For Opera Software to promote them, sending all their users there, they'd have to trust them fully to accept the unpredictability of these services changing their activities in the future. their TOS or even possibility of abusing the user's data stored on their servers.

Clearly those were all very important considerations prior to "sending all their users" to Google+, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. To Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo!, and Mail.com. (source)
Please pay attention to the difference between explaining why they don't want to focus in social networking / blog features anymore citing well-known sites that do it better and a free advertisement as a form of a "highlighted link to The DnD Sanctuary and Vivaldi".

For Opera Software to promote them, sending all their users there, they'd have to trust them fully to accept the unpredictability of these services changing their activities in the future. their TOS or even possibility of abusing the user's data stored on their servers.

Clearly those were all very important considerations prior to "sending all their users" to Google+, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. To Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo!, and Mail.com. (source)

Be cynical if you want to but don't assume others are.

My request in the OP was quite straight forward, and if Opera is treating the Suggestion Box as a Suggestion Box and not a Recycling Bin I still await an answer one way or the other.

These sites are in the Opera ecosystem so to speak.
They're not. These are third-party forums/sites.
For Opera Software to promote them, sending all their users there, they'd have to trust them fully to accept the unpredictability of these services changing their activities in the future. their TOS or even possibility of abusing the user's data stored on their servers. On top of that there's a possibility one of them will become direct competition already.

Thanks to those who made it & work on it and such.

Have a nice week.

:3

They don't owe you an answer, they never did, principally when the request is to do free marketing for other sites.

That was a give and take, or a win-win if you prefer it put that way. The My Opera users created nearly all the content on the site and added value (spammers excluded) to Opera Software. Spammers included, the equation may have been different.

Though I obviously didn't agree with the decision to shut down My Opera (there would not be a choice in changing software), at least the transition has been handled well. What String proposes above is also a part of that transition, bloggers and posters that grew up with Opera, and either could join one of the hastily opened sites, or be scattered for good. These sites are in the Opera ecosystem so to speak.

Well Opera, what is your answer? My request was not SPAM, It was a genuine request for support.
You owe us.

WTH? They don't owe you an answer, they never did, principally when the request is to do free marketing for other sites.

You owe us.

as there are no [url=] tags or such at the moment: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/offencive; so please to anyone, spare me the "that's spelled wrong" talk...

It uses Markdown. See here for a quick reference, although I don't know what does and does not work here. Specifically, to make links you use

[link text](http://whatever)

P.S.: please don't take my reply as an offencive [*1] one - i am -still- just to shocked by the new forum (and the lack of any off-topic area therein) to consider "diplomacy" as a real option....

*1: as there are no [url=] tags or such at the moment: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/offencive; so please to anyone, spare me the "that's spelled wrong" talk...

On a lighter not, since the new forums have no space for lighter notes, I invite all to a nachspiel-cum-wake (in Norwegian appropriately called grave beer), lasting as long as the old site does, which should be a few days more.