Apr01
Posted by
cstrep · Tags: Opera, browsers, devblog, standards ...
We're ready to announce one of the biggest changes to our community since its launch in 2001. We are really committed to our work, and there's nothing greater to see new members joining or existing ones logging in! 
But... There's a catch to it all. As most of you know, developing Web sites today is time-consuming, and in order to maintain My Opera we're forced to think of all different kinds of contexts when we create something new (or fix something old). So, Nicolas, Edoardo, Esteban, and I (together with front-end guys Fred and the new kid in town, Tristan) have decided that it only makes sense to continue development exclusively for Microsoft IE6 (according to our stats, the majority of our users are IE-followers).
Yeah, yeah, we know... We are the Opera community, but, boo-hoo-on-you!
There's simply too much work to support all those browsers along with their interpretation of "standards".
We can safely announce that starting today, a new era will arise.
If you think this is good, then help us digg it!
Mar29
Posted by
vetler · Tags: MyOpera, Ole Kasper, Opera
Hi, Mr. Manager here again...
It feels as if
Ole Kasper has been working here at
Opera Software forever, but it's only been 1 year and nine months. Tomorrow is his last day here, and as a MyOpera developer.
As he writes in his
blog, he's off to the Norwegian National Security Authority to do theoretical cryptography. Why he wants do to this instead of work on creating the worlds best community site is beyond me... We tried our best to convince him to stay, as he's done excellent work and been pivotal to making MyOpera what it is.
Alas, all good things must come to an end. We all wish him the very best in his new endeavours, and will keep a spot open for him in case he chooses to return.
Here are some images from Ole Kaspers career here at Opera... So long, Ole Kasper! See you when you get back!
Oct04
Posted by
vetler · Tags: Opera, MyOpera, Downtime, Upgrade
We will be taking down the Opera Community for some much needed maintenance Tuesday 10th of October. There will unfortunately be none of
the promised hardware updates this time around, however we have quite a few new features and under-the-hood fixes for you.
We've had this update laying around the office, with the monkeys groping it, for a couple of weeks, hoping to be able to coincide the software update with the hardware update. We've had to realise, however, that the hardware update will not be doable within a couple of more weeks, due to a lot of unforseen delays outside our influence. Therefore we go ahead with the software update now, hoping the downtime will pay off in terms of increased performance, even on the old hardware.
Due to some major database schema restructuring, the downtime will be significant. We are looking at four to five hours of downtime, starting at 08:00CET (6AM UTC), Tuesday October 10th.
When we return, we will be offering some new features and fixes:
Blogging
- redesigned blog posting interface
- allow blog post excerpts to show on your blog front page with "read more" links to the entry proper
- specifiable URLs for blog posts (e.g., http://my.opera.com/olekasper/blog/new-mms-handler/ )
- possibility to have polls in the sidebar
- improved photo album slideshow in the blog sidebar
Other
- use faster scaling algorithm for uploaded images, should speed up image uploads significantly
- delete self-made folders in "My Files"
- you can now delete own posts in the forums (but not entire topics)
- improved search interface for forums
- moved forum announcements to hopefully make them a bit more visible
- changed RSS feed validator, hopefully making more feeds work when you add them under "Links"
- email activation reintroduced
- a multitude of minor (and major) bug fixes
- a multitude of significant under-the-hood optimisations
