Community Services Tips

Tip #528

July 17, 2024

In addition to the basic emoji set, Mastodon, instances can add custom emojis. We’ve added some Vivaldi-related emojis to Vivaldi Social, including Vivaldi logos, our loveable lava ball Tony, and Vivaldia. You can also find these emojis on the Vivaldi Forum.

To use Vivaldi emojis:

1. Click on the 🙂 “Insert emoji” button in the top right corner of the post editor on Vivaldi Social.
2. Scroll past your frequently used and other custom emojis to the Vivaldi section.
3. Click on the emoji you want to add to your post.

Tip #527

July 16, 2024

To ensure top-notch privacy for your email correspondence, you can encrypt the emails you send from Vivaldi Webmail.

To set up encryption in Vivaldi Webmail:

1. Enable encryption options in Settings > Preferences > Encryption.
2. Create or import PGP keys.
3. Share public keys with people you want to have encrypted conversations with.
4. Encrypt emails when composing new messages.

For detailed instructions for each step, check out the article about email encryption on Vivaldi Help.

Tip #520

July 3, 2024

When you find a beautiful theme created by one of our community members in the Vivaldi Themes gallery and like the author’s style, browse their other themes to find even more gorgeous creations.

To view all themes by the author:

1. Go to themes.vivaldi.net and look for one you like.
2. Click on the theme to view its page.
3. In the theme information section, click on the name next to “Made by”.

Tip #511

June 19, 2024

There are many ways our community is helping Vivaldi grow – by promoting Vivaldi to potential new users, testing or translating the products and web pages, helping other users with their questions, and more. But we’ve also made it possible to support Vivaldi by making a donation, either a one-time donation or a recurring monthly donation.

When you’re logged out, you can make a one-time anonymous donation, but when you’re logged in you can show off that you believe in our mission and have made a donation.

To get the badge of appreciation:

1. Log in to your account on vivaldi.net.
2. Go to the donation page at http://vivaldi.com/donate/.
3. Make the donation.
4. Head over to your profile or one of the Vivaldi services to view your new badge.

Tip #510

June 18, 2024

When someone replies to a topic you’ve commented on on the Vivaldi Forum, then of course you want to see what they say and you click on the notification to be taken to the topic. But some notifications are just informational. In that case, you can mark them read without opening the topic.

To mark a notification as read:

1. Open the notifications menu.
2. Click on the little circle above the notification time on the right side.

To mark all notifications read, click on “Mark all read” at the bottom of the list.

Tip #506

June 12, 2024

Even if you can undo some things, it’s better to prevent them in the first place. That’s why on Vivaldi Social, you can choose to be asked to confirm your decision before boosting or deleting posts, and before unfollowing an account.

To enable confirmation dialogs:

1. Go to Preferences > Appearance > Confirmation Dialogs.
2. Tick the boxes to enable showing the confirmation dialog before:
   • unfollowing someone,
   • boosting a post,
   • deleting a post.

Tip #503

June 7, 2024

Having too many icons can sometimes make things confusing. To make it clear what one or the other button on your Vivaldi blog editor’s menus does, you can opt to display text labels instead of icons.

To switch from icons to text:

1. Open the blog post editor on your Vivaldi.net blog.
2. Click on the Options menu in the top right corner.
3. Select Preferences.
4. In General > Appearance, toggle on “Show button text labels”.

Tip #496

May 29, 2024

Reading back what you posted to the Vivaldi Forum and you’re not happy with it? Use the edit option to fix that typo, clarify your point, and more.

To update your post on the Vivaldi Forum:

1. Go to the topic and find the post you want to edit.
2. Click on 3 dot menu button in the bottom right corner of the post (next to Reply, Quote, and upvoting options).
3. Select “Edit” from the menu.
4. Make your changes to the post.
5. Click “Submit”.

Tip #491

May 22, 2024

When you “watch” topics on the Vivaldi Forum, you’ll receive notifications whenever someone replies to the discussion. You can start watching topics manually or be added as a watcher automatically after you’ve posted.

To change the default watch settings:

1. Click your profile image in the top right corner and select “Settings” from the menu, or head over to https://forum.vivaldi.net/me/settings.
2. In the “Watch” section, tick the boxes for “Watch topics you create” and/or “Watch topics that you reply to” if you want to receive notifications, or untick the boxes if you don’t want to be added as a watcher to the topic.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Save changes”.

Tip #485

May 9, 2024

Since on Mastodon, there aren’t any algorithms deciding what content to show you, you need to actively follow accounts and hashtags to fill up your Vivaldi Social Home feed with interesting posts.

To find which hashtags to follow:

• See which hashtags others have added to their posts.
• Search for hashtags.
• Browse trending hashtags on the Explore page.

To follow a hashtag:

1. Click on the hashtag to view recent posts using the hashtag.
2. Near the top right corner, click on “Follow hashtag”.

Tip #480

May 2, 2024

If you’ve enabled Two-Factor Authentication for your Vivaldi account, then you need to use an app password when adding your account to mail and calendar clients, such as Vivaldi Mail and Vivaldi Calendar.

To generate an app password:

1. Log in to your Vivaldi account on Vivaldi.net and go to the profile.
2. Go to the Two-Factor Authentication management page and verify your identity with the login password.
3. If you have at least one 2FA method set up, you’ll see an option to create App Passwords, go to that page.
4. Select the type of app (mail, calendar, or both) you want to create the password for.
5. Give it a name, so you’ll recognize which apps and clients you’ve generated passwords for.
6. Copy the password, enter it on the login page of the client, and store the password in a safe location as this is the only time the password will be shown to you.

Tip #478

April 29, 2024

Give your blog on Vivaldi.net a look that reflects you and the topics you’re blogging about – from theme colors to fonts, a logo, and a header image. In this tip, let’s find out how to add the latter.

To add a header image to your blog:

1. Click “Customize” on the top menu bar of your blog or go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize.
2. Go to the Header Image section.
3. Click “Add New Image” to upload a new image, select one from your Media Library, or search for an image using Instant Images. Alternatively, select a premade color gradient as the header image.
4. If needed, change the blog title color.
5. Click “Publish” to save the changes.