Welcome to our new look community!

[Martin-O2]

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. 

[Anonymous]

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@TheresaV wrote:

We are still working on this @pgn but will keep you up to date with the progress 🙂

Do you mean the post views as in "Reply 1 of 3" @Anonymous? If yes, this will be a fix that we are also working on and hopefully have back again very soon!

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@TheresaV No, I mean the counter to show how many times the post has been viewed.

[TheresaV]

We are also working on implementing that again @Anonymous (please see screenshot below)

[TheresaV]

On another note: I was originally planning on sending a PM but thought it might be worth posting here for everyone's attention @Anonymous @Cleoriff @MI5 @pgn @Mi-Amigo @jonsie @gmarkj @BobM @TallTrees @Projectionist @Anonymous @Bambino.

In order to get a direct link to a certain post, you can click on the little arrow on the top of the post and select "Permalink":

However, as I mentioned before, we will implement the message count view e.g. "Message 1 of 12" again which will make the direct link via clicking on the count view available again as well.

Hope that helps!

[Anonymous]

@TheresaV Hi, thanks for the info. It's odd that it was not included right from the start though.

[BobM]

Thanks for that @TheresaV 

[Bambino]

I hate the new site. There's nothing new or innovative about it. An update for its own sake to justify some developer's whims. Just makes everything that used to be easy, difficult. Hate it.

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @TheresaV for info on Permalink. I think that is very useful.

Also good to see that you have requested the message count; and the count to show how many times a post has been viewed; to be implemented. Thank you. 

[Anonymous]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

Thank you @TheresaV for info on Permalink. I think that is very useful.

Also good to see that you have requested the message count; and the count to show how many times a post has been viewed; to be implemented. Thank you. 

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But clicking the Permalink does nothing, or at least it doesn't for me.

[jonsie]

Nor me, it seems to pin the same post

[Mi-Amigo]

@Anonymous and @jonsie 

clicking on Permalink - from drop-down menu from v arrow at top right - gives URL for post in toll bar, which can be copied and pasted on post/s or pms on forum; which I found useful in old style format #just saying