PLURKommunity

Plurk will be undergoing scheduled maintenance for up to 3 hours starting at 4pm EDT/8pm GMT on Tuesday, August 12, 2008. [source]

Wonder if we’ll be seeing anything new…

Plurk updated again on Saturday and some of the cosmetic changes included colored creatures (at least some, maybe the others will gain color later?), more badges, and a Last Visit indicator in the timeline.

Colored Creatures

Here’s a look at the new creature designs, which I think are great, but do restrict you a little when trying to fit a color scheme (I was lucky enough that mine actually fit in perfectly without having to change my creature).

Badges

More badges were also added (badges are displayed on a user’s profile under their stats) to make the known total the following (thanks to Zen Elements who was the first to list them). Hover over the image to get it’s description:

And a few that aren’t in use yet so not entirely known, although you can probably guess on most:

Last Visit

Finally, a “Last Visit” indicator has started showing up on the timeline that appears to mark the last time you logged in for easier tracking of what you may want to read on your current visit. For those using custom CSS, you can stylize it using “.last_seen_plurk div”.

And now (Monday) they seem to have included a border line with the last visit:

And I almost forgot to mention the addition of multiple tabs on the “Interesting plurkers” page:

I am working on a aggregated RSS feed of all the notable* PLURK specific blogs (Blogs that discuss Plurk specifically), or in some cases PLURK categories on blogs.  Feel free to add it to your RSS reader or just bookmark the page at my PLURKommunity Yahoo! Pipe.

If you know any blogs that should be added that you don’t think are, let me know.  I’ll get a list of what’s being aggregated up on the site soon.

* Notable by me currently, eventually I may add in a rank system to vote on what to keep and what to drop if there’s enough interest.

This site is current in an experimental state.  It’s not technically public ready yet, but feel free to visit, and browse around as it grows hopefully into something useful.