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David replied on January 30, 2009 23:08 to the question "Why isn't my atom feed updating?" in Plurk:

I quickly checked some other users' feeds, and at the moment, theirs include todays plurks. It's not a system-wide issue. (But I'm probably not the only one with the symptom, just the first to notice.)

David asked a question in Plurk on January 30, 2009 22:56:

Why isn't my atom feed updating?

As of this time, 2009-01-30T22:52:40Z, http://www.plurk.com/user/dblume.xml shows the most recent plurk as:

<id>tag:plurk.com;dblume;24244532</id>
<updated>2009-01-29T19:23:24Z</updated>
<published>2009-01-29T19:23:24Z</published>
<link href="/p/efn78" />

But there's a more recent plurk, http://www.plurk.com/p/ej4l8, posted at 2009-01-30T17:15:??Z.

That was FIVE HOURS ago. Your feed used to be way more responsive than that. There's probably something wrong.

David started following the problem "System is often unreliable or unavailable." in Plurk.

David replied on December 23, 2008 06:35 to the problem "500 Internal Server Error" in Plurk:

Yeah, I got the plain white page, too. But now it's the "There was an error" page! C'mon guys, you can do it!

[Edit] There's a plurk timeline now! You're back up!

David replied on December 19, 2008 21:41 to the problem "Feeds stopped working!" in LibraryThing:

Librarything feeds are back again.

David replied on December 19, 2008 21:38 to the problem "One @username being expanded to somebody else's friendly name" in Plurk:

Thanks! You guys rock. FWIW, you're not the only company I annoy that technical complaints. I did the same to librarything when they started serving straight HTML (error messages) from their feed url. Things like that most customers ignore, easily: So what if updates don't come in. Who really notices? But I do! And when you fix stuff like this, it just makes me a stronger advocate for you.

David replied on December 16, 2008 17:12 to the problem "One @username being expanded to somebody else's friendly name" in Plurk:

Interesting case in point: This plurk's 9th reply renders differently as a single page, and within a timeline, both wrong. http://www.plurk.com/p/9ecc0

It should say, "pastilla says thank you to dblume and karma medic"

In the single plurk page (as you can verify from my link above), it renders as, "pastilla says thank you to karmamedic and dblumebuddy"

Error: karmamedic is dblumebuddy. @dblume should have expanded to me, "dblume" not "karmamedic". @dblumebuddy should have expanded to "karma medic", or, they both should not have expanded, leaving "dblume and dblumebuddy"

But, when viewed from plurk at http://www.plurk.com/dblume (you have to scroll all the way back to Dec 01 2008), the reply renders as:

"pastilla says thank you to karmamedic and karma medic"

That's not right either! C'mon. There's no way to refer to me? At all? No "dblume" anymore?

David reported a problem in Plurk on December 16, 2008 16:35:

One @username being expanded to somebody else's friendly name

My account and display names are both dblume. Another account's name is dblumebuddy, and her display name is "karma medic."

Of those who have friended both of us, if they type @dblume, plurk expands the username to the display name, "karma medic", not mine, "dblume".

This probably occurs for everybody who friends two people with that relationship, such as amix and amixtreme. (They would not be able to say amix anymore.)

David reported a problem in LibraryThing on December 15, 2008 05:17:

Feeds stopped working!

Feeds stopped working on December 12th, as reported by the lifestream stats here: http://david.dlma.com/lifestream/stat.... The feed it tries to extract is: http://www.librarything.com/rss/recen...
But the response it gets back is not an atom or rss feed, it's a web page that says, "Some sort of error just happened. The error was logged and Tim has been alerted."

David replied on December 13, 2008 02:59 to the question "Where's the feed? /user/user.xml or /user.xml? Tired of the eternal temporary redirect." in Plurk:

Hey! Looks like you guys did something! My stats page reports that plurk's feeds are now behaving as well as all the others. Yay! Thanks!

David replied on December 05, 2008 20:15 to the question "Where's the feed? /user/user.xml or /user.xml? Tired of the eternal temporary redirect." in Plurk:

It'd help us both if you replied with 304s when I send you a Conditional GET and nothing's changed. But as it is, all the 302s we get from user/user.xml because maybe you're telling us its the wrong URL just make for extra work. And I guess that you're sending the entire feed everytime, even when nothing's changed, but I don't know. (Are you sending me 302, then 200-with-everything, or 302, then 304.)

For example, everybody else (http://david.dlma.com/lifestream/lege...) is well behaved at my lifestream, except for plurk. I'd just like to get this one non-200 or 304 taken care of. See the noise in the log it generates here: http://david.dlma.com/lifestream/stat...

Yay for 304 and 200. You guys can get there. I know you can. Save your own servers some work.

David asked a question in Plurk on December 04, 2008 07:57:

Where's the feed? /user/user.xml or /user.xml? Tired of the eternal temporary redirect.

The "atom+xml" discoverable element says to look for Amir's feed at href="/user/amix.xml", but when we try that URL we get a 302 temporary redirect to "/amix.xml".

This has been going on FOREVER. Why are you doing it this way? This is clogging some logs. Either change the "atom+xml" element to point to the actual feed's location, or stop with the eternal temporary redirect, please.

Should we treat it as if it were a 303?

David started a conversation in Plurk on October 18, 2008 17:29:

Plurk's been up and responsive.

A little bot and a feed reader that I'd know nothing about say that Plurk's had no issues for over a week. I haven't seen any issues either. Plurk has been solid and responsive.

Just want to say thanks A-Team, and keep it up. This is how I like it.

David replied on October 09, 2008 20:57 to the question "When will plurk feeds become available again?" in Plurk:

Yay! It's fixed. The answer was "in about two more hours."

David asked a question in Plurk on October 09, 2008 18:36:

When will plurk feeds become available again?

When will the xml feeds be served again? (Plurk has been serving HTTP 500s for more than an hour.)

For example, try: http://www.plurk.com/user/amir.xml

David replied on September 24, 2008 00:15 to the problem "Somebody was magically added to my friends timeline." in Twitter:

My suggested recipe seems to have worked. I followed him. Waited a few seconds. Then I unfollowed him.

He now continues to not be in my list of friends.
He no longer appears in my friends feed/timeline.

Weird. Was his magical addition to my friends timeline an exploit in the twitter api?

David reported a problem in Twitter on September 24, 2008 00:01:

Somebody was magically added to my friends timeline.

Somebody, "plasticbagUK", is now showing up in my friends timeline, but is not my friend and I never chose to follow him.

He is not here: http://twitter.com/dblume/friends
But he is here: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_t... (user dblume)

How do I get rid of him? Follow him first? Should I go to his page and select "follow" then wait a second, and then (un)select "following" when it becomes available?

David replied on September 08, 2008 16:02 to the discussion "How does the new "responded plurks tab help you?" in Plurk:

I love this new tab. Thank you Plurk.

It helps me find plurks I've responded to, even though they've gone stale, and I can't think of a correct search term to find the reply I've been mis-remembering. (Yes, it really happened.)

A comment on the problem "Karma Bots" in Plurk:

Honest? That's lame. I'd rather read automated plurks that were interesting. Like @williamshakespeare, if he were a bot. Far, far more interesting than, "this is a maintenance plurk." I would not favor the latter.

I know a Plurker who plurks from mobile device in bed to maintain karma. I know another who plurks deferred (but original) plurks by cron job (bot). You know one that employs some sort of bot to plurk content that was uninteresting "plurk #512" "plurk #513" and then excepts from Familiar Quotations.

To me, it's fascinating. To you, one (or two) (or all three) of them should be punished. – David, on September 05, 2008 23:55

A comment on the problem "Karma Bots" in Plurk:

Greg: Without the karma penalty, I doubt the bots would exist at all.

This is a fascinating social experiment. – David, on September 05, 2008 23:41