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Great Opera fan sites

Sometimes in the late evening, when I'm just not tired enough for sleep or awake enough to code or write, I'll browser around for news about Opera from fan sites. That may sound a bit silly, as surely an employee would know what's going on with Opera. Yes, I know what's going on internally, but I can't always keep track of what's going on externally. Sometimes it nice to know that some news is finally public or which rumors are spreading now. Reading rumors is probably one of my favorite pastimes. I thank y'all rumor spreaders for the entertainment.

My Opera news search usually takes me to three sites:

  • Avencius, an Opera news and commentary site (with occasional relevant posts about competitors) running Drupal(!).
  • Planet Opera, an aggregator feeding off 50+ newsfeeds from Opera fan sites. If there's Opera news, you'll read it there.
  • Opera Watch, the one-stop shop for Opera rumors.

Where do you get your Opera news?

And since we're on the topic of Opera, Avencius highlighted the Why Opera blog, a great blog overflowing with Opera graphical goodness from suggestions for a new Opera icon to great wallpapers to graphics to stick on your site or in your forum signature. Get into the graphical goodness!

And let us not forget literarymoose.info (RIP), the CSS experiment and Opera customization site. If you haven't heard, Moose has moved his site to lofotenmoose.info and has started posting again. Don't walk, run there and get Moosified!

January 20, 2006

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Thanks for mentioning me

Posted by Ivan Minic on January 20, 2006 at 7:49pm GMT

Thanks for mentioning me :)

nice list

Posted by ROBO Design on January 23, 2006 at 4:43am GMT

"Where do you get your Opera news?"

I get the news from Planet Opera :).

Opera in the news

Posted by Anonymous on January 25, 2006 at 9:20am GMT

There is also Opera in the News at http://my.opera.com/djysrv in operation since May 2004 and serving 12,000 page views per month.

My previous comment?

Posted by Daniel Goldman on January 25, 2006 at 2:46pm GMT

Tim, a posted a comment a couple days ago, but since it had more than a couple links, it put it aside for moderation. Have you seen it?

Yes, it was automatically

Posted by Tim on January 25, 2006 at 4:43pm GMT

Yes, it was automatically classified as spam. I'm already "advertising" your site in my post, so I think your comment was a bit overboard.

For the rest of you: Opera Watch is a good place for news too, not just rumors (as I call them).