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David O’Donnell replied on August 16, 2009 13:21 to the question "Desperately seeking feature" in Plurk:

Either setting the default Plurk verb as a preference (ideal) or respecting the blank selection (passable) is preferable to the current situation.

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David O’Donnell replied on August 14, 2009 15:11 to the problem "aack! my apostrophes!" in Plurk:

You can (sort of) work around this by using typographer's quotes: “ ” ‘ ’ but it's a PITA—and I imagine harder for Linux and Windows users who don't have easy access to the characters. It frustrates me as well because it seems to perpetuate the sort of lazy writing becoming more common thanks to texting.

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David O’Donnell started following the problem "Phantom new responses" in Plurk.

David O’Donnell started following the problem "Phantom new responses" in Plurk.

David O’Donnell started following the problem "Phantom new responses" in Plurk.

David O’Donnell reported a problem in Plurk on August 14, 2009 14:54:

Plurk caps number of unread messages (again).

Plurk is once again capping new replies at anywhere between 40 and 60 (I typically start in the morning with closer to 200). Is there any ETA on when this will be fixed, or is this a new policy? There's nothing about it on the blog and Plurkbuddy has been silent for months.

David O’Donnell replied on August 11, 2009 14:40 to the idea "Be more transparent about what you're doing to the service." in Plurk:

Plurk's stability has taken a nosedive again in recent weeks, with (predictably) no commentary in the blog, or on the Plurkbuddy account. It feels like a lost cause raising this issue again, but frustration is again becoming palpable.

A comment on the problem "Response counts show 'new' when there are none" in Plurk:

The problem you describe (your replies appearing twice and obscuring another's reply) is a separate failure that's been going on for several weeks. – David O’Donnell, on June 10, 2009 19:57

David O’Donnell reported a problem in Plurk on June 10, 2009 15:54:

Plurk often duplicates replier's response in a thread.

Replies are frequently duplicated in a message thread. For example, if I write "me, too!" in reply to a thread, I'll often see two "me, too!" messages in the reply history. One of them is mine and the other is someone else's message that Plurk has obscured. The only way to recover from this problem is to reload Plurk completely, which makes it next to impossible to find the thread again (unless it's immediately recent in my timeline).

David O’Donnell replied on June 10, 2009 15:48 to the problem "Response counts show 'new' when there are none" in Plurk:

Chiming in—*every* message to which I reply is re-marked as unread after 10–15 seconds.

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David O’Donnell replied on May 02, 2009 23:39 to the idea "Be more transparent about what you're doing to the service." in Plurk:

I'm bumping this back up because it continues to be relevant. In the past couple of weeks at least two new "features" have been stealthily added to Plurk (deleting responses and a "search" function) without any sort of notice. In both cases Plurk's reliability crashed after implementation (right now, on 2009-05-02 at 19:30 ET, Plurks with responses are only occasionally loading, for example).

I think it's great that Plurk-the-company wants its users to know about how the Chinese government is blocking the service, but WHY can't the employees even notify users of new functions through, e.g., the blog? Why is it that with every single new feature (I can recall), Plurk's reliability sinks into the toilet?

You guys actually started to improve a little after the disastrous months of the beginning of 2009 when the service was down almost as often as it was up... please don't let things return to the level of unpleasant snark from both sides: keep your users informed of what's going on!

David O’Donnell started following the problem "Plurks show new responses on some plurks when all existing responses have already been read." in Plurk.

David O’Donnell started following the question "Plurks not showing updates or new responses" in Plurk.

David O’Donnell replied on March 17, 2009 13:13 to the problem "Spammer ... http://www.plurk.com/EZMoney ... I've blocked him already." in Plurk:

I'm seeing others in my timeline getting spammed as well. I'm sharing this thread with them so the other new spammers can be identified and dealt with. We must take decisive early action or spammers will ruin this community as they've ruined our postal mail and e-mail.

David O’Donnell replied on March 14, 2009 15:18 to the problem "is PLURK down again?" in Plurk:

It's dead, Jim. (2009-03-14, 11:15 EST)

It was really slow around 10:40 EST or so.

David O’Donnell replied on March 11, 2009 14:39 to the problem "Plurk running slower than slugs in molassas" in Plurk:

It's dead again, Jim. (2009-03-11 10:30 EST)

A comment on the problem "Plurk running slower than slugs in molassas" in Plurk:

Site maintenance wasn't showing when I first reported the error. I was trying to bring it to the attention of the developers in case it was affecting only part of their server farm. – David O’Donnell, on March 10, 2009 16:20