New Account, No Webmail
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EDIT: after 5 days I am now the proud owner of the glitchiest email UI ever. Thanks for your likes.
After spending 20 min looking through all help websites I found this reason why new accounts can't use mail.
PSA for all new accounts.
Hope I can get good reputation for making this info just a bit more visible because I had no idea why my mail was not working. -
@CatherineL said in New Account, No Webmail:
I had no idea why my mail was not working
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/86622/can-t-start-using-email?_=1684957785449
what is "PSA"?
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public service announcement
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@CatherineL hopefully liking and interacting with your post will give us both a few points! I was going mad thinking there was something wrong when it said there was already an account with my name but I lacked permission to use it!
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@CatherineL so if you go to your profile you can see your reputation score and your number of posts and they are almost the same (mine are the same) so I think it's one point per comment, for the most part. No idea how many points are needed so just keep posting I guess.
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@impaisley Thank for info that
@impaisley said in New Account, No Webmail:
go to your profile you can see your reputation score and your number of posts
This is one of what I wanted to know on subject matter.
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this is a bit hassle so I'm glad I did pay for my hey.com email tbh
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@kwh there are plenty of email services where you get an address for a fee. Vivaldi even partners with Fastmail (using this link gives you a discount and Vivaldi a small fee). Other services may give you access to services and you give them lots of personal data in return, which is ultimately also a fee.
Vivaldi web mail is a free service provided by Vivaldi to its community. Vivaldi's business model is the placement of partner bookmarks and default partner search engines in the browser, in return the browser and all services it provides are free and Vivaldi does not want your data either. The webmail service can be, and was, abused by spammers. So the engagement with the community via Blogs, the forum, Mastodon or just using the browser and using sync* is the fee Vivaldi charges, an entry barrier, to make sure it's being used by people who actually want to use Vivaldi for the right reasons.
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@CatherineL same problem, this is sick, dude
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@sasnet
Hi, many user told the Vivaldi team ask for the mobile phone number is sick.
@CatherineL reported in the first post this need 5 days and a few posts here.
I use a free mail service from Freenet but they pester me with ads on the web client, Vivaldi does not.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin you are not informed enough, it is clearly written in the new "vivaldi rules" that the phone number has been removed and is now based on these community points. doh! there are plenty of free emails without advertising, but I was interested in vivaldi anyway.
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@sasnet
Yes, the reason why it was removed was many user not accepted to share there number.
My first Vivaldi account was created when no phone number and/or reputations was needed.
At this time the forum was bombed with spam and they created the phone number restriction.
Anyway, after a few days of use you can reach the mail account.Cheers, mib
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@WildEnte I’m well aware of FastMail but just suggesting everyone here can also sign up hey.com (by Basecamp) if they’d like to pay as their privacy policy looks good to me and 100GB storage for $99 per year. I don’t work for them at all but just find this reply forum thingy to get access to a service is a bit redundant as no one has that much of time to do so tbh.
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@kwh, if Forums aren't your thing, there are other ways to be active in the community. You can post and comment on Vivaldi Social, write blog posts on Vivaldi.net, share browser themes you've created on Vivaldi Themes, use the Sync feature in the browser.
But as said in other threads on this topic, we hope you'll genuinely use the services for their intended purpose and because you enjoy them, not to get access to Vivaldi Webmail. -
@jane-n I switched from Opera to Vivaldi because of your founder. It’s fine if Vivaldi have decided not to give email service to people like me who’s introvert or don’t like to share information online. I don’t mind.
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Same here. My husband and my two sons created their vivaldi account and were able to collect a webmail, and I have to be active here to have my webmail.
Altough I totally understand this policy intended against scammers, it's hard for me to "share about me" hoping to grab a webmail. -
@luffim said in New Account, No Webmail:
it's hard for me to "share about me" hoping to grab a webmail.
Well, "sharing" can be misinterpreted; you could just get involved in the forums - helping/suggesting things to those with some difficulties with Vivaldi on your O.S. or on IOS (from your sig ).
Also, just "chatting" with others in the everything else category.
If people find your posts/thoughts/insights useful (or even just amusing) they can upvote your posts and hence increase your "reputation".
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@TbGbe I understand, and will try to do it. I just don't feel nice to perform some kind of "acting" to secure a webmail.
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@luffim
Hi, it means participation rather than activity.Cheers, mib