I read blogs for a living

I'm currently in Sweden, in Opera's Gothenburg appartment office. Yes, it is actually an apartment made into an office. It seems like most Swedes enjoy working in apartments. The best thing about it is no shoes on! Yes, holy mother of sweetness, the casual just got even more casual. I'm tempted to take off my pants soon too.

Fred and I are brainstorming the future of My Opera. The service will be upgraded visually and an early sketch of the new site looks something like this:

I want your feedback on what you want to see more of on My Opera and is this the correct approach we're taking with it? What we're thinking of doing in detail is:

• No longer have two consumer blogs for Opera (community and Choose Opera) - combine it in one "News" section, but have the option to spotlight community posts on the front page.
• Personalize your "Home" section with only personal things. More focus on the activity feed with quick links such as "add a new blog post", "upload pictures", etc. We also want to display more community activities in general.
• Replace the "Community" section with a "Popular" section and only show popular stuff happening on My Opera right now.
• "Operanize" the Opera section. More Opera customize stuff and move the Opera forums there.

What do you want to see done with My Opera and especially the official front page sections?

I'll end this post with a picture of Fred and my pink mouse.

On Tuesday we hired a new super-awesome moderator for My Opera: Robert! He has been busy at work this week, answering all support tickets sent via the contact form, cleaned up the forums and done a bit of image moderation.

Aleksander, who many of you've had the pleasure to get to know, still works for Opera as an Online Community Representative.

Now we have one more to handle spam and porn — sweet!

My Opera has for a long time run perfectly. Ole Kasper, William, Vetle, Kjetil and Fred have done a fantastic job running tests, poked around, fixed bugs, and most likely a million things I don't have a clue on.

Without them My Opera wouldn't have excisted as it is at all. Even though I'm the one visible frontend, the genius is done backend. Sometimes I get credit I don't deserve for the great service, and features we provide on My Opera. So this is merely a reminder to you (and me) that the magic is done by these guys

This is exciting times, and I can hardly wait to get started on planning new cool My Opera features. Remember, I'm always here, in the shadows, listening to what you have to say, so I can forward all the great ideas you come up with. Keep 'em coming!