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Welcome to our new look community!

Martin-O2
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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. 

 

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You then have links to the O2 shop page > O2 help and support page > My O2 and your shop basket.

 

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On the right of these links you will see your community notifications > private messages and your profile picture.

 

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Clicking on your profile picture will bring up a drop down menu which contains the following... 

 

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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. 

 

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The next level down is the community search bar and your latests stats and notifications! 

 

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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. 

 

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Next is the new trending topics section which is a live feed of the most popular conversations happening in real time! 

 

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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. 

 

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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. 

 

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Finally the familiar community stats can be found at the very bottom of the page. 

 

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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. 

 

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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. 

 

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The new version has an updated text editor box for topics, replies and private messages. 

 

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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) FixedQuotes 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 - FixedA widget for unread posts has been added to the home page. 

 

Guide links not working - FixedGuide 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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And for @adelphiaUK's benefit, the Device field http(s) glitch link here, in the latest incarnation of the Community and its foibles.

Low on a priority list somewhere, I think - but take a look through it, see just what troubleshooting followed the update 👍

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@pgn wrote:

 

And for @adelphiaUK's benefit, the Device field http(s) glitch link here, in the latest incarnation of the Community and its foibles.

Low on a priority list somewhere, I think - but take a look through it, see just what troubleshooting followed the update 👍


Thanks @pgn 

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PS: Please excuse misspellings and anything which may not make sense as the medication I take sometimes have an adverse effect on me.
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Quick question @Martin-O2  - did the "feature" whereby any reply you have just written shows up in your own unread posts actually get relayed back to the development/forum refresh team?

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It's wild annoying...

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I'm thinking they are simply incompetent idiots over at Lithium

When did they actually fix any outstanding features that they have broken?

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My PC is plagued by o2 pop up "tell us what you think"

Should I ?   No be nice 😕 

How to stop it is all I need to know 🤪



HAPPINESS IS BEE SHAPED

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I had that same problem for two weeks on all three browsers that I have installed

It seems to have cleared up for me in the last day  or so, certainly on my favoured Firefox

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It will reappear any time you clear your browser's O2-related cookies or cache.

Which I have to do on Chrome on PC (set up to clear specific cookies any time I exit Chrome!) so the Billing detail pages work 🤫

It is another prompt for people to have a pop at O2 and the Forum through 😇😁

 

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That pop up is so annoying - more so now that Chrome has borked itself (apparently an issue with a self update gone wrong, but centrally managed laptop means I can't fix it!) and I have to use Edge for EVERYTHING...

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@gmarkj wrote:

That pop up is so annoying - more so now that Chrome has borked itself (apparently an issue with a self update gone wrong, but centrally managed laptop means I can't fix it!) and I have to use Edge for EVERYTHING...


Called "Living life on the edge" 😖😁

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Hi all just catching up on this thread. 

 

@pgn I'll investigate the table issue you mentioned and get back to you about it. 

 

@Anonymous can you let me know if you're still experiencing the missing icon's on the text editor and if so what browser and OS you're using. 

 

@pgn we have open support tickets for both the issues affecting unread posts. So your own posts showing up and the links not taking you directly to the post. Both have been identified as bugs and we're waiting on a fix. 

 

@TallTrees@gmarkj @jonsie we have also put a support ticket in for the survey popup being too frequent. I'll update here once I have news on this one. 

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