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Screenshot of the My Opera Community Main Page taken in the Windows version of Opera 9.02 | | 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 | | Registration | required to post but not to view postings | | Owner | Opera ASA | | Created by | | | Launched | August 2001 | | Revenue | text sponsor links at bottom of front page only | | Current status of site | Active | The My Opera Community is the support community for the Opera web Browser. Over 1000 new members join per day [1]. According to Big Boards My Opera ranks 78th for software boards, and 39th overall based on total number of members [2] Image File history File links My_Opera_Community_Logo. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x738, 351 KB) A screenshot of the My Opera Community Main page with Opera 9. ...
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Opera is a cross-platform internet software suite consisting of a web browser, e-mail/news client, address book, newsfeed reader, IRC chat client, and download manager. ...
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History
The My Opera Community was launched in August 2001 and currently has over 500,000 members from all over the world. [3] It had its first upgrade a month later on September 11. This upgrade included the introduction of Opera Composer.[4] On December 15, 2003 the site underwent an upgrade. [5] September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ...
December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 upgrades In September 2005 the My Opera Community added a few major improvements [6]. 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.[7] Improvements to blogging included the introduction of "mobile blogging" or blogging from a mobile phone through MMS.[8][9] Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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Fall/December 2006 Upgrades
 Image used in blog posts about server downtime In the Fall of 2006 My Opera's servers were straining to handle site traffic. New servers were available since September 5[10]. 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[11]. It was scheduled to begin at 6:00 UTC and last for 4 to 5 hours[12]. Image File history File links My_Opera_downtime. ...
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Changes scheduled for the software upgrade included:
- polls in blog sidebars
- deletion of your own forum posts
- improved search interface for forums
 The canisters of Argon Gas used to etinguish fires without damaging the server equipment
 The Opera Community rack, as seen to the left. From the top, user file storage (content of files.myopera.com), "bigma" (the master MySQL database server), and two IBM blade centers containing multi-purpose machines (Apache front ends, Apache back ends, slave MySQL database servers, load balancers, file servers, cache servers, sync masters and what have you). 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 [13] There was however, a bonus upgrade in that new smilies were added. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (512x768, 74 KB) William Viker <william. ...
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On October 30, 2006 it was officially announced that the new hardware would be installed on October 31. The instalation lead to a site downtime from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM CET.[14] October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ...
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October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining. ...
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.[15] November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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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.[16] November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining until the end of the year. ...
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On December 13, 2006 it was announced that a new database server was installed for visiting users, that it users who arn't logged in (e.g. Viewing Blog and Forum posts without signing in). Right away the new server began to handle more traffice than the old one. This meant that the old server had more resources available to it and could handle standard logged in traffic more effectivly.[17]-1...
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Future Upgrades The new hardware for the 2006 upgrade was put to use for an amazingly b-ig will,y 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.[18] The site did remain up for a while after final install of the hardware but it now appears to be down. Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ...
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Member of the Week 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 [19]. Portal:Currentevents September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ...
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Server Monkeys Whenever there is a page error on the My Opera site a server monkey comes to inform you of the error. Similar graphics are also in use to illistrate yet-to-be-written help pages. Image File history File links Monkey. ...
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Server Monkeys were introduced during the 2005 upgrades, and are often blamed for server/software problems in a similar way that gremlins are. A gremlin is a mythological mischievous creature. ...
Forums 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.
Groups/Personal 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. In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ...
Blogs
 The Opera Desktop team is the most popular Blog on the My Opera Community 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[20]. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x738, 85 KB)A screenshot of the Opera Desktop Team Blog displayed in Opera 9. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x738, 85 KB)A screenshot of the Opera Desktop Team Blog displayed in Opera 9. ...
2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in September September 28 : Constance Baker Motley September 25 : M. Scott Peck September 25 : Don Adams September 20 : Simon Wiesenthal September 14 : Robert Wise September 10 : Hermann Bondi September 8 : Donald Horne September 7 : Moussa Arafat...
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Opera is a cross-platform internet software suite consisting of a web browser, e-mail/news client, address book, newsfeed reader, IRC chat client, and download manager. ...
Users also have the option of listing their blog on a worldmap.
Photo Albums 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 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[21].
Subdomains There are several Opera subdomain sites that use a My Opera account. These include Opera Widgets, a site for downloading Widgets for the Opera browser, Dev.Opera, a site for developers to write articles and share tips and tricks, and Opera Portal, the default page for the Opera Browser, it includes a search engine and customisable news feeds. Google search is the worlds most popular search engine. ...
Dev.Opera was announced on November 1, 2006.[22][23] November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ...
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References - ^ Opera Watch: Opera Community site reaches 500,000 members; More than 1,000 new members join per-day
- ^ Software Forums and Message Boards (in English)
- ^ My Opera reaches 500,000 members! Yeay!
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
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