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 My Opera Community |
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| URL | http://my.opera.com/ |
| Commercial? | Maintained by Opera Software ASA for non commercial purposes and to provide support for numerous versions of the Opera Browser. |
| Type of site | Internet forum, Software Support Site, Blog host, Photo sharing |
| Registration | Required to post but not to view postings |
| Owner | Opera ASA |
| Created by | |
| Launched | August 2001 |
| Current status | Active |
The My Opera Community is the support community for the Opera Internet Suite. Over 2,000 new members join per day [1], and the site has more than one million members[2].
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The My Opera Community was launched in August 2001 and had its first upgrade a month later on September 11. This upgrade included the introduction of Opera Composer.[3] On December 15, 2003 the site underwent an upgrade. [4]
In September 2005 the My Opera Community added a few major improvements [5]. These changes improvements include adding many of the features currently available on the website. During this upgrade users were given acesess to person photo albums, improved blogs (formerly journals), the ability to create custom groups and 300 mb of free disk space.[6] Improvements to blogging included the introduction of "mobile blogging" or blogging from a mobile phone through MMS.[7][8]
In the Fall of 2006, My Opera's servers were straining to handle site traffic. New servers were available since September 5[9]. The hardware was originally scheduled to be installed alongside a software upgrade but the software upgrade became a major effort. It occurred on October 10 at least 2 weeks before any hardware upgrade[10]. It was scheduled to begin at 6:00 UTC and last for 4 to 5 hours[11].
Changes scheduled for the software upgrade included:
- polls in blog sidebars
- deletion of your own forum posts
- improved search interface for forums
After the install was complete not all of the new features were fully integrated and there were a few bugs, including a problem with the tagging database [12] There was however, a bonus upgrade in that new smilies were added.
On October 30, 2006, it was officially announced that the new hardware would be installed on October 31. The installation lead to a site downtime from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. CET.[13]
On November 3, 2006, the "Grand Opening" of the new My Opera Community server room was announced. Contained within this server room are only servers that are for the My Opera Community and canisters of Argon Gas to extinguish fire without damging equipment.[14]
On November 14, 2006, the community shut down for a few minutes while 50000 NOK worth of memory was installed in the servers to improve performance.[15]
On December 13, 2006, it was announced that a new database server was installed for visiting users, that it users who aren't logged in (e.g. Viewing Blog and Forum posts without signing in). Right away the new server began to handle more traffic than the old one. This meant that the old server had more resources available to it and could handle standard logged in traffic more effectively.[16]
On December 22, 2006, a new server "Fatboy" was announced. This server was bought to handle the anticipated load increase due to the introduction of the Wii Internet Channel.[17]
On March 8, 2007 Opera released a new version of the site.[18]
The new hardware for the 2006 upgrade was put to use for a beta test site on October 26, 2006. This site was intended to remain up even after the final install of the new hardware on the regular website. There are extensive plans for various subdomains on the My Opera site.[19]
 The original design for the My Opera Community |
 The second version of the My Opera Community |
 The third version of the My Opera Comminity |
 The fourth version of the My Opera Community which existed between September 2005 and March 2007 |
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Every week the Opera Community announces a "Member of the Week". There are a number of ways a member could be become an MOW. These include being creative with their blog or doing something for the Community. Members of the week started on September 12, 2005 [20].
There is a subsection called "Forums" devoted to Opera themed forums. There are also separate Forums in individual Groups. All forums support standard BB Code based features with the exception of image support. The [img] BB Code tags have been disabled for all forums. An alternative to this is support for users to "attach" a file (such as an image file) to a forum post from their personal file storage. There is a UserJS script to display attached imaged within forum posts. One user discovered how to get around this by placing the image address between square brackets e.g. [http://www.example.com/image.png]. For a few weeks it was a popular game to display images until this "bug" was fixed.
Opera Community allows for the creation of subgroups with their own Blogs and Forums. Groups are very much like personal pages except that you can create forums. Every My Opera user gets 300MB of space for file storage.
Blog support started out with a personal "Journal" service. In September 2005 along with other major improvements this service was changed to a "Blog" service. The My Opera Blog service currently allows HTML, BB Code, Smilies, and customisable Cascading Style Sheet formating. A lack of customisable HTML means that buttons cannot be added to Blog pages however, support for customisable link lists offers an alternative. Opera also uses groups as a way to give news on its weekly updates through the Opera Desktop Blog, which also happens to be consistently the most popular blog on the community[21].
Users also have the option of listing their blog on a worldmap.
Users are allowed personal Photo Albums. Currently a slide-show will show images from the newest photo album on the users blog sidebar. Photo Albums in groups will group images within the photo album but images are still hosted within the uploaders allocated filespace.
Project 365 is a photo collection project first launched by Opera Community user Ramunas. The goal of this project is for all participants to collect one photograph for each day of the year[22].
There are several Opera subdomain sites that use a My Opera account. These include:
- Opera Widgets, a site for uploading Widgets for the Opera browser
- Dev.Opera, a site for developers to write articles and share tips and tricks
- Opera Portal, the default page for the Opera Browser, it includes a search engine and customisable news feeds.
- Opera Link, to administrate and to sync bookmarks, SpeedDial and the Personal Bar for the Opera Browser on different devices
Dev.Opera was announced on November 1, 2006.[23][24]
- ^ Opera Community Member Statistics November 2007
- ^ My Opera front page (member count in top right corner).
- ^ Opera in Your Community Opera revamps MyOpera community and enhances the Opera Composer
- ^ My Opera revamped: New Site Unlocks Hidden Features in Opera
- ^ My Opera - One Year Later
- ^ New "My Opera" Community Gives 300MB of Free Storage
- ^ Opera Enables Mobile Blogging
- ^ Blog while you jog: People run to new My Opera Community
- ^ Hardware!
- ^ Upcoming Opera Community Downtime
- ^ Upcoming Opera Community Downtime 2
- ^ Tag Problems
- ^ New Hardware! - Opera Community News
- ^ Server Room Grand Opening (More Hardware Porn)
- ^ Server Maintenance Today
- ^ bigpa To the Rescue
- ^ What's Under the Tree?
- ^ Oh Glorious Day!! - My Opera Community Main Page Blog
- ^ Introducing the Opera Community Beta Site
- ^ First My Opera Member of the Week
- ^ My Opera Blogs arranged in order of most visited
- ^ Project 365 - Opera Community News
- ^ Dev.Opera launched
- ^ Opera Developer Community site launches
 Opera |
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| Companies | Opera Software · Telenor |
| Software | Opera (History · Features · Opera Mail) · Opera Mobile · Opera Mini · Nintendo DS Browser · Internet Channel · Presto |
| Web sites | My Opera Community |
| Notable individuals | Håkon Wium Lie · Jon S. von Tetzchner · Geir Ivarsøy |