Do you know that Opera have a very good community forum which have 1607503 members now ?. The thing is that when you join the opera community (http://my.opera.com it is free), you will get

1. Blog – you can customize the blog (can add count downs, site visitors etc),  also which is having 28 superb themes to choose, if you have knowledge in CSS you can change the theme as you wish also.

2. photo album - where you can share your photos

3. Links where you can share links

4. Add or create Friends

5. Can have a internal mailbox (Opera community users can send mails to you)

6. Your Profile page

7. You can join forums and join discussions.

8. You will get a free account in Hitslink.com. when you join my opera community, which you can use to track your opera site visitors.

9. You will have a facility to upload files (not big) which you can use in blog.

This is having almost all the features you want. So just join opera community and start blogging and sharing..

If you want, you can check my blog in opera here http://my.opera.com/krishnan am using an inbuilt theme.