It was possible in the past, its very useful to make things like freinds intranet.

I’m a new user with Protopage and i’ve read all the comment here and like me, it will be great to click a button to make “mark all item read”.

Like me, i have more than 30 rss feed and I don’t want to click EACH of the link to make gray/dissapear (it’s 200 clicks, a waste of time).

Why not make a option in each tabs and “mark all item as read”?

Ho, whe have the “X” option… but again, it’s more than 200 clicks !!!

For everything there may be a good reason. :)

Regards again,
FreeBee

REally, there are quite a few users here on Protopage, and you’re the first one to demonstrate these feelings… So far everyone has been happy to handle their suggestions/requests and other issues through the “Contact Us” link.

In fact, there has been a discussion on the blog, in which the Team explained why they did it this way. It was to prevent getting heavy discussions about if some request by any user was useful or valid and such thing. Also, questions asked through the contact page reach them in a similar fashion to email. That’s easier for them to notice than skimming through the blog/forum every day. Further, if such questions were asked via the Contact page, the Team could answer the person on a personal basis in Email.

I used to think this was a valid way of looking at things… As for the Forum: have you tried using the Contact page to request that they include a Forum in the system? As far as I know, they were working on that, but I must also admit that last time I saw a Forum mentioned was over 18 months ago.

Anyway, perhaps some ppl *do* feel the way you do, and maybe those ppl end up asking their questions in a comment to an old blog post. But from the speed with which the Team answers each question, it must be clear that the system is far from dead or unattended. I happen to know the Team isn’t very keen on announcing a lot of stuff; they rather surprise us with new features. So far, I’ve always enjoyed that. But simply ask on the contact page, and see what you can do. They’re very friendly ppl, and very open to new ideas, suggestions and requests. Even if they are disguised as “general feedback” (perhaps they could indeed add a section “suggestions/requests”).

I hear from the Team quite regularly and I know they’re up to something right now, although I have no idea what it might be.

So, please, take another look around, and ask. I hope you’ll still come to love this place.

Regards,
FreeBee

The point of a blog is to announce things. A message like “We’re working on a couple of important new features” is an announcement. Yes you could argue in this instance its a response to a question, but you have to ask yourself, is a blog comment from April really the correct place to ask questions and to answer them. I would argue no, a blog is not designed for a questions and answers section.

I think if you look around this site, you notice the lack of any such facility to ask questions. Most places do one or more of the following,
- provide a blog for news updates, and update it regular
- have a forum running so the community can talk between themselves, and the developers can interact if they wish
- have a questions and answers section that is regularly monitored and answered

Even the “Contact us” link on the bottom of every Protopage doesn’t give the option for general enquiries, only commercial and press enquires exist and of course “General feedback” (which again doesn’t suggest asking questions).

If you go to http://www.protopage.com/web/help/contact.jsp, you’ll see something that says “You can keep up-to-date with Protopage developments by visiting our blog.” Clicking on the blog link takes you to a page dated 13 April 2007. Is that “up-to-date”? To me it looks like the whole project was abandoned… Or doesn’t move on very much.

If you spend some time looking around the internet I think you’ll find that most places don’t handle queries through their blog.

I would love the Protopage team to put together a forum, I don’t care if it has bells and whistles - just something so it is possible to see activity on the site.

If you look closely, the Team comments were actually responses to questions in this same thread, so I don’t see why they would have to be in a new thread… Unless you also want them to post a useless message like “We’ve answered your questions in ” in this thread as well.

@Steve only: I’ve had problems the last two nights as well. I asked them about it, and Andre told me they had some problems with their datacentre… Apparently, they haven’t quite solved it yet, but I’m sure they’ll get it working again. This issue isn’t as permanent as Simon’s message implies, so his problem is a different thing I don’t know about.

Regards,

FreeBee

Yeah I agree with you regarding the comments from the team, a fresh thread every so often wouldn’t go a miss….

Steve

I thought announcements (no matter how small) such as “We’re working on a couple of important new features”, would have been posted in a new entry. This would do two things, one make the blog look like it is still alive, and two, alert those of us who have a news feed set up for it.

By the way are these new features having any affect on my news feeds and e-mail widgets, as they keep being “temporarily unavailable”. It seems coincidental that I lose access to all widgets, regardless of which provider they’re pointing to (both at home and at work).