What Haz Happend to Private Plurks?
Just like the title says… Where haz Private Plurks gone?? I was online about a week ago when Nethead broke the news that new windows were appearing without the private plurk function. I had noticed something similar at the same time and when I refreshed really knew what he meant; I had no more private plurks button.
That being said it’s been a while now that they have been gone. Let’s get serious; social media is cool but the one of the points in friending someone is so you can talk to them privately. You don’t need to follow, fan, friend anyone to simply throw your $0.02 in their plurks. I think part of the reason social media is so popular is because with a simple friend request your not really friends but you are a distant acquaintance and if need be can send them a private note. Also somewhat related I think lot’s of hilarious plurks people don’t want to share with the world get sent through private plurks and if you have a few friends your bound to find some interesting ones.
I’ve been away from plurk for a while; actually just away from the computer. Doing things in my life, taking vacation and just enjoying an active summer lifestyle before the snow falls and we’re all trapped inside again. Last night I noticed that the private plurks were still not there so I decided to plurk about the fate of private plurks. Sure enough like anything in life there is always plan B.
Turns out they disabled it to ease the load on the servers. YES!! That’s a good sign that plurk is growing and let’s get serious this is summer in North America; it’s usually a slow time as everyone is out doing what I described I was doing in the last paragraph. If you want to check your private plurks simply go to the plurk mobile page and you can check them there. Thanks KDFrawg for explaining this to me.
Let’s hope they get private plurks back up in the near future and continue to grow. Sure I’m assuming they are growing but why not? It’s a sick user interface and should only be a matter of time until everyone uses it.
Stay tuned for more things plurk,
- Rob
P.S Turns out I missed the plurkCAST, video PlurkCAST etc etc… If you want to know what happened last week check out Plurkiverse for now.
What’s going to suck is that (you mention “it’s summer”), well, as the days grow darker and people stay in doors more, private plurks may have mcuh desire! Also, I noticed and mentioned it long before nethead mentioned it, it’s just he has a larger following, so it’s like god mentioned it, despite the little people.
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Well… having private plurks also means having the ability to segment via cliques… without it we have nothing more than a scrolling Twitter… oh wait, I can PM in Twitter…. sorry… maybe we’re slipping past that then.
Karma had already been irritating enough..without private plurks (aka Cliques) I have started hanging on forums again more (and Twitter for microblogging)… Each passing week I seem to plurk less unfortunately…sigh….
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I’m also trying to get them to fire off support for Conditional GETs and HTTP 304s for their feeds. That should lighten some load, too.
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As you know, private plurks can still be made, and they will appear on the timeline alongside public plurks. I actually prefer this setup as I always thought that clicking the “private” tab was an unnecessary step. I like seeing all plurks on one timeline.
@Jill this is clean yes, but the ability to isolate private plurks allows one to find them much quicker. ’specially if you have to wade through all your friends. No?
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@thecolor Hopefully they’ll have it resolved soon it’s definitely “limiting the experience” arguably more then the occasional downtime.
@thegypsy I didn’t even think of the cliques hopefully they’ll get it fixed soon and if your chilling in forums come swing by and say hi ;). Note to self: I need to start hanging in forums more often.
@Jill @thecolor another thing is if you miss the private plurk on the timeline you may miss it and the person interpret that as a snub.
Thanks for your comments everyone,
Rob
@Bloggeries I totally agree. I’m sure I’ve missed some, or it’s taken me a while to see it, and then I must be totally apologetic for my absence.
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@David interesting so this sounds more like some positive growing pains.
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