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: