Login error leads to WordPress

[NetscapeNavigator]

Vivaldi's website seems to be having issues.

When logging into the community site, there was an error, and now I see the whole site is run by WordPress.

[Pathduck]

@NetscapeNavigator Hi, no that's fine - you ended up on the Dashboard of your Vivaldi Net blog - which is indeed running WordPress

Don't worry, you can only edit your own blog posts (if you want, or not...)

What you're seeing is the "Reader" view showing the most recent posts from all Vivaldi Community blogs.

[NetscapeNavigator]

@Pathduck That's good to know. I thought something had gone terribly wrong, because I was not expecting to see a WordPress interface.

It has been awhile since I have logged into my account. And that change, if by design, was unexpected, especially with the error message that redirected me there.

At the moment, I'm trying to find the URL for the web mail, or has that been discontinued?

edit: I found the URL: https://webmail.vivaldi.net

[Pathduck]

@NetscapeNavigator When you sign in to your Vivaldi Net account, it should look something like this (if everything works):

I have no idea how you ended up on the Blogs sections, but as said it's no problem.

Note that they've apparently removed the link to the Webmail, as it's now considered an earned privilege and no longer a right (because of spammer abuse).

So bookmark that Webmail link

[NetscapeNavigator]

@Pathduck I rarely send out e-mail to anyone. Even my work rarely uses e-mail (preferring their internal portal).

Like most people, most of my e-mail is incoming, and most of those are harmless newsletter. What little spam I get, I tend to flag quickly, and am wise not to click on anything I don't know.

In short, I'll be low impact to anyone. But you're welcome to monitor my usage (as I'm sure someone does).

[Pathduck]

@NetscapeNavigator The new mail rules are only for new accounts - looks like you joined at a time when it was a free-for-all

And the problem was not incoming spam, it was users signing up to send spam from Vivaldi accounts, with a consequence that big mail services like Google/Microsoft/Yahoo etc could start blacklisting vivaldi.net emails - as you can probably tell, this would be critical for a small mail service.

[NetscapeNavigator]

Yes, that would be unfortunate, and it is sad that some people abuse a useful product or service. Yes, I joined a little before there was an announcement. I recall someone casually talking about it on the forums and signed up before the general release.