Community Services Tips

Tip #155

November 22, 2022

Vivaldi Community on Vivaldi Social is an international group of people, who post in many different languages. This means that the public timelines (e.g. Local and Federated) can include posts that you don’t understand. You could use Vivaldi Translate to select and translate the texts, but you can also filter them out altogether.

To filter posts by language:

1. On Vivaldi Social, go to Preferences > Other > Public Timelines.
2. In the Filter languages section, check the boxes for all languages you want to see posts in.
3. Scroll either to the top or bottom of the page and click Save changes.

Then, as long as the post author has set a correct language for their post, the public timelines will only include posts in the languages you’ve chosen. So, when you yourself post on Vivaldi Social, make sure you also select the correct language for your posts. The default post language can be changed in Preferences > Other > Posting Defaults > Posting Language.

Tip #152

November 17, 2022

Creativity has no limits and with the Themes editor in Vivaldi, you can let it run wild. Change the colors, add a custom background, tweak the settings and you have yourself a custom theme. Would be a shame to keep it to yourself. Themes.vivaldi.net is the place where Vivaldi users can share their creations with the community and already over 3000 themes have been published on the website.

Here’s how you can share your theme:

1. Go to Settings > Themes > Library and select the theme you want to share.
2. Click on Export Theme below the themes.
3. Save the ZIP file to your computer.
4. Go to Vivaldi Themes on https://themes.vivaldi.net.
5. Log in to your Vivaldi account.
6. Click Upload in the top right corner of the page.
7. Fill in the details about the theme (in English) and upload the ZIP file.
8. When you’re ready, click Create theme.

Vivaldi Team will review your theme and publish it. You’ll be notified once the theme has been published (also, when for some reason, the theme was rejected).

Tip #150

November 15, 2022

You might be thinking, what’s a fediverse? Fediverse is an open network of communities committed to a better way of communicating online and allowing for constant improvements. Vivaldi Social is a fediverse instance powered by Mastodon. It’s similar to other well known social networks, but there’s no singular owner, no surveillance capitalism and no tracking or profiling of users. You can read more about it on the Vivaldi Blog.

To join Vivaldi social:

1. Go to https://vivaldi.social/.
2. Log in with your Vivaldi account.
3. Start browsing, posting and interacting with everyone.

Your username on Vivaldi Social will be generated from your Vivaldi account’s username like this – @[email protected]. To learn more about how to use Vivaldi Social, check out the new articles on Vivaldi Help.

Tip #146

November 9, 2022

Vivaldi Forum has many active members, who write interesting and useful posts. To keep track of the topics they create:

1. Go to the user’s forum profile.
2. On the bottom right of the user’s profile image, click on Follow.

You can see all users you follow on https://forum.vivaldi.net/me/following and you can check who follow you on https://forum.vivaldi.net/me/followers.

Tip #135

October 25, 2022

It’s not just the Vivaldi browser that’s highly customizable. You can also tweak many settings in the WordPress based blogging platform.

To customize your Vivaldi blog’s editor:

1. Go to blogs.vivaldi.net and log in to your account.
2. Click on Write a new post below your profile picture in the top right corner.
3. In the post editor, click on Options in the top right corner to open the menu with some useful options.
4. To customize the editor’s look and available components, click on the last item on the menu – Preferences.

In Preferences you can change settings for:

• Publishing,
• Appearance,
• Block Interactions,
• Visible Blocks,
• Document Settings,
• and more.

Tip #116

September 28, 2022

In case you often have to send the same message in Vivaldi Webmail, you can save the message text as a Response instead of typing it every time.

To add a new response:

1. In Vivaldi Webmail, go to  Settings > Responses and click on  Create above the Responses editor.
2. Give the new response a name and type the message text.
3. Click Save.

If you want to save a message you’ve written in the email composer as a response, click Responses on the menu above the email composer and select Create New Response.

To use a response:

1. Click  Responses on the menu above the email composer.
2. Select a saved response.

Tip #110

September 20, 2022

The Vivaldi Forum is a busy place with discussions on lots of different topics. Not all of them may be relevant for you. For example, you’re probably not interested in topics in the local forum categories that have discussions in languages you don’t speak. If you wish, you can prevent topics from these categories from appearing in Recent and Unread pages of the Forum.

To unsubscribe (or re-subscribe) to a category:

1. Navigate to the category on forum.vivaldi.net.
2. From the menu above the list of topics (below subcategories, if there are any), click on the watched state menu.
3. Select between:
   • Watching – shows topics both in Unread and Recent.
   • Not Watching – shows topics in Recent, but not in Unread.
   • Ignoring – doesn’t show topics neither in Unread nor Recent.

Unsubscribing from a category, unsubscribes you from all of its subcategories as well.

To get a complete overview of all topics and their watched states, go to https://forum.vivaldi.net/me/categories. There you can change the watched status for each category as well.

Tip #100

September 6, 2022

Private Windows in Vivaldi have a different Theme from regular Windows to make it easier to see which one you’re using. You can set any theme from your Theme Library as the Private Window’s theme by:

1. Going to Settings > Themes > Private Window Theme.
2. Selecting a theme from the drop-down menu.

To add Themes created by the Vivaldi Community to your Theme Library, install them from themes.vivaldi.net.

Tip #85

August 16, 2022

When writing a blog post or creating a new page on your blog on Vivaldi.net, you can get a better overview of the blocks used in the blog and select blocks to work on from the List View.

To open List View, click on the List View button in the top left corner of the page.

To focus on a block and edit it, click on the block in the List View.

To close List View, click on the same List View button or on the Close button in the top right corner of the List View panel.

Tip #75

August 2, 2022

If you receive a lot of messages, it helps to automate some of the organizational work. Creating Filters is a good way to move incoming messages to a different folder, add flags to them, reply with a predefined message and more.

To create Filters in Vivaldi Webmail:

1. Log in to your Vivaldi account on webmail.vivaldi.net.
2. Go to Settings > Filters.
3. Click on Create on the top edge of the page, towards the right side.
4. Give the filter a name, create the rule and set the action to be applied.
5. Click Save.

On the screenshot below, you can see an example of a filter that moves messages containing the words “[Book Club]” in the subject to a folder titled Book Club.

Tip #70

July 26, 2022

If there’s a page you visit often on the Forum, consider making it your Forum homepage. Then, while logged in, whenever you click Home on the Forum menu or go to forum.vivaldi.net, you’ll be shown your chosen homepage.

To set a homepage:

1. Log in to your Vivaldi account on forum.vivaldi.net.
2. Go to forum.vivaldi.net/me/settings.
   Alternatively, click on your avatar in the top right corner and select Settings from the menu.
3. In the Select a Homepage section, click on the dropdown menu and select your preferred page or set a custom one.

Tip #56

July 6, 2022

You can access your Vivaldi email account on webmail.vivaldi.net, where Webmail’s Elastic (default) theme offers both light and dark versions.

Click on the moon icon at the bottom left corner of the page to switch to dark mode.

When dark mode is enabled, click on the sun to return to light mode.