General on UserVoice

Email Digest [updated]

2011-05-23T23:38:56-07:00

I'd like to be able to do the following d particls digest [time in hours] [email address] where email address sets your admin address, if you exclude it, it uses the address on file. if no address is on file it should reply with an error 'please specify an email address.' or d particls digest now which sends a digest of new items since the last digest

who ami said:

I am a spamer please email me I like crap.

chinese herbs and athletes. [is now under review]

2009-06-28T14:56:15-07:00

chinese herbs are the best way to get deep nutrition

world class green community. http://worldgreenproject.yolasite.com [is now under review]

2009-06-28T14:56:09-07:00

Define exclude keywords

2009-06-19T03:37:56-07:00

an anonymous user suggested:
Wouldn't it be great if you could define an exclude list as well... Great for filtering out those unwanted internet memes, blocking chatter from conferences you aren't particularly bothered about, as well as just generally reducing the noise & "help users filter the noise and experience a personally relevant Internet" PS that qoute is taken straight from the particls blog ;) Love Regards etc @thatdavidmiller

Allow me to see my history of alerts on the website [updated]

2009-06-04T08:13:11-07:00

I might miss some alerts, can you store them all on the particls.com website in a sort of inbox?

Sam Sethi said:

This says its planned but do you have a timeframe as Chris is not responding to twitter or email requests?

I am not getting updates on twitter. [updated]

2009-05-18T17:44:30-07:00

I did d particls follow yaddayadda. I even got the direct message back but havent received any updates and they are coming in on my IM client so I know people are talking about them.

Ashley said:

Hi anon, the twitter direct message updates have been purposely disabled, due to overwhelming user demand. XMPP clients are the best way at the present, to receive Particls alerts.

I am not getting updates on twitter. [is now duplicate]

2009-05-18T17:42:57-07:00

I did d particls follow yaddayadda. I even got the direct message back but havent received any updates and they are coming in on my IM client so I know people are talking about them.

Twitter has a 5000msg limit on DMs from Whitelisted Accounts [updated]

2009-04-30T13:17:42-07:00

@Al3x from Twitter assures us there is no way to get around the 5000/day DM limit on the Twitter API. What do you suggest we do to solve this problem? How would you best like to receive notifications from @Particls in the future? Would you be willing to pay for Twitter DMs? How much? What are the alternatives? Discuss...

omdesign said:

whatever happened to RSS? I mean the 'live' liness of Twitter is great and for meme tracking it is very useful, however, IM clients have been maturing pretty well and opening a tab in one for a Twitstream makes sense to me. PLease don't lock yourself into Skype. XMPP offers a number of useful options for the rest of us. If you had an AIR app, you could offer something like Digg/Swarm which would do me a LOT more good than 'river of news' style of all the things I'm interested in.

Allow me to view and adjust my Topics on a web-based dash [updated]

2009-04-30T13:08:26-07:00

Rather than just command line controls, I'd like to see all my topics and be able to add, edit and delete them via a website dashboard

omdesign said:

This seems to be approaching the level of a standalone app. (Air maybe?) It is a PITA to keep a browser window open for a "river of news".

APML Export [updated]

2009-04-30T13:03:45-07:00

Please give me my APML file!

omdesign said:

Hear Hear! This could alleviate a lot of traffic if I get from Twitter what I want without you having to send it to me... Does that make sense?

let users update their twitter status via the xmpp bot

2009-04-08T18:18:16-07:00

bmn suggested:
I would like to be able to update my twitter status via the xmpp bot as it would be much more convenient, similar to the way the old official twitter bot let you do so. I realise this requires password storage, but if you can somehow integrate into their OAuth it might work without needing to store clear passwords. (I'm not 100% sure on how their oauth works)

Turn twitter usernames into links when sending tweets to IM

2009-04-07T02:48:19-07:00

an anonymous user suggested:
I would be really useful if the @twittername text could be converted to a hyperlink to that users twitter page, so I could click through the link and see the context of the tweet. In a tweet like this there would be links to both users: "Tweet from @JonesAndy (Andy Jones):@ColinEnglish I see you're a fellow geek like me. I work at Hursley Labs do you ever come down this way ?"

keywords shouldn't be case sensitive

2009-03-10T19:34:26-07:00

dallasclark suggested:
So when you remove a keyword like "Internet", running the following command "d particls remove internet" should remove the keyword from my list note: in case it's not obvious the first "Internet" has a capital I, the 2nd "internet" has a lower case i

On/Off Toggle [updated]

2009-03-07T23:04:08-08:00

I'd like a way to toggle Particls on and off. Maybe I am busy one day and I don't want any notifications, I should be able to send the following command: Version 1: d particls off or d particls on To toggle the service on or off for 1 day Ability for user to specify which channel to disable (e.g. IM, Twitter etc) Version 2: Ability for user to specify timeframe in hours

davidgjones said:

the "off 10" is nice as I prefer to never have DM's and get everything XMPP. Would even be nicer if "off forever" was an option.

reverse the order of posts from rss - order is wrong in IM [is now completed]

2009-03-01T01:45:41-08:00

i think the rss posts are being fed to the xmpp bot in the order they are read from the rss feed, which is reverse chronological... :)

Let's get a topic cloud going!

2009-02-25T15:58:54-08:00

Jason Salas suggested:
Can we see a listing (i.e., topic cloud) of the Particls topics, ordered by popularity? And maybe the # of tweets pushed per topic, and how often? Displaying such attention data would be really cool!

On/Off Toggle [updated]

2009-02-25T14:41:11-08:00

Chris Saad said:

@Andrew - this is a Google Talk feature, we don't have control over this behavior. I find that Gmail consolidates all the emails into one handy 'Conversation' though - does it not do that for you?

Maybe we can make the bot NOT message you if you are offline.

Old messages keep getting repeated

2009-02-25T14:34:59-08:00

an anonymous user suggested:
In gtalk, tweets keep showing from many days ago, i close the gtalk window and they keep spamming themselves back into the window, so i cant make sense of what is new.

On/Off Toggle [updated]

2009-02-24T21:04:28-08:00

Andrew Cahill said:

I noticed when my gtalk is offline, any updates are emailed through to me, they appear in large numbers and keep spamming me, can we have the ability to turn off emailed offline updates.

Twitter has a 5000msg limit on DMs from Whitelisted Accounts [updated]

2009-02-23T22:01:54-08:00

mangee said:

Rather than DM (or as well as DM) how about (realtime) email - in tweet sized chunks? The main use for DM I have is that it emails you, which can be used with push email services instead of SMS (or with Email->SMS gateway for countries with free inbound SMS but not supported by Twitter SMS).

Ref: http://twitter.com/jasonsalas/status/1243812479

On/Off Toggle [updated]

2009-02-23T21:26:40-08:00

mangee said:

Love the ability to toggle IM on, DM off etc. The either or option for SMS or Website on twitter was always a limitation. Sometimes you want both. The IM off is useful if you don't want to be bombarded with IM on a slow connection or 'quiet time'.

On/Off Toggle [updated]

2009-02-23T16:19:19-08:00

Ashley said:

Part 1 of this command is now done and deployed. If you issue an 'off 0.5' command, your alerts will be disabled for 1/2 a day. The instructions page has been updated accordingly.

Recommend new topics to follow based on my Tweet history [updated]

2009-02-23T15:18:34-08:00

By observing my short term history of tweets, you can work out what I seem to be interested in. Regularly msg me with suggested topics to add to my follow list.

Andrew Cahill said:

This would be quite handy, would have recognize useless terms ie. lunch, home, etc and disregard them. perhaps it shows a list of ur most common tweet words and you select which terms for it to make suggestions from.

Include language settings [is now inappropriate]

2009-02-23T04:00:58-08:00

I am getting hits in Spanish, really only want English.

Include language settings [updated]

2009-02-23T04:00:47-08:00

I am getting hits in Spanish, really only want English.

Ashley said:

So I was thinking about this and we cant limit to specific languages, but we might look into machine translation for tweets which are not in the "correct" language.

Twitter has a 5000msg limit on DMs from Whitelisted Accounts [updated]

2009-02-22T15:39:46-08:00

Chris Saad (admin) responded:

There are now instructions for the new XMPP bot instead of DMs - http://blog.particls.com/index.php/instructions

Allow me to interact entirely via XMPP / IM [updated]

2009-02-22T10:16:45-08:00

I'd like to be able to interact with Particls entirely from inside my XMPP client, much like twitterspy et al.

pauljones23 said:

David - the instructions at http://blog.particls.com/index.php/instructions have been updated. But in short, just add particls@particls.com as a contact, then issue it the same commands as you would from twitter.

Admin Relay [is now completed]

2009-02-22T03:51:19-08:00

If Particls tweets anything, it should be relayed to all other Particls channels.

Twitter has a 5000msg limit on DMs from Whitelisted Accounts [updated]

2009-02-21T23:47:54-08:00

davidgjones said:

@Ashley I would prefer via XMPP - using PSI over Gtalk

Allow me to interact entirely via XMPP / IM [updated]

2009-02-21T23:33:16-08:00

I'd like to be able to interact with Particls entirely from inside my XMPP client, much like twitterspy et al.

davidgjones said:

could you pls point me at xmpp setup instructions? @djinoz

Twitter has a 5000msg limit on DMs from Whitelisted Accounts [updated]

2009-02-21T19:49:47-08:00

ManiacD said:

@Ashley I'm interested in trying it out. I would actually prefer to get my updates via XMPP (using Gmail IM) and not via DM mainly as we have to pay SMS sent via DM using 3Jam I did my entire credit in about 40 mins (that will teach me to adding the keyword twitter). I did put a feature request in to be able to ignore a twitter user but haven't heard anything from them

Allow me to interact entirely via XMPP / IM [is now completed]

2009-02-21T16:50:04-08:00

I'd like to be able to interact with Particls entirely from inside my XMPP client, much like twitterspy et al.

On/Off Toggle [is now started]

2009-02-21T15:20:46-08:00

Email Digest [is now declined]

2009-02-20T17:48:17-08:00

On/Off Toggle [is now declined]

2009-02-20T17:47:34-08:00

IM bot should send a welcome message with instructions [is now declined]

2009-02-20T17:47:22-08:00

This should be the exact same instructions message as the Twitter auto follow message. Perhaps a small tweak to send the user to IM instructions rather than twitter instructions.

Pairing Confirmation [is now declined]

2009-02-20T17:47:14-08:00

When an account is paired on Particls, all active accounts should get a confirmation message and indicate that the topic lists have been merged

IM bot should send a welcome message with instructions

2009-02-20T17:46:28-08:00

Chris Saad suggested:
This should be the exact same instructions message as the Twitter auto follow message. Perhaps a small tweak to send the user to IM instructions rather than twitter instructions.