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clickykbd reported a problem in Plurk on September 30, 2008 10:37:

.jpeg extension not recognized as a displayable image

Ran into this trying to share a photo of the Death Pumpkin. ;-)

Example in plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/p/4t99o

Easy fix I hope.

clickykbd replied on September 28, 2008 02:40 to the idea "How about starting an IRC channel for quick problem solving?" in Plurk:

Even if dev's did not participate... the community can do a lot to troubleshoot itself if participation was decent.

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A comment on the idea "Alternate tab/timeline ordering features?" in Plurk:

Thanks for the reasoning. Just throwing them out there. ;-) *waits patiently for the better search*

One comment on "keep the things simple". I love that philosophy... but even more important than simplicity I think is the "impression of simplicity". Power features can be there, they just shouldn't distract from the user experience. ;-) – clickykbd, on September 27, 2008 03:17

clickykbd marked one of Amir Salihefendic's replies in Plurk as useful. Amir Salihefendic replied to the problem "Why isn't Plurk fully loading? My timeline loads but that's it.".

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clickykbd shared an idea in Plurk on September 26, 2008 03:36:

Alternate tab/timeline ordering features?

Had a random thought today as I was trying to locate a plurk I accidentally marked as read without following up on the conversation. (this can be tricky, especially if search has not indexed it yet).

Would be nice/interesting/useful(?) if we could "switch" the ordering of, for example, the responded tab back and forth between "posted date/time" and "your last reply date/time" ordering. Then these conversations you are active on in the moment would always be nearest to the front in the new sorting. By adding new replies you constantly bump them to the front of this list.

Course once the search issues are improved, that too, would have solved my example problem.

I don't think it would have to break the timeline "feel"... you are just changing the datetime field on which the timeline is a reflection of. Reply vs. posted date/time.

clickykbd marked one of Alvin Woon's replies in Plurk as useful. Alvin Woon replied to the question "Annoying friend requests, unable to block user.".

A comment on the discussion "visible plurk after 'do not follow plurk'" in Plurk:

Thanks! We'll see how it plays out. This is more like the behavior I expected.... but "i'm" not everyone on plurk. So we'll see. – clickykbd, on September 26, 2008 03:22

A comment on the discussion "visible plurk after 'do not follow plurk'" in Plurk:

I think it makes perfect sense that we should continue receiving private plurks that are directly to us (and only us). This is the equivalent of a instant message type concept and if you run into trouble with those the appropriate response is to "block" the person.

BUT... these "friends only" plurks that are actually private plurks to a big list of people are a different matter. And my expectation would be that unfollowing a "friend" would not display these. Reasons for unfollowing such a person can vary, even if you still consider them a friend... they plurk too much, they enjoy topics I don't care to read, etc etc).

The problem really stems from this "double-duty" of the private plurks. If private to a list was a different concept than a true "friends only" message then things would seem more intuitive. – clickykbd, on September 24, 2008 02:14

clickykbd replied on September 23, 2008 09:04 to the discussion "visible plurk after 'do not follow plurk'" in Plurk:

Actually I'd like to clarify that.

"Friend's Only" DOES exist as a privacy concept... but the implementation is that it effectively private plurks everyone on your friends list. I think these are, in particular, the ones that should also be ignored when you "unfollow" a friend.

Treat them as what they were when they were created. A "friends only" plurk, and NOT a targeted private plurk.

clickykbd replied on September 23, 2008 08:55 to the discussion "visible plurk after 'do not follow plurk'" in Plurk:

I think the conflict here is that many users will private plurk to huge lists of people, effectively hacking a "friends only" plurk (which doesn't exist otherwise on an individual plurk level). So it's not necessarily a message targeted at Soe, and in fact one he/she'd like to be able to ignore by turning off the "following". Removing the friend is a bit extreme, and you may still wish to get private plurks that are directly exclusively to you.

Based on my friends behavior this is my interpretation anyway. I'd be in the same boat if I was trying to unfollow a few of my friends that use these pseudo-friends-only plurks.

A comment on the idea "Better support for Flickr Video links (and others)?" in Plurk:

others threw out some suggestions of google-video, and hulu.com in a plurk. Photo-bucket has video?! wow I'm out of the loop. – clickykbd, on September 23, 2008 08:48

clickykbd marked one of Smiley Barry's replies in Plurk as useful. Smiley Barry replied to the idea "Custom timeline tabs".

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clickykbd replied on September 22, 2008 23:43 to the idea "Custom timeline tabs" in Plurk:

I think they gotta really improve search and some advanced searching before we start building UI elements based on such things. But in general...I like the idea of a tab containing stored searches & notification of new items within those queries.

Getting the search results in general displayed as a timeline/tabbed result would be a great start to this idea. Especially if it simply remembered your last search and kept the tab running with that query until you change it.

Such a dropdown tab for the cliques would be worthwhile too I think.

clickykbd replied on September 22, 2008 23:35 to the question "Private Plurk that can be viewed just by me?" in Plurk:

might be kinda handy, plurk as a "note to self" app?

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clickykbd shared an idea in Plurk on September 22, 2008 23:21:

Better support for Flickr Video links (and others)?

A much requested feature among my contacts who use flickr and plurk.

convert flickr video item URLs to video embeds perhaps? Or provide another "share" menu for a flickr item that triggers this step.

Flickr video URLs are identical to photo urls and serve up a still frame just like a photo item would, so this would likely involve integration with the Flickr API to check the type of content for items linked/posted, and then act appropriately when the media item pop-up is opened.

While you are at it. Please look into doing the same for Vimeo video urls. Example plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/p/4e0qg

YouTube isn't the only video sharing service out there!

clickykbd replied on September 22, 2008 23:15 to the problem "First plurk displays (and time set to) after second plurk" in Plurk:

I've noticed anomolies like this too. I'll try to screenshot the next one I encounter.