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New Opera community site on the horizon

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 Published August 1st, 2005 12:29 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

Opera’s community site will be getting a major overhaul.

Many new features will be added to the new site, according to Stephan Nedregaard, an Opera IS Manager.

Though he wouldn’t tell me the specific changes, he did say that the Opera blogs section would be completely different from now. “You will like it. And our competitors should be afraid. Very afraid.”

In addition, RSS feeds will be enabled for individual threads in the Opera forums.

The new site is expected to launch “real soon”.

Update (1:04 PM): Here is the address for the new community site, apparently this only works on Opera’s intranet – http://my.habi.oslo.opera.com/

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  1. 1 Anonymous Aug 1st, 2005 at 3:37 pm

    Stephan beat you to it. ;-)

  2. 2 Espen Andersson Aug 3rd, 2005 at 6:48 pm

    I’m really looking forward to the new website!

  3. 3 Anonymous Aug 3rd, 2005 at 8:56 pm

    It would be really cool if it was totally customizable to a person’s own likings. Maybe make it into some kind of combination of the page that shows up whenever you start Opera for the first time and the community page that it has now. That would be really cool.

  4. 4 http://www.helena-paparizou.klucha.net/news/alt.music.lyrics-1_50.html Aug 4th, 2005 at 5:53 am

    Why Opera is better than Firefox?

  5. 5 NoobSaibot Aug 5th, 2005 at 7:52 am

    So where is it?

  6. 6 Anonymous Aug 5th, 2005 at 2:16 pm

    Not here yet.

  7. 7 Anonymous Aug 10th, 2005 at 6:50 am

    “Why Opera is better than Firefox?”

    Why Firefox is better than Opera?

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