Revisiting Personal Blogs
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kerygma last edited by
I see from a comment Leo made back in 2017 that Personal Blogs were not expected to return to the new Opera Forums. Is this still the case five years later?
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kerygma last edited by
@sgunhouse I understand. However, Opera at one time "did" offer it and Vivaldi have continued that feature which is welcomed by many of its users. I know that many places (i.e. WordPress) offer this, however, it would be yet another way of encouraging people to "stay" longer at the Opera site as well as encouraging a sense of community. Mind you, I'm not expecting it but was just wondering if the powers that be had changed their minds. I guess not.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@kerygma As someone who was around during the My Opera Community, I remember, and even have a blog on Vivaldi.net. I can't actually speak for Opera management either then or now, but it seems like they just aren't encouraging random people to hang around. Not that they are discouraging anyone from being helpful and answering users' questions of course, but they're not interested in trying to be a social site.
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kerygma last edited by
@sgunhouse I believe you are right. In my opinion, that's short-sighted on Opera's part. My guess is that both Vivaldi and Opera will remain niche browsers given the strangle-hold Chrome and now Edge have worldwide (and to a lesser extent: Brave and Firefox). Given that likelihood, it seems wise to solidify your user base as a community and not just by answering their technical questions. I always felt a part of the old Opera community because of that blogging feature. You would get to know people and over time become loyal to the company that provided this. I think it's wise that Vivaldi is continuing this feature as though it is re-creating the former Opera (Presto times) experience. Ah well... different strokes for different folks, I guess. Thanks for the conversation.
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mrasaad last edited by
You can other platfroms to this, it is not an necessery to use the opera only
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kerygma last edited by
@mrasaad Yes, I know this. But that was not my point. Were Opera to provide this we would remain here at Opera. Isn't that the whole point... to keep your users here? You can sell to them here. You can build brand loyalty here. You can develop a sense of community here. Why did the original Opera company provide this? Why does Vivaldi continue to offer it? Even after Opera dropped its Presto engine and went over to the dark side, so to speak, it continued to offer the user blogs and in so doing many remained. But once it indicated that this feature would be dropped, most of the bloggers who remained downloaded the information they still had and departed for Vivaldi and for other browsers. There was now a crack in the brand loyalty which went as far as many of Opera's developers who did not leave with the first wave but remained. I know I'm beating a dead horse now so we can probably just drop the conversation and kill the thread.
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