900,604 My Opera members and counting…
Published July 16th, 2007 12:15 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman
The My Opera Community site today surpassed the 900,000 member mark (currently at 900,604).
An average of more than 1,500 new members sign up each day. The site, which hosts 116,000 blogs and 3.1 million photos, averages 1.9 million unique weekly visitors.
From discussions on how to further spread Opera to personal blogging, My Opera is certainly a vibrant community and enjoyable place to hang out. It’s no wonder the site is growing in popularity.
Is My Opera a MySpace alternative?
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Why doesn’t Opera run ad campaigns (and possibly share profits with the blog receiving the given click)?
Does anyone know how Opera makes money (I know it is publicly traded) now that the desktop browser is free?
I hope Opera stays profitable to bring us more innovation (and ideas for competing browsers, which always seem to steal them without proper credit
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and how many of these users are dead-users? never-logged-in users etc? opera way of deleting account is to not delete them. not the best way of assuring and measuring site popularity. subtract users that havent logged in for more than 6 months and see afterwards. i alone made almost 8 accounts in my days of mod-hating, he banned me, i create another one, because moderation out there is ‘quite strict’, i believe other did the same
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Moderation is far from strict, but there are morons who insist on breaking the rules and cause problems. Why shouldn’t they be banned? There’s no reason not to ban repeated abusers.
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It’s a bit unfortunate that this gets posted while the forums are down (6 hours so far) and after 2 other outages in the last 48 hours.
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My Opera has definately become a great community, at least people will now be aware of the same-named browser…
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A lot better than my space.
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I would never compare My Opera with MySpace. One of them makes your eyes bleed when looking at the page. The other is beautiful and elegant, just like the browser, rich in content and features…
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other similarities are that it doesnt work.
i get proxy errors last few days, pages do not refresh.
opera writing own forum/community software having 0 experience in it was a weird decision. and technical problems, whenever load jumps slightly are here from day one.
‘confused monkeys’.. yeah right?
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Funny how people forget. Or are being dishonest? MySpace has had plenty of downtime and problems. I have lots of friends there so I keep going there even though I hate the site. And you get lots of problems, downtime, etc.
I suspect that certain individuals here have an agenda. Perhaps certain individuals spammed the site or otherwise broke the rules and got banned for good reason, and now they want to get back at Opera for enforcing the rules?
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Why doesn’t Opera run ad campaigns? it does, but only on the opera website.. It does not seem to like ‘being away from opera’ - a bit like a kid that never leaves it hometown, and when they ‘holiday’ they never leave the campsite…
Opera has business investmwnts with various companies, so they are doing very well, thank you…
The only thing ‘really busy’ about the opera forum, is NOT about opera - ‘the lounge’ is a chat forum for lots of children of ages from 4 to 80 years old….
the servers are quite overloaded at times, something must have gone wrong, while most of the staff or on hols!!
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Kai: nope, they are too busy using FF, that actually does things…
but opera has problems with the outside world, where you cannot get internet.. I hear there are people that dont even *know* it, there!! the stange things called ‘magazines’ on ‘printed paper’ talk a lot about FF..
Just like a ten-year-old can command a ‘web-empire’ from their bedroom, but cannot get out, the real world is too bad…
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Does anyone understand what “what-is-real-world” is trying to say? He’s not making sense.
Guess we should just ignore these trolls.
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i understand him quite good
translation:
opera does not advertise outside internet. to be precise, opera does not advertise virtualy at all.
end translation.
however, to be honest, recently, Opera made a big deal with one of our biggest portals, and it now promotes opera in some strange ways. but is is still nothing compared to a fuss ff team/fanboys did.
if they dont talk about you, you dont exist.
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Good thing you are updated on Opera’s advertising practices then! Not that I understand what it has to do with My Opera…
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er.. chuck?? are ya there, chuck???
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duuuhhh…
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Hey!
intelligent posters exist! thanks sid.. 
and yup, Opera is way too scared to do anything ‘naughty’ ….. way too shy to get ‘too much attention’…
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That must be why the CEO promised to swim across the Atlantic.
Wonder how you know where Opera advertises. Have you got inside information?
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that lame fuss about swimming across atlantic counts as ‘virtualy nothing’. it was considered lame way of advertising, and noone besides hardcore opera fans remember about it.
insider information? i browse the net and see. firefox is everywhere, covered in most computer magazines - mostly because of some great new extension, or things like that eBay edition [opera cant have branded versions that differ in functionality - you cant add ebay integration, nor you can make it work with ebay properly..]. opera is left over, it is not considered ‘major’ browser by some - that is now IE/FF/Safari. saw guardian article mentioned on this site? what that it tells? that nobody couldnt be bothered.
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Hey people,,
looking for a biggi help here.
I am running more than three blogs over different services (sort of newbie in bloging) & use MS Word2007 for posting to them but in my.opera i didnt find any api info or even a email id where can i post my posts.
Please help on the subject.
1)Need an API address for my.opera (they show that opera is MovableType)
2)Need a easy way to upload my pics
3)Can u tell me how to redirect my feed request to my feedbuner’s account.
ThankX in advance!!
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There are curently 957,355 members on My Opera. At the current rate of 1500 people being added per day, My Opera will hit the 1,000,000 member benchmark within 28 days. It’s a bit difficult to believe… Just a bit ago, it was at 500,000 members