Community Services Tips

Tip #748

September 2, 2025

On Vivaldi Social, you can highlight posts by pinning them to the top of your profile. These can be introductions, big news, popular posts, or anything else you want to showcase. While browsing other people’s accounts, make sure to give their pinned posts a look as well. Since some have pinned a lot of them, pinned posts have been grouped into a carousel, so you wouldn’t need to spend too much time scrolling past them to get to the latest posts.

To view pinned posts:

1. Go to the account’s profile and scroll past the Bio section.
2. Click on the arrows in the top right corner of the Pinned Posts section to see the next or previous pinned post.

Tip #745

July 31, 2025

At Vivaldi, we’ve always listened to users’ feedback and have added countless features that have been requested by the users of the browser. To learn about your wishes, we have special categories on the Vivaldi Forum, where we collect feature requests.

• Desktop Feature Requests
• Mail, Calendar and Feeds Feature Requests
• Mobile Feature Requests
• Community & Services Feature Requests

Browse through these categories and show support for the requests you’d like to see us implement.

To upvote a feature request:

1. Open the feature request topic.
2. Click on the thumbs-up 👍 button on the first post.
3. Leave a comment if you’ve got something to add to the feature request

If you have an idea that hasn’t been posted on the forum yet, create a new topic so others can upvote your feature request.

Tip #741

July 17, 2025

Whether it’s an additional account you run, someone you’re associated with, or just really like, you can feature their profile on your own, making it easier for others to discover them as well.

To feature an account:

1. Go to the account’s profile.
2. Make sure you follow their account.
3. Click on the 3-dot menu below their account’s header image.
4. Select “Feature on profile”.

Tip #730

June 25, 2025

If you automatically accept new followers on Vivaldi Social you may end up with people you’d rather not see your posts following your account. Luckily, they can be removed.

To remove unwanted followers:

1. On Vivaldi Social, go to Preferences > Follows and followers.
2. On that page, for Relationship select “Followers”.
3. Tick the box in front of the user(s) you want to remove.
4. Click “Remove selected followers”.

Tip #729

June 20, 2025

The community on the Vivaldi Forum often shares links to interesting web pages, for example, interesting articles about Vivaldi or instructions for something or other. By default, these links want to open in the same tab as the forum discussion, but you can enable a setting that opens all non-forum links in new tabs.

To open links in new tabs:

1. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner of the Forum and select “Settings” from the menu.
2. Go to the Browsing Settings section.
3. Enable “Open outgoing links in new tab”.
4. Click on “Save Changes”.

Tip #720

June 5, 2025

You’re probably familiar with “blue ticks” on other social media sites that let you know that the account has been verified, i.e. it’s the person’s or brand’s official account. On Mastodon, verified accounts look a little different. You can spot them by green links to websites that they own in their profile info.

To verify your own account:

1. On Vivaldi Social, go to Preferences > Profile > Verification.
2. Copy the HTML code from the website verification section.
3. Paste the code to your website’s HTML.
4. Go to Preferences > Profile > Edit Profile.
5. Add your website’s link to the content field in the profile metadata section.
6. Click “Save changes”.

If that doesn’t work on the first try, try the troubleshooting suggestions on Fedi.Tips’ Mastodon Guide.

Tip #715

May 28, 2025

If you keep a tab with the Vivaldi Forum open over longer periods, you can make use of the status feature to let community members know whether you’re actively browsing the Forum or busy with other things.

To change your status:

1. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner of the page.
2. Select your status:
   • Online,
   • Away,
   • Do not disturb,
   • Invisible.

Tip #702

May 7, 2025

Users on Vivaldi Social and on Mastodon in general, in addition making their own posts, can share aka boost content posted by others. In addition to the user’s profile, these posts will also appear on your Home feed. If you’re only interested in the posts the people you follow have published, you can hide boosted content from your Home feed.

To hide boosts:

1. Go to the Home feed on Vivaldi Social.
2. Click on the “Show settings” button on the right side of the posts section header.
3. Toggle off “Show boosts”.

Tip #698

April 23, 2025

On the Vivaldi Themes page on vivaldi.net, you can download browser themes created and shared by the members of the Vivaldi Community. If you’re logged in to your Vivaldi account, you can also give it a rating on a 5-star scale after installing the theme.

To view all themes you’ve rated:

1. Go to themes.vivaldi.net.
2. Log in to your Vivaldi account.
3. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner of the page and select “Rated themes”.

Tip #694

April 16, 2025

You’ll never lose an email when they’ve been neatly organized into folders. You can add new folders from Vivaldi Webmail’s web view or from a mail client, such as Vivaldi Mail (see Tip #186).

To create a new folder in Webmail:

1. Log in to your Vivaldi account on webmail.vivaldi.net.
2. Go to Settings > Folders.
3. Click on “Create” at the top of the rightmost column.
4. Give the folder a name, select a parent folder, and decide whether you want to see the emails in a single list or grouped into threads.
5. Click “Save”.

To make your life even easier, you can create Filters to move emails to folders automatically (see Tip #75).

Tip #687

April 7, 2025

When you view a post from another instance on Vivaldi Social, the page’s URL includes Vivaldi Social’s domain in the URL. When you’re sharing the post with someone, it’s best to share a direct link to the post, which will take the recipient straight to the original post on its home instance.

To get the post’s direct link:

1. Click on the  3 dot menu button below the post.
2. Select “Copy link to status”.

Tip #679

March 26, 2025

If you habitually surf the web using only your keyboard, you’ll be glad to learn that in Vivaldi Social a lot can be done using various keyboard shortcuts.

To view the keyboard cheat sheet:

• While you have Vivaldi Social open, press the ? key.
• Go to this link – https://social.vivaldi.net/keyboard-shortcuts.

The shortcuts are always available, but depending on your keyboard you may also need to hold down the Shift key when using the shortcuts. For some actions, such as open post or reply, you first need to focus on the post. Use the Tab and up/down arrow keys for that.