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1 million members on My Opera, the Opera community site

Published September 9th, 2007 9:14 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

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The My Opera community site surpassed the 1 million mark for registered members.

Congratulations to everyone who’s helped make My Opera into what it is today. It’s a place where I regularly hang out and read people’s blog posts, view photos, read the Opera Forums, and more. It’s a vibrant and active community behind Opera.

Around 200,000 blogs and more than 3 million photos are hosted on My Opera.

Head over to the My Opera for the official celebration blog post. They have links to screenshots from the very first look of My Opera (from way back in September, 2001) and the changes all the way to today. In addition, they posted links to blog posts by popular members who blogged about the milestone.

Is My Opera a MySpace alternative? And… when will My Opera be ranked together with the other social networking sites? Isn’t it time already?

 

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  1. 1 Ryan Sep 9th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Nice! It was a while back when I first joined the community. I can’t imagine a day without it now. :D

    BTW, have you tried getting Techcrunch or one of the other big blogs to write a story about My Opera?

  2. 2 Nike Sep 10th, 2007 at 3:36 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Why are you obsessed with numbers?

  3. 3 chesss Sep 10th, 2007 at 3:46 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Now all we need is social bookmarking , using ofcourse kestrel’s scnchronize feature!

  4. 4 underwhlemed Sep 10th, 2007 at 3:47 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Once again
    “We’ll be back shortly

    The Opera Community is currently experiencing technical difficulties. We apologise for the downtime and aim to be up and running again as soon as possible.”

    it is the same EACH TIME. it is pathetic

  5. 5 Jadd Sep 10th, 2007 at 4:39 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Linux Linux

    It’s back up now.

  6. 6 kl Sep 10th, 2007 at 6:30 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    @underwhlemed: their popularity is growing faster than their servers! :D

  7. 7 Chuck Monroe Sep 10th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows Vista

    That number might well be overshadowed when Opera 9.5 + Sync reaches final release stage :)

  8. 8 pop Sep 10th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    “Why are you obsessed with numbers?”

    Why not?

    It’s a good thing to have milestones and goals. And as long as the numbers keep growing, things are on the right track.

    People like to measure things, keep track of things, etc. Stop whining about it.

    Just the other day, Mozilla started bragging about download numbers again as well. Everyone does it. Accept it and move on.

  9. 9 opera11 Sep 10th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    It is nice :) It will good, if the my.opera.com have more language support. It will fantastic….

  10. 10 Typri Sep 11th, 2007 at 3:30 am
    using Opera Mini Opera Mini 8.01

    Well what i can say is that my opera is being blocked here in china. So i can only log onto it by opera mini .

  11. 11 gamling Sep 17th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows Vista

    So far I like Opera better than others, HOWEVER,
    VISTA wants a digital signature
    Opera will not be the default browser
    Opera doesnot seems to like G Mail or Yahoo.

    Please help.

    An old geezer

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