🧰 From the engineroom

Why this?

/now pages are a small antidote to social media: one page, updated whenever life changes, no feed, no likes, no algorithm. nowpag.es makes it easy to host yours without setting up your own site — just register, write a few lines, and you're part of the small web.

I basically started building this out of frustration with social media and because friends asked me if there is an easy way to host a /now page somewhere.

It's here for the fun of it and keep the web weird.

Changelog

2026-07-29

  • Behind the scenes: Rebuilt the backup system. Taking hourly snapshots of the database and storing them on an S3 compatible storage. This makes it much easier to restore the database and also allows me to just pull the latest snapshot for local development. Built that strategy into another project and found it fitting for nowpag.es as well.
  • Also the deployment pipeline has been improved. I host the code on my personal Forgejo instance and this builds and deploys the code to my server automatically.
  • For fun added a staleness indicator to the pages. If a page isn't updated for a long time it will welter. How that looks you ask? You will see it at some point.

2026-07-26

  • Added a password reset feature. If you forget your password, you can now request a reset link to be sent to your email. 🔐
  • Add possibility to set the page language to german in the account settings. This will set the lang attribute on your page and help search engines and screen readers to understand the language of your content.

2026-07-03

  • The homepage list now shows relative "updated x ago" timestamps instead of dates.
  • The account export now includes your footnote.
  • Made things faster under the hood: rendered markdown is cached and the homepage loads everything in a single query.
  • A few small tooling changes behind the scenes for backup and restore of the database.
  • General bug and performance fixes ✨🙃

2026-07-02

  • Fixed the missing footnote on your now page. It should now render correctly and support markdown.

2026-07-01

  • Added this about page.
  • Sections on the dashboard can now be reordered, activated and deactivated.
  • The textarea on the editor now grows with its content instead of scrolling.
  • CSS refactoring - hope I didn't break anything catastropically

2026-06-22

  • Rolled out email verification for new accounts. Existing accounts have been manually verified.
  • Added ntfy support for new signups. I receive a notification whenever someone signs up.
  • Added approval system for new accounts. New accounts will be manually approved by me before they can go live. Prior to approval the page will not be accessible to the public. This is to prevent spam and abuse.

2026-06-16

  • Golive of nowpag.es! You can now register and create your own page.

Contact & Support

Shoot me a mail at nowpag.es@dasrecht.net or find me on the Fediverse And if you are feeling like helping out - This is provided free of charge but I appreciate a Donation on Liberapay

Thanks /dasrecht