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My Opera Community
URL http://my.opera.com/
Commercial? No
Type of site Social networking, Help desk
Registration Yes
Owner Opera ASA
Launched August 2001
Current status Active

The My Opera Community is the support community for the Opera web browser. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it A help desk is an information and assistance resource that Troubleshoots problems with Computers or similar products Opera Software ( is a Norwegian corporation primarily known for its Opera family of web browsers Opera is a Web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software company Over 2,000 new members join per day [1], and the site has more than one million members[2].

Contents

History

The My Opera Community was launched in August 2001 and had its first upgrade a month later on September 11. Events 9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul This upgrade included the introduction of Opera Composer. [3] On December 15, 2003 the site underwent an upgrade. Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. [4]

2005 upgrades

In September 2005 the My Opera Community added a few major improvements [5]. These changes improvements include adding many of the features currently available on the website. During this upgrade users were given access to (person photo of my balls)<- [This looks like graffiti] albums, improved blogs (formerly journals), the ability to create custom groups and 300mb of free disk space. [6] Improvements to blogging included the introduction of "mobile blogging" or blogging from a mobile phone through MMS. Multimedia Messaging Service, MMS for short is a Cellular telephone standard for sending messages that include multimedia objects (images audio video rich [7][8]

Fall/December 2006 upgrades

In the Fall of 2006, My Opera's servers were straining to handle site traffic. New servers were available since September 5[9]. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. The hardware was originally scheduled to be installed alongside a software upgrade but the software upgrade became a major effort. The term upgrade refers to the replacement of a product with a newer version of that same product however it is most often used in Computing and Consumer electronics It occurred on October 10 at least 2 weeks before any hardware upgrade[10]. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated It was scheduled to begin at 6:00 UTC and last for 4 to 5 hours[11].

Changes scheduled for the software upgrade included:


The canisters of Argon Gas used to extinguish fires without damaging the server equipment
The canisters of Argon Gas used to extinguish 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 and sync masters.
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 and sync masters.

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 [12] There was however, a bonus upgrade in that new smilies were added.

On October 30, 2006, it was officially announced that the new hardware would be installed on October 31. Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse The installation lead to a site downtime from 8:00 a. m. to 10:00 a. m. CET. [13]

On November 3, 2006, the "Grand Opening" of the new My Opera Community server room was announced. Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. A server room is a room that houses mainly Computer servers In Information technology circles the term is generally used for smaller arrangements 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. This article pertains to the chemical element For other uses see Argon (disambiguation. [14]

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. Events 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The krone ( sign: kr; code: NOK) is the Currency of Norway. The plural form is kroner. [15]

On December 13, 2006, it was announced that a new database server was installed for visiting users, that it users who aren't logged in (e. Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. g. Viewing Blog and Forum posts without signing in). Right away the new server began to handle more traffic than the old one. This meant that the old server had more resources available to it and could handle standard logged in traffic more effectively. [16]

On December 22, 2006, a new server "Fatboy" was announced. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. This server was bought to handle the anticipated load increase due to the introduction of the Wii Internet Channel. The Internet Channel is a version of the Opera 9 Web browser for use on the Wii by Opera Software and Nintendo. [17]

New site (introduced in March 2007)

On March 8, 2007 Opera released a new version of the site. Events 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. [18]

Future upgrades

The new hardware for the 2006 upgrade was put to use for a beta test site on October 26, 2006. A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product Events 740 - An Earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 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. [19]

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 [20]. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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.

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 (often also written as filesystem) is a method for storing and organizing Computer files and the data they contain to make

Blogs

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. PortalCurrent events News collections and sources WikipediaNews collections and sources. The My Opera Blog service currently allows HTML, BB Code, Smilies, and customisable Cascading Style Sheet formatting. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure An emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form 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 Team Blog, which also happens to be consistently the most popular blog on the community[21].

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[22].

Subdomains

There are several Opera subdomain sites that use a My Opera account. These include:

Dev. Opera was announced on November 1, 2006. Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. [23][24]

References

  1. ^ Opera Community Member Statistics November 2007
  2. ^ My Opera front page (member count in top right corner).
  3. ^ Opera in Your Community Opera revamps MyOpera community and enhances the Opera Composer
  4. ^ My Opera revamped: New Site Unlocks Hidden Features in Opera
  5. ^ My Opera - One Year Later
  6. ^ New "My Opera" Community Gives 300MB of Free Storage
  7. ^ Opera Enables Mobile Blogging
  8. ^ Blog while you jog: People run to new My Opera Community
  9. ^ Hardware!
  10. ^ Upcoming Opera Community Downtime
  11. ^ Upcoming Opera Community Downtime 2
  12. ^ Tag Problems
  13. ^ New Hardware! - Opera Community News
  14. ^ Server Room Grand Opening (More Hardware Porn)
  15. ^ Server Maintenance Today
  16. ^ bigpa To the Rescue
  17. ^ What's Under the Tree?
  18. ^ Oh Glorious Day!! - My Opera Community Main Page Blog
  19. ^ Introducing the Opera Community Beta Site
  20. ^ First My Opera Member of the Week
  21. ^ My Opera Blogs arranged in order of most visited
  22. ^ Project 365 - Opera Community News
  23. ^ Dev.Opera launched
  24. ^ Opera Developer Community site launches

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