Launch confirmation
Launch: Monday 27th November (Today)
We’re now in mid “launch sequence”, and we will launch today (Monday 27th November). Accounts are being migrated to V3 as we speak. The image below is a taste of V3. We count 30 major new features.
See you on the other side.
November 20th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Anyone who upgrades a good, FREE, service to a great, FREE, service can launch whenever they feel like it in my book. I am still very happy with the good, FREE, service.
Thanks Protopage team!
November 20th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Thanks for the quick response Protopage team! Like I said, I will always recommend your product because is top quality! I appreciate your service to the fullest and would never deny it. It looks like this is the first huge up version you have done and now we all know its not an easy process to carry out. This will definitely be worth the wait…to all other users, I hope you understand me when I say, that it is better to try and critique honestly and directly so that things become better for all instead of constantly patting each other on the back.
November 20th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
We definitely deserved the critique! When we started with V3 we realised it would take forever to put together, so we tried to downgrade the specification. But when it came down to implementation, we couldn’t bear to cut corners. We know that good or bad, that you all care enough to comment at all is fantastic. Thanks everyone for sticking with us through this.
November 20th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Good work guys, thanks for sticking at it, and for keeping us informed. This last week must have seen more like a month!
Looking forward to Wednesday…
Steve
November 20th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
I mean Monday!
November 20th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
i am really waiting for version 3 , i hope it will be finally launched on 27 …
November 20th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
I’m not clear: does this mean either Wednesday or Monday or definitely Monday?
November 20th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
The preview looks great, tabs would have been enough for me. Looking forward to see the other goodies though.
November 20th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Will v3 be totally compatible with Opera?
November 21st, 2006 at 12:41 am
I store a large amount of valuable information on my Protopages and I don’t want to risk having it messed up by bugs not caught and fixed before V3’s release. I hope the team ignores the pressure and does all the testing they need to do to get this right before my data sees it. This is a great product. We need to be patient. Let them release it when they know it’s ready.
(One minor complaint however – The timer really ought to be in the Days/Hours/Minutes/Seconds format. This decimal thing is just weird.)
John
November 21st, 2006 at 12:44 am
You guys rock. From what I see patience will definitely pay off.
November 21st, 2006 at 6:19 am
Tomi – David from Opera just got back to us with some workaround magic, and Protopage V3 should now be very usable with Opera version 9.
John – we’re very careful about data – we use Protopage ourselves to store a lot of important documentation. We know that extra security is important too, so we’ll be introducing ways to export data from Protopage in a future release. We use decimals because we like the way that 1/10000ths of an hour tick by three times faster than seconds :)
November 21st, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Woohoo! Protopage will be compactible with Opera! :D
This means that you can use Protopage even on your Wii! The Wii will support Opera web browser and Ajax rendering, so that’s all you need!
Wii, Opera and of cource Protopage forever!
November 21st, 2006 at 9:18 pm
This is gonna be good …
It’s worth the waiting, no doubt !
Protopage was already a ‘must’, now it’s gonna be a killer !!!
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:18 am
I love you guys :) :) I can’t wait, thank you SOOOOO much for your hard work dedication and time, this is such a great service for free, word will spread on protopage and hopefully it will get as big as myspace, in my opinion its ten times better than myspace. I’m glad I listened to that Amber Mac podcast to find out about this.
November 23rd, 2006 at 6:48 am
I am so excited by the screenshot, love Protopage and this will make it even better. Nice one
November 23rd, 2006 at 7:33 am
happy Thanksgiving. I know I’m thankful for you guys! First of all, Protopage is top notch and we can tell how much hard work you put into this. I know your dedication will reward you! Protopage is my homepage and its sooooooooo awesome. Can’t wait until Monday!
Robin
November 23rd, 2006 at 2:10 pm
What I’m hoping for are widgets that are accessible by multiple users (e.g. my partner and me):
– text frames (sticky notes)
– to do lists
– calendar
– bookmarks
Happy Thanksgiving for those in the States – I hope you did finish yesterday so you can get a well deserved weekend off before the big day (I suspect however that all projects will expand to fill the time!).
November 26th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
I hope we will be able to customize our protopages extensively, because I find what’s in the screenshot kind of… well, ugly.
It’s not a fact, just my humble opinion.
But as a web designer, I must say I’d love to be able to customize my protopage’s css.
November 26th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
I feel like it’s Christmas Eve! Can’t wait to open our ProtoPage present tomorrow morning (US)! :D
November 27th, 2006 at 9:11 am
2 hours 50 minutes and counting :-)
November 27th, 2006 at 11:03 am
Less than one hour to go…..
Tension mounts…
This is getting like an Apollo launch!
November 27th, 2006 at 11:07 am
It’s a comming baby !
November 27th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Soon now…
November 27th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Must…have…update! I can’t wait for it!
Hopefully the process goes smoothly!
November 27th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
1:30pm and nothing as yet……… :-0
November 27th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Will we need to log out and then log back in for the migration to v3? If yes, will we be notified that we should do this, or should we just log out and in to check?
November 27th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Nothing happening as yet … anyone with something positive to report (ie. anyone have their page updated yet?)
November 27th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
F5 – FFFFFFFF5555555555555555555 !
November 27th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Migration! Yes at last – thanks – looks great! No work for rest of aft!
November 27th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
You guys are freaking awesome! My page just migrated and…. unbelievable!
Thanks so much. The wait was definitely worth it.
November 27th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
It’sssssssssssssssssssssssss OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUUUUUUUUUCH!!!!!!
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I just became veeeeeeerrrrrrrrry happy!
November 27th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Cool
November 27th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Very cool!
I specially like the tabs with public and restricted posibillities. But I can’t get it to work! I can’t make new tabs. It’s got so big potential, so please make it work!
November 27th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Log out and log back in again … I When I first tried to creat new tabs, it looked like nothing was happening … when I re-logged in, I was up to my chin in new tabs.
January 24th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Hello! Thanks you that have found a way to unite set of people of different trades, but connected by one idea! I shall be the frequent visitor on your site. At me is many friends, adherents, I think they too will not remain indifferent …
July 17th, 2007 at 9:38 am
It’s such a great device and all for free! thank you many times. Just can’t wait to apply it to me page…
February 29th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I have just started using protopage and love the look! I have a hard time loading the page in a school environment with older computers. Can you tell me what the recommended computer requirements are to run protopage? Thanks :)
January 19th, 2009 at 10:31 am
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