Community Services Tips

Tip #665

March 6, 2025

In addition to public posts, you can send direct messages on Vivaldi Social, which will be visible only to those who you mention/tag in the message. If you want to allude to someone, but don’t want them to see the message, exclude the @ symbol from in front of their user handle.

All private conversations can be viewed and managed on the “Private mentions” page.

To send a private message:

1. Compose your message.
2. In the message, mention everyone who should see it.
3. From the message options menu, for visibility select “Specific people”.
4. Click “Post” to send the message.

Please note that private messages on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted, so be cautious of the information you share.

Tip #657

February 21, 2025

Mastodon has made it easy to see which hashtags are currently most used on Vivaldi Social. The top three are conveniently located at the corner of the page (exact location depends on your chosen theme). The full list, as well as trending posts and news, can be found on the Explore page. If you wish to keep your main Vivaldi Social view clean of trends, you do have the option to hide the section.

To hide currently trending topics from view:

1. Go to Preferences > Appearance > Discovery.
2. Disable “Show today’s trends”.
3. Click “Save Changes”.

Tip #655

February 19, 2025

All Vivaldi Community members can host their own WordPress-backed blog on vivaldi.net. As a reader, you can follow your favorite blogs and stay up to date with new posts in a few different ways. Pick the one you like best!

To view recent posts from blogs you follow, either:

• Scroll to the bottom of the Community homepage on vivaldi.net to see the 3 latest posts.
• Go to blogs.vivaldi.net and select “Following” from the menu on the right.
• On the blog’s Dashboard > Reader, select “Following” from the menu on the right.

In addition, you can subscribe to each blog using Vivaldi Feeds.

Tip #647

February 7, 2025

Vivaldi Social can be accessed from any web browser by logging in on the link https://social.vivaldi.net/. Mastodon also supports Progressive Web Apps.

In addition to the web version, you can access your Vivaldi Social account from various apps built for Mastodon. Check out the selection of available apps for both mobile and desktop on https://joinmastodon.org/apps.

To login to Vivaldi Social from an app:

1. Install the app of your choice.
2. Select Log In or the option that allows you to pick your Mastodon server.
3. Enter Vivaldi Social’s domain name – social.vivaldi.net.
4. Select logging in with vivaldi.net.
5. Enter your Vivaldi account’s username and password.
6. Give the app permission to access your account and its data.

The steps you need to follow may differ slightly from what’s listed here, depending on how the app’s onboarding process has been implemented. Furthermore, the in-app experience will likely be a little different from the web version as well. Explore the different apps to find the one you like best.

Tip #640

January 29, 2025

When you’re viewing your Vivaldi account’s email in Vivaldi Webmail instead of the browser’s mail client, Vivaldi Mail, there are things you can adjust to make your experience in Webmail match your preferences. For example, how fast the emails you open will be marked as read, if at all.

To adjust mark as read speed:

1. Go to Settings > Preferences > Mailbox View > Main Options.
2. For “Mark messages as read” make a choice between:
   • Never
   • Immediately
   • After 5 seconds
   • After 10 seconds
   • After 20 seconds
   • After 30 seconds
3. Click “Save”.

Tip #634

January 21, 2025

You can create a custom URL structure for your Vivaldi blog’s permalinks. Custom URL structures can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links.

To update the permalink structure:

1. Go to your blog’s Dashboard on vivaldi.net (while on your blog’s page, click on the blog’s title on the black menu bar).
2. From the menu on the left side, go to Settings > Permalinks.
3. Check out the examples and elect the link structure you like.
4. Click “Save Changes”.

Tip #630

January 15, 2025

We post about big browser releases, small updates, and other cool news on our Vivaldi Blog and we love to see your comments to our posts. The original discussion threads are hosted on the Vivaldi Forum, but are mirrored below each article on vivaldi.com.

To participate in the conversation, simply log in to your Vivaldi account below the blog post and post your message.

Alternatively, log in on the Vivaldi Forum and find the discussion thread with the same title as the article either in the Vivaldi Blog category or in one of the platform specific News or Snapshot categories.

Tip #626

January 9, 2025

As you scroll through posts on Vivaldi Social, you’re bound to come across new profiles that get you curious about who the person is. You can get a quick overview of the author from profile previews.

To preview a profile:

1. Find a post that has piqued your interest.
2. Hover over the author’s display name.

Tip #623

January 6, 2025

New year, new… home? That’s right! Vivaldi Tips with all its posts is moving from tips.vivaldi.net to vivaldi.com/blog/tips/. The move allows us to translate tips into more languages, starting with Japanese.

You might need to update your subscription depending on how you’re following Vivaldi Tips.

If you’ve added the Tips widget to the Dashboard in the desktop version of Vivaldi or you check in on the Community homepage on vivaldi.net daily, you don’t need to do anything.

Feeds – If you read the posts via a feed reader, update the RSS link to https://vivaldi.com/category/tips/feed/.

Vivaldi Social – If you follow tips from the Fediverse, start following https://social.vivaldi.net/@[email protected] instead of https://social.vivaldi.net/@[email protected].

Tip #620

December 18, 2024

Are you more selective about whose timeline your Vivaldi Social posts appear on and who can see posts only meant for followers? If the answer is yes, we recommend manually approving each person who wants to start following you.

To enable follow requests review:

1. Go to Preferences > Public Profile > Privacy and reach.
2. Disable “Automatically accept new followers”.
3. Click “Save changes”.

Then, whenever someone wants to follow you, you need to approve it on the “Follow requests” page.

Tip #616

December 12, 2024

If you wish to be alerted about new notifications and incoming messages on the Vivaldi Forum instantly, you can enable sound effects. Then, while you have the Forum open in a tab, you’ll hear a little sound whenever something new pops up.

To enable sounds:

1. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner and select “Settings“.
2. Scroll to the end of the page to find Sound settings.
3. Select the sound you like for notifications, incoming messages, and outgoing messages.
4. Click “Save changes”.

Tip #609

December 3, 2024

Whether to discuss the latest hit show or a serious topic likely to trigger negative emotions in many, adding content warnings allows readers of your Vivaldi Social posts to decide whether they want to read your post or skip it.

To add content warnings:

1. Write the post you want to share.
2. On the composer’s menu at the bottom, click on “Add content warning”.
3. Optionally, above the post’s content, add a hint to what the hidden post is about.
4. Click “Post” to publish it.