Next Revolution: The Second American Revolution

"The Truth about Opera Browser" was posted on the Opera Forum. "The Truth about Opera Browser" was written as a letter to the moderators of the Opera Forum and the President of the company. Let's see how long it will last before they lock and delete it.

Dear Opera Moderator, and Opera's President:
My complaints about Opera 10.51 got me banned. Complaint threads are quickly locked. I am not easily deterred. So I made a web page detailing my complaints about 10.51 and Opera Corporate's scorch and burn policy on the Opera Forum.

My web page is now returned on page two of a google "Opera 10.51 browser" search, and #1 when searching for "Opera 10.51 browser problems, crashes, and Failure." Take that, you bastards.

This points out just how unwise your Nazi-Style Forum Censorship Policies are. You may think you have capped complaints, but in fact you have just squeezed them out of the Opera Forum, and onto the Web, where you are getting flamed. The policies of Opera's upper management and front-line forum moderators is disgraceful.

Rather than openly and honestly dealing with disgruntled long-time users, like me, and establishing an honorable reputation through rapport and honesty, despite inevitable errors, your policies of turning a blind eye towards the significant problems in version 10.51, combined with your censorship policies, have created your worst nightmare: The Truth about Opera is now public information.

The present situation has made the Truth about Opera crystal clear: Opera does not respect their users. Opera has a dishonest corporate culture. And both of these factors came together with the release of Opera 10.51, which has provided the world with the best example of what not to do in a crisis since Bush dropped the ball with Hurricane Katrina and 911.

This is going to have a horrific effect on the future of the Opera browser, which I actually regret. Like I said, I was a long time Opera user and advocate. The recent uptick in downloads is going to blow up in your faces when bad user experiences are matched by poor treatment of complaints on the Opera Forum.

These mistakes are going to result in a generation of web users who hate Opera. As it was, you made the best browser on the internet, and were still sitting in the backwaters of market share. Now you have tainted the largest release in your history with a flawed product, and both the Opera Forum and your weird Opera "fanboys" are abusing users who dare to complain. Wow!

This may well destroy your company. But you can still pull out of this doomed trajectory. I suggest firing the upper management, and coming clean to your users and the public with an apology accompanied with a clean version of Opera. This would involve dealing with the world as it is, and not how you want it to be. A significant moment of honesty may be the only way to avoid a tremendous meltdown of Opera's market share.

I expect this post to be quickly locked and deleted, with a spattering of abusive comments from your fan boy storm troopers. But my posts about Opera, which I renamed "SoapOpera," will remain on the internet for years and years, for all to freely see and comment on. Very much unlike your forum...

Smell the Coffee, 'cause you guys gotta wake up soon...

Alex