Welcome to the new Qatar Living

Welcome to the new Qatar Living

qatari
By qatari

By now you've probably noticed some significant improvements to Qatar's biggest online community platform. We've been working very hard to upgrade the website from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.

Unless you're a geek, that probably means nothing to you. What you will be happy to learn though, is that the upgraded back-end of the site now allows for better performance and optimisation - which in turn means a better user experience for you!

Got a question? Need help?

The new help tab on the right of your screen will be continously updates with FAQ's, and it will also allow for a quicker response time to help with any issues you face.

Can I still post FREE classifieds ads?

Yes, of course. But in an effort to eliminate spams and scams, you will need to verify your account with a local Qatar mobile number. This means that only people based in Qatar are allowed to sell through our site. Once you receive the SMS verification code that will be sent to your mobile phone, your classified will go up.

And can we still have discussions and ask for advise in the forums?

Yes, of course. Once you log in and browse the forums and comments, you will notice a little heart icon, and an exclamation icon.

The heart icon is basically a like - click it when you like or agree with a valuable comment or contribution. This will help us separate the quality from the rest. And the exclamation is pretty much the opposite - click it to flag anything that you believe requires further attention from the moderators.

But this is only the beginning. We will continue to continue to roll out improved versions of old features, and also many cool new features:

- upcoming improvements to groups, private messages, user points and other functionality,

- new events section to be launched in the near future,

Have some feedback for us?

Please click on the help tab and get in touch - we would love to hear your feedback!

Image: by Mohamed Nanabhay on Flickr.

By GodFather.• 24 Oct 2013 11:07
GodFather.

Good Job Qatari and the Gang. Hope the rest of the features are restored/Updated soon. I for one like the new layout!

By rambo31• 22 Oct 2013 13:26
rambo31

old was better.There is no home page in new website.

By Molten Metal• 20 Oct 2013 06:35
Molten Metal

Waiting & waiting ......

By Prize• 18 Oct 2013 09:08
Prize

Bitter but true.

By adey• 17 Oct 2013 18:58
adey

RIP QL, it was nice knowing you

By glyn• 17 Oct 2013 12:30
glyn

tried to post an opinion of the site, obviously as it was negative, nothing bad, offensive or illegal, I am now told that I am violating QL guidelines..................only positive comments please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By glyn• 17 Oct 2013 12:28
glyn

Old was better, when posting an ad, location doesn't recognise half of Doha, I had to put a location that wasn't my location just so I could send an ad, if I did my work to this standard, I'd be fired and deported!

Pay peanuts...............................

By Molten Metal• 17 Oct 2013 08:31
Molten Metal

So majority has rejected it ............ !

By Queen_Latifa• 17 Oct 2013 06:55
Queen_Latifa

The searching seems to lack detailed resuts.

By housekeeper786• 16 Oct 2013 17:24
housekeeper786

changes are welcome. but this is too much, cannot do a good search. the old one better

By housekeeper786• 16 Oct 2013 17:24
housekeeper786

changes are welcome. but this is too much, cannot do a good search. the old one better

By housekeeper786• 16 Oct 2013 17:24
housekeeper786

changes are welcome. but this is too much, cannot do a good search. the old one better

By housekeeper786• 16 Oct 2013 17:21
housekeeper786

the none is not in good, old is better for the searching.

By Molten Metal• 16 Oct 2013 09:26
Molten Metal

Nadeem, I asked that question in the last week , till now no body answered it .......

By kmgr18• 16 Oct 2013 09:14
kmgr18

you can do better than this.

By kmgr18• 16 Oct 2013 09:13
kmgr18

changes is good but the old one is more easy and accurate. this new webpage is so confusing and it's not very friendly use!

By nadeemhussain• 15 Oct 2013 13:50
nadeemhussain

you need to work on your search option, i love the old version .... no idea why you have change it, old one was superb

By adey• 14 Oct 2013 11:48
adey

Disaster of a move. All I see is a few classifieds and about 5 posts over the last 2 days. All conversation has been killed and nothing can be found.

I keep coming here to find something new,but nothing. I shan't bother anymore.

The look is updated but it doesn't function at all.

By omran_cars• 14 Oct 2013 11:10
omran_cars

alot of bugs ,there are no search options for the used cars now

so please fix everything

By landloverreview• 14 Oct 2013 10:53
landloverreview

Strom.. :) Did not you read the post "QL gone Pink" :)

By shaz.2003• 14 Oct 2013 10:32
shaz.2003

it is very difficult now to get used to

By ashy2k• 14 Oct 2013 08:15
ashy2k

The new version is good.. obviously it will take some time getting used to :).. Great Job!!

By Molten Metal• 14 Oct 2013 08:04
Molten Metal

Hi, Hope good days will come back , guys And girls .....

By Prize• 14 Oct 2013 07:52
Prize

Hi, MM, I have my hopes on you dear.

By Humbles• 14 Oct 2013 07:29
Humbles

MM, That is so true.

By Riyal2Rupee• 14 Oct 2013 07:19
Riyal2Rupee

MM, Good motivation !

By Riyal2Rupee• 14 Oct 2013 07:18
Riyal2Rupee

Mindblah, what you said is very correct.

By Molten Metal• 14 Oct 2013 06:54
Molten Metal

On the other hand, It is ONLY fashionable to say, '' oh change is always welcome .... ''

By Molten Metal• 14 Oct 2013 06:51
Molten Metal

But, it is nice to see people speaking out the truth .....

By Molten Metal• 14 Oct 2013 06:50
Molten Metal

I am saying this since the day one ..........

By vnla• 13 Oct 2013 23:36
vnla

New Design is Disaster !!!! I was also complaining with the old design but it was much much better. for the classifieds I cannot filter anything. before there were filters like brand year km and price where did they go ????

By vnla• 13 Oct 2013 23:36
vnla

New Design is Disaster !!!! I was also complaining with the old design but it was much much better. for the classifieds I cannot filter anything. before there were filters like brand year km and price where did they go ????

By mindblah• 13 Oct 2013 20:10
mindblah

I much preferred the old forum. Even though the forum has a more modern look'n'feel now, the superficial changes seem to have come at the cost of functionality and user experience. For example, it takes more effort to glance through the posts in a subforum which, instead of appearing in a neat and regular table, are in little boxes of different heights in two columns, so your eyes need to scan it in a zigzag path. Not fun. Also, less of the post subject is visible so I'm often not sure if a thread is going to be interesting to me or not.

Even as I type this message, the Javascript/Ajax/whatever causes my cursor to freeze around once a minute and then splutter the buffered text into the text window. There are also occasional freezes when I try to scroll. (And it's not like I'm running this on old technology - I have the latest MBA laptop running FF 24.0.) When I visited this forum on my iPhone 4's Safari browser the post subjects go offscreen and I can't resize it. (Although this could be because I'm using a very old version of iOS - maybe the forum looks better on iOS 7, but haven't tried it yet.)

Although I don't post here a lot, I (used to) browse the forum almost daily for interesting news and posts. I hope it's still a work in progress, because in it's current shape I can't see myself visiting this forum that frequently anymore.

Just a (somewhat disgruntled) member's two "halalas".

By t_coffee_or_me• 13 Oct 2013 15:17
t_coffee_or_me

Most of the features have been disabled. Once they have sorted out all the bugs better features will be available.

By BOXBE16DOBARA• 13 Oct 2013 15:14
BOXBE16DOBARA

:)

By BOXBE16DOBARA• 13 Oct 2013 15:14
BOXBE16DOBARA

:)

By afridi23• 13 Oct 2013 14:52
afridi23

its difficult to search in new qatarliving the old was very c=very excellent plz we need old qatarliving and also there is no delete option.

By afridi23• 13 Oct 2013 14:48
afridi23

old qatarliving was better plz we need old qatarliving i hate new thanks.

By Satheesh_madh• 13 Oct 2013 13:51
Satheesh_madh

we cannot search adverts by using filters. please add.

By abbasbarkati• 13 Oct 2013 12:55
abbasbarkati

old is better than new

By the_black_pearl• 13 Oct 2013 12:44
the_black_pearl

Mods.. i hope the old PM's can be restored..

By azri14• 13 Oct 2013 12:13
azri14

Dear Mods, how to filter searchs in classifieds based on prices.

By Molten Metal• 13 Oct 2013 10:01
Molten Metal

Strom, Those who watch ladies on screens for long hours daily also begin to behave like one ...........

By trendyart• 13 Oct 2013 09:48
trendyart

SMS Verification not working!!!!!??????

By Strom• 13 Oct 2013 09:00
Strom

....and i m 101 % sure this new lay out has been designed by a woman ... pinks and greys ..hearts and blues.... :-)

By Janneeyy03• 13 Oct 2013 08:11
Janneeyy03

Good Job QL!

I'm still disoriented :'(

By Sulieman• 13 Oct 2013 07:58
Sulieman

@tinkerbell10 ,,, No INBOX no more Gossip :O(

Lols

BTW we missed you sweet lady :O)

By ingeniero• 12 Oct 2013 19:09
ingeniero

Wow... New look... Thumbs up Qatari...

All new design in solidarity with iOS7? ;)

By saberhammami• 12 Oct 2013 18:08
saberhammami

i like the old version ...it's easy to Search for anything .....i m looking only for kia picanto 2013 for sale ?? please help me how can i Search for that ???

By sewafy• 12 Oct 2013 16:19
sewafy

mabrouk :)

By shahad.p• 12 Oct 2013 15:32
shahad.p

Very good and easy to search

By zoomdoha2022• 12 Oct 2013 15:29
zoomdoha2022

It's very good more easy for user & more professionally.

By mariaelizabeth• 12 Oct 2013 14:28
mariaelizabeth

still trying to adapt with the changes - this new one is okay though. Just few things that I can't find now though is my list of groups that i have joined before, its perhaps somewhere in the menu and just haven't seen it yet or is it really been taken out?

By RyanCanuck• 12 Oct 2013 13:56
RyanCanuck

It looks a lot better. Good job, guys.

By Sulieman• 12 Oct 2013 13:05
Sulieman

I have a question

Where is my Inbox ?

By landloverreview• 12 Oct 2013 12:27
landloverreview

I love time line feature very much. :) Can we have an option to have a cover photo? :)

By anonymous• 12 Oct 2013 11:32
anonymous

Thanks for the feedback everyone - we're rolling out the updates over the site this week. We'll have some fantastic filtering options for the classifieds, rolling out the private messages and much better search. We appreciate the support and love!

By kaled moustafa• 12 Oct 2013 09:56
kaled moustafa

PLEAESE urgent

Add please more advances like ( search in Easy options )

so pervious one better more than currency

thanks

By zafirah• 12 Oct 2013 09:02
zafirah

mr. qatari, help tab is not working at the moment.

and there is no more pm's?

just asking...

By crispycrisp• 12 Oct 2013 08:50
crispycrisp

The option of refine search is not available in new Page.

By Molten Metal• 12 Oct 2013 08:43
Molten Metal

It was more practical & simple before ....

By Molten Metal• 12 Oct 2013 08:42
Molten Metal

Mast, That shows people were not having an up to date system before ...... but they never asked for a new one ... so this thing was hidden in their mind and now they are hiding their face also .....

By osamabawab• 12 Oct 2013 08:40
osamabawab

Congrats & well done :)

By muhammad yasir siddiqui• 12 Oct 2013 08:36
muhammad yasir siddiqui

agree with boxbe :)

By BOXBE16DOBARA• 12 Oct 2013 08:27
BOXBE16DOBARA

Agree with fatimah...:(

By FathimaH• 12 Oct 2013 08:21
FathimaH

Agree with m3dad.. Please bring back the recent posts pronto!

By m3dad507• 12 Oct 2013 08:13
m3dad507

pllllllllz put the recent posts back

By Strom• 12 Oct 2013 07:45
Strom

awwww and we have LIKE

By Strom• 12 Oct 2013 07:43
Strom

i think colours needed to be changed , as u hardly see ur nick , forum or post ........ congratulations and hats off to ur hard work.... hope ill get used to it soon :-)

By fazmeer3• 12 Oct 2013 06:20
fazmeer3

please add "IT/Computer" categories in jobs field....

By zafirah• 11 Oct 2013 22:52
zafirah

looks cool.

Congratulations Mr. Qatari.

I like the "like and dislike " button!

By micky_4• 11 Oct 2013 22:42
micky_4

date wise sorting is not available on the search results..... pls add

By underwater09• 11 Oct 2013 22:21
underwater09

confusing new qatar living web!!!

By lucky2masi• 11 Oct 2013 21:43
lucky2masi

Wow Cool, as everything after certain time needs a Change QL also gave a better look. The most special friend for me in QATAR is QL. It helps in everything it fullfill every need, much helpfull for me....... All the best and i will be touch every day. EID-AL-ADHA mubarak in Advance as i am going on short Vacation

By kumbayaye• 11 Oct 2013 20:41
kumbayaye

It's confusing because it's new mast :)

By kumbayaye• 11 Oct 2013 22:25
kumbayaye

Duplicate

By abeer_my• 11 Oct 2013 20:38
abeer_my

hope they have a chatroom feature...am i expecting too much...but mobile verification was good enough..

By mast kalandar• 11 Oct 2013 20:16
mast kalandar

the new one is very confused better the old one why to change when it was great

By Tamimqatar123• 11 Oct 2013 19:48
Tamimqatar123

I Have a problem with mobile verification ! can anyone help ?

By kumbayaye• 11 Oct 2013 19:46
kumbayaye

Looks good,but where's my profile pic?it's not showing

By qatarisun• 11 Oct 2013 19:40
qatarisun

where my recent comments can be found?

By ernestoandayii• 11 Oct 2013 19:26
ernestoandayii

New QL is getting more interactive. Great job QL team. But please bring back the search filter for classifieds. It will help people to search easier.

By pandoy_s• 11 Oct 2013 19:21
pandoy_s

where is the search filter in the classifieds? gone?

By Barbarian King• 11 Oct 2013 19:18
Barbarian King

QL fix also the advertisements pop ups everywhere around the page.a simple click is diverting into another windows.its quite annoying.thanks

By nomerci• 11 Oct 2013 19:07
nomerci

OMG....WHY ??????????

By shuhaibsanz• 11 Oct 2013 18:50
shuhaibsanz

The old QL was best

By Sulieman• 11 Oct 2013 18:31
Sulieman

That's wonderful

Good Job Qatari and the whole QL team ,, Keep it up guys

By anonymous• 11 Oct 2013 17:25
anonymous

To post classified ads, click on the big green button on the top-right of the page, or click here: http://www.qatarliving.com/node/add/classified

By pizzahuts• 11 Oct 2013 17:14
pizzahuts

IS THE MODERATOR SLEEPING HERE.. ALL ARE ASKING HOW TO POST AN AD BUT THERE IS NO ANY REPLY FROM THE MODERATOR

By andrescaballero• 11 Oct 2013 17:06
andrescaballero

how can post an ad?

By mohammad ammar• 11 Oct 2013 16:56
mohammad ammar

how to post adds for flat or apartments???

By london lover• 11 Oct 2013 16:56
london lover

how to post an ad?

By london lover• 11 Oct 2013 16:56
london lover

how to post an ad?

By pizzahuts• 11 Oct 2013 16:54
pizzahuts

HOW TO POST AD HERE??????????????

By pizzahuts• 11 Oct 2013 16:53
pizzahuts

THE OLDER WAS BETTER THAN THIS NEW

By pizzahuts• 11 Oct 2013 16:53
pizzahuts

THE OLDER WAS BETTER THAN THIS NEW

By Molten Metal• 11 Oct 2013 11:17
Molten Metal

Sidroney , If It is continuous progressive management , then a few more pushes are needed ...

By Molten Metal• 11 Oct 2013 11:16
Molten Metal

mistake,, purw = pure .....

By micky_4• 11 Oct 2013 11:15
micky_4

search results cant be sorted by recent date of post.... cant see all adds like before if you click on a category....site has become useless. If you click on a category this is the result u get .

No results contaning your search terms were found.

Suggestions:

Make sure that all words are spelled correctly

Try different keywords

Try more general keywords

By Molten Metal• 11 Oct 2013 11:14
Molten Metal

77, this is a purw surprise ...

By Molten Metal• 11 Oct 2013 11:13
Molten Metal

Who has asked for this change ?

By Rainbow77• 11 Oct 2013 11:13
Rainbow77

SEARCH option under classified (for instance) is really pathetic :-( should be sorted by DATE in descending order. To be honest, the previous version was more user friendly.

By nameofhumanity• 11 Oct 2013 11:02
nameofhumanity

i getting very old classified in the properties section. there is nothing new ads to show up..please fix it

By nameofhumanity• 11 Oct 2013 11:02
nameofhumanity

i getting very old classified in the properties section. there is nothing new ads to show up..please fix it

By nameofhumanity• 11 Oct 2013 11:02
nameofhumanity

i getting very old classified in the properties section. there is nothing new ads to show up..please fix it

By nameofhumanity• 11 Oct 2013 11:02
nameofhumanity

i getting very old classified in the properties section. there is nothing new ads to show up..please fix it

By SIDRONEY• 11 Oct 2013 10:39
SIDRONEY

It is continuous progressive management, congrates to moderator and QL Team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By mvshabeer2• 11 Oct 2013 10:29
mvshabeer2

Looks better.

But need to see avatar(profile pic) of everyone on comments/posts

we identify people looking at their profile pic rather than remembering their name

By zico.mohamed85• 11 Oct 2013 10:24
zico.mohamed85

where is the posts ???

By Abdulmuiz• 11 Oct 2013 10:23
Abdulmuiz

Very good, change is always welcome.

By thahani• 11 Oct 2013 10:04
thahani

Its looks amaizing. But Here i cant see add classifieds and login options? How i can fix it?

By t_coffee_or_me• 11 Oct 2013 09:55
t_coffee_or_me

New comments on the post we have already read not there. Difficult to know if any more comments have been added.

By adhil444• 11 Oct 2013 09:53
adhil444

I loved the old qatarliving

But anyway good

By adhil444• 11 Oct 2013 09:53
adhil444

I loved the old qatarliving

But anyway good

By t_coffee_or_me• 11 Oct 2013 09:48
t_coffee_or_me

Spammers will start posting their adds on the main forum now Check it has already started.

New forum .... http://www.qatarliving.com/qatar-living-lounge

By osh kosh• 11 Oct 2013 09:40
osh kosh

Congratulations! job well done!

By CDN• 11 Oct 2013 09:39
CDN

In the properties section in the Classifieds for locations, can you re-add West Bay, The Pearl, and also add Al Kheesa Khurtiyat Umm Slal Mohammad Umm Slal Ali, and Umm Al Amad.

By ahmad.qcon• 11 Oct 2013 09:34
ahmad.qcon

friends pl zsay me how to post add in dis new version?

By kiekie212• 11 Oct 2013 09:12
kiekie212

mabrook! very modern apearance now..

By Rip Cord• 11 Oct 2013 09:10
Rip Cord

Looking good. Must have been a lot of hard work

By anonymous• 11 Oct 2013 08:47
anonymous

Hi all! Thanks for your support! We're working through some issues at the moment but hope to be back with more available features and pages soon!

By ghazalz• 11 Oct 2013 08:42
ghazalz

By the way, I like the picture on your post, my hubby and I have a similar one too :)

By cherukkan• 11 Oct 2013 08:40
cherukkan

Good morning. I just noticed the change. It is really fantastic.

Congratulations to all QLers.

By elhame• 11 Oct 2013 08:19
elhame

nice :)

By ghazalz• 11 Oct 2013 08:16
ghazalz

The 'time' in comments was accurate previously.

By blackcool• 11 Oct 2013 08:10
blackcool

Can QL advanced to mobile version?. No..., you need to load all those flash, java, etc onto your mobile.

By BOXBE16DOBARA• 11 Oct 2013 08:01
BOXBE16DOBARA

Mabrook

By ghazalz• 11 Oct 2013 07:57
ghazalz

the preview and edit are missing :(

By ghazalz• 11 Oct 2013 07:54
ghazalz

Congratulations qatari on your success!

The change might be good for landloverreview and all, but it'll take long for me to get used to it :(

I admit, I'm old fashioned.

By landloverreview• 11 Oct 2013 07:16
landloverreview

Good Morning Qatari. Alf Mabrook. :) Excellent. Fantastic. love it. :) You really deserve a huge applause for making something which millions of people get benefit from. If Qatar has some social awards for community welfare I would definitely vote for QL and you. Cheers.

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