Opera Addons Extensions store is down due to 504 nginx gateway timeout
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If you try to install an extension in the Linux desktop version (and probably any version), you can't do so if your connection latency is too high.
If you can't reproduce this, then try again on a distant VPN exit node. The nginx server gives up and throws 504 after several seconds. ("504 Gateway Time-out nginx")
This started just today. My guess is that the extensions server in my part of the world went down, so the CDN is rolling over to some more distant server, which then times out due to excessive latency.
The high high latency and tiny bandwidth of Opera's free VPN often causes timeouts like this. Like I could barely manage to get the hCaptcha to come up when I registered for this support forum itself, which I had to retry repeatedly. That's not the VPN's fault (because it's free!) but somebody might want to fix the forum interface.