The My Opera Community is closing on the 1st of March and now is the time to make a backup of your blog and move to another service if you have not already done so. You can preserve all your content with two simple steps:
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Export your blog. You can easily take this file to WordPress, Squarespace, Typepad, Movable Type, Drupal or many other weblog-hosting sites.
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Download all of your content. You can learn how to do that here.
Finding a new home can be tricky. Here are two good articles that might help you decide where to move to next:
Which social network should I use?
Which blogging platform should I use?
We have prepared some answers to help you understand more about what all of this means for your My Opera account.
What will happen with my My Opera email?
The service will, along with My Opera, be discontinued. In the meantime, we suggest you sign up for a new provider and make sure to take care of the emails you want to save. Also, it would be a good idea to set up an auto-reply in your My Opera email to inform your contacts of your new email address. Here are a few free email providers you may want to check out:
What about the Opera Link web interface?
It will be hosted from http://link.opera.com/. Simply log in with your My Opera account details to get access to your synchronized content.
Will this affect other Opera services such as addons.opera.com?
No, you can still log in with your My Opera account and access your add-ons, review them and comment.
What happens with all the comments in the blog?
Your comments will be exported when you download your blog.
Where are the old comments that were in your blogs?
Our new blogs platform uses Disqus, a new blog comment service, that were not compatible with importing the old comments. The old comments are still available here on My Opera.
What about the forums?
Our forums will be moving to www.opera.com. The most important existing threads will be moved across, and you will be able to use your My Opera account to log in and continue the discussion. In other words: Your My Opera account has become your new Opera account that you can use for all Opera services and products.
To summarize, what do we suggest you do now?
- First of all, grab a copy of all your stuff. Use our download tools to backup your blog posts and photos.
- Investigate your options. There are many great services out there. Perhaps you want to bring some of your friends along to a new place? Let them know where you want to go. Maybe you can write a blog post about it?
- When you’re ready for the switch, sign up for a new social network. You might know of some more good sites. Feel free to comment here and let us know.
- If you’re one of our email users, sign up for a new email service and set up an auto-reply in My Opera to let your contacts know about your new address.
- Then, forward your email to your new email address.
- If you have a blog, make your readers aware of the switch. You could write a post with a link to your new blog and make it sticky, so it stays prominently at the top of the page.
This is probably one of the longest, most important blog posts written here, but there's a lot of information to convey. We hope that this notice and our migration tools will make your transition as easy as possible.
If you have additional ideas for other platforms or sites to use, feel free to share them with us in the comments. Thanks for your support of My Opera over the years. Let’s keep the discussion alive over at blogs.opera.com; you can also connect with us on Google+, Twitter or Facebook.
Best regards,
The My Opera team
My Opera
