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New hardware installed for Opera’s community site

Published January 16th, 2007 10:49 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

If you you’ve noticed the My Opera Community site not running sluggish anymore, that’s because new hardware was recently installed.

With an average of more than 1,000 new member each day, the My.Opera site has over 600,000 members and more than 1.6 million forum posts (according to BigBoards.com). The Opera Community forums ranks number 38 of the top English software forums on the web, according to Big-Boards, a site that tracks the most active message boards and forums.

Kudos to those working behind the scenes keeping the Opera Community site singing. (Follow their blog here).

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  1. 1 BAMAToNE Jan 16th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Number 38 of all English forums? That’s incredible!

  2. 2 Ryan Jan 17th, 2007 at 12:15 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Yes. They’ve got the hardware working, but the forums are getting to be annoying. I always get taken to the first post of the thread and click on the page button to see new posts.

  3. 3 TheMajor Jan 17th, 2007 at 4:52 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    @Ryan

    The first post is always displayed on top. Even on page 1000 of a thread. It’s a feature.

  4. 4 Ryan Jan 17th, 2007 at 9:25 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    I know that. But what I’m saying is that it is the ONLY post that comes up when I click to see new posts. :P

  5. 5 sc Jan 17th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    1.6 million posts? My posts account for 2% of the total amount! :D

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