My Opera closes in March 2014

When the My Opera support forums were first launched in 2001, they quickly became an important place to meet with you, our users. We talked to you so much and that we decided to make more out of the forums and the community. And in 2006, we had a stupid, but funny idea:

What if we run our forums on steroids?

Let's make a website where you can post blog entries,

share photos and add add friends.

At the time, there were not enough good services for what we wanted. Therefore, we decided to create it ourselves.



We saw that the My Opera service grew from forums to a home site for an active community. The idea to give you a place for a blog with photos turned into an interesting and very large additional project for us. Over the years, we have seen how social networks and blog platforms are growing left and right and offering more and more interesting features, much more than we could support. These opportunities were their direct business. Of course, you know all these platforms and surely use them.

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The explosive development of such sites and the amount of resources needed to maintain our own, changed our view of My Opera. It was a long and very interesting story, but we believe that there are much better places for your blogs and therefore we decided to close My Opera on March 1, 2014.



Our forums are moved to blogs.opera.com , while there are four of them: News , Desktop , Mobile , Security .



It will happen in 5 months - we want to give you enough time to move to a new service and think about what to do with existing records. To make this move as convenient as possible, we have created two tools to help you save your notes and photos. You can do this in two simple steps:

1. Export your blog - you can transfer the resulting to WordPress, Squarespace, Typepad, Movable Type, Drupal and many other blog platforms.
2. Save all its contents - read more on the link.

Finding a new home for your blog can be tricky. We recommend you two articles on Lifehacker:

• Which social network should I use?
• Which blogging platform should I use?

We have prepared some answers to the questions on My Opera and the closing procedure that you may have:



What happens to my mail on My Opera?



Like all services, My Opera mail will also be closed. We advise you to register on another mail service and save all the necessary letters. It would also be a good idea to set up My Opera's answering machine in response to emails that will tell your contacts about the new address. Some mail services: Our friends are FastMail , Yandex.Mail , Mail.Ru , Gmail , Outlook , Yahoo! Mail and many others.



What will happen to Opera Link web interface?



It will be available on link.opera.com . Simply login with your username on My Opera and you will get access to all synchronized content.



Will it affect other Opera services, like addons.opera.com?



No, you can still use your My Opera login to access extensions and comments.



What happens to the comments in my blog on My Opera?



Comments will be exported along with blog entries.



What will happen to the old comments on Opera blogs?



Our new blogs on blogs.opera.com use the Disqus commenting system, where you don’t import old comments, so old comments will remain on My Opera.



What will happen to the forums?



Forums will move to the domain opera.com . The most important topics will move to new forums and you can continue the discussion using your My Opera login. In other words: your My Opera username will be the new Opera username you can use for all our services and products.



Thank you for being with us all these years. Let's continue chatting on blogs.opera.com , as well as on Google+ , Twitter and Facebook .