PlicTalk is short for Personal Local Image Collection Talk. PlicTalk features an innovative 3-pronged approach to delivering web content, including image collections hosted by Dropbox, static web pages coded in BraceyTalk (a simplified version of HTML), and dynamic web pages coded in BraceyTalk and PlicTalk (a dialect of Python with Lisp-like syntax). The code handling the image collections is written in Python and uses Flask. The code handling static/dynamic web pages is written in JavaScript and uses Node. Throughout this website, the PLIC acronym refers to the image collections of PlicTalk users. Both BraceyTalk and PlicTalk languages are implemented as open source projects.

Business Model

All web content is classified as either for private or public consumption. Private web content can only be viewed by the author and those included in the author's circles (a circle is a group of "friends", or followers of a given author). Public web content can be viewed by anyone. Only subscribers, who pay a subscription fee of $10 per year, are allowed to generate public web content. Subscribers who are power users pay a certain amount for every new-node event and megabyte of disk space which exceeds the respective quotas (event counts and disk space). All PlicTalk code resides in RAM-based nodes, and each node consists of approximately 16 bytes of memory.

PLIC Modes

• Folder - Display full path to current folder at top of screen, and list of sub-folders below that
• Super-grid - Display grid of first image in each sub-folder (folder name ends with underscore)
• Grid - Display grid of thumbnail images
• Mono - Display single image
• Slide - Display zero or more images, side-by-side
• Split-screen:
  • Upper half - Display current image
  • Lower half - Display zero or more images in current slide, side-by-side
  • DocSlide Mode - Cells in slide can be merged/split, horizontally or vertically

PLIC Commands

• Right arrow/swipe:
  • Folder - Next
  • Grid - Next Grid Page
  • Mono - Next Image or First Slide
  • Slide - Next Slide or First Image
  • Split-screen:
    • Upper - Next Image
    • Lower - Next Slide
• Left arrow/swipe:
  • Folder - Previous
  • Grid - Previous Grid Page
  • Mono - Previous Image or Last Slide
  • Slide - Previous Slide or Last Image
  • Split-screen:
    • Upper - Previous Image
    • Lower - Previous Slide
• Enter, Down swipe:
  • Folder - Grid/sub-folder
  • Super-grid - no action
  • Grid - Mono
  • Mono, Slide - Split-screen
  • Split-screen - Toggle Upper/Lower (Upper is default)
• Up arrow/swipe:
  • Folder, Grid - Parent
  • Mono, Slide - Grid
  • Split-screen - Mono
• Click:
  • Grid - Mono/sub-grid
  • Mono - Edit tags/filename
  • Slide - Mono
  • Split-screen:
    • Upper - Insert
    • Lower - Select
    • Lower - Delete (already selected)
    • DocSlide Mode:
      • Forward Slash - Split cell horizontally
      • Backward Slash - Split cell vertically
      • Hyphen - Merge cells
      • Delete - Delete cell
  • Origin (near upper left corner):
    • Mono, Slide - First Image/Slide
  • Caption area (near bottom of image):
    • Toggle - Display caption on/off
    • Slide (multiple cells):
      • Off - Display caption
      • On - Display all captions (some are off)
      • On - Hide all captions (all are on)
• Search:
  • Folder - Perform Search

PLIC File Format

• File name: plic.json
• Location: every folder in the image tree (root folder name = plicroot)
• Special props: caption, firstname, lastname
• Special tags:
  • nsfw - Any file/folder with this tag is hidden publicly, by default
  • priv - Not for public consumption
• Sample contents:

    {files: [
        {
            filename: "myimage.jpg" / "myfolder",
            props: [ "fldname1", "val1", "fldname2", "val2", ... ],
            tags: [ "tag1", "tag2", ... ]
        } ...
    ],
    slides: [
        [0, 5, 18],
        [6, 7],
        ...
    ],
    cells: [  DocSlide: enable nested cells
        { width: 100, height: 60, image: "", cells: [3, 6, 12] },
        { width: 40, height: 25, image: "myimage.jpg", cells: [] },
        ...
    ]}