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]

@Martin-O2 Hi, yes here it is: Notice it's greyed out (Windows 10 64 - Edge) Mouse cursor shows unavailable to click (Will not show in screenshot) 

[Martin-O2]

OK thanks @Anonymous I see what you mean. If you click in the box where it says "reply to the topic..." then it should open up the text editor and the post reply button will become active. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

[Anonymous]

@Martin-O2 Hi, yeah I'm used to it working that way, but yesterday the box would not open at all when I clicked it and not this morning either. Restarting the website fixes it, it just seems to randomly happen after a while (Well for me anyway) It is working now, but I just signed in. 

[Martin-O2]

Understood @Anonymous. Let's keep an eye on it and if it happens again please make a note of the time as this will help us find out exactly what's going on. 

[Anonymous]

Don't know if this is being experienced by other members - but I'm seeing long delays in email notifications for name mentioned in a post. For example: I got three Tuesday day time, but didn't actually get the email notification in my mailbox till 3 AM Wednesday, same with another one sent yesterday - got it 2 AM this morning (All my other mail is fine) 

[Cleoriff]

I think mentions are a bit hit and miss @Anonymous. Occasionally I don't get get a mention but pick them up in unread posts. Never find them coming in late though?

[Mi-Amigo]

Long delays with e-mail notifications is a new one to me @Anonymous 

There have been times when I have had a slight delay in notifications by the bell on the Community showing, but not in e-mails. In fact, today`s notifications all showed in my e-mail at the same time as on here...

Hope someone can off a simple solution and your problem gets sorted for you soon.  

[Anonymous]

Thanks @Cleoriff and @Mi-Amigo for both your replies.

Never had a problem with late notification emails before, look at the notification for this weeks WHD from Tuesday morning, I didn't get it til 3 AM Wednesday 😕 , and 3 other notifications the same too. Very odd, never happened before.

[pgn]

One question - in the Profile, Settings section, where you put the fancy badges O2 provided (thank you!), there are several fields that seem to have little valid purpose, for example:

--> Device

which complains thusly if you type in what you think it is for:

And not sure where the text you put into

--> Biography appears, currently... 

This curiosity stems from a hunt for where the edit function for the "My Friends" list lives (in your PM area, under the sprocket next to the pencil icon, I discovered!):

So many nooks and crannies, a veritable maze of twisty little passages - thankfully none emerging on the middle landing of TNS, as the swanee whistle attests 🤣

[Mi-Amigo]

@Martin-O2 

Here`s a new one...

While the ever-lasting saga of own posts in Unread Posts persists, a new issue has emerged in this week.

Posts in OFF TOPIC which I have NOT READ are not showing in Unread Posts, so unless I`m tagged and/or receive notification and/or pm, then I could easily miss something which might interest me.

Looking at the bigger picture, we - the regular contributors to the Community - do all we can to encourage newbies to look around the Community and join in with topics and discussions, but what is the point if new [unread] posts aren`t showing in Unread Posts and how many potential posters have missed something which might interest them and which they would join in with ?

Or is it just me ? Have other - @Cleoriff @pgn @gmarkj @Anonymous and anyone else - noticed this ?