April release

Great! Continue with the good job!

Cool changes

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Amount of forum posts is now displayed correctly (especially useful for active users like Tamil. ).

According to my record 80808 posts but forum shows 81326.

My files shows nothing.

Good to know what got changed. Thanks.

nice job.

no video uploads

so, what happens if we hotlink to a file on my.opera ? Do we get banned ? Get a PM ?

"files" does this count photos as well?

and lets say i post a file on my blog and a random googler jacks the link and hot links elsewhere are we the members going to feel the wrath due to someone elses actions? and if not how do you determine which one of us is linking from some random person?

Congrats on new release guys

In particular we now operate under a zero-tolerance regarding "Hot-Linking" of files (linking a file that is located on My Opera, but on another website) is strictly forbidden.

I post at to many forums to remember if I have ever done this before. And there isn't any way for me to find out without dropping by your office I guess. Are you sending PMs or deleting those files if it has already been done in or just denying the requests? I really don't know, sorry.

On a side note, what about hot-linking the other way? (File on different server, link on MyOpera?)

- ØØ -

..."Hot-Linking" of files (linking a file that is located on My Opera, but on another website) is strictly forbidden...
...
...For security reasons, some potentially harmful file types (such as "*.exe", "*.bat" etc), as well as video files, are no longer allowed to upload on My Opera...

I don't like it and i suppose my 365 album is definitively lose.

Ciao, Igor

P.S.: The other improvements are great.

In addition to the changelog I've done some work on the database-end of my.opera as well. I won't go into the details on what I've done, but it will ensure a better way of managing our server load when bad stuff happens

I see that many of you have questions related to hot-linking of files. There will be an article on the devblog soon, but as I stated in my post above: This should not affect those of you who use My Opera legitimately.

what about hot-linking the other way?

That should be fine.

This just killed Opera Mini 4.1 users' ability to make blog posts and upload files. .

The blog posts clear the text field before it posts, although previews work.
EDIT - either this was an anomaly or it's fixed now. .

Uploading files it refuses to show the file upload form.

Submitted a bug report to Opera Mini too.

Great!
And cool: the files are sorted now. Thanks.

Apostrophes in blog post titles are showing as

'

and ampersands are showing as

&

in titles too. again...

Originally posted by Espen:

For many years we've been the victim of one user in particular who abused our smiley Function, caused sleepless nights for many My opera developers, and in general tried to be a friendly cool user, but our patience (and servers) have now peaked. The person we're referring to is so dedicated to Opera (and its community) that we've been forced to ban Tamil and introduce a new set of guidelines operating under the codename: The Hammer of Justice.

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Originally posted by Espen>2008-04-09:

Amount of Forum posts is now displayed correctly (especially for active users like Tamil .)

. Laughing like a hyena oh and swallowing two living frogs at the same time!

Well Great and Splendid But I Don't Know if I'll Get Banned Here at MyOpera But I'm Not Going to Use Photobucket or Similar Places as Embedding Host Sources Services For My Photos or Videos Because of if Your Not Having Anything Activities For a While Then They'll Terminate Your Account or If Your Exceeding Your Bandwidth a Blank Spot are Shown Where the Photos or Graphics or Videos Should Be Then its Also a Problem too So When I'm Uploading Photos Here at MyOpera and to My Youtube Account Then I'm Making a Embedding URL to My Photos Here at MyOpera to Be Used at My Other Websites or Blogger Elsewhere Whenever Needed Because of There are Here at MyOpera No Such Activities and Bandwidth Policy and Whenever I Had Uploaded Videos to My Youtube Account Then I'm Embedding it Here to MyOpera Account if Needed too Because There are No Activities and Bandwidth Policy There Either Thats My Experience That I Had Encountered at Other Hostin Places When I'm Not Using MyOpera and Youtube as Photos and Videos Hosting Sites

@Tamil: sorry for the inconvenience, now it's fixed, your files are back!

Originally posted by edoardos:

@Tamil: sorry for the inconvenience, now it's fixed, your files are back!

TY

Nice changes, thanks.

Furie: I don't get it, what do you mean? I don't see why blogging should break, and I just tested and it works fine.

Good point about the file uploads, though, I hadn't thought of that... we'll fix.

Post count is not shown for new users. See gabbykins & bosamar.

Seems fixed now, Zoso, or at least it worked with my new test post.

Possibly an anomaly affecting only me (are there any other sorts ), but I tried three times and each time the blog text field was cleared while saving the post.

Good news on the file system getting fixed for mobile users. I know a few who already exclusively upload using 4.1. Thanks for the quick response.

With not being able to use the embed code from youtube or other video sites, I can no longer upload videos to my posts? I consider the videos an esential component to my blog. I wish you could find another way to deal with the problem, beside punishing loyal Opera bloggers.

This is also hurting my amazon reading posts. Well, I have a wordpress blog in the making. I was going to keep this blog and link my wordpress blog to Opera, but it looks like what I am doing here may go elsewhere (I really do not want to leave). Blogger? Typepad? etc..You may have a new blogger joining your ranks.

And this was the new cool addition to my.opera.com that was holding up my blog post today? Please tell me I am misunderstanding something.

Not Good, Not Good at All

From the last week I can't delete a single file from my account.Please help me.

Hey, where is Tamil?

Originally posted by sandalian:

Hey, where is Tamil?

Why?

Wiiwwwww

With not being able to use the embed code from youtube or other video sites, I can no longer upload videos to my posts?

You should still be able embed videos in your blog. This release is not affected by it, and most likely never will.

What we've disabled is the ability to upload some harmfull files such as some video files. A lot of people abused My Opera because of this, and upload content which violated our terms of service (in other words: there was a lot of porn and phising sites uploaded and spread using My Opera). To gain a faster and more stable site we've disabled upload and hot-linking of such files for now.

We're working on solutions how to give legit users the ability to use all our services as intended.

awww... i was just about to upload a video... now i cant... oh well...

How come you can create different directories in My files, but when you want to add a file to a post it will only show you the /blog directory?

Ehm.

I'm kinda worried about this one

"In particular we now operate under a zero-tolerance regarding "Hot-Linking" of files (linking a file that is located on My Opera, but on another website) is strictly forbidden."

I mean, I put all my photos that are worth saving in my blog and then I link to them on my other blogs and websites... ...I mean, on other blogs you can't always upload directly from your harddrive. Also, when you're making like a profile or something... ...Well, they don't usually have an option to upload a file directly to the profile, you have to hotlink from a blog or album or something.

Hm, I guess I better look at it as kind of when you go camping, you have to adjust to something different and more primitive... ...Like, maybe I just use pictures uploaded on the same community or from some community that says it's OK to upload images for use on other websites.

Personally, I don't have photobucket or flickr or whatever people use these days... ...Hm... ...Well, well, I guess I better just try to adjust to this... ...Though I guess it is possible I have a few pictures somewhere, in old blog posts on other websites... ...I don't very happily edit old blog posts... ...Hm... ...Well, well... ...I'll try to adjust to this and see what I can do.

There you go.

Originally posted by Mickeyjoe_irl:

How come you can create different directories in My files, but when you want to add a file to a post it will only show you the /blog directory?

Hm... That sounds like a bug. It should of course display all the directories! Thanks for reporting this.

Originally posted by NatureTruthDivinity:

I mean, I put all my photos that are worth saving in my blog and then I link to them on my other blogs and websites

Yes, we are aware of this issue, but we need to emphasize on stability and increased performance. We're in the progress of writing a Q&A article on the devblog which hopefully will answer many of the questions we've received so far.

Anyway, we do this in order to prevent hot-linking of illegal files which may harm users. Thanks for understanding!

I posted my complaint in the forums also.My problem is not resolved yet.

OK. Well, I guess I don't need to link to all my pictures from Opera. I mean if I post a picture on Myspace, I could use one from my Myspace album, haha, that would be simple. I just kinda liked having all of them neatly collected here, but I guess I could link within the same community, Opera on Opera and Myspace on Myspace and Xanga on Xanga and so on.

Regarding the new policy on hot-linking, what happens with regard to links created (e.g. in a forum post) before this new policy came into effect.

Does zero tolerance mean that user may be punished, or is zero-tolerance just a server rule that 404s any non my.opera.com referrers?

or is zero-tolerance just a server rule that 404s any non my.opera.com referrers?

Correct. You won't be able to access the files.

There's no "punishment" or anything similar.

Cool

ok... so... no videos whatsoever?
are you going to expand opera memory?

Originally posted by Espen:

Thanks for reporting this.

You're welcome. I remember the file archive window did show a full list at one point, briefly, but this was lost a few updates ago.

Another point, what will happen to video files that you have already uploaded to My files and linked to in a post on your blog?

probably deleted... T_T

In particular we now operate under a zero-tolerance regarding "Hot-Linking" of files (linking a file that is located on My Opera, but on another website) is strictly forbidden.

This is killing users. This is a sign of monopolizing My Opera. I am not going to use Opera's file manager feature anymore. Plus, I am shifting all my files over to a better place where I can have better control over my files.

Existing video files appear to still work. At least, they're still downloadable.