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Twitter and Mastodon widget upgrades

Saturday, April 8th, 2023

Update: July 27, 2023: Twitter have changed the way that their widgets work. You will only see the latest tweets inside the widget if you are also logged in to Twitter in the same web browser. If you are not logged in to Twitter, you will see only the most-liked tweets of a particular user […]

New color harmony option

Saturday, February 20th, 2021

When you’re picking a color scheme (from the “Colors / Settings” button at the top of your Protopage), a new type of color picker is now available. If the “Restrict to harmonious colors” option is not ticked, then you will be able to choose any possible color. This gives you the freedom to pick bright […]

Alternative feeds available for some news widgets

Friday, October 16th, 2020

When you create a news feed widget for your Protopage (via the Add Widgets button), sometimes you may find that the headlines are not the ones you were expecting to see. This will often happen when there is a site-wide news feed available, but you just want the headlines from a certain page within a […]

Fixes released for interfering browser extensions

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

If you have installed any ‘browser extensions’ or ‘add-ons’, these can interfere with all web pages that you load in your web browser. If your Protopage ever does not load properly, try disabling each extension or add-on to discover which one is interfering with the loading of your Protopage. Even if the extensions were working […]

News feed indexing improvements, iPadOS compatibility and more

Sunday, November 24th, 2019

We’ve been busy all year making dozens of improvements to Protopage, many of which are compatibility, security and performance related. This ensures Protopage always works with the latest browser updates, and that our servers are always running smoothly. In particular, we’re continually working on our news feed indexing platform to make sure that we can […]

New custom search buttons

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

It’s always been possible to configure the list of search buttons available on your Protopage’s search bar. We’ve now made it easier for you to add your own search buttons, which only return Google search results from a particular web site. For example, in the screenshot above you can see custom search buttons that return […]

New YouTube, Market Indices and Sports Scores widgets

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

We’ve been listening to your suggestions, and have released three new widgets: 1. A YouTube widget, which makes it easy for you to embed a YouTube video into your Protopage 2. A market indices widget. We use a third party provider for our stock price widgets, because licensing the data feeds ourselves would be prohibitively […]

Disaster recovery procedures and encrypted off-site backups

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

A few people have recently asked about our backup procedures, to ensure that the contents of their Protopages are safe. We have a dual layer backup mechanism in place. Firstly, we have continuous live backups of the Protopage databases through a process called ‘replication’. This means that if the main Protopage servers were to suddenly […]

News Feed Indexing Engine Upgrade

Sunday, February 18th, 2018

Today we made a major software update to our feed indexing engine. The objective of the update is to ensure Protopage continues to offer the widest possible support for all of the different variations of news feeds available on the internet. We’re closely monitoring our indexing statistics to check that everything goes smoothly. Please let […]

Stopwatch and Countdown timer

Friday, September 9th, 2016

We’ve just released two new widgets that are useful for time management – a stopwatch and a countdown timer. You can add them to your page using the “Add widgets” menu at the top of your screen. Enjoy!