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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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@pgn A query. How are you finding screen shots of the OLD forum to post now?
Did you hear we were moving to a new platform and go around taking screenshots of the old forum like a man possessed? Or did you simply have the shots in your gallery? I prefer to think it was the first one as that made me laugh 
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In my (very tiny to read!) gallery here @Cleoriff - pretty sure anyone can browse another user's gallery from that person's public profile page, should they be so inclined😉🤣
On another matter, editing out quoted stuff invariably lands me with this type of message or warning on Posting my reply - what is it complaining about? Rarely happened on the old forum, unless copying in a URL and some text from another website occasionally.
PS all the stuff in red in the pic, I mean - the other text is normal inanities 🤣
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@pgn wrote:In my (very tiny to read!) gallery here @Cleoriff - pretty sure anyone can browse another user's gallery from that person's public profile page, should they be so inclined😉🤣
On another matter, editing out quoted stuff invariably lands me with this type of message or warning on Posting my reply - what is it complaining about? Rarely happened on the old forum, unless copying in a URL and some text from another website occasionally.
PS all the stuff in red in the pic, I mean - the other text is normal inanities 🤣
I get that every time I copy and paste anything from One Note (Probably as the font in One Note is smaller than forum font), It just needs a second click on post, then posts as normal. I'm used to it @pgn . Happened with old forum as well.
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By the way, reading through the last few pages I clicked on a link you posted @pgn (message 316).
This one here https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Welcome-News/New-Community-homepage-is-live/td-p/1196507/highlight/tru...
Interesting to find that was the LAST time we had a forum change ie.
4th February 2019!
Just over 2 and half years ago. 🙄
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@Cleoriff wrote:By the way, reading through the last few pages I clicked on a link you posted @pgn (message 316).
This one here.... https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Welcome-News/New-Community-homepage-is-live/m-p/1196507/highlight/true... interesting to find that was the LAST time we had a forum change ie.
4th February 2019!
Just over 2 and half years ago. 🙄
Just tried the link in your post...
Throws up
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I probably didn't copy it properly @Mi-Amigo. @pgn has posted it again just below me and that one works.
I've edited my post to show the correct url now https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Welcome-News/New-Community-homepage-is-live/td-p/1196507/highlight/tru...
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Interesting to note the 2019 change gave us 26 pages of comments. We are already on 33 here!!
