see the first OP on different pages when doing this quiz it will throw the whole thing out of sync. We don't need reminding that we have to find a word with W in it, we know what we have to do. So the op should ONLY show on the first page. That's it.
I'll tag @Mi-Amigo here as he runs the quiz.
Thanks for the tag @Cleoriff
Although I`ve not had problems since the issue of OP at top of every page was fixed last night, I can see that the comment which @Martin-O2 made
"Now the OP is only displayed when you first land on a thread from a board, mention or unread post".
could cause problems with WHD.
Regulars are tagged when WHD is opened, but join in the game at various times and from various places - e.g. from tag, from another board, or unread post. So they could see "OP at top of page" part way thru the game, which would throw the game out of sync and cause confusion to all players.
In my opinion, and not just because of WHD but for the benefit of everyone, the most sensible way to dealing with this issue is for the OP to appear on the first page ONLY - no matter which thread or topic.
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@Martin-O2 and @Cleoriff
I have just checked a couple of random, previous notifications, and I am getting the same problem - which, as @Martin-O2 put it
"the OP is displayed when you first land on a thread from a board, mention or unread post".
So if I`m seeing that - then so will all those who go to WHD from tag on Tuesday - if it goes ahead...
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I note you say the size of the emoji's have been increased? I haven't noticed that at all?
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@Cleoriff wrote:I note you say the size of the emoji's have been increased? I haven't noticed that at all?
👍👨🎓
🤗t'is selective, t'would seem... 🤣🤐🔍🔎
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This is Martins OP. (You may be able to scroll up and see it) Opening para.
Notice the difference in size of emoji? 
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Size and placement 🤗😶😃 - one of the Forum "hug" ones is still tiny, for some reason, too. And my fave is missing: 
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Yes Happy Smiley 58, I think it was called. Also one of my favourites. Along with the jumping smiley, the bowing man (Called Embarrassed Smiley), The fear smiley, all gone.
Not forgetting the one used by @Mi-Amigo at the end of the WHD, 5 smilies all together in a congratulatory pose. Pffftttt. Also have to search a lot for a heart emoticon.
Back to size, it certainly isn't fixed @Martin-O2 when you compare the one you posted in your op to the ones we are posting now.
