Notifications

If you wish, you can receive notifications on the forum, to your account’s recovery email or both:

• when someone upvotes your post;
• when someone you follow posts a topic;
• when a new reply is posted in a topic you are watching;
• when someone starts following you;
• when you receive a chat message;
• when you receive a group invite;
• when someone mentions you.

On the forum, to view the latest notifications, click on the bell icon in the top right corner of the page.

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Notification Settings

To change, which notifications to receive and where, go to your account menu > Settings and apply your preference in the Notifications and Sounds sections.

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Forum Digest emails

In addition to notifications, you can receive a Digest email with the latest topics. Adjust the frequency in Settings > Email.

Digest emails will be sent to your account’s recovery email.

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When someone has sent you a private message, you’ll get an unread chat message notification in the top right corner of the forum page. Unread messages will have a pale yellow background.

Send a message

To send private messages to a community member:

• Click on the Chat button;
• Select See all chats;
• Pick a discussion from the list of previous chats or start typing a username to search for users.

Alternatively, go to the user’s profile, click on the menu below the cover image and select Continue Chat With… .

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Create a group chat

To start a group discussion:

• Open a discussion with one user;
• Click on

  

  Settings (top right) > Manage Chat Room to add more members;
• From chat settings, you can also change the chatroom’s name.

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Chat window

If you wish to continue browsing the forum while chatting, opt for the pop-up chat window by clicking on the window toggle in the top right corner. Minimise chat windows to browse the forum. Minimised chats (discussion partner’s avatars or chat bubbles for group chats) will appear in the bottom right corner of the page.

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Privacy settings

By default, you can only receive chat messages from users that you follow. To be able to receive private messages from everyone, go to your account menu > Settings > Privacy and untick Only allow chat messages from users I follow.

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Forum Profile

To view your account’s profile, click on the avatar (username’s first letter if you haven’t uploaded an image) in the top right corner of the forum and select your username. You can change your online status and access other pages from the same menu.

Alternatively, go to the following link while you’re logged in – https://forum.vivaldi.net/me or click on your username in one of the topics you’ve posted to.

On your profile, you’ll see various information about your account. To access some of it, click on the circular button on the edge of the profile cover image to open the menu (see image below).

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Profile Cover image

To change your profile’s cover image, hover over the image and click on the leftmost button to upload a new image, middle button to reposition the current image and on the right to remove the image.

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Account Profile

To view and change your account information (e.g. login password, avatar), open the account menu from your avatar and select Profile.

For more information about your Vivaldi account, browse the help pages in the Account category.

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The Vivaldi forum is a place to talk about the browser, share customization ideas and clever tricks, troubleshoot bugs, shape the browser’s development, and, why not, just talk about tech with like-minded people from around the world.

Forum categories

Topics are divided into 8 main categories with many subcategories.

• Desktop – All topics, including news, bug reports, feature requests, and more about the desktop version of Vivaldi on Windows, macOS, and Linux are in this category.
• Mail, Calendar & Feeds – The category to discuss everything related to the browser’s built-in mail, calendar, and feeds clients.
• Mobile Browser – All topics, including news, bug reports, feature requests, and more about the mobile version of Vivaldi on Android and iOS are in this category.
• Android Automotive – Vivaldi browser is available in numerous cars. This is the place to talk about them.
• Community & Services – Topics about Vivaldi services (Vivaldi Social, forum, webmail, blogs, themes, and sync) and accounts are posted here.
• Let’s talk about Vivaldi – You’ll find Vivaldi’s news, media coverage, and general discussions about the company in this category.
• Everything else – All topics that aren’t about Vivaldi can be found in this category.
• Local forums – Bigger non-English speaking communities have their own category, where they can have discussions in other languages.

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Watching and ignoring categories and topics

To follow or unfollow a category, open it and select your preferred option, Watching or Ignoring, from the drop-down menu above the list of topics. In case the category has subcategories, the menu is between subcategory folders and topics. In addition to watching/ignoring the current category, the change will also apply to all subcategories.

To follow or unfollow a specific topic, look for the same menu in an open topic (see image below). In addition to just Watching and Ignoring, there’s also an option Not Watching.

All your Watched topics are listed on https://forum.vivaldi.net/me/watched. You can access it on your profile from the menu on the edge of your cover image > Watched.

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Unread & Recent posts

New posts in categories that you watch but haven’t seen before will appear in the Unread section. Fresh watched posts, both read and unread, are listed in the Recent section.

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Topic tags

Tags are another good way to find discussions related to topics you’re interested in. When you create a topic, you can also add tags. Please use the existing ones as much as possible.

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Popular topics

Most discussed topics of the day / week / month and all time can be found there.

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Upvoting posts

If you like or agree with a post you can upvote it.

Voting is most used in the Feature Requests category. We use upvotes to determine the most popular feature requests.

The button will turn green once you’ve cast your vote. You can view the posts you’ve upvoted on https://forum.vivaldi.net/me/upvoted. It is also available under your profile page if you click on the blue menu button below the cover image.

Every time a post or comment is upvoted, the author’s reputation increases by one point.

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In Vivaldi, you can customize the commands in the main application menu as well as in the user interface and web page context menus. Reorder, add or remove actions to make menus fit your workflow.

Edit menus

To edit menus:

1. Go to Settings > Appearance > Menu > Menu customization;
2. Select which menu you want to edit;

All changes are saved automatically and available immediately.

Currently you can edit the following menus:

• Vivaldi button menu;
• Horizontal menu;
• Web Page: Audio and Video, Image, Link, Page, Selection and Text Field;
• Start Page: Speed Dial button, Start Page and Start Page bar menus;
• Panels: Panel bar and Panel bar button menus;
• Tabs: Tab, Tab Bar, Tab Stack Thumbnail, Tab Trash Can, Windows list menus;
• Bookmarks: Bookmark Bar, Bookmark Bar button, Bookmark list menus;
• Address Bar: Back, Forward, Rewind, Fast Forward, Rewind, Reload and Home button, and Text Field menus;
• Other: Download, History and Notes lists’, Reading List and Text Field menus.

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Reorder menus

To reorder menu commands, either:

• Drag and drop the commands;
• Right-click on the command and select Move Up or Move Down.
• Select a command and hold down the Alt key and use the ↑ and ↓ arrows to move the command.

To move commands from one folder to another use drag and drop.

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Add commands

To add a command, either:

• Drag it from the Commands list to the Content section;
• Right-click on the command and select Add to Content.

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Remove commands

To delete a command, either:

• Right-click on the command and select Delete.
• Select the command and press Delete on your keyboard.

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Add Folders

To divide commands into folders, create a new folder and drag existing and new commands to it.

To create a new folder:

1. Right click on an empty area in the Content section or on an existing folder, if you want to create a subfolder;
2. Select New folder;
3. Give the new folder a name.
4. Drag commands into the folder.

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Add separators

To section the menu visually, you can add separating lines between commands.

To add a separator, either:

• Right-click in the Content area and select New Separator and drag it where you want it.
• Drag Menu Separator from the Commands list to the Content section.

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Rename

To rename a command or folder:

1. Right click on the command or folder;
2. Select Rename;
3. Change the name;
4. Press Enter or focus elsewhere on the page.

If you like using Keyboard Shortcuts, make sure to add anchors to command names. When renaming a command, add the & symbol in front of the letter you want to use in your Keyboard Shortcut. For example, to open a New Tab on Windows, the default Keyboard Shortcut is Alt or F10 + F + N. When you check the menu the anchor letters are underlined (see screenshot below).

To make commands easily discoverable using visual cues, add emojis to the command names. Use your OS’s emoji keyboard (Win + . / ⌃ ⌘ Space) to add the icons.

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Reset menus

To reset the menu, click Restore Default Menu below the Content section. Only the currently selected menu will be reset.

To import data from a Vivaldi on another device, we recommend using the browser’s Sync feature. Continue reading to learn how to import data from other browser and from files on your computer, including alternative ways to transfer data between Vivaldi browsers.

Import Bookmarks

To import Bookmarks from another browser on the same computer or from an HTML file,

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Import from Applications or Files.
2. Select which browser you want to import bookmarks from.
   If you have saved your bookmarks in a file, select Bookmarks HTML file from the dropdown menu.
3. Click Start Import.

Depending on the source browser, you can import other browser data, such as Passwords and History, at the same time as well.

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Export Bookmarks

To export bookmarks:

• Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Export Bookmarks;
• Choose the download location;

The file will be saved as an HTML file.

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Import Passwords

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Import from Applications or Files;
2. Select which browser you want to import passwords from;
3. Click Start Import.

To import passwords from .csv file:

1. Type “vivaldi://password-manager/settings” into the Address field.
2. In the Import passwords section, click on Select file.
3. Choose the .csv file with your passwords.
4. Click Open.

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Export Passwords

To export passwords from Vivaldi:

• Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Export > Export Passwords.
• Verify your identity, for example, by entering your Windows’ login password.
• Select the destination folder.

Important! Storing passwords in a .csv file will make them visible to anyone with access to the file.

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Import History

In addition to Bookmarks and Passwords, from most browsers, you can also import your browsing History.

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Import from Applications or Files.
2. Select which browser you want to import history from;
3. Click Start Import.

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Import open Tabs

To bring over the tabs you have open in other browsers:

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Import from Applications or Files.
2. Select which browser you want to import the open tabs from.
3. Click Start Import.

At this stage, importing tabs works only from Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, etc.).

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Import Notes

To import notes:

1. Make sure all notes you want to import are in one folder and saved as a text or markdown file.
2. Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Import from Applications or Files.
3. From the drop-down menu select Notes Folder.
4. Click Choose a Notes Folder.
5. Select the source folder.

Alternatively:

• Type “Import notes“ in Quick Commands (F2 / ⌘ E).
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Gesture for the action.

All applicable files in the folder will be imported as notes to Vivaldi.

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Export Notes

To export your notes:

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Export > Export Notes.
2. Select the destination folder.

Alternatively:

• Type “Export notes“ in Quick Commands (F2 / ⌘ E).
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Gesture for the action.

All notes will be saved as separate text (.txt) or markdown (.md) files.

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Import Reading List

To import a Reading List:

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Import from Applications or Files.
2. From the drop-down menu select Reading List (CSV).
3. Click Choose a File.
4. Select the source folder.

Alternatively:

• Type “Import Reading List“ in Quick Commands (F2 / ⌘ E).
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Gesture for the action.

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Export Reading List

To export your Reading List:

1. Go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Export > Export Reading List.
2. Select the destination folder.

Alternatively:

• Type “Export Reading List“ in Quick Commands (F2 / ⌘ E).
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Gesture for the action.

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Import Extensions

You can import Extensions to Vivaldi from other Chromium-based browsers, for example, Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc.

To import Extensions:

1. Make sure the browser you want to export from is closed.
2. In Vivaldi, go to the Vivaldi menu > File > Import from Applications or Files.
3. Select the Chromium-based browser you want to import data from.
4. Click “Start Import”.
5. When the import has finished, click “Close”
6. On the Extensions management page that opens, enable the extensions you want to use in Vivaldi by clicking the toggle button at the bottom right corner of each extension card.

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Import and export Feeds

To learn how to import and export feeds to and from Vivaldi’s Feed Reader, take a look at the Help page about it here.

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Transfer the full Vivaldi browser profile

We strongly recommend using Sync and Export/Import options within the browser to transfer data from one Vivaldi to another. In case you want to import more data than can be synced, you can copy and replace the full profile folder. To transfer only some data types, move to the next paragraph.

To locate the profile folder:

1. Go to Vivaldi menu > Help > About or vivaldi://about;
2. Make note of the Profile Path;
3. Locate the Default folder in your File Manager/Finder.

To move the profile from one Vivaldi to another:

1. Move a copy of the Default folder from the source computer to the target computer;
2. Locate the Default folder you want to replace in your File Manager/Finder.
3. Exit/Quit Vivaldi;
4. Paste and replace the profile;
5. Open Vivaldi.

Important! Saved passwords and cookies will not be transferred when moving the profile between computers or users on the same computer. You must only move — and not make a copy — of an existing profile. Two copies of Vivaldi cannot run from the same profile — even on different computers! The profile contains identifiers that must remain unique between your installations. Services like Sync and Mail Accounts with OAuth will not work when two instances of the same profile is used.

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Import data files from Chromium browsers

While Vivaldi is closed you can replace files in the profile folder, with the same files from Vivaldi’s or another Chromium-based browser’s profile folders.

Before trying to import data this way, we recommend making a backup of your current profile folder just in case.

To locate the profile folder in Vivaldi:

1. Go to Vivaldi menu > Help > About or vivaldi://about;
2. Make note of the Profile Path;
3. Locate the Default folder in your File Manager/Finder.

Refer to the other browser’s Help documentation to locate its profile folder.

With this method, you can import the following data:

• Bookmarks,
• Current Session,
• Current Tabs,
• Favicons,
• History,
• Last Session,
• Last Tabs,
• Login Data,
• Notes (only available in Vivaldi),
• Preferences,
• Web Data.

One option to hide the user interface is to go into full screen mode, but then the Tab you have open will be the only thing you see on the screen. An alternative is to hide just the browser’s toolbars. Continue reading to learn how to hide the toolbars all at once and one by one.

Hide the full user interface

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Hide the Tab Bar

To hide the Tab Bar:

• Go to the Vivaldi menu > View > Show Tab Bar.
• Go to Settings > Tabs and disable Show Tab Bar;
• Type “Tab Bar” in Quick Commands;
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the action.

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Hide the Address Bar

To hide the Address Bar:

• Go to Settings > Address Bar and disable Show Address Bar;
• Type “Address Bar” in Quick Commands;
• Create a Keyboard Shortcut or a Mouse Gesture for the action.

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Hide the Panel

To hide the Panel bar on the side of the browser:

• Click on the Hide/Show Panel button on the left side of the Status Bar;
• Go to the Vivaldi menu > View > Show Panel.
• Type “Panel” in Quick Commands;
• Use the Keyboard Shortcut F4 / ⌥⌘P;
• Create a Mouse Gesture for the action.

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Hide the Status Bar

To hide the Status Bar:

• Go to the Vivaldi menu > View > Show Status Bar.
• Go to Settings > Appearance > Status Bar and enable Hide Status Bar;
• Type “Status Bar” in Quick Commands;
• Use the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+S / ⌘/;
• Create a Mouse Gesture for the action.

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Hide the Bookmark Bar

To hide the Bookmark Bar:

• Go to the Vivaldi menu > View > Show Bookmark Bar;
• Go to Settings > Bookmarks > Bookmark Bar and disable Show Bookmark Bar;
• Type “Bookmarks Bar” in Quick Commands;
• Use the Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B / ⇧⌘B;
• Create a Mouse Gesture for the action.

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Show hidden user interface elements

To show the hidden Tab, Address, Status Bar or the Panel again, follow the same instructions as for hiding them.

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Hide buttons on the toolbars

To hide or move buttons on the toolbars, take a look at our help page about Editing Toolbars.

Login issues

In case you can’t log in to your account, first make sure you’ve typed the username and password correctly.

If you’re having trouble remembering your username, send yourself a reminder here: https://login.vivaldi.net/profile/id/recoverAccount.

In case you’ve forgotten the login password, reset it here: https://login.vivaldi.net/profile/id/userInfoView.

If you try logging in with the wrong password at least 5 times, the account will get locked for 5 minutes as a security measure.

If login fails, you can also try whether login works to other Vivaldi services. For example, try logging in to your account’s profile on Vivaldi.net.

For our support team’s assistance, please send us a message at the end of this article and describe the issue in detail.

New account login issues

Vivaldi Webmail is a service for active Vivaldi Community members using Vivaldi’s services. This means that new users, who registered their account after 4th of May 2023, and users who registered between October 2019 and May 2023, but never verified their phone number, first need to build up a reputation to be granted access to the Webmail service.

The reputation system is replacing the previous requirement to verify an account via one’s phone, that was set up to limit the number of spam accounts. For additional information, read our blog post on the topic.

Locked account

The account can be locked for a few reasons:

• You’ve tried logging in with the wrong password more than 5 times and the account got temporarily locked.
  In that case wait 5 minutes and try again, if you’re absolutely sure you have the correct password this time.
  In case you’ve forgotten the password, reset it here.
• The account was locked for breaking Vivaldi’s Terms of Use.
  We have applied several measures and criteria to Vivaldi Webmail in order to prevent spam from being sent using our webmail service. We use automatic tools for spam prevention and if they detect spam, they can lock the account. This means that there occasionally may be some false positives.
  If your account was suddenly locked after using Vivaldi webmail, and you’re sure you haven’t broken our Terms of Use, please get in touch with us using the contact form at the end of the article. We’ll review the account and decide whether the account can be unlocked or not.

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Webmail service is down

Occasionally, login won’t be possible, because the services are down. When downtime is needed due to scheduled maintenance work, we’ll notify everyone with a message sent to the account’s recovery email well ahead of time.

Sometimes accessing your mail won’t be possible, because something has suddenly stopped working. The team will do their best to solve these issues as soon as possible. In that case check Vivaldi’s Status page and keep an eye on the Webmail category on the Forum, where our team and volunteers will keep you updated with the latest news.

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Issues with sending or receiving messages

Sending messages

In case you can’t send messages or recipients claim they don’t receive them, please get in touch with us using the contact form at the end of the article.

If the messages refuse to send, tell us what the error message says.

If the message was sent, but not delivered, please also include the message headers. To get the message headers in Vivaldi webmail:

1. Go to the Sent folder;
2. Open the email that wasn’t delivered;
3. Below the recipient email address, click on Details > All headers;
4. Copy the text in the pop up window to your message.

Receiving messages

In case you’re expecting an email from someone, but it isn’t delivered, please also get in touch with us using the contact form at the end of the article. In the message to our support team, in addition to your account information, please include the full email address and the date and time, you expected to receive the email.

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Trouble with using Vivaldi Webmail in a mail client

In case you can’t access your mail in a mail client, double check the login settings (especially, if you’ve recently changed the password) and server settings in the mail client’s account settings. We’ve listed Vivaldi Webmail’s server settings for incoming and outgoing mail here.

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Settings

To customise your Forum preferences:

1. Click on your avatar in the top right corner of the Forum;
2. Select Settings from the menu.

You can edit the following settings:

• Forum homepage;
• Privacy
  • Show or hide your name,
  • Allow messages from everyone or only users you follow;
• Browsing Settings
  • Decide, how to open outgoing links,
  • Enable/disable in-topic search,
  • Enable/disable showing the new post after replying;
• Pagination
  • Choose between infinite scroll or topic and post pagination
  • In case you’ve chosen paginating topics and posts, decide, how many should be shown per page.
• Emails
  • Subscribe to email updates for the Forum (new notifications and topics) according to a set schedule;
• Language
  • Change the language of the Forum interface;
• Watching topics
  • Enable automatic watching of topics you create and reply to,
  • Change the default category watch state;
• Notifications
  • Choose what kind of notifications you want to receive (e.g. when someone upvotes your post or mentions you in their post)
  • And how you want to receive the notification (e.g. just a forum notification or an email notification)

Remember to Save any changes you make.

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Flag a post for moderation

To flag posts that break our Code of Conduct:

1. Click on the

   

   post menu on the right side of the post;
2. Select Flag This Post for Moderation;
3. Pick a category: Spam, Offensive or leave a short comment, why you think the post is inappropriate for the forum.
4. Click Submit Report.

Forum admins and moderators will review the flag and decide what to do next.

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Moderation

The Vivaldi Forum is moderated by Community Managers (Vivaldi employees) and Moderators (volunteers). They can move your topics if there’s a better category for them and they may also edit your post to clarify a point and/or remove parts that are not in line with our Community Guidelines and Terms of Use.

Community Managers and Moderators also have the right to delete inappropriate and duplicate posts, as well as, ban users either temporarily or permanently, who have broken the aforementioned rules and guidelines.

In case you have any questions or complaints regarding moderation, please contact one of the Community Managers in a private message on the Forum or through the contact form below.

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